| AIFlow is a MSFS simconnect utility designed to ease AI congestion and go-arounds at the airport the user is departing from and arriving at.
As a first step, AIFlow will make all AI in the monitored area cruising at high altitudes maintain minimum speeds according to an altitude vs. speed profile that can be customized.
Regarding the approach phase, AIFlow enforces spacing minimums between arriving AI aircraft to make the approach patterns more orderly, first by varying speed, then commanding holds if necessary. By controlling approach speed, AIFlow can also make approach patterns more uniform for differing AI aircraft (e.g., slower piston vs. faster turbojet).
AIFlow also detects and corrects poor AI approaches under the control of the MSFS AI engine (e.g., too high, indefinite circling, crashes into terrain, flying too slow). The terrain and circling protections also apply to AI departing from monitored ICAOs.
For added realism, AIFlow adds landing effects that scale up during crosswind conditions.
AI taxiing out to the same runway that AI on short final for can optionally be commanded to stop in order to reduce crowding (stacking) near the hold short line and to reduce the chance of incursions between AI attempting to land and AI attempting to depart the same runway.
While the user's aircraft is in flight, AIFlow enforces spacing spacing minimums between the AI aircraft and the user’s aircraft during all phases of the user’s flight (e.g., departure, enroute and approach). This feature is default OFF and must be enabled. AIFlow also optionally provides protection against AI incursion onto the runway (including AI that becomes stationary on the runway) when the user takes off and lands. This feature is also default OFF and must be enabled.
While the user's aircraft is on the ground and departing an airport, the user can also briefly squawk 1234 in their aircraft to temporarily suspend AI landings so that the user can find a slot to depart a busy runway.
AIFlow does not require a configuration file to run, however the configuration file AIFlow.ini is included, which contains several parameters that the user may change to suit personal preferneces.
AIFlow is designed to compliment the default MSFS AI program and thus is fully compatible with it. Thus, AIFlow is compatible with any AI-related program that places AI mostly under control of the default AI program (SU11), such as MSFS live traffic, MSFS off-line traffic and external AI injection programs that mostly rely upon the default AI program after injection.
AIFlow operates externally via simconnect and thus makes NO changes to the MSFS sim.
See the included readme.txt and readme.pdf for additional details.
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撰写评论09tir98
Awesome addon. One suggestion for the future (that I'm not even sure is possible): Being able to select which runway AI should use for takeoff/landing.
cptautoland
Been using since P3Dv4 version launched. Irreplaceable when using any sort of AI and you get the hang of the ini options. Thank you!
Kappe
Great work tho! Thanks a lot!
balu0
I'm using AIFlow with FSLTL, loos like the high altitude speed feature does not work, jets are still slow at cruise.
ClipperOS 3 day(s) ago
Thanks for the heads up, fix coming soon.
FinalLight
does this addon make AI flare on landing properly and take off pitch etc ?
ClipperOS 3 day(s) ago
No, I can look into it though.
FinalLight 3 day(s) ago
would be amazing if you could fix that, it has been my only annoyance really since the release of this sim.
it looks incredibly weird
goggless 2 day(s) ago
I remember someone doing a writeup on why this would be too computationally intensive to be practical, but hey maybe ClipperOS is just that clever 😊
cptautoland
Thank you so much for bringing this to MSFS. Been using the P3D versions for yrs. A note would be that Flow seems to come with Planspotting yes by default now which results in a lot of go-arounds if using ATC. Maybe highlighting that would help others. Thank you again!!
ClipperOS 4 day(s) ago
There doesn't seem to be any good choice? If I enable it by default, I get emails complaining about AI doing "strange stuff" (i.e., the AI are evading the user's aircraft) while the user is flying their aircraft around the airport spotting while checking out the program for the first time. I tried to highlight that it is disabled by default in the readmes. My current thinking is that is the user doesn't want to read the docs initially, it is better to have potentially confusing options turned off by default.
cptautoland 2 day(s) ago
That makes absolute sense. Sorry I did not consider the perspective of a dev dealin with thousands of users in the day and age of plug and play 😊)
Was also not meant as any negative feedback in any way. This is just an absolute crucial tool!! Thank you again!
jmknights93
Hello, I'm seeing a problem when both flow and ground are minimized to system tray, no icon displayed for either. What could be the problem for this?
jmknights93 6 day(s) ago
Sorry, should've checked comments before I posted this.
loto
Wow, work great, 2 h Planespotting at vhhh, 32 planes landed and no go around, using AIG planes injected with FSLTL
goggless
Slight issue with the new systray option, namely that there don't seem to be any systray icons at all. At first I thought the whole feature was broken and then I noticed that there are blank clickable areas. Applies both to AIFlow and AIGround. Are the icons simply missing or is there some procedure I'm supposed to follow to enable them? Strange considering that the programs themselves have such nice icons!
ClipperOS 7 day(s) ago
Thanks for reporting this. Yes, a silly deployment oversight on my part.
Could you please test out these hotfix files and report back whether you are seeing the icons in the systray? TIA!
https://www.mediafire.com/file/fwonigglymcxkr4/Ver206HotFixTest.zip/file
jmknights93 6 day(s) ago
Hello, these hotfixes seem to work for me.
goggless 5 day(s) ago
Yep, works great! Also I have to say, after spending 2 underwhelming hours this morning playing around with the new Just Flight FS Traffic, it really makes me appreciate the freeware traffic stack so much more. May you always find it as rewarding to create as we do to play with!
hawaiianstyle78
is this new version of aiflow fix the landings vanishing? ever since su11, aiflow has caused my fsltl landing to vanish. takeoffs and cruise are working great, was just landings. all landings at payware airports and default and freeware ALL Ai aircraft landing vanished. thanks
ClipperOS 7 day(s) ago
Does that AI stop for an extended period of time after landing?
hawaiianstyle78 6 day(s) ago
ai vanished on landings using previous aiflow . Now that i am using this update aiflow, the landings are back. awesome thank u .
bigshottalent
Has anyone experienced an issue where the user's plane cannot descend below ~3000 ft on final when running this program? Saw a few other comments over on AVSIM.
