Getting aircraft location from FSUIPC

[Emre5134]

I'm making a flight recorder for a virtual airline and I need to log pilots' actions but I'm having some problems. I need to know if the pilot lands at the correct airport, what the nearest airport is and if he is on runway or not. I couldn't figure out a way to get theese information out of FSUIPC. Any help would be appreciated .

Thank You

PS:I'm using Visual Basic

[Pete Dowson]

I'm making a flight recorder for a virtual airline and I need to log pilots' actions but I'm having some problems. I need to know if the pilot lands at the correct airport, what the nearest airport is and if he is on runway or not. I couldn't figure out a way to get theese information out of FSUIPC. Any help would be appreciated .

All you can get is a precise latitude and longitude. The rest you have to look up in a database formed from a complete scan f the user's scenery files.

I do provide a freeware program called "MakeRunways" (derived from its original function which was just to make a runway database). This will do such a scan and it produces a number of records in both binary and CSV (comma separated value) format. Please see the Downloads announcements above, or go to www.schiratti.com/dowson.

Regards

Pete

[Emre5134]

Thank you for your answer Pete, my problem is about using those values in the database. For example, I have coordinates of a runway's four edges in the database and I know the plane's current coordinates but I couldn't figure out how to check if the plane is on runway or not. Plane might have plenty of different coordinates while on the runway so I can not compare with only one coordinate I guess I need a mathematical equation but I couldn't make up one. So if there is anyone who also made something like this before I would really appreciate your help.

Thank you

[AirFlo737]

Hey Pete,

is there any chance you would give me the source code of your MakeRwys tool, or point me to where I can find more info about the format of the scenery files and how to decode them? I am especially interested in getting terrain elevation for a GPWS and a map presentation that I am currently working on for university.

Greetings

Florian

[Pete Dowson]

is there any chance you would give me the source code of your MakeRwys tool, or point me to where I can find more info about the format of the scenery files and how to decode them? I am especially interested in getting terrain elevation for a GPWS and a map presentation that I am currently working on for university.

MakeRunways wouldn't help with that -- in fact I don't know how you'd get that data. You need the terrain mesh format. Maybe it is included in the BGL format documents I found, maybe not. They are by Winfried Orthmann. Go to AVSIM, do a library file search on his name "Orthmann". You will find lots of utilities for analysing BGLs and good documents in PDF form. There's one for FS2004 and a later one for FSX -- if you can't find the latter and you need FSX let me know.

Pete

[AirFlo737]

Thank you very much, Pete. I found several files at AVSIM, both for FS9 and FSX. Maybe these documents and tools will provide me with the information I was looking for...

Greetings

Florian