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ojdee

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Hello all,

I have just install AI Flight Planner after several failed attempts to get payware products to do what I want - this one works just fine so congratulations to the devs for that!

I have a few general queries about how flight plans are handled so i thought you guys would be the best bet to get them answered.

If I create a flight plan to take off at midday and fly to another airport 30 minutes away, it autocompletes the arrival time, all well and good. However, if I override this arrival time, what does this mean for the flight, does it circle, fly slower?

If I want to create a flight for a plane doing circuits, the only way I have managed successfully is to create a two leg plan, all desitnations and departues set to the same airport, then toggle TNG. Is this the prescribed way or can I achieve this with just one leg?

Is there any reason why a successful flight plan for a cessna say, does not work when I use a Grand Caravan on it instead? The airport is equipped to handle both these planes.

Is there any way to set waypoint along a flight plan for the AI? I've had no end of plane flying into mountainsides when I'd prefer them to follow a valley - perhaps this is beyond the scope of FSX AI planes in general?


No doubt I'll think of some more over the next few days,, but would be grateful if someone in the know could clarify these.

Cheers

Oli Dainton
 
Welcome, Oli

As far as I know, all flight plans require two legs, including TnGs.

Seems when you change planes in a FP, AIFP produces an "Override ETA" because of the different cruise speeds. Delete that entry and the plan should work.

I think that problem has been fixed. Which version are you using?

Way points are a function of the airport you are using, rather than FPs. Is this a stock airport where planes are hitting mountians? Also, you can't use just any plane for AI. I have seen some that land far short of the runway and travel underground.

Bob
 
Hi Bob,

Thanks for some of the pointers.

Regarding the override ETA, haven't noticed it causing issues, I was just curious what it would achieve if I forced it off the original time.

I'm trying to fly some planes around the Sion Airport area in Switzerland. ALl stock airports, although admittedly this is pretty severe terrain to navigate in. Are you saying that airports should have approaches built into them to allow navigation around tricky rerrain features? I assumed they just had a straight glidescope that planes locked onto and flew from there.

Thing is, particularly int hese kinds of terrain, it would be useful to specify waypoints completely independently of the airports to allow flights along valleys for example - perhaps this just isn't an option?

I'm using the latest version 1.6.06 so not sure why the Caravan is a no show.

Cheers
Oli
 
Oli

Regarding the Caravan, make sure that after you change anything you are hitting the "Save Edits" button.

All Airports that accept AI have some kind off approach code. Either a simple visual code, or an ILS code. The folks at ADE are creating a system by which you can write a curved approach. Just the thing to follow valleys.

As far as AI hitting mountians, are particular planes doing this, or are all of them? And which airport. I'm not at my FSX computer right now,so I can't look at it yet. But I can later.

Bob
 
Oli, Bob seems to have responded to (or is handling) everything except your query about what happens when you override the system-calculated ETA. It's really quite simple, AIFP recalculates the cruise speed and adjusts arrival time at the destination and at each point along the way based on the user-entered ETA.

Don
 
Well, I've followed AI craft on a normal flightplan, but never one with an extended ETA. My guess would be that the plane flys some round about route. I have seen AI do some funny things.

Bob
 
No, Bob. The route is defined in the traffic file as a series of entry and exit times to/from the AI sectors along the direct flight path. AIFP (like TTools before it) adjusts these times to reflect whatever cruise speed is necessary for the AI to depart on schedule and arrive at the edge of the destination AI sector 15 minutes before the overridden ETA.

Don
 
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