Hi, I try to use Gemini for the creation of an Airport (VANM). Sometimes I am surprised and impressed how Gemini can Help, but very oftenly I wonder why Gemini hallucinate so much and create XML which is not defined in the SDK. How I can get the best out from Gemini, and don’t end in a big Frustration, and with nothing at hands?
I don’t know that I would even consider using AI for setting up an airport. I’m not sure what you are going to benefit from really since airport/scenery creation is pretty much all visual. It’s likely going to cause you more issues and (from experience) waste time more than anything, as any AI I have every tried using in a development pipeline eventually starts to make up data or just leads you around in circles for hours. Sometimes you get lucky and give it the right information, formatted the right way, and it works out. Still - I don’t see a major benefit for an airport.
The best advise I can give is to just use the built-in editor. Once you get past the setup/navigation learning curve, it does everything you need it to, and writes it how it needs to be written.
Not to discourage you from playing with AI in a workflow or anything, its just my educated opinion.
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One really cool use for it I found:
I fed ChatGPT the document from the FAA that describes how airport lighting systems are supposed to be set up.
It spat out appropriate numbers for use in light presets for “period”, “phase”, and “duration” to make a perfect ODALS system with the timed lights 
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Beside lot if pain and anger I had with Gemini, because it halluzinates so much and forgets so quickly, and I explained to G again and again what is ok and what isn`t, there are lot of highlights which G helped me with the airport creation.
Best example is the taxiway creater tool in HTML, which allows me to set the taxipoints, taxiways and parkplaces very accurate and quickly. The data is stored in JSON-format, so airport planning data is separated from the XML-Code, which allows me e.g. to define very curvy taxiway-curves in BEZIER-style, as the SDK doesn’t support Bezier directly. The plan is here during the XML-export the bezier curve creates then XML-taxiwaypoints and -paths in the proper bezier-way. For the export-part from JSON to XML this effort is currently ongoing (and it is painful as G thinks he knows the XML objects better than the MSFS SDK people).
Similarly other airport objects can be modelled and exported in MSFS-XML in a simple HTLM program. But this is the plan, and sometimes G goes some extra-loops with me, which I want to avoid. Maybe somebody has some experience and can give good guidance how to handle G accordingly to be more productive?
If somebody wants to help me in this AI-supported airport project (it is on the new airport in Navi Mumbai, VANM), or only want to get the HTLM-taxiway-tool as it is for testing, please contact me.
TAXIWAY CREATER TOOL IN HTML (CODED BY GEMINI)
THE CODE HAS APPROX. 200 LINES ONLY
JSON File
for the xml part just give the AI the xsd schema you can find in SDK folder so it will follow these rules and avoid allucinanting
however don’t understand the plan, sdk is extremely powerful and has realtime editing,
for “outside the game” creation tools like ADE can do the same job done
Unless you want to really use AI to create the airports layout (using imagery and feature recognition), that would an interesting project
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Hi, thanks … what is ADE, and where to get it?
Was last updated for 2020,
But if you open a 2020 prjoject in 2020 it will be converted directly
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indeed, this is a great news to me … may you know this is freeware which runs also for MSFS 2024?