FSX AI Landings

[greaneyr]

Hey guys

Quick question... Do the pilots who fly the FSX AI traffic land gracefully, or is it good ol' FS9 style, thump into the tarmac, huge plume of smoke, bounce, then land again?

Seeing Dan's lovely looking Vistaliners repainted AI made me wonder if the AI pilots mistreat those aircraft the way they mistreated anything you gave them in FS9

Richard

[FlyingKiwi]

It's much like FS9 unfortunately.

[greaneyr]

QUOTE (FlyingKiwi @ Dec 30 2007, 01:24 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

It's much like FS9 unfortunately.

Ahh shucks.

I had to laugh the other night. Was flying around NZAA and there was a 767 on a 10 mile final for 05R... At 9500ft!!! determined as ever to land, the guy shot an approach anyway. He did his job alright... a little too well. At 1 mile, he was down to all of about 200ft. Touched down on the ocean surface. It seems the computer really can't put a foot wrong. As soon as he 'landed' (i use that word loosely since he touched down on the sea) the tower of course told him to contact ground on 121.9. As soon as he started slowing on the runway, he just disappeared (no AI parking codes set for him at that stage).

I was really hoping there'd been an improvement. Ah well. At least there's important things like birds in the sky and elephants in Africa.

Richard

[FlyingKiwi]

Yes I've seen a fair few of those ridiculously high approaches in FS before. Also a couple of times the exact opposite; with aircraft landing a couple of miles short of the runway and then charging through the trees until getting to the airport.

[towerguy]

sitting at work watching hundreds of arrivals and departures a day I can't help thinking that some of those AI pilots have moved on and got jobs with the real airlines!