Harrier77
Hi, are there any updates planned for SU11?
2thfixer
Any way to get an update on Aiflow to stop the planes on final from being forced to 1 ft agl? Used it with both AIG and MSFS live ATC, but causes the 1 Ft AGL command with both. I have the .ini file activated and the final app altitude set to 1500ft agl, but if you watch the code in the .exe box during an approach on final, when the ai gets to about a short final distance the AIflow forces it to 1 ft agl and the plane disappears or crashes. Otherwise, it seems promising. Ai ground seems to be working great!
cahilart
I'm not too sure about this addon, it behaves strangely sometimes, the airtraffic don't climp up like normal and they get stuck at 1500 feet and disappear and reappear, I change the parameters and nothing seems to improve the behavior of the air traffic, I don't know what to think , but sometimes it does seem to work better and it seems that air traffic has a better presence in the environment with the addon working, but not with all planes it seems to work normal, or behave better.
cahilart 2 month(s) ago
seems to work better this way....
// --USER-AI SEPARATION PARAMETERS--
//
USERAISEPARATIONDISTANCE=2.0 //disabled if AIPLANESPOTTINGONLY=1
AIANTIRUNWAYINCURSION=0 //enable =1 (disabled if AIPLANESPOTTINGONLY=1)
//
//
// --AI APPROACH CONTROL (AI-AI SEPARATION) PARAMETERS--
//
AIARRIVALSPACING=0 //nm
AIMAXHOLDING=190 //=0 no holding only speed changes for spacing (if enabled)
AIBADAPPROACHFILTER=0 //diable =0
AISPEEDSCALAR=1.0
AITURNSCALAR=1.0
AITURBULENCESCALAR=1.0
AITERMINALAREAMINSPEED=100 //min terminal speed and low speed for spacing kts
AITERMINALAREAMAXSPEED=180 //max terminal speed and high speed for spacing kts
AITERMINALAREAMINDIST=0 //no effect unless AITERMINALAREAMINSPEED non-zero nm
AIFASTAPPRAGLFLOOR=2000 //no effect unless AITERMINALAREAMINSPEED non-zero ft
AITAXISTOPFORLANDINGAI=1 //enable =1
AIGOAROUNDLEAVEAREA=0 //disable =0
AIPATTERNALT=2600 //above ft no min-max speed except for spacing
AIDESCENTPROFILE=1 //conform AI approach alts to typ profile (beta) (enable =1)
AIFORCEFINALAPPRALT=1500 //Max alt ft agl AI is allowed when on final approach.
//
// --CONFIG PARAMETERS--
//
AIMONITORRADIUS=900000 //meters
EXTERNALDATABASEFALLBACK=1
AIGCOMPATIBILITY=1 //for testing, enable BEFORE starting AIFlow
VERBOSE=1 //disable =0
STARTMINIMIZED=1 //disable =0
INIPERIODICUPDATE=1 //enabled =1
miguel88
does this addon still work properly after the sim update 11 ai changes?
AleRoldan2020
does not work with FSLTL, planes only fly without landing
ClipperOS 2 month(s) ago
Yeah....that's an SU11 thing. News flash.
Platoe 2 month(s) ago
Is it still not working with FSLTL? Was just about to download.
cahilart 2 month(s) ago
i think i hava the same problem
Kaasboerrke
I get a CTD with AIG.
ClipperOS 2 month(s) ago
And of course you used AIGCOMPATIBILITY=1 correct?
Kaasboerrke 2 month(s) ago
Now I have installed the latetst version, it works.
ClipperOS
In the process of getting a handle on MSFS AI control in SU11, some have asked how to disable AIFlow approach holds/speed/alt changes while keeping landing crosswind effects and user-AI separation active.
To do so, in AIFlow.ini make sure the following options are set as follows (also make sure there are NO "//" comments at the START of each parameter):
AIARRIVALSPACING=0 //disables AI-AI spacing
AIBADAPPROACHFILTER=0 //disables AI bad approach filtering
AITERMINALAREAMINSPEED=0 //disables min speed (incl. for separation)
AITERMINALAREAMAXSPEED=0 //disables max speed (incl. for separation)
AIGOAROUNDLEAVEAREA=0 //disables AIFlow treatment of go arounds
AIFORCEFINALAPPRALT=0 //disables max alt AI allowed when on final
In the process of testing, these option can be turned back on individually to better assess their effect on your AI setup/operations under SU11. For easier tuning, make sure to use INIPERIODICUPDATE=1 to read the .ini file periodically to apply changed values.
If you want to maintain user-AI separation for normal user flights from a departure to a destination, make sure you have AIPLANESPOTTINGONLY=0
Everything else can be kept at default except for AIG compatibility mode (AIGCOMPATIBILITY =1) if you feel it is needed (must enable BEFORE starting AIFlow).
rafecas
Any chance that this program could solved the slow cruising speed of AI traffic?? I mean, I usually encountered traffic cruising at around 200kts instead of a more reasonable 390/450kts. Thanks!!
kakao425er
man this is so good, finally someone has taken the time to do a little bit tweaking in the ai. its just a shame that su11 will probably break it all later today... still I want to say thank you so much