FSHud

First of all, FSHud - Air Traffic Control is an ATC add-on, not a standalone traffic add-on. However, traffic is a fundamental part of any ATC environment. For this reason, traffic management and interaction with the user aircraft have been core requirements of FSHud - Air Traffic Control from day one, and this logic has been continuously developed over the last five years. FSHud does not simply inject aircraft and leave them unmanaged. AI aircraft behavior is controlled according to the ATC environment, airport configuration, separation logic, runway usage, taxi routing, and the presence of the user aircraft. This includes managing conflicts at runways, holding points, taxiways, and other areas where aircraft interaction is required.

As I mentioned previously, live traffic is managed independently by FSHud - Air Traffic Control according to the airport configuration and other factors used by FSHud, such as separation. This means that once an aircraft is injected into the simulator, its next states are separated from what continues to happen with the real live traffic aircraft. From that point, the aircraft has its own flight lifecycle inside the simulator, which may differ from the real one.

Live traffic is managed independently by FSHud - Air Traffic Control according to airport configuration and other factors used by FSHud, such as separation. There is also no guarantee that aircraft will keep the exact same position or the same arrival/departure queue order. If the live traffic is an enroute aircraft, its flight level will be preserved in most cases. This happens because we currently do not have flight plan information for each flight or exact active runway information for each airport, so these values are calculated by FSHud. Regarding traffic amounts, you can control them in the same way as any other traffic amount settings, such as maximum active and parked aircraft.

@jhnWik At this stage, FSHud - Traffic is focused on commercial flights only. Medical/lifeguard flights, GA traffic, military flights, and other special traffic types are not part of the initial traffic coverage. We are actively looking into options to expand this in the future and add more traffic categories where technically possible. @simsuper80 @bmarcoux2 Improvements such as more advanced pushback/gate behavior and more detailed airport-specific runway logic are also on the list of things we would like to improve. As always, development priorities have to be balanced between many requested areas — adding more traffic types, improving AI behavior, improving voices, and refining airport/runway handling. We will continue improving these areas as priority and technical feasibility allow.

As far as I know, GAMOD is compatible with FSHud - Air Traffic Control when using simulator traffic interception mode. So yes, as mentioned in the announcement, multiple traffic sources can be combined in the same way they are combined today, including the new FSHud - Traffic feature.

This is an additional feature that will be introduced alongside the existing features. We have always provided support for all FSHud - Air Traffic Control features, and this will remain unchanged. Moreover, as part of the work on this upcoming traffic feature, several major improvements have also been made to the existing traffic sources.

We are working on it and checking the available options for GA traffic. Once we have a reliable way to support GA traffic properly, we will include this option as well.

We are pleased to announce that FSHud - Traffic, a new built-in traffic source for FSHud - Air Traffic Control, is planned for release in the next few days. FSHud - Traffic will bring both live traffic and scheduled traffic directly into FSHud - Air Traffic Control, without requiring any additional installation. It will work with any installed traffic model package and will provide a more realistic and dynamic traffic environment directly through FSHud - Air Traffic Control. The live traffic system will provide coverage of approximately 80% of live commercial flights, with traffic data refreshed every minute. This will allow FSHud - Air Traffic Control to use real-world live flights as part of the simulator traffic environment, reflecting aircraft that are actually flying in the real world at that time. In addition to live traffic, FSHud - Traffic will also include scheduled commercial traffic by airport. This will include most commercial arrivals and departures, synchronized with live traffic to provide realistic airport activity even where live traffic coverage is not available. FSHud - Traffic will also support traffic based on the selected Flight Simulator time. When this option is used, schedules and a live traffic snapshot matching the selected simulator time will be used, allowing users to fly with traffic that better fits their selected time of day. The feature will be compatible with MSFS 2024, MSFS 2020, Prepar3D v4, v5, and v6. It will also be possible to combine FSHud - Traffic with other traffic sources, allowing users to use it as the main traffic source or as an additional traffic source together with their existing setup. Due to intensive cloud usage and live traffic provider costs, FSHud - Traffic will be available as a monthly subscription for 2.90 USD per month, with a free 1-week trial available for every user with an FSHud - Air Traffic Control license, including legacy licenses purchased from distributors such as Flight1 and Aerosoft. An active internet connection will be required at all times while using FSHud - Traffic. FSHud - Traffic is expected to be released in the next few days.

Please check guide below about traffic settings and how it works: https://www.fshud.com/site/knowledge/traffic-settings-v2

FSHud is completely agnostic as to whether a flight is airline-operated, military, or general aviation. As long as the flight data that FSHud receives includes a schedule (as mentioned in the previous message), it will inject and control the aircraft accordingly—even if it’s a Cessna 172 flying from airport A to airport B. The only rule is that all flights must be operated under IFR — and it’s important to note that VFR is not the same thing as GA. GA describes the type of operation, while IFR/VFR are flight rules; GA flights can be flown under either IFR or VFR.

