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MarvellousI Thank you very much, that seems to have done it. I had tried similar combinations before but without success so I must accept that I may have made the alterations with FS open. In any event I'm very grateful for your help, it will make my approaches much more enjoyable. Thanks again, Gary

Again thank you Andy but can you tell me if it's available for FS2004 and if so where?. As far as I can see it's an FSX program only. Gary

Thank you and I'm relieved to hear I'm not annoying you with this! I'm sure I'm not mixing the modes but perhaps I quoted the Guide somewhat out of context.The cylinder works exactly as it should with 1.5nm set against the ZapAirRange entry but if I increase the figure to say, 2.5 it makes no difference, the cylinder range remains at 1.5nm (or as near as I can judge it). Should increasing the ZapAirRange enlarge the cylinder and if it should do so have you any idea why it might not be happening for me? I suppose it's just a matter of preference but I prefer not to see the go around because in the real world the offending aircraft probably would not have been vectored onto the ILS quite so close behind me. So if I could knock him out it would feel more natural to me although I can understand why not everyone would see it that way. I use AI Separation which is excellent but it doesn't recognise the user aircraft. They say AI Smooth does but I have never been able to get that function to work so it isn't a solution for me. Not unreasonable of you to ask whether I know to hit the zap button but that daft I'm not! Thanks, Gary

Thanks but I think that's for FSX only isn't it? I'm FS2004. Gary

Dear Mr Dowson, Sorry to come back to you on this as my original question was clearly an irritation to you. I think I now understand the way this is set up and my previous confusion was due to my having conflated the instructions in the Advanced User Guide with some discussion about settings on the forum. I am now using version 3.999s as required and the entries in my INI file read ZapAirRange=1.50, ZapGroundRange=0.25, ZapCylinderAltDiff=500. I remain puzzled though as to whether it is possible to increase the Air Range to make a larger cylinder. I see that in a recent answer to a related forum question you said "The assigned traffic zapper controls take no parameters so any provided will be ignored". However the wording in the User Guide seems to imply that it that it may be possible to adjust the range (at least in my reading of it). When describing ZapAirRange and ZapGroundRange the Guide states "These control the range of operation...." and a bit later with regard to the acceptance angle the Guide says "It is adjusted automatically, in linear inverse proportion to the change in the range so with a larger range you would need to point the aircraft nose etc......." Certainly I have not succeeded in enlarging the range by adjusting the ZapAirRange setting but if it could be done I'd be pleased to know how. My problem is that I find again and again that an AI conflict will position itself around two miles behind me on the glideslope, just too far behind to be out of zapping range but close enough still to be forced to go around after I land. A cylinder with a range of 2.5 to 3 miles would resolve this. With apologies in advance if you find the question tedious or if I have misunderstood something but I hope you will recognise that wording in the Guide may be slightly ambiguous on the matter. Thanks, Gary

Thank you for explaining this. I had read the documentation over and over but obviously I had misunderstood the point. If no-one else has had similar problems with interpreting the section about the cylinder I guess it must be down to me.

I wonder if you could help me understand the Zap Cylinder operation a little better. Is it possible to adjust the height and range of the Cylinder function and if not could you confirm what the pre-set values are? I have read that these are 1.5nm and 500ft but I am not clear how these relate to the value '=n' as configured against the relevant entries in the .ini file. Is 'n' defined somewhere and if so can it be altered? Like other users I find the Cylinder very useful for removing AI traffic encroaching in the late stages of an approach but I could really do with it being set to a range of 2.5 to 3nm to be sure of a clear run on short finals and to avoid being distracted by frantic last minute zapping when I should be concentrating on landing. I have read and re-read the relevant sections of the Advanced Users Manual and the comments posted here but I remain baffled. My .ini entries read ZapAirRange=n and ZapCylinderAltDiff=n however I do not seem to have an entry labelled ZapGroundRange as referenced in the Manual. Should there be one? (Version 3.998 and FS2004 by the way). I'd be most grateful for any advice, thanks. Gary