AFCAD

[Ruahrc]

If I might chime in....

Has anyone here heard of the program AISmooth? It is a freeware program which will put the AI aircraft into holding patterns to space them out more on approach to airfields. You can customize the length of time between planes, distance at which incoming aircraft can be stalled for holds, etc. You as the user plane will never be told to hold, and theoretically AI planes will halt their approach and start holding if you come at them from behind.

In theory it all sounds great, and in practice it works out pretty well. I have seen some odd behavior, and also sometimes I still get traffic incursions which I must fix with the MS Traffic SDK's traffic explorer (which can delete specific aircraft from the airspace). IMO it's a pretty good solution to the go-around problem and makes STAR-AFCADs obsolete. Landing at major airports is now (usually) go-around free and also you will be landing at the correct runway according to the wind.

With AISmooth running I have modified my AFCADs to the standard parallel runway ops. One runway dedicated to takeoffs, the other dedicated to landings. For airports with multiple sets of parallel runways, I've made it so each pair has one dedicated T/O and one dedicated Landing runway. Airports with quad-parallel runways (like KATL or LAX) I have set up so the two runways on one side are a T/O+Landing pair, same for the other side. Basically they are paired up following the runway designations (25L/R, 26L/R, etc).

Using this setup, which was what everyone used prior to STAR-AFCADs (?), and how most non-STAR-AFCADs are setup (like the default FlyTampa OMDB is set up like this) and running AISmooth- the traffic is spaced out enough such that go-arounds are very rare on the dedicated landing runway. Takeoffs are very steady too with the dedicated T/O runway.

This seems more realistic to me since there are few go-arounds, and you do not have traffic operating on crossing runways which might lead to a collision. Anyways hope you guys understand what I am talking about basically just try out the program AISmooth and you will not need STAR-AFCADs anymore.

Ruahrc

[specialist]

I try using AISmooth and it doesn't work for me. Still get the same amount of go around. I use Ultimate Traffic and I asked them if they are going to be putting out an upgrade since Just Flight Traffic 2004 is putting one out that helps eliminate go around. They said that Just Flight is just using their version of AISmooth, and they feel that the freeware is good enough. I tend to disagree with them since I still have the same problem no matter what setting I set it up on. I also hate the way I see a plane skimming the water at KSFO bay from about 10 miles out coming in for a landing.

[Roddelin]

Hi there,

anyone who has a good working AFCAD for FS2002 ??
I guess you where all talking about AFCAD2.
My< problem is :

the graphic is great in Midway ! And even with a slower machine under FS2K2 I have no problems with framerates...

But have you done do the ILS-System for 31C - 13 C ???
On 31 C I got no indication at all that this is IMTX... It appears as IMDW and it don't capture me on aproach.
Only "backbeam" works

If I make a aproach from 13C... it is not much better...No capture of the ILS in Autopilot APP Mode
Indication flipps between IMDW and IMTX !

From both sides I have no Glidslope available

I have unintalled and reinstalled made sure FS200" Version is choosen.
Checked scenery.cfg... everything as it should be but still the same problem.

After buying Tampa and Miami and everything is smooth... I am really disapointed

Any Help ??

Greetings
Frank

[martin[flytampa]]

Roddelin: I have been looking into this FS2002 ILS issue, I'm emailing you some files to test since I don't have enough other people to who reported this in 2002.

[mleuck]

Looking for the AF2_KMDW which has a link earlier in this discussion. The link does not work.

Thank you,

Michael

[martin[flytampa]]

File link fixed.