EliGrim

Until now it took several hours after each release of a DLC until the current version of RT was available. Maybe it has something to do with how BMT Micro manages its servers. However, v21 has been available for download for a few hours now. You should be able to download it.

The first flight will always be a departure. That's how the game works.

@crbascott I'm working hard on it, but I have to do it in my spare time. However, it will be quite a while before I get to EKCH, but that shouldn't be a problem, because you can rely on @battlehawk77. Fortunately, one person has agreed to do most of the research for the airports, so I can fully concentrate on the implementation. Most likely there will also be another person who will provide me with solid information. Nevertheless, after the research is completed, I still need (depending on the airport) 5 to 10 hours per airport for the implementation. Unfortunately I don't have anywhere near 10 hours of free time per day. But no matter what happens, first of all I have to make sure that we get food on the table, then it is time for the Schedule Builder. And also the family needs a little attention from time to time. In addition, I don't own all DLCs which also leads to delays, as questions about a research result cannot be answered in real time, usually only after several days, because even the "Voluntary Research Department" does not have unlimited free time. For me, it is now 4:20 a.m., and I think I can solve the problem of moving defunct airlines tonight. So on or shortly after this weekend you could already see the next airport or airports in the Schedule Builder. Cross your fingers! 😉

Update v0.45 KPHX added Note: When I created the Schedule Builder I did not consider the possibility that in the future airlines might cease their flight operations. In order to be able to react to this, I will rework the code in the next 2 weeks (at most) to be able to react to such incidents. As soon as the work is finished, I will continue to implement more airports into the tool. This post has been revised because my previous wording obviously irritated someone, according to the emoji at the bottom right. Edit 2: I have found a quick way to solve the problem so that new airports should be available next week.

Update v0.44 KBOS added KJFK added

Link to Schedule Builder added to first post. Currently the three airports from the base game are available. More will follow in the next weeks.

I can only report how it is on my system and there the (re-)installation of Real Traffic overwrites all text files for all airports included in the Real Traffic version. So when updating to the latest version, all custom schedules will be overwritten.

Update v0.42 Selection of aircraft models for GA flights refined to prevent unwanted gaps on arriving flights. The Schedule Builder has passed the beta phase. No new features/options for the Schedule Builder are planned after leaving the beta. The only exception is the implementation of local air traffic, which is still on the agenda for a later date. In the course of this week the implementation of additional airports will be started. Which airports will come next and when exactly these are available, I don't dare to determine. The plan is that at least two more airports will be included this month. From now on a contact form is available, where you can report praise, criticism and especially bugs, inconsistencies and abnormalities, which you have found playing the game. I am a private person and not a company - therefore there is no department for data protection available. The contact form can be used without providing any personal or private information such as name, email address, etc. and I encourage everyone not to disclose any personal information unless absolutely necessary. (E.g. an email address if an answer is absolutely needed). At this point I would like to thank everyone who helped me create the tool, find bugs and collect information. Especially I would like to thank @Ripskin for the many gameplay tests and @OneNothing, who did and still does a lot of the research on destinations, flight numbers, terminals, etc. so that I can focus on integrating the airports into the tool. But in general I want to thank everyone who was and is active in and outside of this thread. You all are truly awesome! 👍

Due to the current "situation" I spend more time at home than I would like to, to put it mildly. Thus the update comes earlier than planned. Update v0.38b The incidence of an airline going to (or coming from) the same destination in a row has been drastically reduced. (See notes.) Intercontinental flights are now served by long-haul aircraft only, if possible. (See notes.) Minor code changes that are not worth being specified. Notes: - The tool now checks, during the creation, if there are identical destinations directly after each other and replaces them accordingly. Especially for small airports such as TIST, where most airlines only fly to one or two destinations, the more flights per hour are created, the more identical destinations can (and will) continue to be used in a row. At larger airports and airports with airlines serving many destinations, it can still happen, even if only sporadically. Just look at it as if one (or more) of the flights is delayed due to a technical defect, weather or something similar, which in the real world, unfortunately, is not uncommon. - Even if I now have unexpectedly more time, it will not happen, as mentioned in the previous post, that the Schedule Builder selects specific aircraft models for specific destinations based on target distances and aircraft ranges. But at least I can now provide you with a "light version". For this purpose, all, no matter if cargo or not, A300, A330, A340, A350, A380, MD11, B747, B767, B777 and B787 are designated as long-haul aircraft. If a flight crosses continental borders and there is one of these aircraft types in the RC Pack for the selected airport, for the airline in question, it will be used for the flight. If more than one model is available, the choice will be made randomly. To check if a continent is left, I have distributed approx. 2,800 of the most important destinations to 6 (!) continents. For a better result the Middle East has become a virtual continent of its own. The mechanism takes effect if the target (destination) is not found on the same continent where the operated airport is located, both for arrivals and departures. I try to include new local airports, that are possibly added with a release of a new DLC, as soon as possible. It should be noted that the reusability of aircraft models for schedules with high traffic volume should continue to be ensured. Possibly more heavy jets (even for domestic destinations) will now be used in the schedules. It would be important to get a report from you to make sure that the playability of the schedules is not affected. A further objective is the option to include local traffic if wanted. However, implementation is not planned within the next few weeks.

