MY TRAFFIC 2010 - Air Traffic Simulator AEROSOFT - Free user manual and instructions

Product type	Air traffic simulator (add-on for Microsoft Flight Simulator X)
Brand	AEROSOFT
Model	MY TRAFFIC 2010
Compatibility	Microsoft Flight Simulator X (FSX) and FS2004 (separate version)
Minimum system requirements	2.6 GHz processor, 1 GB RAM, 256 MB graphics card, 4.5 GB free hard drive space, DVD drive
Recommended system requirements	Dual Core 2.5 GHz processor, 2 GB RAM, 320 MB graphics card
Installation media	DVD-ROM
Number of airports	8,100 airports (including 2,100 with enhanced traffic)
Number of aircraft	146 aircraft types
Number of liveries	Over 4,100 liveries
Simulated traffic	Approximately 800,000 flights per day
Main features	Realistic AI traffic generation, MyTraffic editor included, demos of Super Traffic Board and Boeing 777 HD
Supported languages (call signs)	German, English, Spanish, French
Installation	Requires a serial key and administrator rights
Technical support	Forum (forum.aerosoft.com), email ([e-mail]), phone (Mon-Fri 2:30 PM - 5:00 PM)
Update	Update available via the official Aerosoft website

Frequently Asked Questions - MY TRAFFIC 2010 AEROSOFT

How do I add a new aircraft livery in MyTraffic 2010?

Copy the new textures into the Texture folder corresponding to the aircraft. Note: Adding textures may reduce performance at large airports.

Why are there many aircraft arriving but only one landing?

This is due to FSX AI traffic management. Arrival times can only be predicted with an accuracy of about +/- 15 minutes. Our algorithm minimizes this effect.

Where do all these aircraft models come from?

The 146 models were created from scratch after the release of the SDK SP1 for FSX, to take advantage of its graphics capabilities. No older models are included.

What are the system prerequisites for MyTraffic 2010?

Minimum: 2.6 GHz processor, 1 GB RAM, 256 MB graphics card, 4.5 GB hard drive space. Recommended: Dual Core 2.5 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 320 MB graphics card.

How do I install MyTraffic 2010?

Insert the DVD, the setup program should start automatically. Otherwise, run D:\setup.exe. You must enter the serial number found on the DVD sleeve.

How do I uninstall MyTraffic 2010?

Launch the MyTraffic Manager, go to Configure MyTraffic and choose 'Remove aircraft, scenery and schedules'. Then uninstall via the Windows Control Panel.

How do I enable or disable military traffic?

Rename the file MyTrafficmil.bgl to MyTraffic.bgl.passive to disable military traffic and save resources.

What is the MyTraffic editor?

The MyTraffic editor allows you to modify global AI traffic in FSX by adding aircraft, airlines, or airports. Its manual is in the MyTraffic\Manuals folder.

How is the audio patch installed and what does it do?

After the main installation, activate the option 'Run the Sound patch now' to adapt airline call signs. Installation can take up to 30 minutes.

Can I use MyTraffic 2010 with other add-ons?

Yes, for example with Super Traffic Board (demo included) or Boeing 777 High Definition. MyTraffic is designed to be compatible with most FSX add-ons.

USER MANUAL MY TRAFFIC 2010 AEROSOFT

Concept FSX/FS2004 Details, Design and Development, Programming, Painting, Manual, Coordination, Financing.

A very big thank you to Kambiz Agazi, Andrew Baker, Ben Citak, Jan Höfermann, Mikael Hojstedt, Mike Janacek, Simon Jones, Mathew Miller, Thorsten Reichert and Peter Werlitz for their help.

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MyTraffic 2010

Handbuch / Manual

Erweiterung zum:

Add-on for

Microsoft Flight Simulator X

Inhalt

Das Konzept 6

MyTraffic 2010 consists of four main parts: 23

Additional functions in MyTraffic 2010. 29

System requirements 30

Installation 31

De-installation 32

MyTraffic 2010 in Flight Simulator 33

Frequently asked questions 34

Das Konzept

AI Traffic has become an essential element in flight simulation. You never fly alone and you'll see other aircraft moving around on the taxiways or commuting between different airports. Unfortunately the default AI traffic supplied with the simulator is not very realistic. There are only a few fictional airlines and the frequency of takeoffs and landings would probably have been realistic 40 years ago.

MyTraffic 2010 generates AI traffic at 8,100 airports, Aircraft like the 737 fly to around 1500 of them. You will normally see commuter aircraft at the other airports and most of them are the smaller general aviation airfields. There are also a number of purely military airfields. Airliners represent only a part of the aviation whole. MyTraffic 2010 has taken all of this into consideration and provides a large number of general aviation aircraft has been added including military and numerous navy aircraft as well as helicopters.

