No Traffic at new AMSIM KMIA

[Dave_YVR 986]

56 minutes ago, G-YMML1 said:

Yes. So I didn't even purchase the scenery

Same here. It would be an instant buy if the traffic coverage was solid.

[AeroMaster12 46]

As others have said, I know that traffic coverage on ground has been spotty, but does how far of an extent does that go? Do you see "live traffic" moving to and from gates, but just empty parking due to a lack of "learned"/available data, or is there a lack of live AND parked aircraft?

I'm also on the fence for this one since because of the lack of ADSB data, but I feel like I could mitigate the feeling of an empty airport by "mocking" parked spots by manually assigning gates.

[mmcmah 410]

30 minutes ago, AeroMaster12 said:

As others have said, I know that traffic coverage on ground has been spotty, but does how far of an extent does that go? Do you see "live traffic" moving to and from gates, but just empty parking due to a lack of "learned"/available data, or is there a lack of live AND parked aircraft?

I'm also on the fence for this one since because of the lack of ADSB data, but I feel like I could mitigate the feeling of an empty airport by "mocking" parked spots by manually assigning gates.

There's an almost complete lack of ground movement. Nico has released an archive file that realistically fills in the parking spots, but aircraft basically disappear once they stop on the runway and don't appear until after takeoff when departing. It's very disappointing, and I've specifically mentioned KMIA and the Caribbean region to Balthasar, in the hope that he takes those into consideration when determining a new data provider. Have to see if it improves.

Just today I was toying with the idea of seeing if there's some way to layer in FR24 data in conjunction with PSXT. It's been many decades since I coded, but might be worth the challenge for the personal satisfaction.

Either way, I don't regret the KMIA purchase as - for me - it's so much better than the LVFR one and an airport I've used inumerable times IRL.

[AeroMaster12 46]

3 minutes ago, mmcmah said:

There's an almost complete lack of ground movement. Nico has released an archive file that realistically fills in the parking spots, but aircraft basically disappear once they stop on the runway and don't appear until after takeoff when departing. It's very disappointing, and I've specifically mentioned KMIA and the Caribbean region to Balthasar, in the hope that he takes those into consideration when determining a new data provider. Have to see if it improves.

Just today I was toying with the idea of seeing if there's some way to layer in FR24 data in conjunction with PSXT. It's been many decades since I coded, but might be worth the challenge for the personal satisfaction.

Either way, I don't regret the KMIA purchase as - for me - it's so much better than the LVFR one and an airport I've used inumerable times IRL.

Thanks for the detailed writeup!

It is interesting how there is a lack of ground movement based on ADSB feeds (like ADS-B Exchange) vs the data that's available through FR24. I'm not familiar with why there's more coverage with one over the other, but I understand that the lack of ADS-B data is related to the lack of ground movement. It would be nice to fall-back to FR24 data or some other source where data is plentiful, but with how strict FR24's ToS is and how their data can be used in third-party apps, this also poses a challenge.