Adding new airports to Ultimate Traffic

UUOS wasn't one of the airports in our project, so I assume you're importing a flightplan? Are the co-ordinates in the airports.txt file that you are trying to import the same as those in the airports_FS2004.txt file?

Matthew

That's strange, then. I realise it's not much help, but I checked a couple of the airports I've imported and the co-ordinates match with airports_FS2004.txt

You could always compile the flightplans with TTools and have another traffic file separate to UT.

Yes, an import utility would be very useful!

Matthew

UUOS scenery
Here it is, scenery works ok as it is very basic.

The flightplan is here

I from an older flightpln I added ULMK, but the cords were incorrect compared to the rl ones, so route map now shows a line going to the northpole

That's what matters, isn't it. All the info in UT is nice, but in the end, the schedules have an IATA code, the airports assignments database links that to an ICAO code, and based on that link, your AI is generated. So just add the aiport, see if AI appears and fly.

The reason the way the database is the way it is, is that UT uses the same data that is released to the travel industry for their schedules.  Converting all of that to ICAO codes would be really difficult.  It's also why we get the wrong airline assignements from time to time.  There is simply too much data to accurately parse while getting a schedule update out in a reasonable, and relevant time frame.  Personally, I think the accuracy is pretty good considering the amount of data and there isn't another product out there that comes even close to UT.

Cheers

Chris

I think I've found an erroneous airport.

GYL, we made that KGYL Glencoe Municipal Airport in Minnesota. While that should really be Argyle Airport somewhere in Australia.

Stumbled upon this one when I generated the route map for Skywest Airlines (I was looking for the American regional carrier).

Not a major issue, but still.

EDIT

Go into the Airport Assignments Utility. Search for GYL. Change KGYL to YARG, save. Recompile your traffic, problem solved. (Except for the route map, but the traffic is now where it's supposed to be! Go to Perth on Monday at 6:50AM and the Skywest F100 is waiting to go to Argyle.)

Which means that GYL Argyle airport is in FS9, as YARG. But the default Afcad does not support the F100, unless its radius is smaller than 18m, the biggest parking spot there. PAI Recommended radius for the F100 is 22m.

Hopefully somebody has seen this error before.  I followed the instructions step by step and when I thought it was done and I tried to import the fake airline, I get the following generic error..

Ultimate Traffic encountered a problem Adding Airport information.  Press OK to continue...

Has anybody seen this error before and know what it can mean?  Where should I look to fix this?  Hopefully I did not lose half of the day working on this!

If I think about it when I get back home.  I am heading out for work and then out of town for Christmas. 

After doing all of that work, and even though I could not import the fake carrier, I could not compile.  It was giving me a lot of airports not found.  So I had to copy over the missing airports from the  import\airports.txt file to the Airports_FS2004.txt in order to get UT to compile.  Maybe it is ok now, but I will not be able to check it out until I get home from the holidays.

just found abel santamaria musc snu cuba

Following on from this thread I've checked the UT airport assignments from a fresh install of UT, but with the Summer 2007 schedule update. There were eight airports that were missing from the original list I compiled, as a result of me having imported other flightplans that used them. These airports, with their details, are:

ICAO	IATA	Airport Name	Region	Country	State	City	FS9	Time zone	DST	Parking available?
KGRK	GRK	Gray AAF	North America	United States	Texas	Fort Hood	Yes	- 5	3/11 - 11/4	N
KRIV	RIV	March AFB	North America	United States	California	Riverside	Yes	- 8	3/11 - 11/4	N
LTFJ	SAW	Sabiha Gokcen Airport	Europe	Turkey		Istanbul	Yes	+ 2	3/25 - 10/28	Y
MUSC	SNU	Abel Santa Maria Airport	Caribbean	Cuba		Santa Clara	Yes	- 5	3/11 - 11/4	N
SEGS	GPS	Seymour Airport	South America	Ecuador		Baltra	Yes	- 6	No	N
SETN	ESM	General Rivadeneira Airport	South America	Ecuador		Tachina	Yes	- 5	No	N
SETU	TUA	Teniente Coronel Luis a Mantilla Airport	South America	Ecuador		Tulcan	Yes	- 5	No	N
SVVL	VLV	Dr Antonio Nicolas Briceno Airport	South America	Venezuela		Valera	Yes	- 4	No	N

Although they are all already in FS9 by default, most of them do not have any parking spots bigger than GA large and therefore won't show much traffic when they are imported unless you have a better AFCAD.

Matthew

another one is coventry

yeah thanks

just found rkjb