Since IPACS has access to the glider manufacturer and through them probably to LXNav, it would be a great feature for AFS4 to be able to connect to LX Sim, the virtual version of the LX9070. With this, we could have all the features used in the gliders world in AFS4, including full task supports.
Or even better, enable more LX9070 functions to the included Antares 21E LX9070 instrument, specially importing tasks to it.
Does old versions of AFS4 has some variable weather feature?
I suspect that the sim is build from the ground to have fixed weather, if this is the case it would be a huge effort to modify it for variable ever changing weather conditions.
Sorry, can you explain please what you mean with lag? I don’t understand.
Same happened to me, never saw this issue in AFS4, must be some bug in the A350. Interesting when this happened, I reviewed the GPU and CPU load and it looks normal (I don’t have any scenery or user content installed in AFS4,)
Thank you SageMage ! Great, I will try this.
Now I am working on adding the list of gliders we have in AFS4, so it can be selected before recording and added to the IGC file.
Oh! I discovered watching a YouTube video that X-Plane also can send the flight data using the ForeFlight protocol when the option "Broadcast to all mapping apps on the network" in the Network tab is selected, so the app is working with X-Plane too out of the box. Some fine tune is needed, but I will fork the project to do an X-Plane version.
By the way, if you double click in the "Files" tab any of the recorded IGC files, it will open the file with the default .igc application in your PC. Since I installed SeeYou Navigator: https://naviter.com/download-manual-support/ in my PC, when I click the IGC file it opens in SeeYou Navigator and can review the recorded flight in the app.
Hi Edu, is this a new bug or always happened to the sim?
If we manage to connect AFS4 to an external virtual instrument like XCSoar, maybe we could pass directly to it the CUP files, and we follow the track in the virtual instrument, this would be perfect.
I hope with the few parameters we have with the UDP stream we could do this, but when we receive the DLL we will be able to do more 
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Happy weekend! time to rest now.
Thank you!
And you are right, it generated a folder with these files, just realized of this:
Oh, Armitage you are right, the curves must be very difficult to draw.
SageMage I downloaded the new version from Github and tried it, the interfase is looking better. I tried to record the data using arm and manual recording, but my data is empty. If you don't know why this happens, I will check it with Claude.
I loved the "Follow Aircraft" feature, I didn't knew how to do it. Your version is much better now! I hope you continue improving it. Thank you!
Congratulations! the interface looks very good in dark style, thanks for improving the project and building your own version. It looks cool in Mac 
Hi, I make public the project in the state I left it last night 
, link updated in the first post. Work in progress!
Hello,
interessting project.
Can we display a flightplan on the map ?
Bests Regards,
Maybe Armitage can help us here
Hi SageMage , thank you very much! I will include all your explanation in the post, so users know how to use it. Please upload it anywhere and post the link, so I can download it. In https://flight-sim.org/ we can upload bigger files, and I recommend you to open an account there, so you can share your work too. This is the place where most of Aerofly FS community work is shared. Thanks again!
It seems that Claude is interested in our project. It converted the script in a complete modular project, and teached me how to upload it to Github. I will make it public soon. Look at the nice interface it designed for us, including four tabs:
And the IGC recorded file analyzed in SeeYou PC app:
Attached is this recorded IGC file. I added .txt extension to the end, so it could be uploaded to the forum.
Thank you very much Jan! I will add an english version and update the information.
I asked ChatGPT wath does all the below values means, here it is the explanation. Somo more investigation will be required for a complete explanation! take it as an initial reference only.
German version (blue livery):
English version (orange livery):
LX 9070 Display – Antares 21E (Aerofly FS4)
0. TAS (True Airspeed):
Shows your true airspeed relative to the air mass, in km/h. Example: `TAS 94 km/h`.
1. RADIUS (Turn Radius):
This shows the estimated turn radius of the glider in meters while maintaining the current bank angle and speed. It helps pilots understand how tight the glider is turning — useful when centering thermals or planning efficient maneuvers. If it's showing --- m, it likely means the glider is flying straight and level (not turning), so the radius can't be calculated.
2. Aufwind / Thermal (Climb/Sink Rate):
Thermal information, showing -0.0%, related to thermal lift gain/los. Example: `-0.2 m/s`.
3. Mc (MacCready Setting):
MacCready ring value, expected average climb rate in thermals, used to optimize your cruise speed. Example: `+0.5 m/s`.
4. Hgew / Hpain. (Height Gained):
Home point altitude, height above ground level (AGL), not above sea level. Example: `530 m`.
5. Alt MSL (meters):
Current GPS-based altitude above mean sea level in meters. Example: `713 m`.
6. Alt MSL (feet):
Altitude above mean sea level in feet. Example: `2339 ft`.
7. Alt:
Current altitude, in feet. Example: `2339 ft`.
8. H.Grd / Alt (Ground Elevation):
Elevation of the terrain directly below the glider / height above ground level. Example: `615 m`.
9. Vg / GS (Speed Over Ground):
Actual speed over the ground, factoring in wind / ground speed. Example: `102 km/h`.
10. Sp.60":
Planned flight speed. Example: `120 km/h`.
11. Opt. (Optimal Glide Speed):
Distance to target (Optimized), 120 km.
12. Kurs / Hdg (Heading):
Current heading/course in degrees. Example: `2°`.
13. TRK (Track):
The actual path over the ground, shown in degrees / tracking or ground track. Example: `360°`.
14. Dis. (Distance):
Distance to the next waypoint or navigation target. Example: `0 km`.
15. AnkMc0 (Arrival Altitude Margin @ Mc=0):
Arrival altitude, -200m (indicating that 200m more height is needed to reach the destination)
16. Eaufg / reqE (Required Glide Ratio):
Glide ratio needed to reach the waypoint. Example: `50`.
17. E (Actual Glide Ratio):
Your current glide ratio, based on speed and sink rate. Example: `55`.
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Here you can see the LX9070 instrument:
And here it is the real Antares E21 glider, we are lucky to fly in AFS4:
Now that I have been studying gliders instruments, IGC loggers and others, I realized that the Antares 21E is very well equipped with a GPS map display, as says in the tutorial: “The Antares 21E features a large wide-screen display with a moving map, airspeed and altitude tapes as well as several useful info-boxes like the height above ground derived from GPS position.”.
Thank you very much for this, I will try to study it and add more information to share about it functions.
Thank you Frank! I downloaded it a TMC file and followed the instructions, but it didn't appeared in the missions list. Anyway I think we are close to have them.
This is the tool to generate the tasks: https://seeyou.cloud/xcplanner
What graphics settings do you use? It seems that this distance is related to the graphic settings low, medium, high, ultra (or not )