Take a look at San Diego, International Airport, North Island Naval Station for instance. Fly around the harbor bay and pay a short visit to the aircraft carrier „Nimitz".

If you find it a little too loud there, go to Loch Lomond in Scotland or another sea-plane landing area in Norway, Australia or Canada or the Maldives islands.

MyTraffic 2010 contains 146 aircraft types in more than 4100 different liveries. You will encounter airlines from all regions of the world. The textures were so designed influence the framerate as little as possible and achieve a good balance between speed of execution and realism.

It is no secret that FSX requires a large part of the computer's resources. This is the reason why it is very important that any additional programs make as little impact on the computer's resource as possible. MyTraffic was the AI package for FS2004 with the best performance.

We have provided both a high and reduced quality model in each case for FSX. The high-quality model is used normally. In this way, the models change later to the simplified representation in the simulator and this helps to improve the optical quality.

You can change this if you wish by substituting the -quality with the -performance attribute in the corresponding Model.cfg. If you change a number of the aircraft in this way, it leads to an improvement in framerates.

MyTraffic 2010 consists of four main parts:

Aircraft and aircraft liveries

Contains repairs of the FS default as well as 146 additional aircraft, which have been created from scratch for FSX, each in the liveries of various different airlines. The following list shows you which aircraft types have been added. If all different variations including the different registration numbers are added together, MyTraffic provides 55,000 simulated AI aircraft. In other words, around three quarters of the entire worldwide airliner fleet. The table shows all aircraft, that you will encounter in FSX.

Manufacturer	Aircraft Series	Number of variations
Airbus	A300B	50
Airbus	A300-600	31
Airbus	A310-200	20
Airbus	A310-300	62
Airbus	A318	8
Airbus	A319	94
Airbus	A320	144
Airbus	A321	64
Airbus	A330-200	57
Airbus	A330-300	30
Airbus	A340-200	14
Airbus	A340-300	32
Airbus	A340-500	10
Airbus	A340-600	11
Airbus	A380	6
Antonov	An 12	24
Antonov	An 24	20
Antonov	An 26	11
Antonov	An 30	1
Antonov	An 32	3
Antonov	An 74	9
Antonov	An 124	8
ATR	ATR 42	49
ATR	ATR 72	43
Beechcraft	1900C	20
Beechcraft	1900D	44
Boeing	B707-100	2
Boeing	B707-300	59
Boeing	B720	2
Boeing	B717-200	16
Boeing	B727-100	38
Boeing	B727-200	94
Boeing	B737-200	194
Boeing	B737-300	130
Boeing	B737-400	90
Boeing	B737-500	61
Boeing	B737-600	11
Boeing	B737-700	70
Boeing	B737-800	90
Boeing	B737-900	7
Boeing	B747 SP	15
Boeing	B747-100	6
Boeing	B747-100 (SF)	4
Boeing	B747-200	71
Boeing	B747-200 (SF)	15
Boeing	B747-200F	19
Boeing	B747-300	28
Boeing	B747-300 (SF)	4
Boeing	B747-400	60
Boeing	B747-400 (BCF)	11
Boeing	B747-400F	17
Boeing	B757-200	124
Boeing	B757-200F	12
Boeing	B757-300	8
Boeing	B767-200	62
Boeing	B767-200F	3
Boeing	B767-300	117
Boeing	B767-300F	7
Boeing	B767-400	2
Boeing	B777-200	41
Boeing	B777-200LR	5
Boeing	B777-300	8
Boeing	B777-300ER	16
Boeing	E3 Awacs	6
Boeing	C135	9
Boeing	CH 47	20
Boeing	KC135	63
Boeing	KC137	9
Bombardier	DHC6 Twin Otter	3
Bombardier	DHC6 float plane	5
Bombardier	CRJ 200	56
Bombardier	CRJ 700	16
Bombardier	CRJ 900	17
Bombardier	CRJ 1000	2
Bombardier	Dash 8-100	69
Bombardier	Dash 8-300	61
Bombardier	Dash 8-400	13
Bombardier	Challenger 300	6
Bombardier	Challenger 601	5
Bombardier	Challenger 604	6
Bombardier	Challenger 850	5
Bombardier	Global Express	8
British Aerospace	Nimrod	1
British Aerospace	BAe146-100	25
British Aerospace	BAe146-200	39
British Aerospace	BAe146-300	38
British Aerospace Aerospatiale	Concorde	5
Cessna	150	6
Cessna	150a	6
Cessna	206	16
Cessna	206a	40
Dornier	Do 328	13
Dornier	Do 328 Jet	20
Embraer	120	39
Embraer	RJ 135	8
Embraer	RJ 140	2
Embraer	RJ 145	28
Embraer	RJ 170	20
Embraer	RJ 175	8
Embraer	RJ 190	16
Embraer	RJ 195	7
Embraer	R99	1
Eurofighter	Typhoon	11
Fokker	Fokker 27	32
Fokker	Fokker 28	27
Fokker	Fokker 50	48
Fokker	Fokker 70	5
Fokker	Fokker 100	48
Grumman	E2C	14
Grumman	EA6	16
Grumman	S3 Viking	10
Iljushin	II 62	17
Iljushin	II 76	35
Iljushin	II 86	15
Iljushin	II 96	6
McDonnell	F18 Hornet	70
McDonnell Douglas	DC10	19
McDonnell Douglas	DC10F	10
McDonnell Douglas	KC10	4
Douglas	DC8-61	2
Douglas	DC8-62	15
Douglas	DC8-63	10
Douglas	DC8-71	5
Douglas	DC8-72	3
Douglas	DC8-73	6
Douglas	DC9-10	20
Douglas	DC9-30	36
Douglas	DC9-40	4
Douglas	DC9-50	14
McDonnell	MD 80	113
McDonnell	MD 90	11
McDonnell	MD 87	18
McDonnell	MD 11	26
McDonnell	MD 11F	22
Panavia	Tornado	27
Saab	340	62
Piper	PA32 R	6
Piper	PA32 T	6
Saab	S100	1
Sikorsky	CH 53	18
Transall	C160	5
Tupolev	134	17
Tupolev	154	49
Tupolev	204	11
Yakolev	Yak 40	58
Yakolev	Yak 42	35
MODELS:	146	4,100

