Payware traffic programs like Flight One's Ultimate Traffic and the new Traffic 2005 have no American Airline airliners because American Airlines does not permit its livery to be used in payware add-ons. The result is a missing livery in what is ordinarily excellent AI traffic coverage.

There is an easy way around this.

Ultimate Traffic, and I suppose Traffic 2005 disable the default traffic program (Traffic030528.bgl) and rename it to Traffic030528.ORIGINAL or something like that.

You can download American Airline liveries for the default airliners ( B737-400, B747-400, B777-300, and the MD-83).

I loaded up mine with three American Airline liveries for the B737-400, and two each for the B747-400, B777-300 and the MD-83.

Using the B737-400 as an example my aircraft.cfg file looks like this:

[fltsim.0]
title=Boeing 737-400 United
sim=Boeing737-400
model=
panel=
sound=
texture=
kb_checklists=Boeing737-400_check
kb_reference=Boeing737-400_ref
atc_id=
atc_airline=United
atc_flight_number=1123
ui_manufacturer=Boeing
ui_type=737-400
ui_variation=United
description=One should hardly be surprised that the world's most 
prolific manufacturer of commercial aircraft is also the producer of the 
world's most popular jetliner. The 737 became the best-selling 
commercial jetliner worldwide when orders for it hit 1,831 in June 1987 
(surpassing Boeing's own 727 as the previous champ). However, it wasn't 
always that way\s in the first few years of production, there were so 
few orders that Boeing considered canceling the program. They didn't, 
and the airplane has more than proven itself in over three decades of 
service.

[fltsim.1]
title=Boeing 737-400 Paint1
sim=Boeing737-400
model=
panel=
sound=
texture=1
kb_checklists=Boeing737-400_check
kb_reference=Boeing737-400_ref
atc_id=N676AA
atc_airline=American
atc_flight_number=1123
ui_manufacturer=Boeing
ui_type=737-400
ui_variation=American Airlines
description=One should hardly be surprised that the world's most 
prolific manufacturer of commercial aircraft is also the producer of the 
world's most popular jetliner. The 737 became the best-selling 
commercial jetliner worldwide when orders for it hit 1,831 in June 1987 
(surpassing Boeing's own 727 as the previous champ). However, it wasn't 
always that way\s in the first few years of production, there were so 
few orders that Boeing considered canceling the program. They didn't, 
and the airplane has more than proven itself in over three decades of 
service.
atc_parking_types=GATE
atc_parking_codes=AAL


[fltsim.2]
title=Boeing 737-400 Paint2
sim=Boeing737-400
model=
panel=
sound=
texture=1
kb_checklists=Boeing737-400_check
kb_reference=Boeing737-400_ref
atc_id=N676AA
atc_airline=American
atc_flight_number=1123
ui_manufacturer=Boeing
ui_type=737-400
ui_variation=American Airlines #2
description=One should hardly be surprised that the world's most 
prolific manufacturer of commercial aircraft is also the producer of the 
world's most popular jetliner. The 737 became the best-selling 
commercial jetliner worldwide when orders for it hit 1,831 in June 1987 
(surpassing Boeing's own 727 as the previous champ). However, it wasn't 
always that way\s in the first few years of production, there were so 
few orders that Boeing considered canceling the program. They didn't, 
and the airplane has more than proven itself in over three decades of 
service.
atc_parking_types=GATE
atc_parking_codes=AAL


[fltsim.3]
title=Boeing 737-400 Paint3
sim=Boeing737-400
model=
panel=
sound=
texture=1
kb_checklists=Boeing737-400_check
kb_reference=Boeing737-400_ref
atc_id=N676AA
atc_airline=American
atc_flight_number=1123
ui_manufacturer=Boeing
ui_type=737-400
ui_variation=American Airlines #3
description=One should hardly be surprised that the world's most 
prolific manufacturer of commercial aircraft is also the producer of the 
world's most popular jetliner. The 737 became the best-selling 
commercial jetliner worldwide when orders for it hit 1,831 in June 1987 
(surpassing Boeing's own 727 as the previous champ). However, it wasn't 
always that way\s in the first few years of production, there were so 
few orders that Boeing considered canceling the program. They didn't, 
and the airplane has more than proven itself in over three decades of 
service.
atc_parking_types=GATE
atc_parking_codes=AAL

[fltsim.4]
title=Boeing 737-400 Paint4
sim=Boeing737-400
model=
panel=
sound=
texture=4
kb_checklists=Boeing737-400_check
kb_reference=Boeing737-400_ref
atc_id=
atc_airline=Frontier Flight
atc_flight_number=543
ui_manufacturer=Boeing
ui_type=737-400
ui_variation=Frontier Airlines
description=One should hardly be surprised that the world's most 
prolific manufacturer of commercial aircraft is also the producer of the 
world's most popular jetliner. The 737 became the best-selling 
commercial jetliner worldwide when orders for it hit 1,831 in June 1987 
(surpassing Boeing's own 727 as the previous champ). However, it wasn't 
always that way\s in the first few years of production, there were so 
few orders that Boeing considered canceling the program. They didn't, 
and the airplane has more than proven itself in over three decades of 
service.
atc_parking_types=GATE
atc_parking_codes=FFT

Notice that textures 1, 2, and 3 are all the same: American Airlines. I copied the same American Airlines textures into Texture.1, Texture.2, and Texture.3 overwriting the old ones. You could make all five American Airlines if you wanted to.

Do the same for the default B747-400, B777-300 and the MD-83.

Now, go into your Flight Simulator9/Scenery/World/Scenery folder and rename Traffic030528.ORIGINAL back to Traffic030528.bgl. That will add American Airliners to your AI traffic as well as the default GA traffic.

If you are using a separate GA traffic program or otherwise don't want to use the default GA traffic you can eliminate it very simply with TrafficTools.

Using TraficTools Decompile Traffic030528.bgl

Go into the Aircraft030528.txt file and replace the aircraft title with 'DUMMY'(AC#1,180,"DUMMY") for all the GA aircraft and recompile the traffic file. Now only the airliners will show up as ai aircraft.

Noel Sivertson
judge@zianet.com