August 02, 2002

FILE: AITM12.ZIP
AUTHOR: Thomas Molitor
EMAIL: thomas@molitor-home.de
VERSION: 1.2 Build 160
TYPE: Freeware

SIMULATOR: Flight Simulator 2002
REQUIREMENTS: TTools V1.2 by Lee Swordy (NOW INCLUDED!), Visual Basic 6 Runtimes (not included),
ActiveX Controls 'COMDLG32.OCX and 'MSCOMCTL.OCX'.


DESCRIPTION:
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AI Traffic Mover makes AI Traffic much more realistic. AITM includes several Tools that allows
you to rearrange, move, export, analyze, optimize, edit aircraft properties and much more.
AITM Projects help to merge and compile several Flightplans in just one step and with the
Aircraft Editor you can easily change aircraft properties. The Aiport Timetable feature prints
a complete time sheet for the arrivals/departures for your favorite airport (and overlays).
Easily resize airport gates for all installed airports.

What it does:

It imports all airports and determines what region/country/state/city/airport they belong to. Then it
imports all your installed aircraft and determines what airline they belong to. Then it imports the
existing AI traffic and for every flight it determines the region/country/state/city/airport, maximum
leg distance and flight level. Depending on these values a list of aircraft is made. Then an aircraft
is randomly choosen from this list of aircraft. If you prefer to have a specific Airline to execute
more flights for a region/country/state/city/airport then you can tell AITM to assign xx Percent of
the region/country/state/city/airport traffic to this airline. This feature can be configured in the
file 'AITM_AL.cfg'. You can also assign several tail number templates for each region/country/state/city/airport
and AITM will generate a unique number for each flight. The Mover allows you to move AI Traffic from
one Airport to another (a must have for Overlay Airport users). Another function is the export of
flights. For example you can extract all flights executed by an airline, etc. But AITM contains even
more features: Aircraft Editor, Airport Timetable, Gate resizing, Analyzing Tools ...

And the best: IT'S FREE. 100% payware free. :)


Thomas Molitor
thomas@molitor-home.de
http://www.molitor-home.de/fs/aitm

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INSTALLATION:
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0) Extract the ZIP file contents to any folder or use the AITM installer.

2) Start AITM.

3) Decompile your AI Traffic with 'Tools - Decompile'



COPYRIGHT ISSUES:
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- "TTools V1.2" was created by "Lee Swordy". Available on AVSIM, SurClaro or any other FS Library.

The Tool AITM and this document are copyright © 2002 by Thomas Molitor.
This material may not be distributed for commercial purposes or posted in the public domain without
the author’s permission.


History:
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Version 1.2 Build 160

Added:
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- Assign Airlines to States, Cities and/or Airports
- Shuffler now uses AFD Airport properties (Runway length and surface)
- Shuffler views: Aircraft Classes / Airlines / UI Manufacturer
- Shuffler will now calculate a new ETA for each leg, after an aircraft has been assigned
- Shuffler can now calculate a new Flight Level after assigning a new aircraft
- Move AI traffic by percent
- Flight Editor will now check some flight properties (Total Flight Time, Depart Time
(Turn-Around), Flight Level)
- Flight Level suggestion for the Flight Editor
- Flightplan Aircraft Editor - Add, delete and substitute your aircraft
- Flight Level (RVSM is possible) optimizing for the current plan
- Flight Time optimizing for the current plan
- Plan Analyzing: Aircraft not found in FS, Incorrect Flight Levels, Incorrect Flight Times,
Unknown Airports and Duplicate flights
- Airport Timetable statistics (also includes the maximum amount of gates used at a time)
- AI Percent filter parameter for the Airport Timetable
- Saving now possible for the Airport Timetable
- Open the Flight Editor from the Airport Timetable tab
- Aircraft Class search parameter for Export/Search tab
- Create a new "Airports.txt" for all installed airports
- Randomize Flight Plan order
- Randomize Flight Numbers
- Randomize AI percentage
- New Airport information screen (shows runways, parkings, frequencies, etc.)
- Resize parkings for all installed airports at once (great to set Cargo parkings to
one size for all airports)
- Undo function can now be turned on or off
- Airlines and Aircraft Models/Types for Aircraft Editor are now configurable via config files
- During loading a plan AITM can check for aircraft that are not installed in FS
- New Hotkey assignments
- New AITM files:

