THANK YOU SO MUCH ! I've patiently waited for your video tutorial on this!

Captain K_Man Excellent video and choice for the tutorial on the airport operations. I found midway to be a tricky airport to setup ground routes and really have to pay attention to everything. But its a good one to learn on when building ground routes and airport operations. I remember reading in the org on what you found when it came to the SID departure at Midway. When I finally finish my ground routes I witness an aircraft taking off on 13C and kept going right for house and beyond. I had to stop myself from laughing to keep for getting a heart attack. Now that you have given that information and demo in the tutorial makes it a little easier to correct what is going with that issue. Also thanks for pointing out the cross winds depart and approach at Anchorage and issue surrounding KLGA. Bob

This is an old but very useful video none the less, Thank You Sir.

Great video, much needed information.

another great video, thanks for your hard work, i know first hand how time consuming it is to create these videos, happy holidays.

@CaptainKMan

6 жыл бұрын

You too!

Captain K-Man - do you know the best method for disabling a runway so that ‘you’ are the only one who can land on it in WT3 while manipulating the Airport Operations txt file? The method I thought would work (placing all 0’s to the right of the Aircraft Types for that runway) apparently doesn’t work. I want to completely disable runway 10/28 at KATL so that I can land on it and not have to worry about someone pulling out in front of me on short final or formation flying with me. It’s “garbage” as you put it!

CICER9 not cicerO. Great vid. Now I see what to do to get small planes to land at TFFJ. I guess because of the mountain right at the runway, I need to increase angle and shorten final approach, so they aren't so high on final and get missed approach status. Cheers!

Can someone help me here.....i have arrival traffic but no departing traffic. The plane's just remain parked at the gate or some aircraft's just spawn on the runway and takeoff

Thank you! This certainly makes it less intimidating. I have the airac update subscription through Navagraph, looks like I really need the charts too if I really want to get serious.

@CaptainKMan

6 жыл бұрын

Yep. Charts are needed. Get them from Navigraph or from Flightaware.com.

Hi and thanks so much for this great tutorial! Question: 1) Last night I was looking at WT3 3.1.7 traffic operations at CYUL and the aircraft were doing cross runway operations. I did not see a crash, but there were some close calls. So I figured I'd use an operation file to turn OFF cross runway operations, yet you enable them. Secondly, you mention go-arounds. At CYUL I also saw many aircraft land 10 seconds apart. The first aircraft was still on the runway when the second landed, of course. So I thought WT3 is not actually smart enough to time sequencing properly or call for a go-around. Is it a config issue on my WT3 that I saw these two problems, or is it the way the program behaves? Thanks!

@CaptainKMan

6 жыл бұрын

Chris, the developer of World Traffic 3, is at this very moment working on the next big version that is going to finally address AI not separating properly or waiting the appropriate amount of time before taxing across or onto an active runway. To turn off a runway you don't want you still need to add it to the runway list in the operations file but set the landing type for aircraft all to 0's for every size category of plane. This should stop any plane from using that runway.

In the video you said you can assign the runway for Pilot2ATC to choose as well when wind is calm. May I ask how do you set that up in Pilot2ATC?

@CaptainKMan

6 жыл бұрын

In the Taxi Maintenance module. There is a tab to setup the runways.

Dude, you are blowing my mind with all of these videos! Would you mind going over how to convert objects and object sceneries from fs9 and fsx to xplane11 PLEASE lol.. i created the tall towers for KSTL's 30R appr lights for fs9(i STILL LOVE that sim!), but i cannot get them to work in xplane. It was very tedious and i really dont want to build them again lmao.. take care man!

@CaptainKMan

6 жыл бұрын

Object conversion is something I am still working on. I convert FSX/P3D scenery all the time and I know this, LIGHTING type objects NEVER work right after transfer. The lights get killed off. I'm hoping I learn how to restore lights broken in the transfer. I am almost done converting Taxi2Gate's Seattle. The last thing to fix is all the lighting.

Thanks for a great video, going to try one for Manchester, EGCC... Do you know at which point the Operations file as actually loaded into WT3? At resync, or another time? Thanks again!

@CaptainKMan

6 жыл бұрын

You know I am not exactly sure. I think it is instantaneously but the way traffic has been behaving lately I am not so sure now. I keep getting traffic landing on both ends of the runways despite having an Airport Operations file. That means the aircraft that first spawned in got one set of instructions, then the weather changed and the next batch of planes were told to land on the opposite runway.

@demontraitor69

6 жыл бұрын

Well, I have created an Operations File for EGCC... About to power up my X-Plane to see how it is... aaaaah!

@CaptainKMan

6 жыл бұрын

Good luck!

Hi K-MAN if e new Navigraph file is provided by the update, do one also need to rewrite (correct) the airport file you described above?

@CaptainKMan

5 жыл бұрын

Nope. Navigraph updating WT3 doesn't effect the airport operations itself, only how the airplanes get into the area.

So for the wind direction should I enter value of only 90/180/270/360 degrees like you do? Could I put in a value of where the runway is right in the center of wind blow from both direction?

@CaptainKMan

6 жыл бұрын

You can use any directions you want. When in doubt, make a 90 degree arc and put the runway in the center of the arc. So if you have an airport with Runway 04 with a True heading of 045, I would use 0 to 90. It all depends on the airport, the number of runways and how they are all facing. And airport like Atlanta where all the runways run east/west I would use a 180 degree arc and put the runway in the center of the arc.

@allanmicheals9017

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you Captain K-Man

Excellent Stuff! I'm now looking for your pilot2ATC tutorial you did some time ago. Can you give me the link? Thanks again!!

@CaptainKMan

3 жыл бұрын

I am scratching my head on where my Pilot2ATC video went. I think I nuked it on accident. I'll be getting it back ASAP!

@rondeldebbio9219

3 жыл бұрын

@@CaptainKMan Thanks, your vid. on pilot2ATC is the best and I hope you can find. Cheers!

Hi, i don't understand some parts of the video, first, you copied a random text file and then you replaced the data of this text file to put your data? thanks for making this video.

@CaptainKMan

6 жыл бұрын

I'm just making a copy of an already existing Airport Operations file in the Airport Ops folder and renaming the file to whatever airport I am working on. Then I go in and wipe out all the data for the airport, leaving the headers in place and then I fill in all the data with the airport I am working on.

@juanmonroig8017

6 жыл бұрын

Captain K-Man now i understand haha, Thank you!!!! You are amazing!

@CaptainKMan

6 жыл бұрын

Happy creating!

@juanmonroig8017

6 жыл бұрын

Captain K-Man Thanks!

How do you check your Operations are okay... do you just watch? haha

This is funny, you talk about overlapping wind direction and why you should not do it but if you look at the WT3 AUTHORS example of what a Operations File should look like and examples his wind directions are also OVERLAPPING! So which is it? Surely he should know that!!!!

Great stuff Captain! So good that I wrote a utility program that creates these files from reading the airport flow from an apt.dat file. Many thanks to you for showing me how it's done. You can download my program (requires Python 3.7) here: snomhf.exofire.net/data/aoi_v1.0.zip

THANK YOU SO MUCH! I've patiently waited for your video tutorial on this!

@CaptainKMan

6 жыл бұрын

Here's hoping it's helpful and not confusing! Lol.