Thanks for your report, I appreciate that. It is on my list for next week, not to have two close flights of one airline to the same destination. (Edit: This will not be possible for small airports like TIST.) However, there will be no selection of aircraft models in correlation to the flight destination. The calculation of distances and fuel consumption is too time consuming for this leisure project. I can't do that in my spare time. Theoretically it would be possible to include it over a weekend, but only if I would not submit to the restrictions of the RC Packs. It would be extremely complex to integrate it with relatively few available models, if at the same time a freely selectable traffic volume per hour should remain allowed. That would be something for a paid full-time project. Furthermore, since the basis for this schedule creation are the corresponding RC Packs, such restrictions would lead to the fact that not always new schedules would be created, but only variations of the same ones. I would like to prevent this at all costs. If I start with the flight ranges, next, departure time frames would follow, then, to be realistic, aircraft models outside the RC Pack would have to be used for the airport, then periodic flight routes and seasonal destinations would have to be involved - and in the end we would basically end up with a database of real flights from which the schedules would be compiled. And this is exactly the path I don't want to go down, because it has already been done. If possible, playable and entertaining schedules should be generated. For this purpose, in example, the Schedule Builder will always give priority to the reusability of aircraft models within a session, even at the expense of an accurate, percentage-based distribution of airlines. There is no question that the automatic generation of schedules will be compromised if the random factor is to be maintained (within certain limits). I would like to emphasize once again that this Schedule Builder does not aim to replace realistic, custom schedules. Neither should it, nor will it ever be able to do so. Even though I would like to be as realistic as possible with the Schedule Builder, I have to disregard the flight ranges of the aircraft types. Just imagine it would be a multi-stop flight. Of course the ATC would not have the final destination on its console but I think you understand what I'm trying to say. 😉

It is in the realm of the possible that I have tamed the beast. Update v0.35b KLAX added KPHL bug fix Please test KLAX to the limit and report on all inconsistencies. I am now taking a week off as far as working on the Schedule Builder is concerned. But of course I will continue to observe this thread closely. It is planned that the tool will leave the beta next week and then to focus on the implementation of further airports.

Update v0.33b Slider turned into a drop-down list to select the airport Added realism/variety slider With the variety option the tool can also process airlines that have ceased operations, as long as they are included in the respective Real Color Pack Small bug fixes and changes that are not exciting enough to list them here There is a small chance that I will not be able to be online for the next two days due to maintenance work by the cable provider. Therefore this post does not come as announced, with a one day delay. If the website does not show version 0.33b, please clear your browser cache and restart the browser. If the realism/variety slider is set to realism, this does not mean that real flight data is loaded. This is about the selection and distribution of the airlines. The individual flights are still generated based on key data such as real destinations, credible flight numbers, and aircraft models that have liveries included in the RC Pack. It is planned to add KLAX this weekend with the help of a few (few!!) community members. This is the plan, no promise, it depends on my time available! I will edit this post as soon as KLAX is available. EDIT: KLAX should be online by tomorrow (Sunday). Especially this airport, which has a lot of airlines in the RC Pack, is extremely time-consuming to implement and currently turns out to be a bit bitchy concerning a reasonable distribution of the airlines. Now I need a break of a few hours and then I will get back to work.

Simply use the links you received with your purchase again. The latest version is automatically provided there. Edit: @scoobflight was faster! 🙂

Did you download REAL TRAFFIC again (version sp6v19 or later) and install it? At the latest with the release of a new Airport DLC, Real Traffic will be updated and can be downloaded again (for free) via the link you received when you bought it. Real Traffic should always be kept up to date and is a prerequisite for the Real Color Packs to work. A new Real Traffic version can be easily reinstalled without prior uninstallation, to (in your case): Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Tower 3D Pro

I would like to add to the details to have a voice command like "cancel that" and/or "correction" that immediately cancels the spoken command and so the PPT key can be pressed again for a new command. The mentioned point basically contains it, but I would have a better feeling when it is in the details so that it is not overlooked.

