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I am happy to say that I tried this out and it seemed to work. The only "problem" that I had was that I needed to hit the "A" button to watch the next plane arrive. Is there are way to just plant the camera next to the runway so that the planes are followed in one after the other and I wouldn't have to keep hitting the button. Active camera was able to do this but as we all know Active camera doesn't work in FSX.

Thank you for your help. Wow, I didn't realize it was so complicated. The guy who posted his facilities runway camera config also made some videos which made it look so easy. That is exactly what I am looking to do, but I didn't realize that there was a very important code missing. I am not familiar with all those adjustments and I don't know how to find the latitude and longitude I want. I just want to have a camera that follows the arrivals in and when it the aircraft goes out of range, then it follows the next arrival in. Now I really miss active camera, I was able to park my camera near the runway and watch all the arrivals being followed in one by one at whatever airport I went to. It looks like there will never be an active camera for FSX and those other two programs don't offer what I need either. I was able to get something that I like by changing the track value from chase to track in the ai view camera. But I have to hit "A" to cycle through all the aircraft in the area and it's based on the tower view so it's a little more work because I don't want to hit any keys each time I want to see the next arrival.. It's nice for now but I really hope that something comes out that makes it easier to accomplish what active camera did. I really also hope that the guy who made all those arrivals video on you tube comes back to share his knowledge because he accomplished what myself and other people are looking for. But of course I appreciate any help I can get.

I tried using this formula and I have pulling my hair out trying to make it work. I copied the codes into my cameras.cfg file and I don't have a camera alongside the runway that moves with the ai aircraft. I have tried about 10 times and I seem to be the only one having the problem. I select runway and pick the active one but it only sits on the runway looking out into space. My ai planes are never followed and I am not seeing what I am supposed to. I didn't see anything posted about what aircraft I need to use this formula. Of course I have tried 10 different aircraft and it still doesn't work. What could I be doing wrong, surely something this easy shouldn't take all night to figure out but for me it has. I would be so grateful for anyone that can show me in detail how this works. It seems alot of people are using it but of course not me. Thanks everyone.

I just stumbled on this thread and I am very excited that I found it. Like the original poster, I also had active camera and was hoping to find something similar to it for FSX. But there is nothing worthy yet and the utilities most people suggest is Walk and Follow and Ezdok and they don't offer what I am looking for. I believe this is what I have been searching for and seeing your video, I know it can be done. I am anxious to try out the tutorial for making an approach camera. But I have a couple of questions and I am hoping the poster who made the tutorial is still around to answer my questions. My fist question is that once I change the camera configuration, do I need to set it up for whatever airport that I want to go spotting at or does it just "stay put" and becomes a view each time. Do I also have to use a special aircraft or something like a spotter car. I use world of ai and PAI planes so I am hoping that they work with the settings. You also mentioned just taking the "track" out and will that be all that's needed or do I have to change the whole configuration? If it doesn't work, will all my other change too or can it be easily fixed back to the original. I am afraid of making those changes to important settings. With active camera, I just placed the camera next to the runway and watched all the arrivals. When the arrival landed on the runway, the camera just locked onto the next plane and followed that one in. It also followed airplanes that were taking off as well, It wasn't required to select the aircraft, or move the camera with the arrow buttons, it just moved automatically. It was just a lazy way to watch take off and landings and letting the camera do all the work. Thanks for reading and I guess I had more than a couple of questions!

Yeah, I have seen that version of YSSY. It costs so much and it doesn't look better than default. I have since learned that I am looking for VSX, that is the last release from the VOZ team and it was made for FSX. Does anyone know where I can get this file or have any advice on where I can find it. I would like to get it from a legal source (you know what I mean) that way I can trust it to be safe for the computer. I appreciate all of the help.

What I am after is the free VOZ that is available for FSX, but so much time has passed that it is now hard to find it online except for those cheesy torrent or whatever they are called websites. I know that the VOZ is now ORBX/FTX and I also know that they have payware now but I was looking for the free VOZ for FSX because I don't fly Australia that much and although the ORBX?FTX sceneries are very nice, they are also pretty expensive. I am hoping for a ORBX?FTX scenery for YSSY but it may never happen so I thought this was a cheaper solution.

thanks for your help. I did see the FTX/ORBX offerings, but those are payware and they don't have a seperate YSSY scenery. All of Australia is on sale right now but not sure if I want to spend the money when I just really want YSSY. I guess I will wait until they have a seperate FTX YSSY, like YMML that should be spectacular.

Hi everyone, I have been searching for the voz scenery for fsx that was relased a long long time ago. I know that the package is now payware with FTX and the price is cheap. Did you know the box version is $69.00 but the download is $105.00?? anyway, I was thinking I could still find the free fsx version somewhere. The only thing that I found was VOZ 1.8 for fs9 but I haven't installed it yet because I am afraid it will blow up my computer. I also found all those cheesy file download sites that look illegal but I never touch those. At the least, I really just want better scenery for YSSY because the payware FSX version is a crime with how bad it looks let alone costs. I am hoping for a FTX yssy scenery but that may never happen so until then I thought that this would be a good idea. Has anyone been able to use VOZ 1.8 in fsx or do I just have to live with default? Thanks for reading.

