FS2004 AF2 (AI Traffic) Scenery
by George Davison

• EGVA_AF2.zip [110KB]

George Davison has kindly allowed us to make this file available for download on the Visual Flight web site for which we are very grateful. It uses only the runway, taxiways and parking available with the RIAT Fairford scenery, and features turn-around parking such that all aircraft face the taxiway when parked. All parking codes are of military type with specific codes for certain aircraft.

There are two AFCAD taxiways for each physical taxiway. This means that there is a taxiway from each parking space to the runway entry and a separate (overlaid) taxiway from the runway to each parking space.

Because of this, it is important to schedule AI traffic such that arriving and departing aircraft do not meet on a particular taxiway. If this happens, they will ‘ghost’ through each other.

There are three groups of parking namely:

1. Gate F, to the centre-north of the runway, with four parking spaces.
2. Gate B, to the north-east of the runway, with ten parking spaces.
3. Gate A, to the south-east of the runway, with nine parking spaces.

The parking spaces have general military parking codes together with specific codes for particular aircraft.

Installation

After downloading, extract AF2_EVGA.BGL into the same folder as the RIAT Fairford scenery, normally C:\Program Files\VisualFlight\Fairford\scenery. The AI traffic will then be active/inactive at the same time as the scenery itself, but if you prefer to have it available all the time, you can extract it to another active scenery folder such as the <FS9>\Addon Scenery\scenery folder instead.

If you are using RIAT Fairford in both FS2004 and FS2002, you should install the BGL into a scenery folder that is only used by FS2004, e.g.the <FS9>\Addon Scenery\scenery folder. 

Documentation

The information on this page is based on the documentation supplied in the download. Please check the readme files in the ZIP file to ensure you have the complete set of information.

Known limitation

If an aircraft departs the runway 'exactly' at the centreline of the western most exit of the runway, it will taxi back to its parking space via the 'taxi-out' taxiway and will park facing away from the taxiway rather than the more usual 'facing’ the taxiway. It will then push-back on taxi-out.

Download

• EGVA_AF2.zip [110KB]

Acknowledgements

• George Davison for his dedication in creating EGVA_AF2.zip and allowing it to be made available here.
• Lee Swordy for AFCAD2.
• Norman Dean and David Butler for their assistance with all of George's AFCAD questions.

Copyright

EGVA_AF2.zip Copyright © 2004 George Davison.