How to dump data from FSX

[Kronzky]

How can I get real-time data from FSX (e.g. simulation and user variables) dumped into either an external file or into DebugView?

I would've expected to find lots of "black box" applications around, but they either only log very specific data (so I wouldn't be able to log user variables), or they only show them on the screen (and I'm not able to export them into a file).

Do I need to write my own interface? Or are there more straightforward paths via SimConnect or FSUIPC (I have both)?
Or did I just not look hard enough?

[ddawson]

You can give these a try.
The "diagnostics" gauge is quite old, as the date stamp will tell you. It is quite powerful though.
You'll want to put the "xml_vars" gauge in its own window, as it is quite large.

Doug

[Kronzky]

WOW... This was exactly what I was looking for!
And it's so flexible and easy to use, that I couldn't have hoped for a better solution.
Thanks so much for posting this here!


Just in case you're planning to do any further work on it at some point — it might make it a lot easier to import the data into a spreadsheet if the variable names would only be listed once, in the header line, and then, after that, only the values itself, e.g.
A:AIRSPEED TRUE,A:PLANE ALTITUDE
121.235,4233.424
119.119,4246.741
...
But just having the data at all outside of FSX is a huge help already!

I also noticed that the XML_VARS gauge only seems to list all available L:Vars, no matter the setting in the init file. Is that the intended behavior?

[growley803]

Doug,
How can I get hold of the "diagnostics" gauge?
Thanks, Garrett