Run without access to multiplayer planes (might allow usage alongside other mp clients) about livetraffic HOT 5 CLOSED

Update documentation, specifically: Limitations & Installation, to cover limitations of running multiplayer clients in parallel, and the need to configure MP planes for TCAS (moved from requirements)

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Deleted posts about LT not playing nice with PilotEdge: it was my mistake, I had forgotten to disable LT in the Plugins drop-down menu

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But I had the complete text in the notification, including the attached Log.txt and had a look anyway ;)

As said at other places: It shall not be necessary to disable LT in the Plugin Admin.
I am not a PilotEdge user and can't exactly say what happened but from the Log is clear: LT did not request any network data and did not display a single aircraft.

What may happen is that X-Plane displays AI aircrafts. All of us usually configure a number of AI aircrafts for LT (and other multiplayer clients) to be able to display TCAS blibs. LT had not requested control of multiplayer planes, so X-Plane had control and probably used that. I can't find final proof in the Log.txt either, though. But I see some I/ATC and AUTOGEN activity which usually is logged around AI plane usage.

If I don't activate LT to display aircrafts then X-Plane starts displaying AI aircrafts. At time, I admit, I found that quite annoying...does not happen if LT would request multiplayer control right away...but that would not be what I call "playing nice". So I accepted this behaviour for the moment.

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Thank you. As you read in the log, I have no AI planes enabled. The I/ATC lines are probably related to the fact that the PTT button for PilotEdge (PE) is mapped to the XP contact_atc command.

I tested PE with LT in the plugins folder with and without disabling LT in the Plugins drop-down Enable/Disable window; in both cases, I can connect to PE, and everything seems to work except the multiplayer aircraft, which DO show if disable LT before connecting to PE and DO NOT show if I do not disable LT first and connect to PE.

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You are right, today, I again forgot to disable LT and flew on PilotEdge but this time the other (multiplayer) PE aircraft were visible. Not sure why it did not work yesterday ;-)

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