User Manual BC REGIONAL AI – UPDATE 1
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1. e Archive File Available From Author s Radiu g DG AI_ x s m Wingspan ft x Texture QXE Horizon Air DH8D projectai com Todd Disrud HORIZON AIR zip Dornier 328 Dornier 328 GLR jbai_dornier328_v2 zip avsim com Juan Sebastian 69 Gonzalez Andrew Jarvis Brian Mitchell X jbai_dornier328 gl2 zip avsim com Andrew Langille Embraer ERJ 190 ERJ190 ACA pai_install_model_embraer_E190 zip projectai com Jeff Dobbing 22 94 2 x Texture ACA_ Air Canada_EMB190_ AIR projectai com Ton van Bochove _CANADAv2 zip Frank Bass Piper NavajoPA 31 Piper PA31Navajo BCW ai_cessna_402c zip htaimodels com Henry Tomkiewicz 7 37 8 Piper PA31Navajo Orca reg x Darren Belanger Saab 340 Saab340 PCO x pca_saab240 zip avsim com Mike Stone 13 70 Bashir Ismail Shorts SH3 60 SD3 60 PCO variant ai_shorts_sd3 60 zip htaimodels com Henry Tomkiewicz 15 75 0 x adjust c g and John Glossop x payload Don Grovestine 30 Mar 09 10 APPENDIX B BC REGIONAL AI FLIGHT PLAN DATA The following table identifies the flight plan data used in the BC Regional Al scheme Much of this data are proprietary to others They are included in BC Regional Al with the permission of their authors Under no circumstances are these files to be uploaded to any file distribution system except as expressly permitted by their authors Terms of distribution for these files may be found in the readme txt files included in noted archives zip file Available Airlin2. FPS hit Depending on your computer system this may or may not be problematic You can minimize the FPS hit by un checking Aircraft casts shadows in the Traffic section of the Flight Simulator SETTINGS menu Traffic Density Settings BC Regional Al traffic is enabled at an airline traffic density setting of 1 This allows you to avoid the default Orbit Airlines 737 Airwave Airlines Dash 8 or other default airline traffic from occupying your parking spaces Daylight Savings Time With respect to the Al flight schedule please note that arrival departure times are specified in GMT During the winter there is an eight hour the difference between GMT and the Pacific Time Zone in which the majority of BC Regional Al operates However during the summer when daylight savings time is in effect the difference is only seven hours Typically airline schedules refer to local time Consequently when daylight savings time is in effect Al will operate one hour later than the published schedule unless you go to the trouble of revising the flight plan information Known Issues and Other Idiosyncrasies Following are the known problems issues that may be encountered e The airplanes used as Al with BC Regional Al are mainly FS9 vintage Al aircraft due to their wide availability and the lack of suitable Al aircraft updated for FSX Generally these FS9 aircraft work well with FSX with two exceptions e at long distance
3. a FSX compatible prop disk for most models a few don t use prop disks This resolves the FS9 FSx transparency issue with revolving propellors 2 INSTALLATION Folder Configuration Proper installation of BC Regional Al will result in the following sub folders files in the installation folder i e BC Regional Al or whatever you choose to call it e scenery containing a single traffic file e Flight Plans containing TTools format flight plan files for each airline as well as for the consolidated traffic file and e a pdf version of this user manual If you are installing to both FS9 and FSX please note that the files in the Flight Plans folder are identical for both versions Feel free to delete one or the other or both since they are not required for the operation of BC Regional Al If over writing a previous installation any existing flight plans and traffic files will be saved in folders named Flight Plans old and Traffic Files old respectively The Al aircraft will be installed in the designated main aircraft folder in a series of folders names BCR AI_xxx where xxx identifies the specific aircraft If updating from an earlier version where the folder are named DG AI_ xxx the previously installed aircraft folder will be renamed accordingly Automatic Installation BC Regional Al includes an installer This installer is a Microsoft NET Framework 2 0 application If NET Framework is not already in
4. from the name overwriting its FS9 equivalent e Copy the Flight Plans folder and the User Manual from the temporary folder to a location of your choosing The Flight Plans folder contains the underlying TTools format text files from which the Al traffic scheme is derived BC Regional Al installed as above requires a separate Scenery Library entry the priority of which is not critical Should you wish however you may copy the traffic file s from the BC Regional Al scenery folder to any other enabled scenery folder and dispense with the separate Scenery Library entry To avoid duplicate Al if BC Regional Al is installed on a computer on which CYYJ Custom Al has previously been installed the traffic file s Traffic _ CYYJ Airline bgl should be disabled or deleted from CYYJ Custom Al s scenery folder s If CYYJ Custom Al is installed after BC Regional Al the airline files for CYYJ Custom Al should not be enabled 4 USING BC REGIONAL Al Mixed FS9 FSX Traffic Files FSX Traffic_xxx bgl files have a different format from their FS9 counterparts FSX will accept either FS9 or FSX format files but not a mix If there is a FS9 format Traffic_xxx bgl in any enabled add on all FSX format Traffic_xxx bgl files will be ignored You will often find that traffic files in add ons intended for use with FSX are actually in FS9 format In particular at time of writing traffic files installed from packages from MAIW and WoAI are in FS9 form
