Thanks to MoBig for the great post.
Adobe AI Package.
This includes the Tantris Gen Av & Military addon.
From the description from usenet:
Check this out. I have used EVERY single commercial AI traffic
package out there: Ultimate Traffic, Traffic 2005, MyTraffic 2004,
Military AI Traffic, LiveTraffic, blah blah blah. But last time I
re-installed FS9, I decided to do something different and take a
chance on a little freeware package that I had heard about on the
Avsim forums: the Adobe AI Traffic Package.
AVSIM buried all the posts about it because some enterprising
Koreans (bless 'em) had put together what was supposedly the finest
traffic package with only the best, most frame-rate friendly models
and called it "Adobe AI" (they also made an addon for GA and
Military Traffic called the "Tantris" package). The AVSIM forum
moderators buried all this info because these Koreans had used all
the best models from AI-Aardvark and other freeware AI packages and
stuck them together into one, no-brainer installation. To me, this
made sense as for years the only way to get these kinds of models
into FS9 was to learn all this complicated AI scripting and copying-
and-pasting of AI flight plans, creating bunches of subfolders,
editing config files.... that's why most people didn't do it and
opted for a simpler commercial traffic package. The people at
ProjectAI, AI-Aardvark screamed bloody murder that their creativity
was being violated; I just thought that it was great the vast
majority could finally use all those great models without having to
attain a Ph.D. in FS9 trafficology.
Anyway, since my install was fresh and there wasn't any risk of
messing a bunch of stuff up, I installed the Adobe package.
Oh my god... it was night and day compared to ANY of the commercial
traffic packages. The traffic was wide and varied, the models were
of a quality I had never seen, and I had MORE traffic at every
airport than I had with any of the commercial packages. I have to
tell you: everytime you see a screenshot with fantastic AI on the
screenshot forums, I can assure you that those people are using the
Adobe traffic package. It's a well-kept secret and no one gives it
away since the subject was buried.
I don't use anything else; and I guarantee you -- if you've had
experience with other packages -- that you won't need anything else.
And, amazingly, it's free, simple to install, and no headaches. My
hunch is that it wasn't just the freeware AI model creators that
went nuts; it was the commercial AI developers who put pressure on
AVSIM to kill all posts with any links to Adobe AI.
Yes,
Martha... developers do that and AVSIM caves in to that stuff.
Long post.
Hope it helps.
Regards,
- Mo.