TCAS

What does it look like? Does it work?

LiveTraffic's aircraft can be made available on your plane's TCAS and to other plugins, e.g. to display them on maps, when LiveTraffic has TCAS Control. Since X-Plane 11.50 there is a new dedicated mechanism for this purpose called TCAS Override. This new approach makes workarounds like configuring AI aircraft superfluous and allows to report up to 63 aircraft as compared to previously 19.

In earlier X-Plane versions (i.e. up to 11.41), LiveTraffic falls back to the previous way of emulating TCAS, which will require you to set up AI Aircraft in X-Plane's aircraft settings.

"TCAS Target traffic" is used for features likes:

• TCAS anti-collision warning;

• Wake turbulence simulation;

• forwarding to Mobile Apps as "traffic";

• access by third-party plugins like moving map or external camera applications.

Here are 4 screenshots showing off the functionality of TCAS and multiplayer planes on third-party plugin apps:

TCAS, Map, Little Navmap, FS Tramp

Left: FS Tramp, Little NavMap, Right: X-Plane's internal Map and TCAS on Garmin

3rd party tools FSTramp and Little Navmap showing (up to 19) multiplayer planes, while X-Plane's internal map and TCAS implementation in the Garmin G1000 show all traffic.

Many Many TCAS blibs

Near Hit

Very Close

Some older software had required updates to be able to deal with more than 19 active TCAS targets. By now popular software has all been updated. Make sure to have latest versions of tools like Little XPConnect, AviTab, and XHSI installed.