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Introducing Development Release 3.4.3.14(b)

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For those who might find the new features useful, AIFP Development Release 2.1.26(n), available from http://stuff4fs.com, contains two new features.

  1. Now, in the absence of any other specific "seek" criteria, AIFP will open the Substitute window with aircraft matching the Callsign specified in the flight plan archive being installed.
  2. A number of Aircraft List housekeeping functions have been collected in a new dialog Aircraft / Validate/Consolidate - which you would probably want to run upon completion of editing. These functions are individually selectable from that dialog and AIFP remembers your selections.

Barring major problem reports, I anticipate general release of AIFP 2.1.27 in a few days.

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Earlier today I was advised in another forum of a serious issue with AIFP. Cruise speeds were half what they should be when loading traffic files.

This is a very mysterious error. This area of code hasn't been touched in over a year. It has been working fine until now. The problem was that the Windows Encode.GetString function is no longer able to extract the "flag" from the traffic file that told AIFP to double the cruise speed (which it had halved on compile). The routine that calls Encode.GetString is AIFP1 original code.

The most recent series of Windows updates addresses "security risks" in NET.Framework 3.5 and they appear to have "broken" Encode.GetString. Fortunately, I am able to work-around the issue.

AIFP Development Release 2.1.26(p), available from http://stuff4fs.com fixes.

Hopefully, there are no other surprises.

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AIFP Version 2.1.27 is available.

This update mainly fixes some bugs in Version 26 that escaped detection prior to release. However it does contain a couple minor enhancements. Please refer to the included Version History for details.

This update should be automatically detected and downloaded the next time you run AIFP. If not, it can be downloaded by visiting my website http://stuff4fs.com and navigating to the AIFP page.

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I have just posted Release 2.1.28.

This update fixes a few residual bugs. As well, it contains the following new features:
  • delete associated flight plans when deleting an aircraft,
  • reroute traffic (when, for example, an airport closes and is replaced by one with a different ICAO),
  • "kill" airport (suppress display of airport in FlightSim),
  • open merged traffic files,
  • identify airports visited by selected aircraft, and
  • add parking redius to report of which aircraft visit a selected airport.
Please refer to the included Version History for further information.

This update should be automatically detected and downloaded the next time you run AIFP. If not, it can be downloaded by visiting my website http://stuff4fs.com and navigating to the AIFP page.

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Version 2.1.28 introduced two new features cross-referencing airports and aircraft in a user-selected collection of traffic files. It didn't take long for someone to request similar capability for currently loaded flight plans.

Development Release 2.1.28(b), available from http://stuff4fs.com, adds a feature under the Airports menu to determine which airports are visited by the selected aircraft. The complementary function, i.e., which aircraft visit a particular airport, may easily be determined from the existing Timetable feature.

Enjoy,
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Somewhere between Version 2.1.28 -which is OK- and 2.1.28(c) - which isn't - I introduced a bug in the Find Unused Aircraft logic such that if you asked for deletion of those aircraft, all the used aircraft were deleted instead.

The issue has been fixed in the latest AIFP Development Release available at http://stuff4fs.com.

Have a great weekend, all,
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Don

I have been looking at the messages on "Missing Aircraft" and downloaded the appropriate MAIW file. I download my files to a temp then copy across when I convert the flightplans to FSX format.
I came across the following error.
When I open the FS9 flightplan I get a flight validation report I then do the necessary correction and compile. I then open another flightplan again getting the file validation report which still contains the previous report
An example is:
Open Glang1 validation report says Flight plan 9 Leg 08 Departure etc

open Glang2 Validation report says Flight plan 9 Leg 08 Departure scheduled
etc Flight plan 1 Leg 8 Departure scheduled etc

I can confirm that, in Glang2flight plan 9 only contains 6 legs

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Thanks for the report, David.

In the previous development, I reworked the message processing to allow printing of all list-type messages. Unfortunately, I neglected to ensure the message buffer was cleared before every use. I've just posted a new development release at http://stuff4fs.com that corrects this.

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I have just posted Release 2.1.29. It fixes a few residual bugs and adds a couple minor new features. Please refer to the included Version History for further information.

The release has been well tested by several AIG flight planners and reportedly is the most stable release to date.

