@KL791

Thanks for your Hard work.

Frank  from EDDM

5 hours ago, AnkH said:

Stupid question, but will this fix really require a full re-download of GAIST? 

That's a question I was going to ask Henrik too.  Not a massive issue, but a small update file would be quicker.

On 5/29/2025 at 5:01 PM, jarmstro said:

I see loads of ships and boats in the channel but not the most commonly seen real life ones namely medium sized inflatables? 😂

That's a shame, 18 made it over on the 31/5 (nearly 1200 persons) - are Border force boats modelled I wonder? 

21 hours ago, AnkH said:

Stupid question, but will this fix really require a full re-download of GAIST? 

I took the liberty to do several fixes, which is why I didn't manage to upload yesterday, and yes, they will require a full download - hopefully I can do once I get home from work today else it won't be until Wednesday. 

The fix contains:

• A dummy file which in live mode in MSFS 2024 suppress the large green container ship put by the MSFS match module when an AIS data is provided without size information - the container ship is not modified and will still appear when a ship that size is relevant
• Added 4 New yachts purchased for your donations and which fills out some gaps in fleet making it easier to get a decent matching - another two of my own yachts have had LODs added and contribute to the same. 
• Added 4 tugs/PSVs which reduce occurrence  of large fishing boats replacing similar sized tugs or PSVs
• A few other minor changes which help tricking the match module
• Fix of textures on four models
• For those running off line ship traffic in MSFS 2020 or MSFS 2024 the new yachts have been added on routes in places like Dubai, French and Italian Riviera, Costa del Sol in Spain, Miami, Greece, Virgin Islands and Antilles

The fix does improve matching on type in live mode, but you will still get wrong types as the data comes with too few types - only AIS data provider can fix that and MSFS could help by allowing use of IMO or MMSI number for matching - the later would give the right ferry in the right place. Adding more models can contribute to better matching but the fundamental issue to correct is at a data level. 

The fix does not completely remove larger ships popping up in strange places - this problem also occur when a ship category in AIS is provided as UNKNOWN and I have not yet been able to trick that issue.

The fix does not fix that ship positions and headings are messed up in harbours or that ships display on top of each other. Only the AIS data provider or MSFS can fix that by implementing an advanced filtering of data.

 

Why am I getting 500 yachts every time I fly over water, even on the Great Lakes. 
 

it doesn’t seem to matter whether or not I use online or offline traffic. 

3 hours ago, fakeflyer737 said:

Why am I getting 500 yachts every time I fly over water, even on the Great Lakes. 
 

it doesn’t seem to matter whether or not I use online or offline traffic. 

Asobo has put a lot of yachts in certain areas - including on the Great Lakes. They are not coming from GAIST. I didn't check specifically but I think they are wanderboats like it was also the case in FSX and P3D, where you had some small leisure boats near some larger towns.

 

5 hours ago, KL791 said:

Asobo has put a lot of yachts in certain areas - including on the Great Lakes. They are not coming from GAIST. I didn't check specifically but I think they are wanderboats like it was also the case in FSX and P3D, where you had some small leisure boats near some larger towns.

 

Any way to exclude them so I can just see your boats and not the default ones? They look awfully out of place. 

On 6/3/2025 at 12:38 AM, fakeflyer737 said:

Any way to exclude them so I can just see your boats and not the default ones? They look awfully out of place. 

Over on forums.flightsimulator.com there is in the GAIST thread an instruction on how to disable default ships. I guess it would do the trick, but i have only tried with large ships.

Resolving one issue... lack of display of cruise ships... I created a new... cruise ships taking the place of container ships... so no update today either. I will have to rebalance that.

Version 7.1 of GAIST has just been uploaded to flightsim.to and hopefully later in the day it will also become available on alpha-india.net

• Adds new yachts and tugs
• Increase leisure traffic in MSFS 2020 and in MSFS 2024 in offline mode adding more than 5000 additional ship movements
• Corrects texture issues on 5 models
• Suppress in MSFS 2024 real time traffic mode the majority of appearances of very large ships erroneously placed by the simulator when it has no size data from AIS
• Improves matching of ship models in MSFS 2024, but still only based on type and the match module in MSFS continues to be the same so do not expect a high match rate beyond size and overall type of ship

Thank you so much!

 

Hold off downloading - it seems there is an issue with the uploaded file. Can’t be decompressed. I will reupload again.

6 minutes ago, KL791 said:

Hold off downloading - it seems there is an issue with the uploaded file. Can’t be decompressed. I will reupload again.

indeed I can't unpack the zip file, I get an error message

The GAIST Ultra V7.1 file has now been reuploaded to flightsim.to and download is working and can be extracted. Something had gone wrong during the first upload. Sorry for the inconvenience.

11 minutes ago, KL791 said:

The GAIST Ultra V7.1 file has now been reuploaded to flightsim.to and download is working and can be extracted. Something had gone wrong during the first upload. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Safe to d/l from AIG?