1. AITM_FL.cfg - Flight Level configuration
2. AITM_NAL.cfg - ATC Airline configuration
3. AITM_NMD.cfg - ATC Model configuration
4. AITM_NTP.cfg - ATC Type configuration
5. AITM_AC-TML.cfg - My personal Aircraft configuration

Fixed:
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- Several minor fixes


Version 1.1 Build 118

Added:
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- Added some parameters in the Airport Timetable, so one can easily adjust the timetable results
as desired
- AITM will automatically adjust Traffic Percent set to 100% to 99%. That's done because FS2002
will never show those flights

Fixed:
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- On systems where the Date/Time was set to "HH.MM.SS" an error occurred during saving the plan
- During merging AITM Projects double aircraft entries (same title - different number) were made
- Aircraft where the title contains the chars "(" and/or ")" did not work properly
- In the Airport Timetable some flights were missing
- Some minor fixes in the Project and Flight Editor


Version 1.1 Build 116

Added:
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- Aircraft Editor (change the aircraft radius for GMAX models, Airline, ATC Model/Type, etc.)
- Flight Editor (Add, delete and edit flights)
- Airport (Overlay) Timetable
- Time Zone switch
- "Aircraft.txt" files can be added for each Project entry and will be merged during compiling
(rearrangement of aircraft numbers in the Flightplan no longer needed!)
- It is now possible to save the AITM Project results
- Change the starting aircraft number that will be used by the Shuffler function
- Autom. remove the character "-" from the tail number (optional)
- Added more performance properties for the aircraft configuration (Runway length, Runway
Types, etc. - NOTE: they are currently not used by AITM)
- Autom. generate the MS Traffic SDK's "AircraftTypes.dat"
- Added Backup feature for all files AITM modifies
- Added Airport Search window
- Remove the char '-' from all tail numbers
- Added resizing for the main window
- TTools in the current version are now included (Thanks to Lee Swordy for his permission)

Fixed:
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- Flightplan loading routine has been completely rewritten so it should work on all systems with improved performance
- "TDECOMPILER.EXE" has been deleted during decompiling if the EXE was in the output folder

Changed:
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- "AIRCRAFTS.CFG" has been renamed to "AITM_AC.CFG"
- "AIRLINES.CFG" has been renamed to "AITM_AL.CFG"


Version 1.0 Build 74 (First Public Version):
- More than tail number template for regions and countries
- Airport Distance Tool is now alot easier to use
- Flight Type (IFR/VFR) and Aircraft search parameters added to Export
- Added printing for the Export
- Added context menus for easier selection to shuffler and mover tree view
- Added a simple one step undo buffer for the Shuffler and Mover
- Added recent Flightplans and Projects to the File menu
- Added HTML manual


Version 0.9 Beta Build 71:
- Improved the shuffle performance (should be three times faster than before :))
- Added Flightplan Projects
- Added a new Export function that allows to export the remaining flights after searching
- Additional sortings for the Mover (Airline, Aircraft Class)
- Fixed: Aircraft titles were incorrectly compared case sensitive during loading a Flighplan
- Fixed memory issues under Win95/98/Me
- Changed: Compiling will be now executed in the users temporary system folder


Version 0.6 Beta Build 61:
- AND/OR search in Export module now possible
- Cruisespeed in AITM 'Aircrafts.cfg' will be used now
- even more GUI enhancements
- Fixed a possible crash if an ICAO could not been found the airport list


Version 0.6 Beta Build 55:
- Fixed a major memory bug under Windows 95/98/ME
- Added an option that allows AITM to look in all visited airports for a suitable Airline
- Added Export of Flightplans
- Added caching for some data (e.g. FS2002 Scenery Data)
- Added a menu function that enables you to calculate the distance between to airports
- some GUI enhancements


Version 0.5 Beta Build 35:
- Fixed a devision by zero if the distance for flight leg was 0nm.
- Added Compiling/Decompiling with TTools
- Added performance properties for Aircraft Classes and Aircraft (check 'Aircrafts.cfg' for details)
- Added progress dialog (makes shuffling a bit slower)


Version 0.5 Beta Build 31 (First Internal Beta Version)


Remarks:
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Any suggestion and ideas are welcome :). Just write to thomas@molitor-home.de.
The algorithm used to find matching aircraft is some how very complex and so it takes a bit of
time to shuffle. The Airline configuration is far away from beeing perfect so I would like to see
people sending me some of their files. I had the coding you the configuration editing. :=)