I would say still using Win 7, after MS has stopped supporting it, is a general problem. 😉 But it should not have anything to do with the fact that you had to refresh the site several times before the new files were loaded from the server. The new files should be fetched from the server daily. If you have visited the website shortly before the update, then this mechanism obviously couldn't work yet, because I don't overwrite all the files during the update and thus give them a new timestamp. But I will do this in the future and also announce updates with one day delay. Then this issue should hopefully no longer occur.

I like the idea very much, but at this stage it will not be so easy to implement. I would have to rewrite a lot of the code and in the near future my spare time will be less rather than more. Airports where there are several airlines that have stopped the operation, I could possibly add them as an additional airport, so that the airport appears twice. I will try to find a solution within the next weeks.

You use Google Chrome, right? In addition to the module based cache control I will now use meta-tags for the pages. I have no idea if this will help, but it's worth a try. If it has no effect, I would have to consult the hosting provider to possibly change the server configuration. I'm not sure that's possible, though. I have chosen an extremely inexpensive hosting package that actually excludes such changes in the conditions. So I can't make any promises. That's an idea. I'll try to include it in the next update. I'll do that. This tool is not gonna win any beauty pageant anyway. 😉

Update v0.29b - Only Stop-and-Go and Touch-and-Go is now used for flight maneuvers. Low Approach is no longer used unless you really want it back. - Parts of the code for the distribution of flights have been revised, as well as minor changes in various areas. - KPHL is added for further testing of the tool. For testing purposes, KPHL's focus has shifted to diversity, not realism. This means that the schedule does not consist of almost only American Airlines flights, but that the other airlines are more represented than they are in real life (from what I could find out). Personally, I like the variety quite well and there are also a lot of American flights represented now. But I will follow your suggestions which airlines should be represented more and which less in the schedules.

I'm incredibly sorry and I don't know how to put it nicely, but I'm beginning to get the impression that you want to make a fool of me. It's not evil mean - maybe we are talking past each other. (Maybe it is because you don't seem to like punctuation marks and therefore it is difficult for me to follow your statements properly, as a foreign language speaker.) Sample of the original gaandlocaltraffic (v20): Sample of the gaandlocaltraffic from the Schedule Builder: Sample of gaandlocaltraffic from the Schedule Builder with active flight maneuver: During the implementation of the flight maneuver option, I have been through more than 1,000 tests (simulated) and after completion I have played several schedules (GA included) in the game. The in-game tests were successful. Please be so kind and describe in detail what problem you encountered or recognized.

That's all right, then. I was afraid I made a mistake in coding. Actually, Low Approach does not work for me. After a CLEARED FOR LOW APPROACH the flight comes in low, but then it aborts with a GO AROUND and starts the loop anew. A search in the forum has shown that this is not the first time this problem occurs, only an answer I could not find. Hence my question: Is there a different command sequence for Low Approach than Stop and Go or Touch and Go? Did I do something wrong or is there a general problem with Low Approach? If it is a general or common problem, I would limit the flight maneuvers for the Schedule Builder to SnG and TnG and leave LA out. Yes. Based on key data, all flights are generated pretty much out of thin air. Nevertheless, I have the ambition that to a certain extent credible schedules should be created. This means that for example for Atlanta, still most of the flights will be Delta flights, airlines will only fly to destinations they serve in the real world and that with a flight number from a predefined range as found in real schedules. But permanent flight numbers for periodic routes are not covered. However, the random factor should not be ignored either. The goal is that with every generated schedule you have the feeling of playing a new schedule and not a variation of the always same schedule. How close I will come to this goal in the end remains to be seen. I'm so sorry. Obviously, there's something here I don't understand. I'm pretty sure that the gaandlocaltraffic file is created correctly by the tool. Have you noticed an error?

@ATC AlaskaGuy It may be a problem of the language barrier, but I do not understand what you are trying to tell me. Could you be a little more specific?

Update v0.24b - New domain: builder.eligrim.de (faster server and encrypted data transmissions are now possible) - Ascending sorted schedule can now optionally be downloaded - Flight maneuvers for GA flights can now be added optionally (randomly assigned to appropriate flights)

Voice Commands - Reference Card updated (v2.02) Corrections to the alphabet. Foxtrott is now Foxtrot and X-ray is now Xray. Edit: I have not changed Juliett into Juliet with a single T. Although most of the sources I have found write it with a single T, I have stuck with the double T, as both Wikipedia and a document for educators, found on faa.gov, write it with a double T. New domain It appeared that the "Free Hoster" prohibits the search for certain callsigns (e.g. DHX). With the now selected, paid service the site should be faster, encrypted transmissions are possible and of course the search now works error-free for all callsigns. Even if now for domain and server space must be paid, the tools remain of course free of advertising and free of cookies. The links in the first post have been updated.

I'd like to see EHAM too. For KMIA I don't know, but KORD is in the pipeline, as are KEWR and KIAD.