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P3D v6 Invisible AI Aircraft

Robert Armstrong

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Anyone here care to help with AI Aircraft not showing up at my airports and air bases? I don't understand what my problem is. I have aircraft at some airbases and none at others. Case in point, the first photo is of Lemoore NAS and the other is MCAS Miramar.
 

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Are you sure Miramar has parking spots? There are no oil spots at that airport?
 
As Tom suggested, using ADE or some other AFCAD type program open the MCAS bgl and check there are indeed parking spaces. The next thing to check is that the flightplan has the aircraft at the airfield you are watching at the time you are watching. The next is to check your aircraft are P3Dv6 compatible. Try all that and come back to us.;)
 
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As Tom suggested, using ADE or some other AFCAD type program open the MCAS bgl and check there are indeed parking spaces. The next thing to check is that the flightplan has the aircraft at the airfield you are watching at the time you are watching. The next is to check your aircraft are P3Dv6 compatible. Try all that and come back to us.;)
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I did go back and look at Miramar, and it does have parking spaces for both F18's and V-22's. I have enclosed an image. The smallest parking space is 10m for the F18's and 15m for the V-22's.
 

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Hi Robert, It's hard to see, but to me it doesn't look like there are taxi paths to the parking spots. Check and make sure that there are complete taxi paths between the runways and the parking spots. No path from the runway to the parking spot means no AI aircraft will park there.
Ed
 
Another question is, are you sure that you have AI aircraft scheduled to operate out of Miramar?
 
Robert, rather than a screenshot can you please attach the *.AD4 file and perhaps the flightplan BGL file?
 
Hi Robert, an AD4 file is generated by ADE when you start to model the airfield. It may be placed in the airfields folder, addon scenery/scenery folder or in an ADE projects folder. Can you run through the procedure you take to edit any airfield you're changing? Having just opened your traffic file, are your aircraft all P3D5 compliant. A quick search of MAIW revealed to me that Nick Blacks F/A18's are FS9 models. These will not work in P3D beyond V3. I was only able to find a P3DV4.4 model of Nick Blacks F/A18E in a search on MAIW. Can you perhaps list the name of the actual flightplan you are attempting to use and where you obtained it as the only MCAS Miramar I am able to find at MAIW is for FS9.

Cheers
 
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Hi Robert, an AD4 file is generated by ADE when you start to model the airfield. It may be placed in the airfields folder, addon scenery/scenery folder or in an ADE projects folder. Can you run through the procedure you take to edit any airfield you're changing? Having just opened your traffic file, are your aircraft all P3D5 compliant. A quick search of MAIW revealed to me that Nick Blacks F/A18's are FS9 models. These will not work in P3D beyond V3. I was only able to find a P3DV4.4 model of Nick Blacks F/A18E in a search on MAIW. Can you perhaps list the name of the actual flightplan you are attempting to use and where you obtained it as the only MCAS Miramar I am able to find at MAIW is for FS9.

Cheers
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I need to figure out how to make an ADE for Miramar for P3Dv6 I guess.
 
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Hi Robert, an AD4 file is generated by ADE when you start to model the airfield. It may be placed in the airfields folder, addon scenery/scenery folder or in an ADE projects folder. Can you run through the procedure you take to edit any airfield you're changing? Having just opened your traffic file, are your aircraft all P3D5 compliant. A quick search of MAIW revealed to me that Nick Blacks F/A18's are FS9 models. These will not work in P3D beyond V3. I was only able to find a P3DV4.4 model of Nick Blacks F/A18E in a search on MAIW. Can you perhaps list the name of the actual flightplan you are attempting to use and where you obtained it as the only MCAS Miramar I am able to find at MAIW is for FS9.

Cheers
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I decided to go with the stock Miramar airport and make my spots for each aircraft on it.

Edit: I seem to be having a problem getting my sim to update with this new ADE plan.
 
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Sometimes the AFD plan (the airfield, parking etc.) is the problem, but I think in this case it may simply be the flightplan. Can you let us know the name of the MCAS flightplan and where you got it from?

Cheers
 
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Sometimes the AFD plan (the airfield, parking etc.) is the problem, but I think in this case it may simply be the flightplan. Can you let us know the name of the MCAS flightplan and where you got it from?

Cheers
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This is the flight plan, and I got it from the MAIW website. It was originally a flightplan for FS9, but I changed it to P3Dv6 with AIFP3
 

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Did you download this in a package? If so, as I said earlier, the aircraft will not be compatible with your P3Dv6. Changing the flightplan in AIFP3 only changes the way the plan is read by the sim, it doesn't make any changes to the aircraft or the AFD files. From what I have gathered so far I believe you are trying to use a FS9 package in P3D and this will not work without aircraft conversion. Your best bet will be to look through here https://militaryaiworks.com/downloa...x-compatible-for-fsx-p3dv1-p3dv6.html?start=0 as this is where the converted aircraft models appear to be in MAIW. Its not simply a case of dumping the package into P3D if it has yet to be converted. Please attach your *.AD4 file as I asked earlier from your Miramar workings in ADE.

Cheers
 
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Did you download this in a package? If so, as I said earlier, the aircraft will not be compatible with your P3Dv6. Changing the flightplan in AIFP3 only changes the way the plan is read by the sim, it doesn't make any changes to the aircraft or the AFD files. From what I have gathered so far I believe you are trying to use a FS9 package in P3D and this will not work without aircraft conversion. Your best bet will be to look through here https://militaryaiworks.com/downloa...x-compatible-for-fsx-p3dv1-p3dv6.html?start=0 as this is where the converted aircraft models appear to be in MAIW. Its not simply a case of dumping the package into P3D if it has yet to be converted. Please attach your *.AD4 file as I asked earlier from your Miramar workings in ADE.

Cheers
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I was finally able to get my aircraft to show up at Miramar last night. Someone I know at the MAIW site told me about an app that will make my AFCAD files become user friendly by changing my ADE files to P3D files. Or something along that line.
 
I was finally able to get my aircraft to show up at Miramar last night. Someone I know at the MAIW site told me about an app that will make my AFCAD files become user friendly by changing my ADE files to P3D files. Or something along that line.
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That's good news Robert. Glad to hear you managed to sort it out. It can be very frustrating. I am currently migrating from FSX to P3Dv4 and well aware of migration issues.

Cheers
 
Generally if an aircraft disappears on landing it means either there is no available parking spot for them or there is no connecting path from the runway to parking. Have a look at both of these in your AFD. I'm assuming you use ADE? If you do, then open the AFD file (N. Island.BGL or however its named) and run the fault finder under the tools menu dropdown. This will tell of any issues that may affect how the Airport performs in the sim.
 
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