Aerofly Startgerät - Manual set-up and import of flight plans

Quote from Armitage

AeRodri If you are OK with that, I quote your instructions in the official Startgerät manual

Hi Frank,

I would be absolutely honored. Please feel free to quote those instructions in the official Startgerät manual.
I am glad that the breakdown helps streamline the onboarding process for new users.

Since the manual will be read exclusively by the Aerofly community, the exact same crowd I create content for, would you be open to including a small credit line pointing to my YouTube channel?

Something simple and clean like this would be amazing:
"Instructions contributed by AeRodri from https://www.youtube.com/@RealFlightOps."

You can even make it look like this, if you work with a PDF readme:
"Instructions contributed by AeRodri from RealFlightOps."

It would be a fantastic way to help my channel grow within our community, and in return, I’ll be featuring Startgerät in my upcoming flight simulation videos to show my viewers just how essential this tool is for Mac and long-haul operations.

Thank you again for the incredible collaboration! Let me know if you need any adjustments to the text.

Quote from Armitage

AeRodri Linking to your channel is the least I can do in terms of a "thank you" for you thoroughly testing the Startgerät (on an operating system I have no private access to) and providing me with a detailed feedback. 😉

Thank you very much, it was my pleasure to collaborate on a thorough testing of the tool after I sent over those initial PMs about expanding past the standard mission limits and about file workarounds for direct flight injections into AeroFly.

If the fix data works. You could probably use that sayintentions AI atc bridge I made now. Haven't gotten around to testing it as I haven't paid for it.

Just tested the software, great work, but is there a way to stop it from building the SIDS/STARS as actual waypoints?

I've found you cant delete those waypoints, so whilst you can still change the arrival runway, you are stuck with the STAR to the wrong runway.

Hi, I built the flight plan using simbrief. I can send you a copy of the flightplan, but its the same as any other standard simbrief flighplan.

I'll expirement some more, there must be a way around this.

Great tool btw!

This tool is excellent and could prove to be a great addition to aerofly. Do you think this tool would ever be added to mobile?

Quote from Armitage

777Driver Did you use the "Fetch flight plan from SimBrief" button, or did you export the Simbrief flight plan as a file (e.g. PLN or FMS) and used the "Load / import flight plan" option? And which route did you use?

I had a small routine build in which was supposed to remove SIDs / STARs, but obviously I may have overlooked something.

Thanks for the quick response. The issue was likely with me. I am fetching from SimBrief; the easiest solution was to remove those sid/stars from the SimBrief flight plan. All is working. Brilliant work; I am using it with my Company route mod and can now quickly build Qatar's and other airlines' entire A350 route network. I did Japan Air's network manually! 😬

Is it fairly simple to add custom aircraft? My A350 appears as a separate aircraft in the menu; to use this mod, I need to load the default A350 first.

Will experiment some more this week. Thanks for the tips

777Driver  Armitage

I forgot to mention that, and maybe I'm "late to the party", but yes, indeed: When importing from Simbrief, keep the route as clean as possible, (without SID / STAR) then let Simbrief analyze it once again. Once satisfied with all the parameters, first generate the OFP, then import it via Startgerät onto the main.mcf file and into the Routeplanner, where you then manually add:

- Departure airport + Arrival Airport
- Departure runway + Arrival runway
- SID + STAR

I’m thinking about making a quick video showing how I integrate SimBrief with Startgerät in AeroFly. I’ll explain my workflow, highlight the important details, and show you how you can copy my workflow step by step.

Follow me on Instagram for updates, and don’t forget to subscribe to my YouTube channel for more videos.

how can i download aerofly startgerät?

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how can i download aerofly startgerät?

In GitHub, you should download the apps from the Release section, always download the file for your OS from the latest release:

Releases · fboes/aerofly-startgeraet

More comprehensive options to set-up flights in Aerofly Flight Simulator 4, including import of flight plans and weather. - fboes/aerofly-startgeraet

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I finally got around to making the following exclusive and extended video on the excellent Startgerät application by Frank Armitage, combining an in-depth review, workflow assistance, and essential tips & tricks for all Mac and PC users. Discover how to seamlessly integrate SimBrief for free with Startgerät v2 to revolutionize your Aerofly FS 4 flight planning.