FSUIPC 7.4.18 and AI traffic in EFB2

[Hans K]

For many years I have been using Electronic Flightbag (EFB2) from Aivlasoft. One of the functions is that I can see my fellow pilots and AI traffic on a map. That has always worked fine but after the update to FSUIPC7 version 7.4.18 I still can see the traffic when I am on the ground but as soon as I have taken off I see no surrounding traffic in EFB2. I do see that traffic on my ND in the cockpit and also "physical" when it is not too far away through my cockpit window so it is in the sim.

I then rolled back to version 7.4.17 and everything worked again as it always did. So it apparently has something to do with a change in FSUIPC. Can someone give me a hint how to solve this?

Regards Hans K

[John Dowson]

I will look into this but I a, rather busy at the moment, so it may take me a few days...probably next week sometime or possibly later...

There was one possible change that could cause this - from the changes.txt file (and FSUIPC history document):

Quote

  - removed automatic change of AI aircraft state (from engine start or sleeping to enroute) when aircraft altitude
    differs from ground altitude by 100 feet or more. Previous behavior can be re-instated by adding:
       AIAboveGroundLimit=100
    to the [General] section of your FSUIPC7.ini file (although this is NOT recommended).
    Note this change was made as it looks like the ground altitude for some sleeping AI traffic was changing
    to 0, causing them to switch from ground-to-airborne.

So you could try that.

But before that, please check the build date of your 7.4.18 version, in the 1st line of your FSUIPC7.log file. If this says 1st November, please re-download and re-install. It should say 3rd November. The initial release was accidentally built against the MSFS2024 SDK, and I corrected this the following day. You may need to clear your browser cache to re-download (otherwise the old cached version will be downloaded),

John

[Hans K]

Hi John,

Thanks for the very quick response. I am pretty sure I have the correct version but I will check that tomorrow and will add the line in the .ini. I will report the results.

The sim is working so I can live with it for the moment and am not in a hurry.

Regards,

Hans K