MSFS 2020: How to get real live traffic & liveries (No Injectors Needed!)

We’ve all seen it: you load into a major hub like Heathrow or JFK, only to be greeted by a "ghost town" of generic, pointy-nosed white planes. It kills the immersion instantly. While external injectors work, they eat up your CPU and are a pain to launch every flight.

In this video, I show you how to "hijack" the MSFS 2020 engine to get 100% free, branded traffic using the "Priority Folder" trick. By providing the sim with high-quality models from FSLTL and AIG, we let the sim do the heavy lifting itself using native FlightAware data. No extra programs to run, just pure immersion.

In this video:
- Why default MSFS data is actually good (but the models are bad).
- How to install FSLTL and AIG models correctly.
- The "Secret Sauce": Using the priority folder trick to force the sim to use the best liveries.
- Side-by-side performance tests: loading times.
- Live verification at London Heathrow (EGLL).

🕒 Chapters
Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:53 - The context: Why default traffic "almost" works
1:27 - The setup: "The Big Two"
2:08 - FSLTL: Installing the models
4:13 - AIG: Installing the models
8:43 - Performance testing: Starting MSFS - default vs FSLTL vs AIG
11:34 - Performance testing: Spawning into EGLL - default vs FSLTL vs AIG
13:17 - The "secret sauce": The folder trick
14:44 - MSFS 2020: Sim Configuration
15:51 - The Proof: Comparison & delay test
22:33 - The shortcut: Github is your friend

📂 Default MSFS 2020 Community Folder Locations:
Note: You may need to enable "Show Hidden Files" in Windows to see the AppData folder.

Microsoft Store / Game Pass:
C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Packages\Community

Steam:
C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft Flight Simulator\Packages\Community

🖥️ My PC Specs:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D (12-Core)
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 (24GB VRAM)
RAM: 64GB DDR5 @ 6000 MT/s
Storage: Samsung SSD 990 PRO 2TB (NVMe)

🔗Links Mentioned:
AIG AI Manager: https://www.alpha-india.net/software/
FSLTL Models: https://fslivetrafficliveries.com/
AIG models (Github): https://github.com/Samueleonard/AIG-ModelMatching-For-MSFS2024
FSLTL models (Github): https://github.com/FSLiveTrafficLiveries/base/tree/main/fsltl-traffic-base

Are you sticking with a hybrid setup like this, or moving to a payware injector? Let me know in the comments!

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