5. to any file distribution system reverse engineer disassemble or decompile any part of BC Regional Al for any purpose other than to implement improvements for your own personal use or incorporate BC Regional Al in whole or in part into any commercial product or facility shareware or freeware or any other product or facility for which there is a charge of any kind without the express written permission of the author which permission will only be available in respect of the repaints by the author Any use of the files or information proprietary to others except as reasonably intended within BC Regional Al is subject to the terms set out by the respective author a copy of which terms may be obtained by downloading the relevant archive file s containing the file s or information of interest Those archive files are identified in Appendices A and B Your use of BC Regional Al is entirely at your own risk None of the authors whose works are included accept any liability whatsoever for any damage arising from its use no matter how caused By downloading and installing this software you are deemed to have agreed to the foregoing 30 Mar 09 7 All rights in the aircraft and texture files authored by others are retained by their respective authors All other parts of BC Regional Al are 2008 2009 Don Grovestine 30 Mar 09 APPENDIX A BC REGIONAL Al AIRCRAFT The following table identifies the Al aircr
6. FS Base Folder text box If not successful you will have to locate it manually using the FS Base Folder Select button before the installation can proceed further The path to the relevant main aircraft folder will be automatically detected and displayed in the Aircraft Folder text box once the base path has been found If this folder is where you want the Al aircraft installed you need do nothing more in this regard If you want the aircraft installed elsewhere please select the location either by clicking on the Select button or entering the location directly into the text box Select the type of installation New Installation or Update Earlier Version in the second row of radio buttons If you plan to install for both FS9 and FSX perform a separate installation for each version If you select a new install the installer will recommend Addon Scenery BC Regional Al as the installation folder However you may install to any folder If updating an earlier version of BC Regional Al the installer will scan the Addon Scenery folder in an attempt to locate any previously installed versions The scan may take a few seconds depending on the number of installed add ons on your system If it finds more than one previous installation it will present each in turn and ask if that is the version you wish to update If you are updating an earlier version of BC Regional Al and have made changes to the Al aircraft you may direct the in
7. User Manual BC REGIONAL AIl UPDATE 1 1 GENERAL BC Regional Al allows you to implement and enjoy realistic scheduled airline Al with the FS9 and FSX add on CYYJ 2008 2009 and other add on airports in British Columbia Canada It includes all the aircraft files you need to implement the Al scheme together with the TTools format source files and the compiled traffic files Simply install BC Regional Al and thanks to the efforts of a number of aircraft modelers and repainters see CYYJ and most other BC airports come to life If you already have an Al traffic add on such as MyTraffic it would be reasonable for you to ask Why do I need BC Regional Al The answer is simple Realism BC Regional Al accurately depicts the scheduled traffic for the following airlines at every airport in BC where they operate except CYVR where only regional traffic is depicted The acronym in parenthesis is the Al parking code Normally the parking code is the IATA identifier for the airline However since several of the airlines do not have an IATA identifier I ve created my own for the purposes of this add on Air Canada ACA Air Canada Jazz JZA Airspeed Aviation SPD Alpha Executive Air AEA BC West BCW Central Mountain Air GLR Horizon Air QXE Orca Airways ORC Pacific Coastal Airways PCO United Express UAX YYJ SFO service Westjet WJA The Al traffic is based on the latest available flight plan data identifi
