Missionsgerät goes SimBrief

My cockpit time in airliners and business jets is rather limited, but I really liked the free service of SimBrief for flight planning. Just toss in origin and destination as well as your aircraft type, and you get beautiful routing as well as proper documents to guide you along.

But even better is the free API. Almost everything you can see on the SimBrief site can be accessed from a remote program - like the Missionsgerät.

After some minor modifications the Missionsgerät is now able to access this interface. After finishing your flight planning in SimBrief, you hit a single button in the Missionsgerät and - voilà - not only your flight plan has been transferred, but also aircraft and weather data, navaid frequencies, callsigns and lots of more details.

I built a small manual on how to download SimBrief flight plans to the Missionsgerät if you are interested. And I would love to hear your feedback.

(Please note that the Missionsgerät as of now does not import SIDs and STARs as the custom missions cannot handle them yet.)

Jugac64 The Missionsgerät uses the SimBrief username (alias).

But the next version of the Missionsgerät could simply support the SimBrief Pilot ID as well.

The Missionsgerät got a minor improvement: the documentation has been updated and links set to guide you to the SimBrief username. The input field also got a simple validity check, so you cannot use the API unless your username only consists of allowed characters.

This being said the Missionsgerät now is smart enough to recognize when you have entered your SimBrief ID and will fetch your flight plan anyhow.

A minor update for the Missionsgerät improves the number of supported aircraft types, and enhances the number of cloud layers imported.

If you are missing some aircraft types just let me know the ICAO code, I will map it to the corresponding Aerofly aircraft code.

Quote from Troye4

I wanted to ask you if there would be a way for the weather conditions to be imported for the destination airport

Indeed! The main challenge for me to make this not to complicated to select, but I may come up with a clever idea.

Currently there is the option to add a METAR API key via the settings of the Missionsgerät, so it fetches from another API. But obviously this is quite complicated. So I will extend the SimBrief METAR API parser.

BTW: The A350 has also landed in the Missionsgerät, and if your SimBrief aircraft is an A35K, the Missionsgerät will happily load the A350-1000.

Quote from Troye4

Hi Frank
Thank you very much for this tool, it works great and I'm enjoying it a lot. I wanted to ask you if there would be a way for the weather conditions to be imported for the destination airport

Best regards

I think I solved it with a usable solution:

The settings dialog got a new checkbox to load the destination weather instead of the origin weather.

Be sure to update the web app via CTRL + SHIFT + R.

Quote from SageMage

Hello Armitage ,

I have a QoL feature request for you:
is there a way to get the mission generated without the green arrows that indicate where I need to go? I mostly use your Missionsgerät for airliners and the flight path is already in the MCDU.

If it's not possible, no worries. I realized that if you reverse in time 5 seconds it makes the arrows disappear as if you failed the mission.

Best regards,
SageMage

Actually this feature is supposed to already exist in the Missionsgerät:

Hidden under "Navigation" is a checkbox labelled "hide guides", which is supposed do do just that. It is somewhat experimental because it uses a little trick to make the arrows disappear after moving your aircraft a single meter along its original orientation (and marking the mission as finished right away).

Hopefully in the future there will be a better way to hide the guides.

Quote from Jugac64

Hi Frank, I have found some websites that have task collections, like the nice people of wesimglide.org that allow me to use the tasks for other simulators, if we reference them as the source.

Woud it be possible we add the waypoints information manually and copy/paste the lat / long and elev in Missiongerat to build the tasks missions? I think that this could work better than importing the cup files. Also, it seems that many of these tasks use only fixed wind

I checked the site and I see two solutions:

1. Import the offered pln files with the Missionsgerät
2. Manually create waypoints in the Missionsgerät

The second option is somewhat hard to do, but the options exist. Clicking on a existing waypoint a small popup offers to add or delete waypoints, as well as settings its coordinates manually.

Does this solve your idea?

Quote from Jugac64

Or importing a simple CSV or Excel template! even better. Having this option, we would only need to take a snapshot of the task and ask chatgpt to parse it in the required CSV format , this would not alter Missionsgerät program flow.

Well, CSV import is not so big a problem. Actually CUP files are CSV files:

http://download.naviter.com/docs/CUP-file-format-description.pdf

The Missionsgerät will happily parse CSV as long as you have at least 5 columns with these values:

• name, code, country, lat, lon, elev

Name and country can be ignored, elev is optional. And the file ending needs to be cup.

But if you use AI, you can also ask it to build Garmin FPL files. Or CUP files.

(I tried to have AI build Aerofly TMC custom mission files, but as there is no official documentation, AI cannot build these files (yet). I also noticed that even after some teaching AI still believes TMC files to be like XML - which it is not.)