Military AI Works

In my FSX-SE setup, the default flight starts in the GA parking area (next to the G1 taxiway) at Charleston's KCHS, which is a combined civilian and military airfield. I've got most of the East Coast and Midwest MAIW packages installed, as well as the WOAI aircraft, and it's lots of fun looking at all the C17s and occasional other aircraft on the military side of the field.

But the other day, much to my surprise, as I was about to fire up my plane's engine in the GA area, I saw a huge military jet (pretty sure it was a KC-135) right in front of me in the GA parking area, crossing from left to right, onto the G1 taxiway, and then depart.

I was too flabbergasted to do anything at the time, except wait for it to leave, but on reconsideration, is it possible to identify what flight plan caused this anomaly (realizing it's something I'll presumably have to wait and see if it ever happens again and identify it closely then) and remove it so it doesn't happen again?

It's not so much a flight plan issue, as the plane isn't out of sorts being at that airport. Sounds like an AFCAD issue which put it at that particular place on the airport. Are you using default scenery or something you've downloaded.

This first thing I would do is open up the AFCAD file and take a look at how parking is arranged and what the taxi routes look like.

There are various ways to investigate this. Possibly the simplest being if you have all the raw text flightplan files on your system. If you do then you can use the MS file contents search to locate which files have 'KCHS' in them. You are only interested in flightplan.txt files obviously.

If you don't keep the raw files on your system then you will need to use something like AIFP and search all the bgls that you keep your KC-135 flights in, using the flightplans > timetable option.

DMdoc wrote:In my FSX-SE setup, the default flight starts in the GA parking area (next to the G1 taxiway) at Charleston's KCHS, which is a combined civilian and military airfield. I've got most of the East Coast and Midwest MAIW packages installed, as well as the WOAI aircraft, and it's lots of fun looking at all the C17s and occasional other aircraft on the military side of the field.

But the other day, much to my surprise, as I was about to fire up my plane's engine in the GA area, I saw a huge military jet (pretty sure it was a KC-135) right in front of me in the GA parking area, crossing from left to right, onto the G1 taxiway, and then depart.

I was too flabbergasted to do anything at the time, except wait for it to leave, but on reconsideration, is it possible to identify what flight plan caused this anomaly (realizing it's something I'll presumably have to wait and see if it ever happens again and identify it closely then) and remove it so it doesn't happen again?

If this was an MGAI KC135 parking in a GA parking spot it was probably caused by it and it's AI FDE having been designed specifically for use in FS9 and not in FSX.

FS9 and FSX determine the parking radius for an AI aircraft differently resulting in parking problems like this when one uses a large AI aircraft like the MGAI KC135 designed specifically for use FS9 in FSX despite the warning in its aircraft.cfg file.

Sorry,