The Traffic .bgl-file

This file contains all information (flight plans) for the AI traffic. If MyTraffic is installed, FSX will simulate approx.. 800.000 flights per day. MyTrafficcommercial.bgl is the file , which shows all passenger and cargo flightplans, MyTrafficglobal.bgl the General Aviation, MyTrafficmil.bgl holds the flightplans of all military aircraft. If you don't want to see the military aircraft to save some performance just re-name the according file MyTrafficmil.bgl to MyTraffic.bgl.passive.

Additional airports

More than 2,100 airports contain enhanced AI traffic functions many of which previously did not have any AI traffic at all up until now. Others were rebuilt to accommodate aircraft types which can be seen here in real life. Other airports not featured in FSX were added , e.g. the big regional airports of Moscow. All MyTraffic airports can be found in the folder MyTraffic\scenery , here you can also find

The sound files

Adaptation of the sound files makes sure that the aircraft are addressed with their correct call sign. Currently only German, English, Spanish and French are supported in FSX.

Additional functions in MyTraffic 2010

MyTraffic Editor:

You can modify the worldwide AI air traffic in FSX with the help of this program by adding additional aircraft, Airlines or airports. Further details on this are in the manual for MyTraffic Editor that can be found in the „Flight Simulator X\MyTraffic\Manuals“ folder.

System requirements

In order for MyTraffic 2010 to run without any problems, your computer will need to meet the following minimum system requirements:

Microsoft Flight Simulator X
- Processor with 2.6 GHz
4.5 GB free hard disk space
1 GB memory (RAM)
DVD drive
3D graphic card with 256 MB

For optimal results we recommend the following minimum requirements:

Dual core processor with 2.5 GHz or faster
2048 MB memory (RAM) or more
3D graphic card with 320 MB

Installation

You must log on with administrator rights before you begin with the installation of MyTraffic 2010. The setup program normally starts automatically. The setup program installs MyTraffic 2010 for Microsoft Flight Simulator X.

If the setup program does not start automatically after you have inserted the DVD-ROM into the drive, click „START | RUN" and enter „D:\setup.exe" (D represents the drive letter of the device). You will need to enter a valid serial number in order to install MyTraffic X. This serial number is printer on the DVD sleeve.

In the opening screen, you must indicate whether you wish to install MyTraffic 2010 for FSX or MyTraffic 2006 for FS2004. Click on the corresponding button in order to install MyTraffic 2010 for FSX.

After you have stated your preferred language for installation, you will be greeted and presented with some additional information on MyTraffic 2010.

The license agreement on the use of MyTraffic 2010 will then be displayed. You must accept the license agreement before you can continue with the installation of MyTraffic 2010. Click on „Next".

You will now be asked to enter your serial number. You'll find the serial number on the DVD sleeve. The serial number is case-sensitive so you must enter it exactly as it is printed on the label. Click on „Next".

The install path (Microsoft Flight Simulator folder) will be automatically determined and checked. If the install program is unable to determine the path to Flight Simulator folder or you wish to install into another folder, click on the „Browse“ button. Click on „Next“.

A summary of the most important data is displayed before the actual installation procedure begins. The MyTraffic 2010 install program will copy all files into the FSX folder. A separate window is displayed for each single aircraft. If data for the aircraft already exists on your hard disk (e.g. from a previous installation), you can indicate within the window whether it should be overwritten or not. Confirm your choice by clicking „Start".

