Andy B.

Hi, I am putting in Talking flight monitor a way to automatically run make runways after choosing a simulater, mainly MSFS and P3D. Running it for MSFS is easy: Just put MakeRwys.exe wherever you want, then start it. P3D is a little more complicated. One of the steps includes copying the output files from one location to another. Is there a way that you could include a feature to copy all of the output files from one location to another?

Hi, I am rebuilding Talking flight monitor with WPF, C#, and dotnet 7. I am trying to rebuild the airports database while disconnected from a simulator. I figured I would try MSFS first because it is easier to code for in this sense. Whenever I try to create or otherwise access the database, I get a null reference exception saying that the database doesn't exist. Here is my build database method. The msfs/p3d database and make runways variables are pointing to the desired path. So, how would I be able to build the database files offline? public static async void BuildAirportsDatabaseAsync(string simulator) { // In case a simulator is running, clear the database before rebuilding. if (FSUIPCConnection.IsOpen) { if (FSUIPCConnection.AirportsDatabase.IsLoaded) { FSUIPCConnection.AirportsDatabase.Clear(); } } try { var db = FSUIPCConnection.AirportsDatabase; if (simulator == "MSFS") { db.MakeRunwaysFolder = msfsMakeRunwaysOutputPath; db.DatabaseFolder = msfsAirportsDatabaseFolder; } if (db.MakeRunwaysFilesExist) { await db.RebuildDatabaseAsync(); System.Windows.MessageBox.Show($"MSFS airports build successfully. Total {db.Airports.Count}"); logger.Info($"MSFS airports build successfully. Total {db.Airports.Count}"); } } catch(FSUIPCException x) { System.Windows.MessageBox.Show($"{x.Message}"); } }

Hi, Around a week ago, I started asking Open AI chat (now Open GPT) some questions about the PMDG 737 and some parameters for undocumented events such as the events that control the efis or hgs. It returned a very large laundry list of offsets for the efis and hgs. This prompted me to ask it other questions about event parameters and offsets that weren't documented anywhere that I know about. Some systems I asked about were icas, the du displays, the efis, hgs, isd, flight path, nd, and the map. It returned lists upon lists of offsets. The more I asked, the more it gave. Are these valid systems that have offsets that we can use, or is Open AI misleading me? I tried some of its recommended icas offsets in private, and everything works. I don't want to publish the offset memory blocks in case they shouldn't make it into the wild, but am wondering if we could use them?

Hi, I am wondering if there is a way to track the 3 dimensional aspect of clouds? At the moment, we can get the height of a cloud layer, but are interested in getting its length and width. Is this possible, or will we have to deal with using only the height?

Hi, I noticed that the PMDG 747's Overhead Maint/EEC panel has ch selectors. Unfortunately, TFM's users can't read the selectors values as they press the selectors in TFM. Is there some way to read the values of the ch selectors so I can put the values in a more usable form? What are the possible values for these selectors?

Hi, Talking flight monitor users want to experience the weather with automatic announcements of weather changes. For example, some users are interested in knowing when the aircraft enters/exits a cloud. They want to know what type of cloud it is and if it is raining/snowing/hailing/sleeting and so on. They also want to know if it is possible to get a polygon of GPS coordinates (3d) of a storm, cloud, or other weather event. This will help them be able to request diversions from ATC. Is this possible with the FSUIPC .net library? If not, what would it take to add something that can do this?

Is there a way to see what ones you added?

Hi, While adding events to Talking flight monitor, I found that the towing power event is missing. Here is the line from the PMDG 747 SDK. #define EVT_OH_ELEC_TOWING_PWR (THIRD_PARTY_EVENT_ID_MIN + 287) // 747-8 Can you add this event?

I got rebuild to work. The startup routine now works - lets you know if it failed and to see the logs for more, or that it successfully loaded. I also have rewritten a few database features and am getting used to how the new layout works. Thanks for the help and rewrite!

Hi, Your sample worked and the following code will load the database once built. Unfortunately, it doesn't rebuild it for the first time. public static async void LoadAirportsDatabase() { if (FSUIPCConnection.IsOpen) { AirportsDatabase database = FSUIPCConnection.AirportsDatabase; database.MakeRunwaysFolder = Properties.Settings.Default.P3DAirportsDatabasePath; if(database.MakeRunwaysFilesExist && database.DatabaseFilesExist == false) { await database.RebuildDatabaseAsync(); } else if (database.DatabaseFilesExist) { database.Load(); } if (database.IsLoaded) { Tolk.Output("Airports database loaded."); } } // open connection. } // LoadAirportsDatabase

Hi, To answer your questions, We are using .net 4.8 and we aren't using the progress class. Our database loading routine uses tolk to speak the status of database loading.