8. aft used in the BC Regional Al scheme All required files are provided as part of BC Regional Al Most of these files are proprietary to others They are included in BC Regional Al with the permission of their authors and are provided solely as a convenience to users Under no circumstances are these files to be decompiled or reverse engineered or uploaded to any file distribution system except as expressly permitted by their authors Terms of distribution for these files may be found in the readme txt files included in noted archives zip file Folder Name Al Title MIT mdl aircraft cf prefaced by prefaced by DG AI o e Archive File Available From Author s Radiu g DG AI_ d x s m Wingspan ft Airbus A320 A320 ACA x dwai_airbus_a320 zip htaimodels com Dee Waldron 22 111 85 x Al_Airbus _A320 zip Andrew Langille Beech B1900C Beech1900C PCO variant x ai_beechcraft_A900C zip htaimodels com Henry Tomkiewicz 10 54 5 X pco_ai_pkg dtb zip Darren Belanger Beech B1900D Beech1900D GLR x cdai_b1900v2_pco zip avsim com Charles Dayhuff 10 54 5 xX Tony Fosler Beech King Air 100 BeechKA100 AEA xX beechcraft_king_air_a100 zip Avsim com Dee Waldron 9 54 5 X Don Grovestine Beech King Air 200 BeechKA200 PCO x b200ka zip htaimodels com Henry Tomkiewicz 9 54 5 x pco_be20 zip Avsim com Dan Platt Boeing 737 700W B737 700W WJA variant xX aia_737w zip a
9. at even if you select the FSX installer option These must be converted to 30 Mar 09 4 FSX format prior to use with FSX if you want any other FSX traffic to be displayed Al Flight Planner by this author will perform such conversions It is available from both Avsim and Flightsim BC Regional Al traffic files that are installed for FSX are in FSX format If you are using FSX and the BC Regional Al still does not display chances are you ve got a FS9 format Traffic_xxx bg file somewhere that FSx is seeing That those files must be found and either deleted disabled or converted to FSX format Parking Al needs parking While FSX does the better job generally neither it nor FS9 provide parking at many smaller stock airports If parking is not available for arriving aircraft the Al will disappear upon landing If parking is not available for an Al aircraft about to depart that Al will not materialize at either the departure airport or at its intended destination if nearby lt 100 miles So if some Al fails to operate parking is a good place to start investigating Naming of Al All the Al aircraft provided in BC Regional Al have titles prefaced with BCR AI Hence there should be no conflict with any aircraft already in or that you may add to your stable None of the Al included in this add on will appear in your Select Aircraft list FPS Hit All this eye candy does not come for free There is an
10. e Schedule Archive File From Author s Air Canada Summer 2008 data extracted from published timetable Don Grovestine Air Canada Summer 2008 aig_summer_2008_aircanadajazz zip avsim com Garry Lewis AIG Alpha India Group Jazz Alpha Summer 2008 data extracted from website timetable Don Grovestine Executive Air BC West Summer 2008 data extracted from website timetable Don Grovestine Horizon Air Summer 2008 data extracted from published timetable Don Grovestine Central Winter 2007 2008 aig_winter_2007 2008_centralmountainair zip avsim com Sam Cooper AIG Alpha India Group Mountain Air Orca Airways Summer 2008 data extracted from website timetable Don Grovestine Pacific Coastal Winter 2007 2008 evai_winter_2007 2008_pacificcoastalairlines zip avsim com Daan dustEagle Callaerts Airways United Express Summer 2008 data extracted from website timetable Don Grovestine Westjet Summer 2008 data extracted from website timetable Don Grovestine 11
11. ed in Appendix B Aircraft and airline liveries are those in use at mid 2008 These aircraft will assume their normal gate positions at the terminal at CYYJ and at other add on airports where the correct airline codes have been assigned to the parking spots It doesn t get much better than that BC Regional Al is fully compatible with CYYJ Custom Al an earlier Al add on for use specifically with then CYYJ 2007 Please note that the CYYJ Custom Al add on is soon to be withdrawn Its non airline traffic will be incorporated in the new CYYJ 2009 The included aircraft and texture files are for the most part proprietary to others The authors are acknowledged in Appendix A with my thanks As a bonus you will be able to use the included Al aircraft to populate your other airports simply by creating appropriate flight plans 30 Mar 09 1 KKK KK Update 1 The original version of BC Regional Al included two errors First due to a problem in the TTools flight plan source files certain weekly flight plans did not operate properly over the weekend Secondly recently discovered that the Al engine ignores flight plans having more than 100 legs The two flight plans generating most of the Jazz traffic between CYVR Vancouver and CYYJ Victoria had more than 100 legs Hence that traffic never materialized Update 1 corrects both problems RKKKKK Update 2 kkxkxk xk Update 2 boasts a new simpler installer and installs
12. i aardvark com David Rawlins 23 112 6 x ai737wja zip ai aardvark com Ryan Adams Boeing 737 800W B737 800W WJA xX aia_738w zip ai aardvark com David Rawlins 117 4 x ai738wja zip ai aardvark com Ryan Adams Bombardier CRJ CRJ200 JZA color x x Cdai_crjv2_aca_jazz zip avsim com Charles Dayhuff 15 69 6 200 uses updated Model and air file from Al Percy CDAI_crj200_ual_nc zip Tony Fosler Jonathon Barton Bombardier CRJ CRJ705 JZA color x cdai_crj700v2 zip avsim com Charles Dayhuff 16 75 5 700 CRJ700 UAX x cdai cr 705_jaz_fleet zip David Freed x cdaicrj700skw zip Scott Sherman Cessna 402B C402B BCW x ai_cessna_402c zip htaimodels com Henry Tomkiewicz 7 37 8 x Darren Belanger deHavilland DH8A DH8A JZA color x pai_install_model_bombardier_dh8a zip projectai com FS Painter 16 85 Texture JZA Air Canada color DH8B x JAZZ zip projectai com Jeff Sargent deHavilland DH8B DH8B QXE x pai_install_model_bombardier_dh8b zip projectai com FS Painter 16 85 Texture QXE Horizon Air DH8B x HORIZON AIR zip projectai com Todd Disrud deHavilland DH8C DH8C JZA color x pai_install_model_bombardier_dh8c zip projectai com FS Painter 16 90 Texture JZA Air Canada color DH8c x JAZZ zip projectai com Jeff Sargent deHavilland DH8D DH8D QXE x pai_install_model_bombardier_dh8d zip projectai com FS Painter 16 93 2 30 Mar 09 9 Folder Name Al Title T mdl aircraft cf prefaced by prefaced by DG AI
