Pilot2ATC not always showing livetraffic

[kingie 1]

I use the LiveTraffic plugin to add some dynamic traffic to my simulator and it works okay. Unfortunately pilot2atc does not always show the traffic even though I can see it in the sim. The TCAS option is enabled for LiveTraffic and on the P2A map both the "show aircraft" options are enabled. Is this a known issue or have I misconfigured something?

[Dave-Pilot2ATC 864]

The next update of Pilot2ATC will include a new plugin to enable P2A to see the X-Plane 11.5+ 63 AI Aircraft from any of the traffic engines that support the new X-Plane AI Traffic.

The current version is limited to the 19 AI Traffic limit of earlier version of X-Plane.

[kingie 1]

Does that limit even apply if LiveTraffic only reports 1 aircraft?

[Dave-Pilot2ATC 864]

Up to 19 would include 1.

[kingie 1]

I understand that but what I don't understand that if there's a 19 plane limit why 1 plane wouldn't be visible. And why if that plane does show up in XP11 correctly why it does not show up in P2A at all but other times the AI traffic does show up.

[Dave-Pilot2ATC 864]

The traffic engine has to decide which aircraft to display  in the 19.  Some of the aircraft may not get displayed.  The same will be true when the 63 are visible, but with more slots, there'll be a better chance that the traffic you want to see will be there.

Also, some engines don't display ground traffic at all for TCAS, which would explain why aircraft on the ground aren't visible.

[kingie 1]

I see. I'll just hopes it improves with the next update(s). Thanks for your explanation!

[PeterS72 2]

I also found some inconsistent behaviour when live traffic would be displayed in Pilot2ATC or not. I found that restarting the xpuipc plugin from the Plugin Admin interface and reconnecing PT2 would often help. Meanwhile my routine is to start XPlane, wait a bit until traffic has initialized, restart xpuipc, then connect Pilot2Atc, problem solved.

Using vanilla X-Plane AI planes seems to work fine, no plugin restart required. So maybe the actual issue here is xpuipc not picking up live traffic which is being loaded after xpuipc plugin initialization. This is just a wild guess, though. Anways, once Pilot2ATC is getting the proper data, it works just fine, both for planes in air and on ground.

I have no experience with other traffic plugins, above oberservations only applies to LiveTraffic and vanilla KI.

[kingie 1]

On 11/11/2020 at 7:40 PM, Dave-Pilot2ATC said:

The traffic engine has to decide which aircraft to display  in the 19.  Some of the aircraft may not get displayed.  The same will be true when the 63 are visible, but with more slots, there'll be a better chance that the traffic you want to see will be there.

Also, some engines don't display ground traffic at all for TCAS, which would explain why aircraft on the ground aren't visible.

I have found the issue why I did not see any TCAS enabled traffic! I stumbled upon the following x-plane.org forum topic: link. I don't know if you're aware of it but I figured it can't hurt to tell you about it.

It basically said:

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I can confirm that without AI planes specified in the beginning LiveTraffic planes are not visible in Pilot2ATC. However when I do specify 19 AI 737 aircraft, it works beutifully.

I tried this solution and suddenly the plane showed up! I checked whether the plane in P2A was the same one as showing in the LiveTraffic list and it was!

[mat_p 1]

Just wondering what the current state of play is like with the livetraffic mod,  xplane and p2atc please?  

[Dave-Pilot2ATC 864]

There has been support for the new X-Plane AI traffic out for  quite some time.  Instructions for setting it up are in the AI Traffic section of the P2A Operations manual.

Dave

[mat_p 1]

Awesome, thank you

[Jayf901 0]

What is the status of the LiveTraffic plug in?

[Jayf901 0]

By the way : figured out the plugin and now the LiveTraffic is showing on the map view. Have not had a conflict while flying yet, but anticipate this will be called by ATC. Love the product, but a learning curve for sure. 

 

[The_Flying_Potato 25]

On 1/16/2022 at 12:13 AM, Jayf901 said:

but anticipate this will be called by ATC

It does indeed call it. I've had Pilot2ATC for only a few weeks and love it.