Hi, I tried rebuilding the main routine that loads the database for TFM. Unfortunately, we aren't getting any response from RebuildDatabaseAsync. It seems to get stuck for some reason. I then built and ran the sample code to see if pressing the rebuild database button would work. I ended up getting the unhandled exception window with the following contents. I imagine this is the same problem we are having in TFM. How should I fix this problem? Note: I tried installing protobuf-net in gnuget, but it says it is already installed. See the end of this message for details on invoking just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box. ************** Exception Text ************** System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'protobuf-net, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=257b51d87d2e4d67' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. 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Hi, While working through the PMDG747 SDK, I found the following problem. In the Overhead Maint section of the SDK, they have the following line: bool ELEC_APUFieldReset[2]; They also have both events, one for each offset. Unfortunately, the FSUIPC dll only supports one of these, and leaves the other out. I can give users a workaround, but it isn't something we want to support longterm.

We were planning on it at some point in time. Unfortunately, things didn't look too good for that feature.

We can try by lat/long and see if we can calculate the distance/GS. I can dropbox you a link to a zipfile of my makerunways output a little later.

Hi Paul, We have a feature in Talking flight monitor that takes the ILS needles on the aircraft and turns them into bits of information the pilot can understand as a blind pilot. For example, the GS needle is announced in terms of feet relative to the aircraft. EX: 500feet up/down. The localizer needle is represented in terms of heading offsets. EX: 60 left/right. In our main process timer, I have the following line of code: // Track the user so we don't have to do it on every request. FSUIPCConnection.AirportsDatabase.SetReferenceLocation(); This line is ran every 250ms, which makes MSFS buffer. OBS log analyzer output tells the typical user that TFM is forcing the GPU into a 15% or larger lag. Is there any other way to constantly track the users location in the world? It is also worth noting that the makerunways output for MSFS is around 800MB in size.

Thanks for doing this... You are a life saver!

Is it possible to have the PMDG 737 offsets for msfs and p3d/fsx combined in the same class? The new class would determine what version of FSUIPC is loaded, then make public the appropriate offset? Example: If we are running FSUIPC 7, give us the offsets for msfs. Otherwise, give us the offsets for p3d/fsx. It would make our project more streamlined and prevent us from having to maintain duplicate projects for a single line of code.

I tried the new PMDG 737 MSFS offsets yesterday. Everything seems to be working just fine. The only problem is an error I get while building with the MSFS offsets. It appears the PMDG 737 SDK states that irs_display_left and irs_display_right are character strings as they were for P3D. Building the project gives me the following error: Cannot convert Offset<byte> to string. The code referenced is below: leftIRSDisplayTextBox.Text = Aircraft.PMDG737.IRS_DISPLAY_LEFT.Value; rightIRSDisplayTextBox.Text = Aircraft.PMDG737.IRS_DISPLAY_RIGHT.Value; Is it possible to fix this?

Hi, I am trying to create a "look around" feature in Talking flight monitor. The feature allows a pilot to choose a specific heading, 128 for example. Once that is done, the pilot would then have a choice on what to receive. Distance to the next polygon (geographical area) and its name, or a list of all polygons and their names in the current direction (128 in this example). Other features might come later, but it depends on whether I can get the basic framework working. What I can do so far, is get a polygon from Bing maps. Beyond this, I am stuck. Does anyone have any ideas on how to move forward with this feature?

Hi, Thanks for your attention on this. A quick question: Will I need to change any existing code for the CDUs?

Hi, Do you know of any freeware scenery that includes the proper taxiway names? Even if payware, we are just trying to figure something out.

Hi, Is there any other ideas to help our users be able to follow a taxi routing given by vatsim controllers?

Hi, Having realistic names to the taxiways would be nice, especially when flying on vatsim. In that case, we would need to know the taxiway names when a controller gives us a taxi route to follow.

Hi, Thanks for the great additions. I will find them quite useful. Do you know if every taxiway has a name? When I took a look at ones at KJFK for example, the majority of them didn't have a name.