13. le rounded up to the nearest meter When you download an aircraft for use as 30 Mar 09 6 Al in FSX you should check that the specified wingspan is correct Several of the Al aircraft have downloaded had aircraft cfg wingspan values varied widely from actual In one case had a large biz jet parking among C172s So if your FSX Al don t park as they did in FS9 or they park in spots of the wrong size check their aircraft cfg wingspan value Appendix A shows both the md radius and the proper aircraft cfg wingspan for all the aircraft used in the BC Regional Al traffic scheme 6 SUPPORT The BC Regional Al traffic scheme has been developed to be realistic in the context of actual regional traffic in British Columbia However save for a few of the aircraft textures the contents of this package have in large part been authored by others Consequently will not likely be able to provide much in the way of support If you follow the installation procedure everything should work If you don t if you substitute aircraft or if you modify flight plans you re on your own Enjoy Don Grovestine E mail cyyi2007 shaw ca Website http members shaw ca cyyj2007 End User License Agreement EULA You are granted a free non exclusive right solely to install and use BC Regional Al on your computer system s for your own personal enjoyment You may not upload BC Regional Al whether or not modified in whole or in part
14. may be run as many times as necessary prior to Finish ing For those who are unable or unwilling to use the automatic installer BC Regional Al may be installed manually as follows a Unzip the installation archive to a temporary folder b If it does not already exist create a folder named BC Regional Al in your Addon Scenery folder or elsewhere and in it create in it a sub folder named scenery c Copy one of the following files depending on the flight simulator version from the temporary folder into the BC Regional Al scenery folder e for FS9 Traffic_BC Regional_FS9 bgl or e for FSX Traffic_BC Regional _FSX bgl d Copy all the BCR Al_xxx folders from the temporary Al Aircraft folder to e for FS9 your Flight Simulator 9 Aircraft folder and or e for FSX your FSX SimObjects Airplanes folder or to another registered aircraft folder These aircraft are identical to similarly names aircraft in CYYJ Custom Al If you have previously installed CYYJ Custom Al you may delete those belonging to CYYJ Custom Al or if you have not modified them in any way simply rename them instead of installing the new ones If updating an earlier installation you may elect to only update the prop disks for FSX aircraft The FSX prop disk for each Al aircraft is named as the original prop disk but with a _FSX suffix This new prop disk should be copied into every texture folder for the respective aircraft with the suffix deleted
15. ontains the underlying TTools format source files A rcraft_BC Regional txt Airport_ BC Regional txt and Flightplans_ BC Regional txt for the compiled traffic file as well flight plan text files as for most of the individual airlines Aircraft reference numbers in all the flight plan files refer to Aircraft_BC Regional txt TTools is a widely available FS9 utility used to generate Al traffic bgl files Unfortunately TTools has not been updated for FSX But another utility by the author named Al Flight Planner which reads TTools format files and generates traffic bgl files for both FS9 and FSX is available Al Flight Planner also decompiles FS9 and FSX traffic bgls back into their original TTools format Creation and modification of TTools format files is beyond the scope of this manual Please refer to the TTools and Al Flight Planner documentation for syntax and format While on the topic of Al modification please note that FSX uses a different Al parking algorithm than FS9 FS9 uses the radius stored in the aircrafts mdl file to determine the minimum size for parking spot That radius can be examined and edited using ADCAD 2 21 or other aircraft editors Generally the md radius is somewhat larger than the radius of a circle that would encompass the aircraft This allows for among other things adequate separation at hold short points FSX uses as the minimum required parking radius half the wingspan value stored in the Al s aircraft cfg fi
