The popular traffic matching package for VATSIM used by FSX/P3D users has been decommissioned. They have released a statement on their facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/195475951057687/posts/697943554144255/?d=n. You can also read it on their website: https://flai.app/

Pretty bad news to be honest and a loss to the community.

Edited January 9, 20215 yr by Zangoose

Terrible news. As somebody who only flies on vatsim this is horrible. Why would a freeware painter pull back?  I’m scratching my head on this 

Unbelievable. Now what for those on Vatsim?

Edited January 9, 20215 yr by B777ER

3 minutes ago, B777ER said:

Unbelievable. Now what for those on Vatsim?

Well I’ll be backing mine up. So while no updates it will still continue to work 

2 minutes ago, micstatic said:

Well I’ll be backing mine up. So while no updates it will still continue to work 

Same here. Back up the xml file in the addon folder as well. 

Something better will pop up esepically for MSFS its just such a HUGE market and some one will fill the void. 

Per title: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=697943554144255&id=195475951057687

Is sad for both MSFS and P3D users. I hope AIG painters will change their mind in the future.

 

 

 

we a re on time! lets share our files of fLAI traffic!

msfs..oh, they sold us traffic online that is not true. where is it? only three airliner models...whats that? 

good product but not all true. 

the fact that msfs doenst defend other developers, full of illusion doing good things for the people (in a terrible year like this) is veeery sad.

we are not going to go into the capitol as those terrible people, but we can share FLAI filesand defend them .

holds from spain.

There's already a thread on the sad news

https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/593444-flai-has-been-decommissioned/

Kind regards, Michael

 

42 minutes ago, B777ER said:

Same here. Back up the xml file in the addon folder as well. 

Same here and the fact we can still expand on it. I've been expanding my AI fleet over the months in FLAi. At least now I know it won't be over written with further updates. Luckily I manually downloaded before the site went down. 

It will never cease to amaze me that some of these groups seem to guard their (freeware) territory more zealously than companies with millions of dollars at stake...human nature is quite something.

Sad for simmers, of course, as it always is.

James

This is even more frightening as (i) Ai traffic and notably liveries is certainly one of the loose ends of MSFS, (ii) there is no payware MSFS package in sight. UTLive for MSFS, should it ever materialize, can be expected around 2030, and the competing freeware packages seem to be more focused on their sensitivities than development.

I would gladly pay or donate for a quality AI addon for MSFS, but there simply is none.

Kind regards, Michael

36 minutes ago, honanhal said:

It will never cease to amaze me that some of these groups seem to guard their (freeware) territory more zealously than companies with millions of dollars at stake

Ridiculous to say the least. I always have the feeling that this kind of behaviour is driven by a lack of achievements in other areas of life.

Edited January 9, 20215 yr by carlito777

1 hour ago, honanhal said:

It will never cease to amaze me that some of these groups seem to guard their (freeware) territory more zealously than companies with millions of dollars at stake...human nature is quite something.

We know who to thank. I'd much rather support a good payware developer at this point. 

17 minutes ago, DylanM said:

We know who to thank. I'd much rather support a good payware developer at this point. 

Who?