Hello IPACS team,
I am a passionate Aerofly user and have spent a lot of time trying to build community tools to enhance realism, particularly an ATC companion for Aerofly. During this process, I ran into a major limitation: there is currently no public or documented API that allows access to live aircraft data such as position, altitude, heading, phase of flight, or environmental data like weather and time.
My original goal was to create an ATC system that could give realistic clearances, taxi instructions, frequency changes, and approach guidance based on the aircraft’s real-time location. However, without access to live aircraft state from the simulator, this simply isn’t possible to do properly or safely. The same limitation also affects other ideas, such as live weather synchronization, time-of-day syncing, and more advanced community add-ons.
I would like to respectfully suggest the possibility of opening limited, secure APIs for community use. Even read-only access to aircraft position, flight data, weather, and time would allow developers to build high-quality external tools without modifying the simulator itself. This could enable realistic ATC companions, weather tools, flight tracking, and other enhancements while keeping Aerofly stable and secure.
In addition, an Aerofly account system could make it possible to integrate Aerofly with external applications such as FlyChart. This would allow features like flight plan syncing, route awareness, and better coordination between planning tools and the simulator, greatly improving the overall user experience.
I believe that official support for community add-on development, through well-documented and controlled APIs, would unlock a lot of potential for Aerofly and its user base. It would encourage innovation, reduce the need for unsupported workarounds, and help Aerofly grow alongside its community.
Thank you very much for your time and for the continued work you put into Aerofly. I hope these ideas can be considered for future development.
