AI Traffic Tables

[Dave March]

John/Pete

I'm not able to read any AI Traffic data, which is working just fine with FS9/FSX/P3D. The offset status document seems to indicate this data is available. So first thing I did was to run Pete's TrafficLook program, which I assume would be using the same offsets and that seems to be missing the ICAO info in the 'From' column and has a numeric value in the 'To' column, so something seems amiss.

Dave

 

 

[John Dowson]

Hi Dave,

so the AI traffic tables are populated, but there is a problem with the From/To columns...I will look into it.

But how come you are not able to read any data?  It must be there if it is displayed in TrafficLook!

John

[Dave March]

Sorry John I should have said, initially I'm checking for an ICAO match at the departure airport. I haven't tested anything else yet.

[Pete Dowson]

Does this apply to "real traffic" as well as AI?
Does LittleNavMap show the routing? I know it also reads the traffic data via SimConnect, though it uses the 32-bit FSX SimConnect DLL.

I suspect it's yet another limitation of the currently implemented SimConnect interface. If the information was arriving it would be available, but it's possible that requesting those things was causing errors in an earlier version of the MSFS SimConnect interface and so were (temporarily) suppressed in FSUIPC. If so I expect John can un-suppress them to see if they now work.

Pete

 

[Dave March]

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Does this apply to "real traffic" as well as AI?

Haven't tried real traffic

 

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Does LittleNavMap show the routing? 

Sorry, I don't have LittleNavMap

[John Dowson]

I've checked this now and FSUIPC7 is requesting this data, but it seems that the following AI string variables received via simconnect are always empty:
    AI Traffic State
    AI Traffic Assigned Runway
    Ai Traffic FromAirport
    AI Traffic ToAirport
    AI TRAFFIC ASSIGNED PARKING

I will raise this with Asobo.
I'm not sure at the moment why TrafficLook is showing an integer in the 'To' column when this should be empty....

John

[Dave March]

Thank you for the update John, you must have read my mind. 

Dave

[Dave March]

Hi John,

Since we can't get the assigned runway in use at the destination airport using the traffic tables, nor can we retrieve weather info whilst enroute, is there any other way of doing so?

Dave

[John Dowson]

Hi Dave,

not until these issues have been resolved by Asobo. I'll raise a zendesk ticket on those AI sim variables being empty.
All current SimConnect functions for weather have been deprecated, and we are waiting for a new interface to be provided.

John

[Dave March]

Okay, thanks.

Dave

[John Dowson]

Btw, I also checked the 'To' airport field. When the ICAO for the destination airport is empty, FSUIPC substitutes this for the AI aircrafts transponder code (when available).