I've been using AIG traffic for quite a while now but I haven't run the AI Manager for several months. I ran it a couple of days ago and was pleasantly surprised to see that it had a slick new interface after it auto updated itself. I ran all of the flight plan updates, and then used the new North America preset on the Quick Install tab of the main page to let it add any North American airlines that I hadn't installed yet. It added several. The installation process was truly "one click". Over the past couple of days, I've clicked the Global preset and let it install other airlines from all over while I was off doing something else. I like the fact that you can now hit the cancel button, and it will finish installing whatever airline it is currently installing and then stop. It makes it easy to get them all without tying up my computer when I need it. Doing a few at a time like this will definitely help me get them all.

I'm in the SU14 beta and I've been playing with the amount of traffic that AIG injects. Prior to now, anything over 40% would cause major stutters on the ground. Over the past 4 or 5 flights I've been increasing that, and I'm now running at 85% with no impact. I don't know if that is because of changes in MSFS itself, or in AIG between last spring and now (I wasn't flying much during boating season). I have been flying mostly east coast between Boston and Tampa so there has been plenty of traffic. LAX to LAS also had lots of traffic and great performance. I'm in cruise right now going from KBWI to KTPA. I've got the MFD set to 40mi range and there's 9 aircraft on the display. They all seem to be following proper flight plans as I've seen several prominent waypoints where you could tell by the contrails that planes were turning there. The altitude offsets are showing correct now as well. I think this is new, too. 

The Traffic Controller also updated itself. It also seems to be doing a very good job. I haven't seen anything unusual happening around me like I have in prior versions. Again, no idea if AIG or Asobo fixed it.

I think Kai has done a great job making things simpler. The old interface had all sorts of things that I'm sure very advanced users loved, but confused the heck out of me. I was often wondering why and when I would ever need some of those buttons. The new interface is a lot cleaner, and its much more obvious how to operate it now.

 

What is the latest version numbered? 

I agree and AIG is my preferred AI traffic solution great models (since the native MSFS models update) and more important great performance and VRAM 🙂

Is it better than FSLTL now? 

29 minutes ago, Zimmerbz said:

What is the latest version numbered? 

AI Manager should be '1.2.0.13', and Traffic Controller is '0.7.4.0'

According to the Discord at least.

Edited November 19, 20232 yr by Tuskin38

11 minutes ago, Ianrivaldosmith said:

Is it better than FSLTL now? 

It always has been, it's just that FSLTL was much easier to install.

10 minutes ago, Ianrivaldosmith said:

Is it better than FSLTL now? 

Depends on what you need. FSLTL is still really one single click and never look at it again, and it has some sort of live traffic, but apart from that AIG is better in everything IMO (variety of livery and number of airlines is like tenfold compared to FSLTL, there are slightly more models and all models now as PBR look as good or even better than the FSLTL ones). For immersion I'm all in on AIG.

1 minute ago, Fiorentoni said:

Depends on what you need. FSLTL is still really one single click and never look at it again, and it has some sort of live traffic, but apart from that AIG is better in everything IMO (variety of livery and number of airlines is like tenfold compared to FSLTL, there are slightly more models and all models now as PBR look as good or even better than the FSLTL ones). For immersion I'm all in on AIG.

And does it have the same injection technique as FSLTL, and separations etc? 

the best for me is to use AIG models and FSLTL injector

 

46 minutes ago, Ianrivaldosmith said:

And does it have the same injection technique as FSLTL, and separations etc? 

As for FPS and VRAM and to avoid stutters AIG is the better one know for me, also real time traffic makes no sense for me personal if flying with different times set in in the sim 🙂

5 minutes ago, virtualstuff said:

As for FPS and VRAM and to avoid stutters AIG is the better one know for me, also real time traffic makes no sense for me personal if flying with different times set in in the sim 🙂

Ok you persuaded me, currently installing AIG after a years absence… 

54 minutes ago, Ianrivaldosmith said:

And does it have the same injection technique as FSLTL, and separations etc? 

Separations no, but I recommend using AIGround and AIFlow for that (both on flightsim.to). It does separations and much more (forcing AI traffic on a certain runway, e.g.; very useful!). You let it run beside MSFS and it just works. AI traffic does become really good with it.

2 minutes ago, Fiorentoni said:

Separations no, but I recommend using AIGround and AIFlow for that (both on flightsim.to). It does separations and much more (forcing AI traffic on a certain runway, e.g.; very useful!). You let it run beside MSFS and it just works. AI traffic does become really good with it.

Any particular settings or just defaults? 

Just now, Ianrivaldosmith said:

Any particular settings or just defaults? 

The only thing that needs to be changed is AIPlanespottingOnly, it needs to be set to 0 I think. For the rest you only need to use the AIForceTaxi (or AIForceLanding) stuff if you want to force AI to a runway (only really necessary when winds are changing a lot in-game or it's calm winds). It's a quick notepad edit of the ini files and works in-flight, no need to shut the tool down. The rest is all on default on my side and works great. I can't remember the last time I've seen an AI aircraft doing something immersion-breaking / stupid since using it. Great stuff.

36 minutes ago, Fiorentoni said:

Separations no, but I recommend using AIGround and AIFlow for that (both on flightsim.to). It does separations and much more (forcing AI traffic on a certain runway, e.g.; very useful!). You let it run beside MSFS and it just works. AI traffic does become really good with it.

what do we have to set to have real tie traffic (without flightplans) managed by AIGtraffic controller?