Finally just 1 program to run!

[kiek 1,136]

Hi guys,

After 8 years, I proudly present a one program solution! No longer you need to run the RT traffic app (and no more FAQ #10  😉 ).

Read more in the ReleaseNotes

Thx goes to Balthasar for opening up his servers.

Nico

Edited November 20 by kiek

[jd559 6]

2 hours ago, kiek said:

Hi guys,

After 8 years, I proudly present a one program solution! No longer you need to run the RT traffic app (and no more FAQ #10  😉 ).

Read more in the ReleaseNotes

Thx goes to Balthasar for opening up his servers.

Nico

Great work Nico! How does this play out with the RT subscriptions? Is Balthasar looking to get out of the traffic data business ( if you know that answer )

[SierraDelta 1,241]

21 minutes ago, jd559 said:

Great work Nico! How does this play out with the RT subscriptions? Is Balthasar looking to get out of the traffic data business ( if you know that answer )

It simply detects your RT license details - and shows them on the PSXT UI - clever.

[jd559 6]

25 minutes ago, SierraDelta said:

It simply detects your RT license details - and shows them on the PSXT UI - clever.

Now that is slick!!!!

[kiek 1,136]

1 hour ago, SierraDelta said:

It simply detects your RT license details - and shows them on the PSXT UI - 

No, if you would have looked at the RealTraffic.lic file, you would have seen that it does not have an expiry date....

That info is at the RT server side only, and PSXT gets it via the RT API server when it authenticates.

 

Edited November 20 by kiek

[kiek 1,136]

1 hour ago, jd559 said:

How does this play out with the RT subscriptions? Is Balthasar looking to get out of the traffic data business ( if you know that answer )

You still need RT subscriptions, I don't understand why you come up with that suspicion.. .

On the contrary, Balthasar and I hope that with this more streamlined approach, the number of users will grow.

Not only from PSXT, but maybe from other parties that now more easily can get traffic and or weather data.

Edited November 20 by kiek

[abranpuko 339]

3 hours ago, jd559 said:

Great work Nico! How does this play out with the RT subscriptions? Is Balthasar looking to get out of the traffic data business ( if you know that answer )

Hello, I am a professional license user. This month I paid for it but I have not been able to enjoy it given that the ground coverage of most airports is very poor or non-existent. (With the exception of some large airports)

On the "realtraffic airport coverage" page it initially stated the data: "poor", "decent" or "good", but 85 percent of all those airports in the world indicated: "Poor".

I told Balthasar, and now those words have been omitted from the page.

If the servers change, then REALTRAFFIC + PSXT will be exciting again, because there will be good traffic in the sky and on the ground. 

The number of users will surely grow when the data is good again and we can see good air traffic.
At the moment, and without meaning to be tragic, the planes are literally frozen or disappear before touchdown, or before taking off. Also without taxi out or in.

Right now it is not very good. 

i wanted to give to you my opinion. 

[jcuellar 9]

Great work Nico, thankyou for your effort and also for Balthasar.

I know this is the first version of a single exe file and will experience errors. I'm still having issues with aircraft landing out of the airport and some others sliding on the grass, not sure is this is still a QNH issue, specially in Mexico City MMMX. Yesturday QNH was high ant 1022 and landing traffics were at the spot, today as I'm wrighting is 1008.3 and they are landing 3 blocks before the airport. 

[Illiocostalis710 0]

Thank you, Nico. KDEN was already great before but it looks even better now. I still notice issues with KIAH and KMCO, but I’m sure Balthasar is still working on data for these. 

[jd559 6]

5 hours ago, kiek said:

You still need RT subscriptions, I don't understand why you come up with that suspicion.. .

On the contrary, Balthasar and I hope that with this more streamlined approach, the number of users will grow.

Not only from PSXT, but maybe from other parties that now more easily can get traffic and or weather data.

Nico I was just curious as to  how it tied together.

🙏

Good work on the new application.

Edited November 21 by jd559

[kiek 1,136]

9 hours ago, abranpuko said:

i wanted to give to you my opinion. 

This thread is not about the traffic performance. PSXT and PSXTraffic only differ in the way they get -the same- RT data.

There is another thread in this Forum where you have posted already.

On top of that you have opened a thread in the MSFS forum.

Your opinion is well known.

 

 

Edited November 21 by kiek

[kiek 1,136]

7 hours ago, jcuellar said:

Great work Nico, thankyou for your effort and also for Balthasar.

I know this is the first version of a single exe file and will experience errors. I'm still having issues with aircraft landing out of the airport and some others sliding on the grass, not sure is this is still a QNH issue, specially in Mexico City MMMX. Yesturday QNH was high ant 1022 and landing traffics were at the spot, today as I'm wrighting is 1008.3 and they are landing 3 blocks before the airport. 

Check the airport altitude in the airport file. You can find it in Log.txt too.

[AeroMaster12 42]

This is fantastic! Thank you for integrating this! I do notice some potential performance improvement with the traffic flow is handled since CPU handles are reduced from reading from a separate process; aircraft seem to move more smoothly. I'm looking forward to continuing to use PSXT over PSXTraffic (though I'm going to have to get used to picking the correct similarly-named program).

Couple of questions/feedback if I may:

1. The installer still puts PSXTraffic.exe as a shortcut to the Start Menu, but not "PSXT".exe, so if users want to use the integrated RealTraffic solution, they will have to navigate to the install path and run PSXT.exe, or update the shortcut at `C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\PSXTraffic`. Maybe including both so that it's searchable in the start menu would be a nice-to-have, because it took me a short moment to realize that 4.2 forked the new integrated RT feed into a separate executable.

2. For the time-shift feature, I know that we can manually set the time in PSXT, but will there be a feature where it can determine the time shift based on the sim time, and sync up with that, similar with how RT can do so? For example, if I shift the time in MSFS back by 12 hours, PSXT could just automatically set the time back by 0d 12h 0m? I could see this being implemented with a checkbox element, labeled "Sim controlled". (Alternative is to run PSXTraffic + RT).

3. Alternative name... PSXRT? 😉

Nicely done!

 

 

Edited November 21 by AeroMaster12

[Nemo 1,256]

That sounds great. Just two months ago I've used PSXT + RT for one month and i was pleased about the progress that combination has made over the last two years (when I had my last RT license).

[kiek 1,136]

19 hours ago, AeroMaster12 said:

1. The installer still puts PSXTraffic.exe as a shortcut to the Start Menu, but not "PSXT".exe, 

Thx for your comments, I will add the PSXT.exe, but did you not notice the PSXT.exe shortcut at your desktop?

 

Edited November 22 by kiek