Air Traffic for X-Plane
Features
- Flight plans can be created specifying departure airport, arrival airport, and waypoints along the way. The flight plan will include a list of aircraft in the flight and formation type which can change between waypoints. Aircraft altitudes can be specified in ASL or AGL, the latter being used for low level terrain-following flights. Flight plans can have a start time so aircraft start at the correct times or they can be random so they will activate at any random time.
- Routes are generated from the flight plans to fly aircraft towards the active runway at the destination. Arrivals can be straight in or overhead breaks for military aircraft.
- Ground routes can be defined specific to aircraft types. An appropriate ground route will be loaded so that airliners will taxi to or from jetways and fighter aircraft will taxi to or from hangars or other parking spots.
- Objects are used for aircraft instead of the X-Plane multiplayer aircraft so there is no limit to the number of planes that can be in the air. Francesco of Aircraft3D will be building a whole suite of aircraft for this application.
- Some randomness is built in aircraft flight paths so as you'll see in the video, the aircraft bob around a bit in the formation.
Video of Air Traffic Plugin in Action
