Hi folks. I have both GAIST and SEAFRONT VESSELS installed on my MSFS 2024 system. In the sim I have ship traffic set to Medium. When I am flying around I am not seeing very many ships. I am testing around the Florida eastern coast.

Can I get any advice as to how to get the most ships to appear in the sim using either one or both of this addons. It seems to me I should be getting more ships than I am actually seeing.

Thanks.

I have up on GAIST and bought Global Shipping from Seafront which does not rely on in sim settings. 

I wonder why then I am not seeing many boats around the florida coast

 

Global Shipping is the main shipping routes only, but I have seen cruise ships off Florida whilst flying to Miami. 

Go to the Global Shipping website, look for and click on the interactive map. You will be taken to a very detailed map that shows the locations and shipping routes of thousands of ships, including types. My advice would then be to plan some flights where you will be most likely to see these ships. I assure you, they are everywhere and are visible at night also. 

8 hours ago, BaronKen said:

Go to the Global Shipping website, look for and click on the interactive map. You will be taken to a very detailed map that shows the locations and shipping routes of thousands of ships, including types. My advice would then be to plan some flights where you will be most likely to see these ships. I assure you, they are everywhere and are visible at night also. 

Thank you.

I was landing at VHHH the other day and saw many ships below. According to LittleNavMap there were 467(!) AIs around me. Then I switched off BATC to eliminate the AI aircraft and I still had around 320 AIs reported. Most likely all of them were ships, because i didn’t have anything else running which would insert AI aircraft.