I also forgot to add that my world of ai planes are in the simobjects folder but the pai planes are in the misc folder, could that be it. I also don't have fs9, I only have fsx.

well dam, now it doesn't work. I have two versions of each package in the scenery/ world/scenery file, do I need to take out all the fs9 versions so all I have in fsx versions or vice versa?. I don't know how I have one pai package working but 112 are not.

Well I used aifp and was able to get everything working. I was afraid of converting everything and having to start over but it seems all is well. Thank you for you help, knew I came to the right place.

my woai files are both fs9 and fsx and when I take out the fsx ones, nothing shows up. I even tried converting the fs9 pai files to fsx and they still don't show up. I guess when I use the woai installer it must install two files per airline package. If I convert my fs9 files will I have like over 1,000 files to move or delete, Will I have two fsx files and one fs9 files. I am hoping that is not the case. By the way, thank you for your quick replys.

no they are all in the same sim objects folder but each plane starts with pai or woai. I haven't done any tweaking to the cfg file. I don't know how to do that one.

It's been bugging me for 4 days now and I finally decided to ask for help. I have fsx and all the world of ai planes are installed and they work fine. I just recently rediscovered project ai and they have some of the packages that world of ai don't have. I decided to install some pai packages so I can have the best of both worlds. It seemed like everything went fine in the pai package install and I can see the pai planes in the sim objects file and the traffic file shows in the scenery/ world/ scenery file but when I start fsx I still only have the world of ai planes. I also noticed in the same file that the woai packages have both an fs9 and fsx version. I also use aifp which I also think I screwed up by "playing" around with it to try and get it to work. I am asking anyone that has a way to make both companies to work together please share your knowledge, I hope I don't have to redo everything because there are over 500 world of ai packages! thanks

Hi everyone, I have been going crazy trying to make this work. I have sort of successfully installed traffic view board in fsx. The panel comes up and I can click on a flight, But the data on the board is all screwy, the airports are not showing right but the airline info is. I know that the follow function doesn't work in fsx but I was wondering how to get the data to show correctly on the board. If it showed correctly then I could see the flight info and watch it in the traffic toolbox explorer. I also have Super Traffic Board but that has not been as problem free as traffic view board . In Super Traffic Board there are less traffic flights and planes randomly dissapear out of the sky and you have to start back at the airport you started out from. . Has anybody got traffic view board to work in fsx? big thanks

Well I did convert all my fs9 traffic files to fsx, it was the only way to have traffic x and world of ai to play nice together. That is a very nice program to use but do you think it is because of the conversion. Also, I had Mytraffic in the early days but didn't like the way the planes looked so I changed over to just flight traffic. Will my traffic give me more than traffic x and then I will have more traffic or will it just be the same type of thing. Thanks

I was just curious about something that I have noticed. I have lots of add on airports, use traffic x and world of ai, super traffic board and have all the latest afcads installed but I don't see a lot of movements at the airports. I have plenty of traffic but do not have long lines waiting for takeoff and lots of planes moving around like in fs2004. I guess that it is a good thing but it's something I'm not used to. For example at EDDF I have about 3 planes lined up for takeoff. In fs2004 I had so many planes lined up that it was backing up the gates and causing slowups. I don't want that volume but more realistic and by the way the new EHAM is also very quiet. I have the traffic all at 100% so it's not that but what could it be? Maybe it's all in my head but have any of you notice the same thing? thanks guys.

Thank you, but it looks good to me so I don't want to change anything. How do you like the scenery? I think it is a good purchase for the money. I don't fly there often but will have to now to enjoy it. Maybe an update will fix it and add moving jetways, thanks again.

Thank you all, in the end I bought the rio pack that gives me four airports for a good price. The only thing I didn't get was moving jetways and vehicles but I can live with it. Now which Dublin to buy (hahahaha) thanks

Hi evryone, I am thinking of buying a new sbgr scenery and there are two that look identical. I was wondering which one is "better". I am interested in moving jetways and, realistic afcad and detaailed buildings. Which one do you guys like and which one would fit my needs. Thank you

yes that is the problem, I can download the packages into fsx fine and I do see the files in the scenery section but I need help converting the files because I use traffic x too and I know they can co exist together if I convert the files to fsx so I need the step by step instructions on how to use aifpc or if there is something else out there.By the way, my file menu on aifpc does not have the conversion tool.

Hi everyone, I just downloaded some new world of ai packages and I am not seeing them in fsx. I read about aifpc in the forums and I tried using it but the manual is so involved that I am more lost than before. Can someone tell me step by step how to use the program so I can see the world of ai traffic. It seems like an easy program to use but I have tried and tried and it just isn't working for me. I also checked the forums but I couldn't find a step by step instruction. I would really appreciate any help from you all, thank you.