After reading this post on here earlier today, I decided to bite the bullet and take out a month's subscription of RT to see just how good it was.

Set myself up using the drone camera at Heathrow together with FlightRadar and waited. Well I wasn't disappointed as sure enough, the traffic started arriving and departing just as shown on FR, with around the expected ~40sec delay.

However, I don't how many people are familiar with BigJet TV, but if you're not, then you should be ! Anyway, cutting to the chase, Jerry, the guy who runs BigJet, streamed live from Heathrow today, and uploaded the video on YouTube an hour or so ago. So using RT's historical feature, I managed to synchronise its time to that of the video, to that on MSFS and placed the drone camera at the exact same position as Jerry was filming from.

The result, well just blew me away. What I was seeing on Youtube was appearing exactly in sync with that on MSFS! Yes, I had a couple of anomalies, but I put that down to not having all the liveries downloaded on AIG yet. However, it was something amazing to behold...

Regards

Good to read that you like it that much 😄

36 minutes ago, garydpoole said:

After reading this post on here earlier today, I decided to bite the bullet and take out a month's subscription of RT to see just how good it was.

Set myself up using the drone camera at Heathrow together with FlightRadar and waited. Well I wasn't disappointed as sure enough, the traffic started arriving and departing just as shown on FR, with around the expected ~40sec delay.

However, I don't how many people are familiar with BigJet TV, but if you're not, then you should be ! Anyway, cutting to the chase, Jerry, the guy who runs BigJet, streamed live from Heathrow today, and uploaded the video on YouTube an hour or so ago. So using RT's historical feature, I managed to synchronise its time to that of the video, to that on MSFS and placed the drone camera at the exact same position as Jerry was filming from.

The result, well just blew me away. What I was seeing on Youtube was appearing exactly in sync with that on MSFS! Yes, I had a couple of anomalies, but I put that down to not having all the liveries downloaded on AIG yet. However, it was something amazing to behold...

Regards

I'm familiar with BigJetTV and Jerry does a great job (kudos to him for catching that wobbly BA plane landing the other day complete with tailstrike).  Anyway, it's quite a novel idea to sync his feed in with AIG and RT and demonstrates just how reliable in the main this combo is.  Thanks for checking this out, I will now investigate purchasing RT as it seems the best way to mimic real life, albeit with a 40sec delay.

Same here. Love it! Only thing missing is GA aircraft at regional/small airports, but I certainly can live with it.

$9.90/month is a small price to pay for REAL traffic!

3 minutes ago, Silicus said:

Same here. Love it! Only thing missing is GA aircraft at regional/small airports, but I certainly can live with it.

$9.90/month is a small price to pay for REAL traffic!

RT does include general aviation in fact.  I've been able to set it up with Asobo generics and you getting busy municipal's as well.  I even have helicopters flying around using the H135 model as a proxy! 🙂

When I get the chance I'll do a full writeup with instructions for whomever is interested.

Edited February 2, 20224 yr by VFXSimmer

1 hour ago, garydpoole said:

After reading this post on here earlier today, I decided to bite the bullet and take out a month's subscription of RT to see just how good it was.

Set myself up using the drone camera at Heathrow together with FlightRadar and waited. Well I wasn't disappointed as sure enough, the traffic started arriving and departing just as shown on FR, with around the expected ~40sec delay.

However, I don't how many people are familiar with BigJet TV, but if you're not, then you should be ! Anyway, cutting to the chase, Jerry, the guy who runs BigJet, streamed live from Heathrow today, and uploaded the video on YouTube an hour or so ago. So using RT's historical feature, I managed to synchronise its time to that of the video, to that on MSFS and placed the drone camera at the exact same position as Jerry was filming from.

The result, well just blew me away. What I was seeing on Youtube was appearing exactly in sync with that on MSFS! Yes, I had a couple of anomalies, but I put that down to not having all the liveries downloaded on AIG yet. However, it was something amazing to behold...

Regards

With that go around the other day in mind, wouldn’t it be great if the AI messed up the odd landing, and even crabbed into the wind on crosswind landings - that would be truly next gen AI logic👍

22 minutes ago, VFXSimmer said:When I get the chance I'll do a full writeup with instructions for whomever is interested.

This would be fantastic!

25 minutes ago, VFXSimmer said:

RT does include general aviation in fact.  I've been able to set it up with Asobo generics and you getting busy municipal's as well.  I even have helicopters flying around using the H135 model as a proxy! 🙂

When I get the chance I'll do a full writeup with instructions for whomever is interested.

Yes please as well.  I would welcome this

15 minutes ago, hanhamreds said:

With that go around the other day in mind, wouldn’t it be great if the AI messed up the odd landing, and even crabbed into the wind on crosswind landings - that would be truly next gen AI logic👍

I've got the basic subscription which only gives 24 hours of historical data so I can't prove this, but I see no reason why the go around of the A321 at Heathrow wouldn't have happened in the sim as well.

Another question just occurred to me. One of the complaints I have with AIG is the unrealistic rollouts (ie too short on take off and too word not allowed long when landing which aggravates the go arounds). Presumably using RT sorts this?

22 minutes ago, MikeyOnTheFlightDeck said:

Another question just occurred to me. One of the complaints I have with AIG is the unrealistic rollouts (ie too short on take off and too word not allowed long when landing which aggravates the go arounds). Presumably using RT sorts this?

Absolutely. All the AI follow the exact rollout and taxi as per their real world counterparts. Which even includes arriving at the same gate. Or cargo area, as seen by a Korean Airlines Cargo 747-8 at Heathrow earlier. 

Yap, that is so fantastic. AI planes leave the gate, taxi properly and upon landing don't stick around on the runway and taxi to the proper gate. Sometimes they disappear just before the gate because they turn their ACAS off.... but no biggy.

2 hours ago, hanhamreds said:

With that go around the other day in mind, wouldn’t it be great if the AI messed up the odd landing, and even crabbed into the wind on crosswind landings - that would be truly next gen AI logic👍

The traffic using PSXT/RT actually does crab into the wind!

2 hours ago, MikeyOnTheFlightDeck said:

Another question just occurred to me. One of the complaints I have with AIG is the unrealistic rollouts (ie too short on take off and too word not allowed long when landing which aggravates the go arounds). Presumably using RT sorts this?

As RT/PSXT are showing real traffic, they rollout at the same point they do in the real world (apart from the odd glitch).

Here is a video I took using AIG/PSXT/RT at runway 4L at JFK.  Arrivals are 4R.

 

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3 hours ago, Silicus said:

Same here. Love it! Only thing missing is GA aircraft at regional/small airports, but I certainly can live with it.

$9.90/month is a small price to pay for REAL traffic!

Since AIG released the PC12 model all GA traffic is now visible, but they do appear in sim as the PC12 - at least they are there and filling the sky