Simple Traffic, Complicated Results – 10 Minutes at Queenstown

[hasegawa]

I’ve been wrestling with Just Flight’s FS Traffic for weeks now – silence everywhere, even at the big hubs.
Tried every tip, every tweak, every slider. Nothing. Absolute cemetery calm.

So, as a sanity check, I installed Aerosoft’s Simple Traffic, fully aware it’s more Simple Logic than Simple Reality.
And here’s what happened within just ten minutes at NZQN:

A Qantas A380 turned up like it owned the place,
a Vieques Air Link BN-2 Islander dropped in from Puerto Rico (must’ve got very lost),
and I somehow ended up parking my Kawasaki Ninja on the apron, watching the whole thing unfold.

MSFS 2020 – where troubleshooting easily becomes global comedy.

(Screens below – all captured live at Queenstown, no filters, just pure madness.)







“Queenstown, 15:31— Night Rider, Kiwi edition. One man, one Ninja, and no traffic thanks to Just Flight.”

(He’s not here to save the world — just to test if Aerosoft can still spawn an A380.)

[Charl]

The stock AI is of course a joke.
I've been told that FSTL is the one to use.
I haven't listened, because good AI is a labour-intensive maintenance operation and I just fly the sim.
More and more I populate the airports with static aircraft, makes no difference to me really, as they are just transient scenery.

[hasegawa]

You’re spot on, Charl — the “stock AI” is pure comedy material, mate. FSTL looks the part, but keeping it happy is a full-time job — models, liveries, injectors, updates, rinse and repeat.
Did that dance once and realised I was spending more time babysitting than flying.

I’ll give FS Traffic another try once the next version is out — if it can handle regional ops more smoothly, it might finally be worth the effort.
Until then, I’m happy to let the wind off the Remarkables do the talking.
Sometimes less really is more, aye.

And until then, I’ll just laugh at the nonsense instead of taking it too seriously — and document the highlights.
Imagine a MiG-21 parked right in the middle of Berlin Airport… now that’s AI traffic worth a screenshot.