JonP01 Posted March 16, 2023 Share Posted March 16, 2023 (edited) Hi, Since YPOK is more or less a "local" airport where I live I have been looking into adding traffic to the version that came with Australia V2. It took a fair bit of fiddling to get it to happen (not helped by me being a complete novice) but I was able to finally set up the required parking, taxi paths etc and then setup a 1300 Ft right traffic pattern for runway north and left pattern for runway south (basically to preven the aircraft flying into Mt. Buffalo...). I have been using ADE and AI Traffic Planner. Things seem to be working fine and as predicted but of course YPOK is one of those imperfect grass runways that is not flat. I know this was a limitation in FSX (flat runways) so it is what it is but it seems Orbx got around this sort of thing by perhaps creating a "fake" runway and then putting the real sloped runway on top of it. Or something like that - I don't know - I know nothing about scenery design. I just know it is sloped yet it works! But the (minor) problem I am left with is that the AI treat the runway as dead flat so that by the time they are at the north end (around two feet lower than the south end) they are floating two feet in mid air. This is purely a visual issue - function wise it is working flawlessly and it is not a deal breaker. What I have now is still way better than now traffic at all - and you'd need to be watching them closely to even really notice. I think for the most part most of us just allow the AI to do their own thing around us and we concentrate on our own plane anyway! But I just thought I would ask is there any simple trick to get around this? Come to think of it I have never really noticed precisely what the AI do at all my other Orbx payware airports since none of those have flat runways either (unless they are flat in real life). Again, maybe I have just never paid such close attention as I have when trying to do this stuff myself. As I say, this is no big deal - I just wondering if a minor refinement is possible with little effort. Obviously if is complicated and a big deal to resolve it is not worth it. Thanks! Edited March 16, 2023 by JonP01 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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