from a man thats worked in flight ops and more notably scheduling for over 15 years im always very very dubious when a dev claims it has "accurate schedules".   ACCURATE Schedule data is very expensive to buy from OAG or flight stats for example and it changes every few months.

There has not been one traffic addon in the last 20 years of simming that has had accurate schedules (ultimate traffic to name one)  because the Summer, Winter and Shoulder seasons are so dynamic as they change at numerous points of the year. 

Youve only got to attend one of the iata conferences (of which ive gone to three) to understand how complex,cut throat and quite corput it really is.  (try and do a charter in EHAM with flowers on it and see what happens) 

A week of flying in August is different to a week of flying in May and completly different to what is in January, and thats not even going into the realms of charter, acmi and cargo routes.

Edited April 8, 20251 yr by fluffyflops

that "looks" promising !

BATC preview video looked pretty much the same. The reality, of course, differs.

40 minutes ago, G-YMML1 said:

BATC preview video looked pretty much the same. The reality, of course, differs.

Guess we will find out on the 15th.......

I see many TCAS resolutions in our future. Unless they nail the vectoring.

3 hours ago, fluffyflops said:

There has not been one traffic addon in the last 20 years of simming that has had accurate schedules (ultimate traffic to name one)  because the Summer, Winter and Shoulder seasons are so dynamic as they change at numerous points of the year. 

You're not completely right, I'm afraid.

PSXT does that for 10 years (already) now ... It's Live traffic is of course always accurate (max 35 seconds behind). 

4 hours ago, fluffyflops said:

from a man thats worked in flight ops and more notably scheduling for over 15 years im always very very dubious when a dev claims it has "accurate schedules".   ACCURATE Schedule data is very expensive to buy from OAG or flight stats for example and it changes every few months.

There has not been one traffic addon in the last 20 years of simming that has had accurate schedules (ultimate traffic to name one)  because the Summer, Winter and Shoulder seasons are so dynamic as they change at numerous points of the year. 

Youve only got to attend one of the iata conferences (of which ive gone to three) to understand how complex,cut throat and quite corput it really is.  (try and do a charter in EHAM with flowers on it and see what happens) 

A week of flying in August is different to a week of flying in May and completly different to what is in January, and thats not even going into the realms of charter, acmi and cargo routes.

It’s impossible to update every airline in a way you have written above, unless it is your full time job, or you have software like FR24 (and even that has missing flights).

I have a personal subscription for all data from CH Aviation (where data is provided from OAG) and FR24 business, that I use to update airlines for AIG Ai traffic add on (I’m one of the main flight planners) in my spare time. While they can be a few weeks old by the time they are released, I guarantee they are as accurate as they can possible for the week designated. 

Does this do high altitude enroute stuff as well? If not is it planned? 

3 hours ago, kiek said:

You're not completely right, I'm afraid.

PSXT does that for 10 years (already) now ... It's Live traffic is of course always accurate (max 35 seconds behind). 

i know nico ive used for 10 years.  but thats not bgl type data, and you are limted to areas with coverage 

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3 hours ago, B777ER said:

Does this do high altitude enroute stuff as well? If not is it planned? 

how could it be, routings change on a daily basis it would have to be great circle or specfic .pln type routings ,  that ultimate traffic used to use 

Edited April 8, 20251 yr by fluffyflops

3 hours ago, pommy80 said:

I guarantee they are as accurate as they can possible for the week designated. 

im sure they are not going to use OAG data, and again it wont have cargo charters for example, nor adhoc airline charters. 

Again i remind you of previous software companies that have tried to do this.  Ultimate Traffic, traffic global,  just flight etc etc, to name 3 of the numerous devs on both  p3d, xp11, ms2020, fsx that have all tried it and  all of them have done one of two seasons then give up due to cost or effort required.,  This is my point. Weve been burned many times by devs trying this sort of stuff.

Theres also callsigns, how are they going to do this ?

Edited April 8, 20251 yr by fluffyflops