NOTE: This mod is no longer being developed but should still work as designed. I recommend using the alternative method listed at the bottom if you do use it.

 

 

 

Flightplans to Provide GA traffic that call the stock MSFS aircraft from the base game.

 

A note on both installation methods below:

After any MSFS update, the layout.json or trafficAircraft.bgl files may be changed back. This means to keep this mod working after a MSFS update, you will have to change them again.

 

Description

This is the Stock MSFS offline traffic file with the Commercial Traffic removed. It's main purpose is so that you may add GA traffic back to your sim when using AIG, Simple Traffic, etc. with offline flightplans. It is only usable for Offline Traffic and will not work for Live Traffic. It was made by using AIFP to decomiple the stock MSFS trafficAircraft.bgl file, remove the Commercial Traffic, fix any errors found by validating and then recompiling (pretty much like the original GA mod that's no longer available did). No aircraft are included as it uses only the flightplans and timelines that call the stock MSFS aircraft from the base package of the game. The aircraft you will see are the stock TBM 930, DA40-NG, Bonanza G36, Cessna 152, 208B Grand Caravan and CJ4 Citation. None of the Deluxe aircraft or the added later aircraft (like the Porter) are used in these flightplans (same as MSFS made them). Unfortunately, there's a limit to how many flghtplan legs can be inlcuded in a mod. For this reason the JMB VL-3 flights were removed from the list to stay under the limit.

 

 
Installation:

Place the "GA-Stock-Aircraft-Traffic-Folder" with it's files from the zip into your community folder.

Set your ingame AI traffic to Offline (not off or live)

In your MSFS official folders go inside the fs-base-ai-traffic folder and make a backup of the layout.json file that's there. Then open the layout.json file with a text editor and remove the stock aircraft traffic by editing it.

It will read something like:

 

{
  "content": [
    {
      "path": "scenery/world/traffic/fs10.AircraftTypes.csv",
      "size": 4888,
      "date": 132379022900000000
    },
    {
      "path": "scenery/world/traffic/trafficAircraft.bgl",
      "size": 40726977,
      "date": 132914828720000000
    },
    {
      "path": "scenery/world/traffic/trafficBoats.bgl",
      "size": 1716075,
      "date": 132387798760000000
    }
  ]
}

 


Remove the trafficAircraft.bgl section and save it so that the layout.json file in the fs-base-ai-traffic Folder now reads something like:

 

{
  "content": [
    {
      "path": "scenery/world/traffic/fs10.AircraftTypes.csv",
      "size": 4888,
      "date": 132379022900000000
    },
    {
      "path": "scenery/world/traffic/trafficBoats.bgl",
      "size": 1716075,
      "date": 132387798760000000
    }
  ]
}

 

This change to the layout.json keeps MSFS from also using the stock aircraft traffic file which still includes commercial traffic.

 

Alernate Installation:

 

Set your ingame AI traffic to Offline (not off or live)

Open the folder GA-Stock-Aircraft-Traffic\scenery\world in the mod and find the file named

GAStockAircraftTraffic.bgl

Rename that file to trafficAircraft.bgl

Now, navigate to the fs-base-ai-traffic\scenery\world\traffic folder inside your official msfs folders. Make a backup of the trafficAircraft.bgl there and replace it with the renamed version from the mod.

The alternative installation does not require editing of the layout.json and it should be left stock.

 

 

A note on both installation methods:

After any MSFS update, the layout.json or trafficAircraft.bgl files may be changed back. This means to keep this mod working after a MSFS update, you will have to change them again.