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Great tool! My BeattlesBlog connection stopped working after I installed P3D and I started looking around for solutions - this one is great!
I think I did look at it ages ago via the old FSUIPC VB.Net demo but I think it required treading which is a huge pain. This tool (is there a short name?) seems to do the trick w/o any serious hoop jumping.
In the VB.Net code below (VS2013 Express, .Net 4.0, FSX) is a minimal proof of concept of opening a connection on demand and getting the curretn lat/long and closing the connection - seems to work OK.
How about garbage collection? This code would run in a "moving map" type tool that would stay open. The app has a button to "Center on the a/c" that gets clicked every once in awhile - it does not try to track the a/c. Can I call GetLatLongString() using the garabge collection code shown - or is it overkill, or?
Also - for the latlong class - how to I get a decimal string instead of DDHHMMSS?
Thanks!
Option Explicit On
Imports FSUIPC
Public Class frmACLocation
Dim ofsLatitude As Offset(Of Long) = New Offset(Of Long)(&H560)
Dim ofsLongitude As Offset(Of Long) = New Offset(Of Long)(&H568)
Dim mlat As FsLatitude
Dim mlon As FsLongitude
Dim mlatlon As New FsLatLonPoint
Private Sub btnGetLatLong_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles btnGetLatLong.Click
Try
MsgBox(GetLatLongString)
Catch ex As Exception
MsgBox(ex.Message, , "btnGetLatLong_Click")
End Try
End Sub
Function GetLatLongString() As String
Try
FSUIPCConnection.Open()
FSUIPCConnection.Process()
mlat = New FsLatitude(ofsLatitude.Value)
mlon = New FsLongitude(ofsLongitude.Value)
mlatlon = New FsLatLonPoint(mlat, mlon)
Return mlatlon.ToString ' how to get decimal lat/lon?
FSUIPCConnection.Close()
Catch ex As Exception
' Badness occurred - show the error message
MsgBox(ex.Message, , "OpenFSUIPC")
Return "error"
Finally
' cleanup required?
' ofsLatitude = Nothing
' ofsLongitude = Nothing
mlat = Nothing
mlon = Nothing
mlatlon = Nothing
End Try
End Function
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Got some points to sho wuop but not lines around an area.
Any ideas on how to plot lines/polygons?
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Has anybody sucessfully adding an area to airspace.txt?
I'm trying to add Special Use Airspace and have the points. I copied the existing format and rebuilt the DB but they new area does not show up.
Any ideas?
I used a '3' in column 1 - not sure of its purpose. Lines are number10,20, etc. as other areas. I added the trailing tabs.
Here's a typical line:
3 W228 W228 H H A 10 26.95 -96.37 26.95 -96.37 H HOUSTON CENTER 126.625 M
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I'm really surprised no one has replied to this post.
Maybe the answer is to simple for you old hands but for a new-be they are critical.
I figured out the AIRAC was an executable and after some confusing word in the installer the patch is applied.
I eventually found .....\Flight Simulator 9\Modules\FSNavigator\SidStar\readme.txt
That described how to install the fsnavss8 files. I had already unzipped the files into the directory without deleting the old files. After finding the readme.txt I deleted all the .ss files and replacing them with the download. This process destroyed my user created SIDs.
If anyone sees a problem with my procedure above (besides losing a couple of hours work on some SIDs) please reply.
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I see two downloads I think I need on the web site : fsnavss8.zip and AIRAC
Fine - what do I do with them after I download them? I can't find either file mentioned in help.
Also - the Options, Download SIDs/STARs
Tried that several times and always disconnects before it finishes. What am I downloading and does one of the above replace it?
TIA
PS Download of SID/STARs finally went to completion when I tried it at 0200Z
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AIBridge is not required for FS2004/SB3 or FSInn integration...
Maybe... but it seems to be required for TCAS - at least the one I'm using in an F16 on a private network(Apollo). FSInn was working fine, just the TCAS didn't have the "targets" it should have.
I remove the beta FSInn and TCAS stopped working (slight possibility it wasn't working before I removed the beta - lots of other issues). I moved back to the beta which I believe installed/ran AIBridge (I assume it was FSInn, caus' I didn't run it but it shows up on the icon tray). In any case my TCAS is now working on the private nework. Mileage may vary on VATSIM, offline, etc.
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in the 2002 flight sim we had AI bridge which made it work but i can't seem to find one for 2004. Keep in mind that i only fly -online or not at all.
There's a link for AIBridge on the web page I just gave you...
The AIBridge link on the "Official" site leads to a dead end.
Is version 1 from here: a good choice?
... didn't appear to work too well - seems to be looking for FS2002.
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in the 2002 flight sim we had AI bridge which made it work but i can't seem to find one for 2004. Keep in mind that i only fly -online or not at all.
There's a link for AIBridge on the web page I just gave you...
The AIBridge link on the "Official" site leads to a dead end.
Is version 1 from here: a good choice?
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What's the best way to adopt flight plans as suggested on SimRoutes.com? Or to just quickly create a new plan based on a cut/paste string like that below?
e.g.
KLAX BRDR5 JLI TRM J134 DRK J6 LIT J66 MEM ERLIN2 KATL
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Suppose you are inbound with no STAR on your filed plan and you are requested to fly a published arrival.
How can you in a busy cockpit deal with that request?
How about the case of: you have a STAR on your plan but it isn't the one ATC wants you to use. How can you easily drop an existing STAR and add a different one?
I assume the answer would be applicable to SIDs as well.
Quick Query Lat/Long
in FSUIPC Client DLL for .NET
Posted
Thanks - here is my modified code.
This is a simple one button form that gets the lat/lon from the a/c and offers to open a chart web site.
I used your format string but it had some non-numeric'ness to the returned string. I resorted to the deprciated, but handy, Val() to clean it up. The code is verbose, I didn't want to string a bunch of operations together for the post.
Is there an elegant way to check to see if Open() was called and we're still connected?
What's the check that the a/c is "ready?" (loaded by FSX/P3D and ready to respond)
In the code sample I Open() once then error out on other calls. I close the conenction when the form closes. Bad technique? If the form made other calls to other offsets would things get balled up? GetLatLongString() below should probably have some busy logic to avoid a second call from wherever.
I couldn't find a good list of offsets - is FSUIPC4 Offsets Status.pdf the best available?