Posts by Armitage

  • User Created Custom Missions

    Maybe this is getting out of hand, but just to let you know:

    Quote from Aerofly Missionsgerät
    • Convert Garmin fpl Flight Plan file to Aerofly FS 4 Custom Missions file.
    • Convert Microsoft FS pln Flight Plan file to Aerofly FS 4 Custom Missions file.
    • Convert X-Plane fms Flight Plan file to Aerofly FS 4 Custom Missions file.

    The Aerofly Missionsgerät is now able to convert the most relevant flight plan file formats to the Aerofly Custom Mission file format. This opens up some new ways for you to get custom missions:

    Quote from Aerofly Missionsgerät

    Flight planners:

    Flight plans:

    I know that as of now the Aerofly Missionsgerät is a rather hard to use tool, because you need to have Node.js installed and need to use obscure commands on your terminal. So I am exploring the possibility to build a web version of this tool, where you just upload your flight plan, fiddle with some settings, and download your custom missions file. But don't hold your breath. ;)

  • Strange cloud

    I sometimes notice something similar in VR. A cloud disappears when tilting my head at a certain angle.

    Even more strange: clouds may disappear differently for each eye in VR. For example with the right eye a certain cloud is viewable, with the left eye it's gone.

  • User Created Custom Missions

    Not necessarily proper bugs, but as I mess around with custom missions here you go:

    Random cloud layer

    On loading a custom mission, a random second cloud layer seems to be set, even though there is no second cloud layer setting in custom missions. Explicitly setting the second cloud layer via missions would be very welcome for more weather variation.

    Cruise altitude

    On loading a custom mission, a new cruise altitude seems to be set, even though there is no cruise altitude in custom missions. This changes where TOC / TOD is happening, and affects the curve radius on the flight plan. Explicitly storing the cruise altitude via missions would be very welcome.

    Frequencies

    On loading a custom mission, the VOR/NDB frequencies stored in the custom mission are not transferred to the flight plan. Well, at least frequencies do not show up in main.mcf. ;)

  • Shareable missions: Tales from the Mach Loop

    Quote from Tales from the Mach Loop

    Do you have what it takes to fly the Mach Loop? Strap into your combat jet trainer and experience the thrill of low level flying at 400 knots in the mountains of Wales, an official Royal Air Force low level flight training area.

    I am almost done with the Aerofly Missionsgerät, a small tool to export an Aerofly FS 4 flight plan into a Aerofly FS 4 custom mission file. As a small test I sketched up a quick flight through the Mach Loop in an Aermacchi MB-339, and would like to share my adventures with the community.

    Tales from the Mach Loop

    You will find a small set of instructions and the mission file at https://fboes.github.io/aerofly-missions/docs/mach_loop/ - there is also a link included with a video of a professional jet instructor showing you how to fly the Mach Loop.

    :!: As it is my first try on shareable missions files any feedback about the documentation (well, and your thoughts about the ride) are very welcome.

    (Oh, and I know that the installation process is rather ugly, but if shareable missions become a thing maybe IPCAS donates an easier way to install mission files. :saint: )

  • Possible bug report: Challenges lose their date

    Whenever I start a mission / challenge, the date gets reset to 2022-08-15, even though the challenges have a completely different date:

    Code: custom_missions.tmc
                        <[tm_time_utc][time][]
                        <[int32][time_year][2021]>
                        <[int32][time_month][7]>
                        <[int32][time_day][12]>
                        <[float64][time_hours][20]>
                    >

    This is kind of sad, because this changes the position of the sun to this very day; challenges will never show the daylight conditions of the day stored in the custom_missions.tmc. So you no one else will ever see Carl's midwinter ride to Åland. :(

    (I know there is no way to actually set the date in Aerofly FS4, even though it can be set in the main.mcf; but maybe some controls in the dialogue for setting the time would fix this problem? A simple slider to at least set the day of the year?)

  • User Created Custom Missions

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    I took the wrong turn and I just kept going

    The Aerofly Missions tool has grown beyond its intended purpose and is now quite capable to convert the main.mcf into a flight briefing:

    As of now I do not know about the local time, calculating Local Sun Time (LST) instead. This may be OK, but for the magnetic declination for every checkpoint I have no data, instead relying on a single user-supplied input (which may be incorrect for checkpoints farther away). So all tracks and headings may be somewhat off. But I found something in the Aerofly folder:

    There is a file world/magnetic.tmm and world/time_zones.tmm. Both contain binary content I am yet unable to interpret. I suspect in there is a map which (given the correct method of access) would give me the missing data which Aerofly uses internally for magnetic declination and time zones.

    So my question is: Does anybody know how to interpret these files? (Not to bother Jet-Pack (IPACS) again, but any help would be highly appreciated.)

  • Does aerofly fs 2022(mobile) support Logitech extreme pro on android? Thank u for Ur kind help

    Well, I just connected an Xbox Controller via OTG USB adaptor to my Android Phone. Not only does it have enough power to support a Gamepad, but it also charges the batteries of said Gamepad.

    And because I thought it funny I connected an USB hub via OTG with a CH Combatstick, CH Throttle and pedals and guess what... https://gamepad-tester.com/ recognizes all of them on my phone.

    So you might actually be able to connect rather professional hardware to your Android phone. :D

    BTW: Mouse and keyboard will also be recognized by your phone. If it works in Aerofly is another question though.

  • Weather

    1. I would like to start with settings for temperature and air pressure (via settings like clouds and wind),
    2. than go for the dynamic part (weather changes along the way done randomly),
    3. add real data for good measure (download METAR from real-world sources, activated via checkbox),
    4. and stop at additional weather effects like rain, snow and thunderstorms.

  • UH-60M

    The aircraft add-on DLC costs €40 at my place for nine aircrafts - bought as a bundle this drops to €20. Pretty much the price a single aircraft costs in any other simulator I know of, with prices ranging between €20 and €80.

  • Direction of takeoff / landing

    I noticed the AI traffic is doing landings and takeoffs I do not understand.

    This morning I had the wind set to 130° (real world direction the wind is coming from at ESTA), and was on my downwind leg right next to ESTA 14 heading 300°, when I noticed a C172 right next to me taking off into direction 140° I planned to do my landing from. So this C172 was starting with a tailwind (while I planned to land with a headwind). If not for procedures I would have had a good chance for a head-on collision.

    I later on checked the AI traffic at EKCH, and in AFS4 they all lined up for 22L for landing (as they do in real life right now); the wind in the simulation was still set to 130°, real wind at EKCH was 240°. So actually these AI planes landed into the real-world wind, but with a cross wind regarding the AFS4 settings.

    Is it possible that aircraft in AFS4 ignore the general wind direction? Or am I doing it wrong? Whenever an AI plane ruins my carefully set up approach, I feel like on of us should be reported to the FAA. ;)

  • User Created Custom Missions

    Does anyone know how to get the altitude of a given waypoint from the main.mcf? Jet-Pack (IPACS) to the rescue (again)?

    Code: main.mcf
                        <[tmnav_route_waypoint][KAS][2]
                        <[string8u][Identifier][KAS]>
                        <[vector3_float64][Position][3525358.49776467 788889.817749687 5238813.34905962]>
                        <[uint64][Uid][9869705310650437632]>
                        <[float64][NavaidFrequency][112500000]>
                        <[uint64][NavaidUid][9869705310650437632]>
                        <[vector2_float64][Altitude][-1001 100001]>
                        <[bool][FlyOver][false]>
                    >

    The Altitude seems strange, so my hope is for the Position to be the fix.

    …because the mission generator can also be used to convert the main.mcf to a simple flight plan: