Optional live traffic injection#812

Please consider an option to inject and handle live traffic for those who fly with everything “live” (time and date, weather, traffic), and don’t need to populate airports with historic flights outside outside of this.

That’s very unlikely to happen, they already said they will be using historical data

I’m not a programmer. How difficult is it to apply BATC’s traffic engine to a feed of almost live data as opposed to a feed of one year old data? Does the historic data change to a new set each day to account for days of the week etc? I understand starting with a fixed schedule for injection, but hope that they consider an option for live data further down the line.

Yeah. Live traffic flyer myself. Flying GA and I want to have VFR GA aircrafts flying live . Scheduled historical flights are not for me.

Live traffic wouldn’t make sense in an atc programm since all aircraft need to be controlled by the same controller which also controls you as a player. If they inject live traffic, live traffic only does what the real world controller says and you as a sim pilot would just be a observer.
If they inject the traffic from a schedule, batc can stop them and give you the way on the ground or sequence you and the traffic around you in the approach. But if they use live traffic, the traffic would just do their thing and batc has to control you around them and cannot give them proper instructions

I get this, but there are already programs that alter live traffic behaviour. FR24 live data provides departure and arrival locations, as well as the live location of the aircraft. Can BATC not read the location and destination of a live flight when it’s injected and take over at that point? At what point does BATC make it’s calculations for historic traffic being injected? The flight doesn’t need to be in the EXACT place it really is, but that the flight actually exists in the real world at the current time is important for realism, instead of there having a been a flight there if you were flying a year ago.

Yes as Paul says. FSTL for example injects live trafic data, that MFS ATC can take control over. It does recognize player and injected traffic and there is full interaction. ATC will order go around for injected traffic if player is on runway and it orders player to wait if Injected plane is landing etc. So live traffic injection works. It’s a real shame they dropped live traffic injection. I was so excited when BATC was first announced and it included FSTL support. Later they decided to do traffic injection themselves and I was hopeful it would be even better. It was a huge letdown to hear live traffic was dropped. It is important feature to me to have live traffic injection.