Spawning AI Aircraft

[ColR1948]

I used to do this years ago so I had a go at doing it again.

Just as an experiment I spawned 3 Mustang aircraft from an invisible airport/waypoint. I had them spawn 3 minutes apart all to go to the same airfield.

The spawn times were 09:00, 09:03 & 09:06, when I waited at the arrival airfield they didn't show at the time they should have arrived which was 09:55, 09:58 & 10:01.

But I waited by accelerating the sim time, they didn't appear on radar till 11:00, they all landed OK but why the 2 hour delay?

 

I'm sure the last time I played around with this I never got such a long delay, has anybody else ever done this?

 

Col.

[tgibson_new]

One hour of that could have been DST/non-DST, and the other hour who knows? If you were using local time for these tests try it again with GMT, which is what AI traffic is actually programmed with (and is listed in the flightplan.txt file).

[ColR1948]

Hi Tom, now you mention it I'm not sure if I selected local or GMT, I'll do another check.

 

I remember doing this years ago, a mate of mine did a fictional airfield, he spent a lot of time on it and did a good job.

So I decided to put so AI traffic in it, to make it easy I put 4 invisible airports N,S,E,W and had planes flying in from the 4 points, just having the 4 points made it easy to program the AI instead of having them coming from real airports.

It was just an experiment but it worked, also this fictional airport had 2 runways so the AI were coming and going using both, it was fun to watch.

 

Col.