@JonathanC @G-YMML1 I will try to clarify a few things regarding schedules, sequencing, and traffic sources. First, let’s separate what these terms mean: Schedules – Information that includes the departure airport, destination airport, planned departure/arrival times, aircraft callsign, and aircraft title/livery. FSHud receives this information from different sources (MSFS live traffic, AIG/BGL, and APIs). FSHud does not include its own flights database, because we believe this responsibility should remain with traffic add-ons—there are many on the market (AIG, FSLTL, FSTraffic, or the default MSFS traffic). Sequencing – This is entirely handled by FSHud. Even if the schedule data is imperfect (for example, a hypothetical case where 100 traffic aircraft are scheduled to land at exactly the same time), FSHud is responsible for sequencing those aircraft and spacing them out one after another. Naturally, this can create significant differences between scheduled times and actual operating times. Traffic aircraft flight plan and performance – All the detailed parts of how an aircraft executes its schedule—including flight plan generation and controlling/piloting AI traffic from gate to gate—are entirely handled by FSHud, based on the schedule data it receives from the traffic sources.

Hello, You can use ActiveSky where you can select historical weather and FSHud that is fully integrated to take weather from ActiveSky. This will give you completely synchronized weather experience (for current or historical weather preset in ActiveSky).

A new update has been released, continuing ongoing improvements and expanding the Airport Configuration Manager with new configuration options. Parking spot airline codes: Assign airline ICAO codes to individual gates/stands. Advanced runway activation schedules: Define runway activation by days of the week and set multiple shifts per day. More enhancements are planned as development continues. Full release notes are below: Version 2.0.354 - December 17, 2025 Airport Configuration Manager: Added the ability to specify airline codes for parking spots. Added support for more complex runway activation schedules, including days of the week and multiple shifts per day. Fixed several issues related to activation scoring and compatibility. Traffic Injection Improvements: Fixed an issue causing duplicated flights. Improved the amount and speed of traffic injection. User Interface: Fixed panel UI issues where some elements were not displayed properly.

Thanks @Bad_T! It's really a pleasure to see users enjoying this new feature. Parking assignments by airline codes configuration in FSHud (separated from the scenery) is exactly the next part of Airprot Configuration Manager - which is planned to be released in next week or two. Best wishes and have a good weekend! 🍻

Thank you! Import/Export functionality already wokring - make sure to open the panel from MSFS or Classic Panel. Then you can share exported file which will be compatable with future versions.

We’re pleased to announce that the Airport Configuration Manager feature for FSHud – Air Traffic Control has been released to BETA. This initial part of the Airport Configuration Manager allows changing active runways and defining runway activation logic, enabling more realistic airport operations. It also includes import/export, making it easy to share configurations and keep backups. For a detailed walkthrough of the current functionality, please watch our tutorial: https://youtu.be/izHusIqK4kA

Hello, First of all we didn't get any ticket about this issue (please double check on your side again). In any case - try to open the panel from local computer in browser, another computer and another phone/tablet which will narrow the problem to possible factors like Firewall, LAN settings, VPN, Antivirus, incorrect port and so on. Thank you

Absolutely no. As answered in my previous posts - those tools intended to work with MSFS injected and controlled traffic.

I can definitly say that we don't have plans to edit or create scenery BGL files or somehow "plot" visible taxiways into MSFS. Probably, at some stage - there will be ability to create kind of "virtual" taxiway which is basically a path that is only visible for FSHud and allows user/traffic to bypass on it. Of course it should somehow match the scenery and visuals up to user/editor responsibility.

I liked the word "finicky" about connected taxiways... 🙂 Let me ask you - if I draw a door in the wall, can you enter into it? (this is what happens with the taxiways "fastidiousness"). Regarding encrypted airport - YES for around one year.

Just scroll up several messages upwards to see how to handle such issues 🙂 https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/656768-fshud-20-for-msfs-users/page/20/#findComment-5599976

User communication messages already highlighted - you can see the background and text colors are different and more enhanced than ATC communications.

@Markus MSFS @Rob G @JonathanC FSHud doesn't work with FSLT using REST API (External Traffic source) - it was out of support by FSLTL around year ago. The correct way to work with FSLTL is to update FSLTL to latest version and set "Simulator Traffic" mode in FSHud to "Enable" It is also explained in our traffic settings guide: https://www.fshud.com/site/knowledge/traffic-settings-v2 And of course I would like to mentiond about our "golden tirnity" 🙂: Knowledge Base, Application Checklists, Support Tickets Opening a support ticket is the fastest and most effective way to resolve issues and get relevant answers. Please don’t waste time asking in the community (unless you just want to chat about the problem rather than solve it 🙂); the likelihood of getting a correct answer there is much lower. There are many factors involved, so even for us it’s challenging to give an exact answer based only on a forum post with no details about your version, simulator, environment, and other information that may affect the issue. Thank you

Hello, Please check the answer I provided you in Discord and email in order to forward with this issue. Thank you

Simulator Traffic - Enable. All other traffic sources (including external) - Unchecked. Also turn off default MSFS traffic in MSFS settings.