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TCAS picking up birds in sim

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I ran into another issue with my RXP 750. When I was coming in to land my TCAS was going crazy and 10+ objects popped up on my screen. Of course I didn’t see any airplanes around me so I thought it was glitching…. Until a flock of birds flew past my cockpit window. I have this wildlife autogen program for my P3D that creates birds at different altitudes but with my F1 750 it never actually picked them up as airplanes. But my RXP 750 does. Any way I can stop this from happening? 

Hi,

I've noticed this lately (since 5.3) and I believe the GTN is not filtering out all AI aircraft, including those birds! (but this is a cool bird strike avoidance system though!)

What is this wildlife autogen program you're using? I'd like to repro and see exactly what is happening.

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The program is really neat it’s called Wildlife+ v2.0 and it’s available for free on Avsim. It adds birds, marine life, and land dwelling creatures. I just use it for birds though to make the sim more realistic but whenever I come up on a flock of birds or a single bird the GTN mistakes it for an aircraft and my TCAS goes crazy 

Thank you for the info! I confirm there is a bug in that the GTN is picking up all sorts of AI traffic, because P3D5.3 (at least but maybe other versions before) did change the behavior of one SDK function... 😲   We'll fix this in the next update. Thank you again for the feedback!

I was wondering whether it was not just 5.3 indeed, it seems it has been like this a while back already... thank you for the confirmation!

NB: this is the first time I get such report though.

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