AI Traffic for Alaska

[big bird]

Found a free download file on Avsim called Alaskan AI package Version 5 (AKAI_V5.ZIP) by
Adam Begg. It was posted on Nov. 20th. It has a few interesting aircraft and locations. I installed it
to-day and so far everything works just fine on our rig. We use FSX10 along with DX10 and Steve's
Fixer with all Orbx regions and Airports installed.
  I also noted somewhere on the forums that a lot of folks do not get fixed wing aircraft (AI) in PAKT
Ketchikan. We use Ultimate Traffic 2 and we do get "some" AI fixed wing stuff landing in Ketchikan.
  There is one caveat, however. When as an example, a West Jet 737 lands there it goes partly down the
runway and promptly disappears !!! I think it may be due to the fact that it doesn't know where to go or park after landing, but that is beyond my ability to figure out. I wonder if anyone else has also experienced this ?   

[stiletto2]

If you have ORBX PAKT installed, it is a known issue that Aircraft AI can't handle the unique ORBX construction of that runway which uses a solid object to depict elevation and sloped ramps, instead of the normal FSX software depiction of an airport runway.   

Rod

[spud]

Just as Rod says the ORBX PAKT airport scenery uses a "kludge" method to have the sloped taxiways like the real airport.  FSX AI traffic requires a flat runway/taxiway elevation to work properly.  This is why AI traffic at ORBX PAKT does not, nor will it ever function correctly.  Kind of like Hollywood, looks great, tastes awful!

[big bird]

Thanks Guy's, now we know the rest of the story.

[fltsimguy]

Thanks for the heads up.  I subscribe to the AVSIM file library daily summary of uploads and I still managed to miss this one.