FLIGHT PLAN AS TEXT FILE

  • Jet-Pack (IPACS)

    Is the flight plan stored somewhere as much as we are making it with the UI?

    The aim is to create a script to pick it up and make a kind of flight plan document.

    Thank you.

    PS: I did a one click thing that works based on an OCR from a screenshot, but the OCR is trying to understand the ICAO or waypoint names as real words from a native human language, so it fails. For example here, LFRS is understand like LERS, same with the destination.

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    Edited 3 times, last by FrankLFRS (May 18, 2023 at 3:00 PM).

  • The flight plan is saved in the main.mcf file.

    Thank you, you are gorgeous.

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  • Jet-Pack (IPACS) However, I'd like a button to export the fight plan (from de navigation menu). Thousand thanks

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  • Jet-Pack (IPACS) However, I'd like a button to export the fight plan (from de navigation menu). Thousand thanks

    You might want to take a look at https://github.com/fboes/aerofly-missions - this tool not only converts flight plans but also exports text files. It reads the main.mcf or the custom mission file.

    It also exports JSON flight plans, which can be posted by almost any programming language without effort.

    Otherwise it is a source of inspiration for building your own export format.

  • My aim was to extract the flight plan as a texte or a PDF file. Then delete the flight plan to start the plane empty. And configure the MCDU from zero.

    But, my best wish is airways and being able to enter them in the MCDU.

    Being hoping for features, an integrated route finder would be gorgeous (from SID to STAR, using the internal Aerofly current database)

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    Edited 2 times, last by FrankLFRS (May 21, 2023 at 9:05 AM).

  • My aim was to extract the flight plan as a texte or a PDF file. Then delete the flight plan to start the plane empty. And configure the MCDU from zero.

    But, my best wish is airways and being able to enter them in the MCDU.

    Being hoping for features, an integrated route finder would be gorgeous (from SID to STAR, using the internal Aerofly current database)

    With https://www.simbrief.com/home/ you'd be able to build flight plans completely outside of Aerofly FS4 - but for the outdated nav data in Aerofly FS4, which makes some routes unusable, as some fix names are missing.

    The Missionsgerät does not know about airways. :| But at least it keeps the waypoint names, so you be able to export at least a textual representation of your route. You might have to activate the "exert mode" in the Missionsgerät to get a download option for Markdown files, which are nothing more than fancy text files. ;)

    Since you can review flights under "career" it would also be extremely useful to reload those flight plans.

    I had a look at the recorded missions. They seem to contain the flight plan, but as it is a binary file I found no way to extract the flight plan.

  • With https://www.simbrief.com/home/ you'd be able to build flight plans completely outside of Aerofly FS4 - but for the outdated nav data in Aerofly FS4, which makes some routes unusable, as some fix names are missing.

    I use http://onlineflightplanner.org with AIRAC 1301 for Europe to match as much as possible the Aerofly database. The web site calculates route from SID to STAR.

    The online Missionsgerät does not have Expert Mode (I would say).

    A long time ago, I created a script to make a screenshot of the navigation aera only and open it as a PDF file. It is linked to a keyboard shortcut. And this file is not really created just opened, and it can be closed without asking to be saved. Like a ghost file in some ways. Only used the time to enter my flight plan in the MCDU.

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  • The online Missionsgerät does not have Expert Mode (I would say).

    Sorry for the bad user interface - the "Expert Mode" is hidden under the ⚙️ (settings dialogue) in the upper right corner. This makes new export buttons as well as more setting buttons visible in the Missionsgerät.

    A PDF export would be a nice addition for this tool - but currently I do not have so much time to work on the Missionsgerät anymore. :/ But as it is open-source… ;)

  • I knew you were the author of it.

    And, I’m still wondering why I didn’t see this button!!

    Thanks

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