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Just to let you know, the development was successful and my own acars is now being tested by few members of the VA. It was very interesting development and my first FS application. I used .NET framework windows forms. Thanks for all help. Emerson

Thanks guys. Why Am I not getting notification by e-mail when someone replies on this post? I am following this topic and also checked my notification settings and they are all ok. Emerson

Thanks gjpollitt. Let me grasp your suggestion and then I'll post it here how I am getting on. It looks like the way to go. Your code will help me for sure.

Hi Pete, First thanks for replying, I noticed you have been helping FS developers for a long time! Well, the VA I've been developing has pilots that fly with FS2004 (most of them) and few FSX. It will have to expect any aircraft (FS default, freeware and payware) based on the fleet of the VA (B350, EMB120, ATR72, E-170, E-195, 737-800, A319, A320, 757, 767-300, 747-400, MD-11, 777-300 and 727-200). Thanks for the offset suggestion. I can also get the info when flaps are full, reading offset 0BDC = 16383. I think I will have to build some logic like gjpollitt wrote above. Having all flap details stored in a config file, retrieving them in a loop and them parse it according to the FS offset read. There is a multiline textbox on my acars where it displays all the events during the flight. All I want is display to the user (pilot), the flap change and its speed, like: [10h45 - Flap 2 at 210 kts] Thanks

Hi there, I've been working on my own version of acars and the development is going well. I've managed to learn from the code samples from many places and this forum was my reference couple of times. I know FS reads flaps as specific intervals, i.e. 0, 2047, ... 16383 when reading the offset 0x3BFA or 0xBDC. Depending how many flaps the aircraft has, the interval will be read accordingly. Does anyone have any logic in translating these values into Flap 1 (0), Flap 2 (8191), Flap 3 (16383), which already expects any aircraft, even the Wilco one, which has a different flap interval from other aircrafts? It can be in any language. I don’t want to reinvent the wheel here. Thanks.