16. ortunately nobody gets hurt Finally if two arriving Al meet head to head on the same taxiway in the vicinity of parking one may duck through a vacant parking spot to avoid the other When that happens the Al ends up on the departure network will park incorrectly when it reaches its parking spot and will not depart This shouldn t happen often 5 MODIFYING BC REGIONAL Al You are not restricted to the Al aircraft listed in Appendix A These are simply the ones selected Mix and match as you see fit Each fltsim n section in an aircrafts aircraft cfg files pertains to a particular Al aircraft If there s more than one such section it means there are several variants of that aircraft available The title of the aircraft variant is noted in the fltsim n section You may directly substitute one Al aircraft for another simply by changing the title of the replacement aircraft to that of the replaced aircraft and then changing the title of the replaced aircraft to something else However if two aircraft share the same title neither will be displayed An Al aircraft may be deleted from the scenario by deleting its BCR Al_ folder or less permanently by changing its title to some unused name Adding additional aircraft or otherwise changing the Al scenario is somewhat more complex and is addressed below To allow experienced users to adjust the Al to suit their own preferences the Flight Plans folder c
17. s these aircraft are no longer textured and appear black or grey depending on the FSX service pack installed and e the FS9 night textures do not display leaving the model black This is a consequence of the way FSX handles small polygons and can only be overcome by using aircraft models updated to FSX which requires access to the Gmax models access don t have e When you start FS9 any Al flights scheduled to be in progress at that system time that were due to depart more than fifteen minutes earlier and that have more than five VFR or ten IFR minutes until their ETA are placed in the enroute state and the flight completes 30 Mar 09 5 e The FSX parking node property pushback none has no effect pushback always occurs A workaround has been implemented in CYYJ 2007 8 which can limit the length of the pushback but not completely eliminate it Consequently when Al depart in FSX you may notice a short pushback or sometimes just a jerk e With airport add ons that implement drive through parking such as CYYJ departing and arriving Al may collide on taxiways While both departing and arriving Al appear to be on the same taxiway they are on different ones as far as the Al engine is concerned This is the price of drive through parking in MSFS Also at CYYJ in the vicinity of the terminal apron wide bodied jets have a separate taxiway system and hence collisions may also occur F
18. stalled on your computer the redistributable can be downloaded from the Microsoft website at no charge For those users who cannot or choose not to use the installer a manual installation procedure is detailed below Vista users of the automatic installation routine must have and depending on circumstances others may require administrator privileges when running the installer If you need but do not have administrator privileges the installer will complain when you attempt to install To run the installer with administrator privileges right click on BC Regional Al Installer exe select Run As and select administrator 30 Mar 09 2 Installation is performed as follows It will take you far longer to read this than to perform the automatic installation a b 30 Mar 09 Unzip the archive file bcregai_n zip to a temporary older folders option enabled DO NOT UNZIP TO THE INSTALLATION FOLDER and DO NOT REMOVE ANY FILES FROM THE TEMPORARY FOLDER Run double click on BC Regional Al Installer exe in the temporary folder An installation dialog will appear Depending on your operating system you may be able to omit the previous step and run BC Regional Al exe directly from the zip file Click on either the FS9 or FSX radio button at the top of the installation dialog whereupon the installer attempts to locate the main folder for that version If successful the path will be shown in the
19. staller only to add the FSX prop disks rather than you having to re apply those changes to a newly installed aircraft However only those aircraft in the designated top folder whose folder names are unchanged will be updated Click the Install button The installer will ask you to confirm the installation folders whereupon it will install and configure BC Regional Al accordingly If installation is to a folder containing an earlier version any Al traffic files traffic bg and flight plan files will be saved as described above If you have and retain an earlier version by installing BC Regional Al to a new folder ensure only one of them is enabled at a time in your Scenery Library BC Regional Al duplicates many of the Al aircraft used in CYYJ Custom Al Once the installation of BC Regional Al is complete for a version of Flight Simulator the installer will check if CYYJ Custom Al has previously been installed for that version If CYYJ Custom Al is found the installer will offer to delete the duplicated files Leaving the old files will do no harm they just occupy disk space you might need for other purposes Should you change your mind about an installation option or wish to change the installation mode simply select the desired new option s and click the Install button again i When finished click the Finish button This will delete all the temporary files without putting them in your Recycle Bin The installer
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