TrafficTools (TTools) allows you to program the Artificial Intelligence (AI) aircraft traffic in Microsoft Flight Simulator FS2002 or FS2004. You can make aircraft come-and-go from any airport on whatever schedules you desire.

TTools will decompile a traffic "bgl" file into three text files that can be edited. Conversely, you can also create these files yourself and compile them with TTools into a traffic file. To learn how to do this, have a look at the included readme.

RPP_FPGen is MS Excel based FS utility that will generate those nasty AI flightplans for you!

You just choose a home base, set a destination list and AI aircraft list and run macro. You get three txt files, which you manually compile using Lee Swordy's Traffic Tools (for FS9).

RPP_FPGen can generate flightplans for FS2004, as well as for FSX.

See User's Manual for details.

GenAir is a Windows program written to generate an airports.txt file used for AI Flightplans from an existing FlightPlans.txt file.

It can be used to quickly produce a matching airports.txt file for your own flightplans, or with someone else's flightplans if they did not include a valid airports.txt file. Now you can be sure that your airports.txt file includes all the correct airport codes, and only the airport codes that are actually used in the flightplan file.

Lee Swordy's AFCAD program is a CAD-style editor for FS2004 airports.

Airports consist of visible scenery and invisible facility data used to control airport operations. AFCAD 2 can add or modify almost all facility elements and several visible elements. This includes runways, taxiways, aprons, parking and communications.

Airport Design Editor (ADE) is a graphical design tool to create and enhance airports for Microsoft Flight Simulators 9 and X.

It is basically a much more advanced version of AFCAD with additional features as editing or placing objects, using a background image or enhancing the approaches to your airport.

This utility is intended to help streamline the managing of AFD files for Flight Simulator 2004.

The program provides a straight-forward means of identifying duplicate airports and renaming or deleting these files. The program can also search for AFDs within scenery addons and identify conflicting files. The app will also display facilities details from within each AFD (parking spots, parking codes and runways), giving you more information when deciding which file to keep.

Aircraft Effects is a tool designed by our own Graham King. It examines every aircraft.cfg in the aircraft folder and lists missing effects files.

You also have the ability to amend entries by choosing an installed effect to replace a particular effect that is missing.

The scope of AI-Aircraft Editor is to allow changes of all AI relevant aircraft parameters. For each aircraft these parameters are located inside the aircraft.cfg, the model file (mdl) and the aircraft parameter file (air). AI-Aircraft Editor deals with all three types of files.

Visti The Owl's Nest for more great tools to enhance your flightsim setup!

SBuilder is a freeware scenery creation tool for FS2004. It reads default BGL LWM and VTP files and is used a lot by the MAIW contributors to create airport background polygons. It is only one of the many functions this program provides.

Learn how to set the program up and make your first VTP file by visiting "The Learning Center" on our site!

ExcBuilder is a small program that helps you to create different types of exclude files.

With this tool you can delete default taxiway signs, generic buildings, windsocks and many other objects through user-friendly interface without knowing anything about programming.

Since it uses the new XML-based language it's compatible with FS2004 ONLY!

EditVoicepack offers a simple interface to edit the file containing the ATC communication.

It is possible to change the phraseology as well as add airline callsigns, airports, and aircraft types. EditVoicepack already contains thousands of ready made entries and it allows you to accelerate the existing voices for a more realistic experience and better handling of traffic dense environments.