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Using FSX. My Local Time is 11:00 AM. The GMT time is 04:00. I want to have a Inbound AI landing at 04:03 or 04:04 AM. Using the Traffic Explorer,
the ETA is 04:09. But the inbound is not even seen until 04:17:15.

Sample Flight plan:
ac#3,1413,20%,4hr,ifr,03:25:15,04:09:21,130,f,1413,vvcr,05:30:00,06:14:06,130,f,1413,vvdn //Inbound

I would like to shorten the wait time, if possible. IF I set the GMT time to 11:01, the inbound AI in the traffic explores shows arrived. How can I correct this?? Thanks in advance
 
ATC does not always use your arrival time. Mostly it uses the arrival time as the time the plane gets to your traffic zone. There may be as much as a 10 minute lag. Try bumping up the time in your flight plan.

Bob
 
As said above - the "arrival time" in AI flight plans is the time the aircraft arrives in the airport active AI zone area. It is not the arrival at the runway time.

FS2004 takes the arrival time listed in the traffic file, and back times the aircraft by 15 minutes to make the aircraft appear at the edge of the AI traffic zone. Unless the airport is very busy the AI aircraft should be on approach about the correct 'arrival time'.

FSX does basically the same thing, though the FSX active AI zone is twice as far out from the user aircraft as FS2004.

You cannot start a flight and see an AI aircraft arrive on approach and land within the first couple minutes. The program is not setup that way.

AI aircraft are generated at their flightplan cruise altitude, and have to descend to the airport. A few may be generated at lower altitudes - but FS still needs 5 to 10 minutes to stabilize the incoming aircraft, setup their vectors for approach to the IAF and get them sequenced.

AI aircraft will not be working consistently according to their flight plans until about 15 minutes after you start the flight.
 
Downloaded AIFP 2.1.08 today. Want to create a 4 hour flight plan for FSX.
But I get this error message every time. The distance is only 29 miles one way.
I found that IF I select 6, 8, 12, or 24 hour selection, the error goes away.
But I do not want to wait all that time on such a short flight. Can someone show me the right way to make a 4 hour plan?
Thanks
 
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Uncheck TNG and try again. What is the plan over in the left column? Doesn't look like a complete plan.

Bob
 
You are correct, bobbyjack. I failed to delete the bad flight plan first. Will try new plan without TNG active.
 
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