AISmooth – a unique new AI traffic approach management feature – has been designed to drastically reduce the number of go-arounds that are performed by AI planes at busy airports and really enhances the authenticity. AISmooth instructs approaching planes to perform holding patterns if they are following the plane in front too closely.

In addition, AISmooth will check the distance and headings of AI planes in the vicinity of your aircraft. If AI planes come too close, are heading in the same general direction and are within an altitude range that suggests you are both established on an approach path, then the AI planes will be instructed to perform holding patterns.

Traffic 2005 includes helicopter traffic – a first for any commercial flight simulation traffic expansion.

The package comes with a custom voicepack which provides additional pilot and ATC voices. The FS2004 default only includes American-accented voices – the voices included in Traffic 2005 are one US English, two British English and one English voice with a German accent.

Includes as a bonus a full version of Traffic 2002 for FS2002 users.

Detailed features

AI traffic database – 280,000+ scheduled airline flights, including international, national, regional, commuter and cargo operators. In addition to these airliner flights the traffic database includes general aviation flights.

More than 500 airlines with more than 1,200 different aircraft. (Traffic 2004 had more than 80 airlines with more than 350 different aircraft.)

1500+ airports with airliner traffic plus additional 1500+ airports/airfields with GA traffic. Each airport in Flight Simulator can be added and scheduled by the user. 1,500 airports are especially modified with additional parking spaces; the busiest 50 worldwide include specific, allocated airline parking.

All flights are using their correct aircraft/airline identifiers and tail numbers according to the country of origin, e.g. a Cessna 152 flying in Germany will have a registration like D-EAEH, a Piper flying in the UK might be G-CLEA and so on.

AI aircraft

Airliners

Custom-made, high-quality aircraft. These are gmax-modelled to ensure both the highest quality and performance friendliness

Animated control surfaces, animated gears, animated propellers and jet engine fans – all have transparent cockpit windows

All aircraft are painted in real-world airline liveries (with reflective textures) and real aircraft registrations painted on them

60 different aircraft models, painted in liveries of more than 500 airlines. In total more than 1,200 individual aircraft are featured:

Airbus A300

Airbus A310

Airbus A318

Airbus A319

Airbus A320

Airbus A321

Airbus A330

Airbus A340

Airbus A340-600 NEW!

Airbus A350 NEW!

Airbus A380

ATR 42/72

Boeing 727

Boeing 737-200

Boeing 737-300

Boeing 737-800

Boeing 747-200

Boeing 747-400

Boeing 757

Boeing 767

Boeing 767-300 NEW!

Boeing 777

Boeing 787 NEW!

BAe 146 (four-engine commuter jet ‘Jumbolino’)

Aerospatiale/BAC Concorde

Canadair Regional Jet

De Havilland Canada DHC-8 Dash 8

DC-8 Cargo (CFM engines) NEW!

Douglas DC-9

Embraer RJ135/145 (Regional Jet)

Fokker 50/60 (Turboprop) NEW!

Fokker 70/100 (Jet) NEW!

McDonnell Douglas DC-10

McDonnell Douglas MD11

McDonnell Douglas MD-81/83 NEW!

McDonnell Douglas MD87

Tupolev TU-154 NEW!

Cessna 152

Cessna 500 Citation 1

Gulfstream Grumman AA5

Britten Norman Islander

Britten Norman Trislander

Raytheon Hawker 800/Hawker Siddeley HS-125 NEW!

Bell JetRanger helicopter NEW!

Eurocopter Squirrel / Twin Squirrel helicopter NEW!

Robinson R-22 helicopter NEW!

Robinson R-44 helicopter NEW!

Eurocopter EC135 helicopter NEW!

Sikorski S76 helicopter NEW!

Airlines featured

The airlines featured are too numerous to list. There are 400+ airlines all around the globe, from ABC Volga Dnepor to Kuzu Air Cargo and Yemenair.

General Aviation Aircraft

FS Traffic also utilises the default General Aviation aircraft that are supplied by Flight Simulator 2004 as follows:

Cessna 208 (Caravan Amphibian) – 3 variations

Cessna 208B (Grand Caravan) – 3 variations

Cessna 172 – 3 variations

Cessna 182S – 4 variations

Piper PA28 – 3 variations

FS 2004 Airport Facility adjustments

Traffic 2005 includes more than 3,000 airport facility modifications to allow correct traffic handling at the airports and the operation of increased traffic

FS Traffic Editor

This tool allows modification of schedules – adding, altering and deleting flights; adding aircraft to the list so that any aircraft chosen by a user can fly a Traffic 2005 flight

Paint Assistant

This tool allows easy adding and repainting of the aircraft included in Traffic 2005.

New tools to improve traffic flow and to reduce go-arounds at airports

Taxi speed adjustment utility

This tool allows you to increase the taxi speed of aircraft taxiing on the taxiways and aircraft rolling out on the runways until they turn off and vacate the runway for following traffic. Increasing these speeds will improve the traffic flow, especially as runways will be available earlier than using the default taxi speeds.

AISmooth – AI Approach Traffic Manager

AISmooth has been designed to drastically reduce the number of go-arounds that are performed by Artificial Intelligence (AI) planes at busy airports, and thus add some realism to this simulation. AISmooth will instruct approaching AI planes to perform holding patterns if they are following the plane in front too closely. In addition, AISmooth will check the distance and headings of AI planes in the vicinity of the user plane. If AI planes come too close to the user plane, are heading in the same general direction and are within an altitude range that suggests both planes are established on an approach path, those AI planes will be instructed to perform holding patterns as well. AISmooth is available as freeware but Traffic 2005 includes an exclusive special edition of AISmooth which allows you to save its configuration presets not only as one general setting but as settings per airport (details to be confirmed).

Spotty – the spotter aircraft

Spotty is an aircraft with no visual model (or just an ‘arrow’) which consists of the aircraft panel. This panel is a virtual plane spotter’s bag, offering the following items on a mouse-click

\- Radio to tune frequencies and listen to ATC

\- Map to open FS 2004’s top-down view

\- Map to open FS 2004’s flight map

\- GPS

\- Clock

\- Navigation facility to allow moving this ‘aircraft’ by mouse only

ATC Voicepack

The package includes a custom voicepack. This provides additional pilot and ATC voices. FS2004 by default only includes US American voices – the voices included in Traffic 2005 are one US English, two British English and one English with a German accent.

Traffic 2005