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Adding an AI flight

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Ok, I'm just putting the finishing touches to a small airfield -- thanks to lots of reading and tips from this forum -- and all I need to do before release is add an AI flight.
This airfield is home to a whale-watching company, and all I want is an aircraft to take off a couple of times each day and do a quick flight out to sea and back. Any ideas on the tools/techniques I need here?
 
To make a BGL with traffic you need TTools. But it could be hard to get it to fly to the sea and back, as the only options are do a touch-and-go on the airport or fly to another airport.
 
And the other way is dynamic scenery, which has some caveats but it can fulfill the idea of such flights.
 
I just d/l'd AI Flight Creator from Avsim, but I haven't had a chance to use it as I'm still working on the graphical portion of an airport. The interface seems reasonably easy to understand. When I get a chance, I'll try it out and let you know how well it works, or you can d/l it yourself. One of the things I liked from the doc's was the fact that it auto adjusts for time zones so you don't have to convert all your ai flights to Zulu, a pain in the butt from everything that I've heard.
Jeff
 
Jeff....I use that tool, and it's great! Fast and easy. But you still need to hand edit your flight schedules to get your arrivals on time.
 
With computing power sitting on my desk that would have cost several hundred million dollars as well as a climate controlled building the size of a warehouse not all that long ago, you're telling me I have to hand edit :yikes:
'What a world, what a world' the witch says as she melts away!

The more I know, the less I understand. :scratchch
 
toprob,

I beleive with AFCAD you can create a water runway anywhere you like - just be sure to check the option to make the runway invisible (if you selct a water texture for the runway it more than likely will not match the surrounding water) and make sure you create some invisible taxiway connectors with parking spots. Your plane wont take off from its departure point if there is no available parking at the destination. Hand coding with TTools is not hard, you only need to write three short txt files.

Ive done this myself, but its been a few months ago, so my memory is a bit rusty.
 
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