The MyTraffic scenery will be automatically added to the scenery library. All necessary changes will be made within the „fsx.cfg" and „dll.xml" files. Backup copies of those files will be made before any changes are written.

Finally you can select whether the MyTraffic 2010 official sound patch should be executed or not. This will adapt the call signs of the various different airlines. Activate the „Run the Sound patch now“ option on the final screen and click „Finish“ in order to install the sound patch and complete the installation. The install window for the sound patch will then be displayed. The flight simulator language version will be automatically determined. Click „OK“ to install the sound patch. The time needed for installing the sound patch will depend on your computer's configuration and could take up to 30 minutes. Do not manually cancel the installation under any circumstances. Otherwise it's possible that no controllers will be heard. Please wait until installation of the sound patch is complete even if you think the process has „hung up“.

The install program will automatically create a new program group in the Windows Start menu:

"Program Files" - "Aerosoft" - "MyTraffic 2010".

Here you can access „Select AI Year“, „MyTraffic Editor“, the online documentation and the sound patch installation.

De-installation

If you wish to remove MyTraffic 2010, start via the menu MyTraffic Manager, from the menu „Configure MyTraffic“ select the „Remove aircraft, scenery and schedules in MyTraffic folder“, and wait for the procedure to end. We recommend to only start FSX once, to allow it to change some structures. Then click the „Start“ button on the „Windows task bar. Click „Settings“ and select „Control Panel“. Click the „Add/Remove“ icon in the control panel. You will then be presented with a list of all programs installed on your system. Double click „aerosoft's - MyTraffic 2010“. De-installation of all MyTraffic files from your hard disk will begin. The entry in the scenery library will also be removed during de-installation.

MyTraffic 2010 in Flight Simulator

After installation the FSX automatically uses the MyTraffic-airplanes and -flight schedules to create the AI-air traffic in connection to the dense settings for traffic. No other adjustments are needed. If you want to change air traffic or the density you can do this via the FSX menu "Settings - Traffic".

You can also use the Traffic Toolbox if you have it installed.

MyTraffic gave some authors the opportunity to create add-ons for this add-on. We have added to of these tools in a demo version.

Super Traffic Board is a departure and arrival board, showing a lot of infos about the MyTraffic-aircraft, while allowing the user to take control of some of the action. The demo shows all ist functionality buut is restricted to London Heathrow The full version which is available at Aerosoft works on all airports of FSX.

Boeing 777 High Definition contains high resolution Boeing 777 repairs. The full version will give you a 2048x2048 pixel resolution, which can show you details in a size of only 2 cm. For MyTraffic 2010 we have added liveries for the Boeing 777-200 of British Airlines and American Airlines in a resolution of 1024x1024 pixel. The full package can be purchased at Simarket.

Frequently asked questions

F I have got a new painting for a particular aircraft and would like to use this in MyTraffic.

A This is easy. Locate the Texture folder for the corresponding aircraft and copy the new textures into it. However, you should consider the following: All textures for aircraft at an airport are stored in the graphic card's memory. If this is full, they are stored in your PC's main memory and are constantly copied between this and the graphic card's memory. This leads to less memory bandwidth for CPU functions and therefore to a decrease in flight simulator performance. I have carried out tests with additional textures and observed a decrease in framerates at larger airports such as Frankfurt of up to 8 frames per second.

Whereas other AI traffic-products claiming to use real flight plans only display fewer liveries at the larger hubs (which becomes a little boring), MyTraffic provides up to 100 various different liveries. This creates an unbelievably genuine feeling. On the other hand however, this requires care when determining the size of the textures.

Aircraft may be arriving almost every second at some of the busiest airports but only will one will actually land.
A The reason for this is the way FSX controls the AI traffic. Arrival times of the AI aircraft at the destination airport depend strongly on what is happening at the departure airport and during the actual flight. Generally it can be said that the aircraft's arrival time can only be estimated with an accuracy of +/- 15 minutes. This effect can only be completely ruled out if there are less than 4 aircraft per hour landing at an airport. We have done our best to keep this effect to a minimum.

F Where do all those aircraft models actually come from?
A All 146 models were created by the author from scratch after publication of the SDK SP1 for FSX and only for FSX in order to take full advantage of its superior graphic abilities. MyTraffic 2010 does not contain any models from previous versions.

Technical support

The fastest way to get help and support with questions on MyTraffic or other programs from Aerosoft is to visit our support forum under: www.Forum.aerosoft.com

Answers to frequently asked questions can be found on our support page in the internet under: www.aerosoft.de. Our hotline staff can be contacted by email at: [e-mail] or by telephone from Monday to Friday from 14:30 to 17:00 under: +49 29 55 / 76 03- 11

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