Flight Analysis

[P1IC]

A quick question (Couldn't find an answer using Search). In FS9, there's an option to view a "flight analysis" where the flight just completed can be viewed in plan and profile. I can't find any way of saving this data for later scrutiny. I suspect the data resides in memory because I couldn't find a temp file anywhere relating to that.

Is it possible to grab that data using FSUIPC? If so, can I assume that some external script could grab it, save it to disk, and reload it into FS later? Or wold that reload be impossible because of the location of the "analysis" routine in the FS program flow?

[Pete Dowson]

A quick question (Couldn't find an answer using Search). In FS9, there's an option to view a "flight analysis" where the flight just completed can be viewed in plan and profile. I can't find any way of saving this data for later scrutiny. I suspect the data resides in memory because I couldn't find a temp file anywhere relating to that.

I think you are right. It'll be some osrt of cyclic buffer, internal to FS.

Is it possible to grab that data using FSUIPC?

If someone knows how to get hold of it, then maybe. Do you know how to find it? To find stuff in FS you first need to know what it might look like. It still isn't easy, of course, as FS is written in C++ with lots or heirarchical class levels, and this lends such a degree of complexity that finding anything new, without a clue, is almost guarantee to take a few thousand hours of hacking and disassembling.

I would suggest either using FS video recording and playback (or the nice freeware recorder), or look for some other add-on analysis program which reads the data it needs continuously, maybe through FSUIPC. One such example which may provide what you want is Aerosoft's Flight Keeper by Thomas Molitor.

Regards

Pete

[P1IC]

Pete, wow, thanks! I wasn't expecting a reply from the Man! But you're right (of course) the data is probably pretty impenetrable. I'll look at FS Recorder. Sounds like the very app.

Thanks. And you'll have heard this before, but so what. Your work on FSUIPC is just absolutely peerless, and we all owe you big time, even (especially?) those of us who have upgraded to a registered install.