Release 2.1.29 should be automatically detected and downloaded the next time you run AIFP. If not, it can be downloaded by visiting my website http://stuff4fs.com and navigating to the AIFP page.

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Shortly after release of AIFP 2.1.29, an AIG user experienced a day-1 problem that generated an exception and prevented aircraft substitution.

The exception occurred if AIFP encountered an aircraft.cfg [fltsim.x] item containing a single double-quote (e.g., atc_airline="). This situation is rare and, presumably, unintentional - which is why the issue has remained hidden for so long.

I have re-released 2.1.29 as 2.1.29 (Updated). The new release should be automatically detected the next time you run AIFP. If it's not, it can be downloaded from http://stuff4fs.com as the AIFP Latest Release.

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Not much to go on. These types of problems are generally the result of errors in airport design. If the flight is appearing for departure when it shoul , then the traffic file is OK. It's up to FlightSim after that.

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I have just posted Release 2.1.30. It fixes a few residual bugs and adds some new functionality. Please refer to the included Version History for further information.

I am a little uncomfortable making this release at this time since I will be away from my development system for almost the full month of October and, hence, unable to support it. On the other hand, a couple of day-1 bugs with potential significant effect have been reported in Release 2.1.29, so I don't want to unnecessarily extend its life. But, I do suggest you back-up your current "aifp2.exe" and revert to it should the new release have unexpected problems. (If you do have to revert, uncheck Options/Check for Updates at Startup.)

The two issues of note in 2.1.29 that you may wish to address are:
  • failure of the compiler to substitute FSX airports for their FS9 counterparts when FS9 flight plans or traffic files are (re)compiled for FSX, and
  • problem collecting FS9 airports whereby the last airport in each FS9\scenery\...\AP_....bgl was missed.
Release 2.1.30 has a traffic file "recompile" routine that will substitute FSX airports for their FS9 counterparts in those files where it didn't happen initially. As well, if you can't find/specify certain airports that you know exist in FS9, re-collecting airports may help.

Release 2.1.30 should be automatically detected and downloaded the next time you run AIFP. If not, it can be downloaded by visiting my website http://stuff4fs.com and navigating to the AIFP page.

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Sorry to do this to you again, folks.

There's a bug in 2.1.30 that causes erronerous messages to be issued when FS9 files are converted to FSX and that fails to add the "_FSX" suffix to the converted filename. Despite this, files already converted with 2.1.30 should be OK.

I've just posted to stuff4fs.com an updated version named 2.1.30 (Updated). It should be detected the next time you run AIFP. If not, it can be downloaded by visiting my website http://stuff4fs.com and navigating to the AIFP page.

Just a reminder. I will soon be leaving my development system for an extended period and unable to provide any support. Hopefully, nothing catastrophic will be discovered before I return.

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Just a "by the way": Thank you for AIFP!

The error hunting capabilities are very useful (most of the time) and enabled me to fix more than one flight plan I was about to install!
 
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Return soon, Don:)!
Hope you will not find it as difficult as I do to be banished for some time from being able to try out the multiple updates to various essential programs.
 
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At long last, I have released Version 2.2.01, which includes the new traffic and parking analyser, several fixes for bugs in 2.1.30 and a couple other minor enhancements.

Now, when an AI aircraft doesn't appear when you think it should, or it doesn't park where you think is should, the traffic and parking analysis functions - initiated from the Files menu on both the Main Panel and the FP Editor - can help you understand why.

The Version 2.2.01 update should be automatically detected the next time you start AIFP. Alternately, you may download the new version from http://stuff4fs.com.

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Missing Option in AI Flight Planner Version 2.2.01

Ok, I just downloaded and installed the new AI Flight Planner Version 2.2.01, and I have a question.

What happened to the option under Files that said "Identify Missing Aircraft in Traffic Files"?

Has this been moved, or is it not an option anymore? I use this option a lot when I update/replace aircraft.
 
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As noted in PLEASE READ ME BEFORE INSTALLING.pdf in the archive, some of the traffic file functions have been moved to the Traffic Analyser. This is one of those functions. It is in the Traffic Analyser/Aircraft menu. It has been renamed List Required Aircraft Not Installed and documented in Section 11.4 of the User Manual.

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