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There is where it should be! At least in background at Flying Crown Ranch. Bernard

Just installed the small scenery of Ulawun Volcano. It' s the highest volcano of the Bismarck archipelago, and one of Papua New Guinea's most frequently active. Bernard

Yes, and the most well known there: the Pinatubo. Bernard

¨ That's the one I showed somewhere below. Bernard

Nice ndeed. But what exactly is the basic model? Bernard

Some few days ago Hans Wuhrmann released several Swiss repaints of vintage aircraft. These are very wellcomed addons for Swiss skies. Furthermore he did an appreciated effort to still eep FS9 alive. Many thanks Hans! Bernard

Did you ever thought to eventually switch to FS2004? You might certainly get more support for this than for FS2002. That could bring more fun too than struggeling with something missing more and more experience. Just a well minded advice, of course. Bernard

In some cases the scan mode of Flight1 AFX tool recognizes object files. 'Everything' search tool allows to locate the corresponding folders. But as I said, that doesn't apply for all sceneries. It depends how they have been created. Bernard

For traffic you might use Traffic Toolbox. However, I never heard about a tool showing which scenery file generates an airport. I'm quite curious. Bernard

Sorry, but creating an airport with Afcad 221 is like creating it in the dark. IMO, best tool is by far AD FX Airport Facilitator X of Flight1. It's a payware tool, but worse the price. It as interface with a WYSISWYG mode. That means, you see exactly where your runways, taxiways, parkings and so on are placed. Have a look here: http://www.flight1.com/products.asp?product=afxv1 While creating an airport in the nowhere, you certainly have to flatten the area. Bernard

These screenies should been part of a review done elsewhere about the unexpected flight of the B314 PAA 'Pacific Clipper' around the world by the end of 1941 and known as 'The Long Way Home'. The reason of this adventurous flight was the Japanese attack of Pearl Habour, which made impossible to fly back from Auckland over the Pacific. I tried to create this part of the story while using some aircraft done by Bill Lyons and including them in an AI traffic. That's produced by the traffic too! Bernard

This AI biplane is scheduled for flying from Tobago TTCP to Pittsburgh KPIT. A third party GW3 traffic, BTW! Anyway, it started from an airport just in the background and for which my FS9 vintage version has no Afcad. It neither appears in Airport Library. The same occurs for the final destination at Pittsburgh, as I deleted all default Afcad. So the airplane is shown in a very smaller radius too. Bernard

You won't see the AI taking off. But you will see it in Traffic Toolbox flying within the visibilty radius of starting and landing point. Even if there are no Afcad at both sites. Nevertheless traffic will be activated. Bernard

That's a reasonable way. Don't hesitate to ask for further informations or advices.

I would suggest that first you download a simple AI ship traffic like 'KBOS AI Ship Traffic' available here: https://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/fslib.php?do=copyright&fid=91295. Than do following steps: - install the Aircraft folder in your FS9 - install 'Traffic_BOS_ships.bgl' in your 'Scenery\World\Scenery' folder - install the three bgl files of Afcad folder in Addon Scenery\Scenery folder After that you should see the ships at Boston Harbour. Furthermore I suggest to install Traffic Toolbox in order to 'go to' the ships and follow them. With the Afcad tool you will see how the three Afcad are done. It's more or less like an airport, besides that the ships use small or greater circled taxiways for moving. They start from an oversized parking spot and end at a very short runway. Like this here: BTW, Afcad tool has the advantage that runways could be reduced to 0.4 feet and get them invisible. Use TTools to decompile 'Traffic_BOS_ships.bgl' in a separate folder, maybe named TTools. There you will get Aircraft_BOS_ships.txt, Airports_BOS_Ships.txt and FlightPlans_BOS_Ships.txt files. If later you like to do more such traffic at different places it strongly recommand to use AFX tool of Flight1. It's a payware, but it's worth the price. The tool has an interface which allows an extremely useful 'WYSIWYG'. It enables to create traffic in branched harbours. In any case you rather should go step by step, than reading long torturials. The one of Holger Sandmann is certainly very helpful but IMO not quite manageable for beginners. Bernard

First of all: are you used to handle with AI aircraft traffic and creating Afcad /ADE? Do you already knew the necessary tools? That would be more important, than reading any tutorials before. Be aware that adding ship traffic won't work at every place, as lakes and seas aren't flat everywhere. You could easily get some bouncing ships. Maybe you could add static ships instead. The effect isn't worse, especially if you add animated wakes. From the top it really looks like moving traffic. Bernard

Just found this, mentioned with Masbate Airport on FlightSim Library: This scenery has not been tested with FS2002 but is more likely to work without problem in that version except that AFCAD for FS2002 should be separately designed. Without Afcad, no ship traffic. Bernard

Just be aware that AITM does only show airport traffic for one specific flightplan, and this for the whole week. But you won't see all aircraft of all your FP's. Excepted if all your traffic is in one file as does it CalClassic for its more than eight hundred different AI planes! Bernard

If I correctly red Stewie's question, AI Traffic Mover should more suitable. https://www.molitor-home.de/fs/aitm/ Bernard

Actually I'm creating "The Long Way Home" as AI flight. Here over Treasure Island on the way to San Pedro, CA. Bernard

At least you might try transatlantic_clipper_waterfields.zip or now_1939.zip available here. You will also find suitable sceneries for Treasure Island and Midway on the web. Bernard

Yes quite nice. Bernard

While running FS9 with SweetFX in full screen, I get slight worse graphic performances than in windowed mode. @CRJ_simpilot: Never saw or red about a FS2004 Steam version. Bernard

The only way to resolve EVENTUALLY the problem, could be a curved approach. Without such a procedure, the approach to Kai Tak wouldn't be possible neither. Bernard