
It has up-to-date flights covering more than 3,000 global airports with complex, multi-point, multi-day flight schedules. Over 600,000 flights included by default – the flight database is created from recent commercially sourced flight data and processed using custom tools specifically written for Traffic Global. Hundreds of combinations of airlines and aircraft provided - Traffic Global comes with 65 aircraft types over 860 liveries covering most of the world’s airlines.

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Seven new controllable external views allow you to follow individual AI aircraft and three new control windows are also included: a radar display centred on your aircraft, a flight board which is switchable between all nearby airports and a flight plan display showing nearby airports, taxiways and flying aircraft.įor more details and some FAQs you can check out the manual here!
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The AI aircraft respond to the movements of your aircraft as you move around an airport and the software is compatible with all third-party airports. Even with hundreds of AI aircraft on screen and more being simulated nearby, simulator performance is barely affected. Traffic Global loads everything in the background and is usually ready to go as soon as your flight starts. New or altered aircraft liveries can be easily added and do not require any additional configuration. Over 600,000 flights are included by default and these cover more than 3,000 global airports with complex, multi-point, multi-day flight schedules. Traffic Global comes with 65 aircraft types and over 860 liveries covering most of the world’s airlines. Installation is simple and the software is ready to run 'out the box'.
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*I'm one of those old-fasioned people who believe that computers are supposed to make life less complex and more enjoyable, not the other way around.Traffic Global for X-Plane 11 (Mac) provides high quality animated AI aircraft models in authentic airline liveries and with full 3D sound and lighting and effects. Found no other relevant documentation on the DMG, just some bible quotes, which were absolutely no use under the circumstances (praying DIDN'T help.).įrankly, if this software is actually used by anyone in the groves of academe doing serious research, I'm never flying again! For now, I'd suggest sticking with Warbirds or X-Plane they may not be open source, but they work.

The other problems I can forgive as development issues, but this is just plain carelessness.

Installation: "Drag the FlightGear folder to Applications" say the (rather meagre) installation notes: this I tried, and got a permissions error. Its harder to make a comment on the flight models, since my machine (eMac 700MHz, 32MB nVidia, fine according to the limited system specs on the HTML manual pages) couldn't manage more than about 8 fps (guessing, the fps display didn't seem to work), and the poor UI design meant that changing the settings was too much of a chore*. For me, detecting collisions with ground objects is a major part of the "simulation" aspect of any flight sim. Physics: I managed to roll through the terminal building on a take-off run, did an inverted loop (in a 707!) and flew straight through the ground, which then disappeared leaving only a black dot. Major settings like screen resolution and controller options seem to be inaccessable from inside the game. Not just the "ported-from-UNIX-ugly-but-works" style, I mean pull-down menus that don't do anything except tell you to use an XML editor to edit the preference files (hacking is fun, but shouldn't be mandatory). Stability: takes a long time to load (about 2 minutes) and appears to be the pizza of death, but after the screen changes resolution and aspect ratio a few times it seems to work reasonably well (is the splash screen supposed to tear up like that?).

Sound: Good, but then flight sims aren't the most complex soundtracks on the planet. Graphics: OK close to MSFS (pretty good for freeware, in other words). I'm not sure this should even be a beta release yet.įirst the good news.
