What the heck!? I'm seeing double! (FS2004)

[jdhthegr8]

I was flying my custom A380 Airbus in the Nighttime over Virginia when i realized that all the AI aircraft's text was bold. Looking closer I realized that they weren't bold, they were slightly separated! Pressing Ctrl-W revealed my suspicions: Two planes of the same type were flying next to each other, making each movement in exact unison, and spaced exactly one mile away. I thought this was just some oddity, never to be seen again, but now this applies to every single AI plane in the game, even ones on the ground and taxiing! Does anybody have the slightest idea what is wrong? This bug completely blows the realism of this game, and I don't want to have to fly in empty skies!

[Gypsy_Baron]

I was flying my custom A380 Airbus in the Nighttime over Virginia when i realized that all the AI aircraft's text was bold. Looking closer I realized that they weren't bold, they were slightly separated! Pressing Ctrl-W revealed my suspicions: Two planes of the same type were flying next to each other, making each movement in exact unison, and spaced exactly one mile away. I thought this was just some oddity, never to be seen again, but now this applies to every single AI plane in the game, even ones on the ground and taxiing! Does anybody have the slightest idea what is wrong? This bug completely blows the realism of this game, and I don't want to have to fly in empty skies!

That will happen if you have duplicated your flightplans somehow.

I've seen it when I accidently compiled two flightplans with
different names but they both contained alot of duplicate legs.

Try pulling your traffic_xxx.bgl's one at a time until the problem
goes if the problem  away. Then reinstall that flightplan and
continue until you find the 2nd flightplan that "fixes" the
problem.

Paul

[jdhthegr8]

Yeah, I guess I forgot to mention that. I have a few custom AI flight paths DLed. However, I am new to messing around with flight paths, so what exactly do I do? "Pulling" traffic_xxx.bgls? Thanks for the help so far! I am glad to see that someone understands what it is.

[Gypsy_Baron]

Yeah, I guess I forgot to mention that. I have a few custom AI flight paths DLed. However, I am new to messing around with flight paths, so what exactly do I do? "Pulling" traffic_xxx.bgls? Thanks for the help so far! I am glad to see that someone understands what it is.

 You should find all your traffic BGL files in your "scenery/world/scenery folder.
Make a TEMP folder off of that one.

Then drag one of the traffic BGL's from the scenery folder into the TEMP
folder, effectively removing it from the environement. Start FS. It will
"rebuild" the database. Repeat the process until you sstop seeing "double".
The last BGL you pulled over to the TEMP will be ONE of the TWO that
contain the same traffic entries. Note the file name. Put it back into
the scenery folder and continue until you find the 2nd BGL that "cures"
the problem.
Then you have to decide which of the two to keep or modify one of them
to remove the duplicate entries. That could be somewhat time consuming.

     Paul

[jdhthegr8]

Thank you for being so specific to the noob! That will definetely work. It's late at night, so I don't have time to do that now, but I will do that as soon as possible. Thanks for the help!

[jdhthegr8]

Problem solved! Thanks for the help!