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New AIFP Functionality - Timetable Data as Source

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The AIFP Development Release at http://stuff4fs.com contains some new functionality that will be of interest to some of you.

AIFP now accepts input data in timetable text format. This will allow you to create AI flight plans from data available from many airline and airport websites - after a little "massaging" by you. (The data input to AIFP must be columnar. Beyond that, you have a great deal of flexibility in formatting the data.) It also give's you a simple alternative method for creating flight plans "from scratch"

For those of you familiar with Arnt Helge Haland's MRAIComp, this new capability is essentially equivalent to MRAIComp's but with less rigid input format requirements, elimination of its custom databases and full integration of the capability into AIFP. My thanks to Arnt Helge for pioneering the concept.

The new capability is described in Section 6.15 of the revised AI Flight Planner User Manual.

Enjoy,
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I've just uploaded AIFP Development Release 2.2.04(m) to http://stuff4fs.com. It contains the completed function for inputting timetable data as a alternate source of flight plan data. While the flight plan balancing feature probably can be improved, the overall feature seems to work as I intended.

If this capability is of interest to you, please give it a try.

Don
 
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AIFP Re-compile item produces Sun 00:00's legs

Hi,
I have installed latest version of AIFP and, trying the Recompile option, I get .bgl that produces flightplans with 99% of flight all starting at Sun 00:00.
Trying to decompile them using TTools 2.x the flightplans.txt generated here get all Sun 00:00 legs.
So FP's are useless..
Please give ot an eye...

Many thanks
 
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Genix, sorry for the delay in responding, but I've been away.

You description is a little "thin". Is the "Recompile" function the one you should be using. Its purpose is to re-compile a file that you have just compiled (and presumably failed for some reason) without having to re-enter all the other detail. But, you must have done a normal compile first.

If you were really "re-compiling" the file, please provide some additional deatil so that I can investigate.

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Hi Don,
sorry for the thin. I intended the Recompile option that recompile in one shoot all the FS2004 traffic bgl files.
What happens with the release 2.02 is that almost all the bgl had the legs resetted to Sun 00:00:00...
You should investigate only this functionality.

Thanks a lot for your AIFP utility!
 
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You should investigate only this functionality
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I'd be happy to, if I had enough information to know what you thyink is wrong.

I asked you about the Recompile function. I seriously doubt that;s what you are using, because it only recompiles the currently-loaded file and you seem to be suggesting you are compilinf more than one file at once.

So, I need to know in detail exactly what fuinction you are using and how you are using it. A "before" and "after" file would also be helpful. Since no one else is reporting such an issue, you must be doing something quite unusual.

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genix, I had reason to look at the Reconpile function in AIFP today. I thought you were using the Flight Plans / Recompile function. I had forgotten that I had added a Files /Recompile function for someone a while ago. It's about four additional lines of code and, therefore, wasn't particularly memorable.

I will take another look at it when I get a chance to see if I can shed any light on your situation. That being said, that function shares a lot of code with other traffic file functions, in particular, the bulk-conversion function. If it was resetting times, someone else should have discovered it before now.

It would be very helpful to have one of the files you are attempting to recompile that demonstrates the issue. You can e-mail it to me at don at stuff4fs dot com if you are shy about attaching files to posts.

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genix, I have now had an opportunity to take a close look at the Recompile files function.

While operation with FSX selected as the Target mode seems OK, there is an issue when FS9 is selected.

I'll fix and post when an update is available.

Don
 
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