all the traffic active at all times

[mike stryczek 23]

18 minutes ago, kiek said:

What is the closest airport? That is not so easy. When flying in the greater London area for instance, you have 5 major airports ...It will generate a lot of overhead and stutters for loading these airports, one by one depending on heading.

I didn’t promise that my ideas will be easy (:))

I’m just planting a seed and maybe there will be a way....

Love the program

can’t live without it

TH Niko

[kiek 1,129]

14 hours ago, mike stryczek said:

can’t live without it

I know. That's why I keep maintaining the FSX version for you...

Well I'll give your idea some more thought, maybe it works fine if we do not park static, just the live aircraft.

[mike stryczek 23]

6 hours ago, kiek said:

maybe it works fine if we do not park static, just the live aircraft.

this is exactly what I envisioned

Only life traffic on the airports passing below

standing by if you need any Beta testing

Thank you for your efforts

mike

[anden145 2,221]

Just being Devil's Advocate here; how about loading all aircraft on the ground, say within 1-2 nm from the user aircraft (kinda like a bubble).

Would that be feasible or would it create problems of its own?

Edited September 3 by anden145

[kiek 1,129]

1 hour ago, mike stryczek said:

this is exactly what I envisioned

Only life traffic on the airports passing below

Yes, and not loading all the gates info in memory, the only thing PSXTraffic needs for smooth landings and takeoffs and taxiing is the airport altitude, and the airport must set (temporary) as the park airport so traffic will land there (is in reach), and alt above gnd can be monitored

More of a problem, and cpu demanding, is to find out if you will fly over an airport shortly. That depends on your heading. There are about 22000 airports, we need an algorithm that finds the airports within reach (repeatedly). I've just tested to take the airport from RT"s QNH messages, but RT only searches for the nearest airport, that may also be one 30 nm besides or behind you, and therefore useless.

 

Edited September 3 by kiek

[kiek 1,129]

@mike stryczek

I have implemented a "FlyOver" function. If checked it will show live traffic at the nearest airport within a radius of 12 nm.

It works best for light aircraft and helicopters (they don't fly fast/high), but it is is also available for other aircraft. As far as I can test it works flawlessly and it does not generate stutters, because it does not have to load all the gates from the airport file and it does not park static aircraft.

I have implmented it in PSXTraffic and PSXT_FSX. Unfortunately I cannot testiit over here, so I hope it works and otherwise you will get in touch I assume 😉 

Release will be tomorrow (I hope), Friday Sep 8th.

 

 

 

 

Edited September 7 by kiek

[mike stryczek 23]

44 minutes ago, kiek said:

@mike stryczek

I have implemented a "FlyOver" function. If checked it will show live traffic at the nearest airport within a radius of 12 nm.

It works best for light aircraft and helicopters (they don't fly fast/high), but it is is also available for other aircraft. As far as I can test it works flawlessly and it does not generate stutters, because it does not have to load all the gates from the airport file and it does not park static aircraft.

I have implmented it in PSXTraffic and PSXT_FSX. Unfortunately I cannot testiit over here, so I hope it works and otherwise you will get in touch I assume 😉 

Release will be tomorrow (I hope), Friday Sep 8th.

 

 

 

 

exciting

Thank you for taking a chance and taking time

Will get on with testing right away when it comes out

Best

mike

Edited September 7 by kiek

[somiller 694]

9 hours ago, kiek said:

@mike stryczek

I have implemented a "FlyOver" function. If checked it will show live traffic at the nearest airport within a radius of 12 nm.

It works best for light aircraft and helicopters (they don't fly fast/high), but it is is also available for other aircraft. As far as I can test it works flawlessly and it does not generate stutters, because it does not have to load all the gates from the airport file and it does not park static aircraft.

I have implmented it in PSXTraffic and PSXT_FSX. Unfortunately I cannot testiit over here, so I hope it works and otherwise you will get in touch I assume 😉 

Release will be tomorrow (I hope), Friday Sep 8th.

 

 

 

 

I assume this function is user select-able (and defaults off) - for those us us not interesting we can NOT turn this function on?

[kiek 1,129]

3 hours ago, somiller said:

I assume this function is user select-able (and defaults off)

Afirm

3 hours ago, somiller said:

 for those us us not interesting we can NOT turn this function on?

????

Edited September 8 by kiek

[kiek 1,129]

On 9/7/2023 at 6:16 PM, mike stryczek said:

Will get on with testing right away when it comes out

 

@mike stryczek It is out now, 40.2.0

[somiller 694]

On 9/8/2023 at 1:23 AM, kiek said:

????

I'm not interested in using a "flyover" function so I will turn it off. Thanks for adding the functionality, but I doubt I will ever use it.

[kiek 1,129]

11 hours ago, somiller said:

I'm not interested in using a "flyover" function so I will turn it off. Thanks for adding the functionality, but I doubt I will ever use it.

That's fine, is is off by default, so don't worry...

There are others that want it. It is more interesting for users flghing a light aircraft or helicopter. Not for heavy metal.

Edited September 12 by kiek