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fx_flightplan_converter_1.0

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José Bourgoignie

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Hi,

Recently downloaded the program "fx_flightplan_converter_1.0" from www.AVSIM.com . Has someone already used it ? It converts FS9 flightplans into stuff for FSX. As there is no Readme (not sure if there is one), how to set the different items we usually do in TTOOLS221 ?
There is a module available in the FSX SDK... I suppose I put it in Modules.

Greetz. José.
 
For modules in FsX to work you need to enter them in the dll.xml file. They don't have to be in the modules folder anymore.

Can't really answer the rest of your question, as I haven't tried that.
 
I tried it out briefly last night.

What it seems to do, is take a TTools-generated flight plan, and convert it to a FSX-compatible flight plan that FSX's TrafficDatabaseBuilder.exe can parse.

I ran some COPA Airlines flight plans in FS2004 format thru it, and it did seem to produce a text file roughly compatible with FSX's TDB. But it wasn't perfect. You must of course, add in the relevant aircraft, since FSX doesn't have an AC#xxxx entry. There were some orphan } and { brackets, some orphan commas (, , ,,) ...(probably whitespace parsing issues)....and the BIGGEST error I saw was that it does not translate the date of the week correctly. Or rather, it translates it correctly, but FSX doesn't match the SDK docs.

The FSX date issue has been documented before. Basically you have to subtract a day if you want the flight plan to be as it was in FS9. I don't know if this is an error in FSX, or what, but actual FSX does not match the SDK documentation re: day of the week. Any app programmed to the SDK spec will not give the correct day of the week in the actual sim.

I did not 'clean up' the resultant text file, nor did I run it through TDB. I will do that tonight when I get time.

If the kinks get worked out, this could be huge for FSX traffic makers, as there is a huge volume of TTools generated flight plans out there.
 
:yellowfla

Can someone please verify that in FS2004 traffic flight plans, 0 = Sunday?

Because, I think now with FSX, 0 = Monday.

If so, then...well the implications are obvious...
 
Frankis

Gday all
This is my first post and I'm hoping I,m not Standing on any toes as I am in the final stages Of producing a Program That will load TTools plans try and sort out some of the strange plans I have come across and turn them into Fsx Scedules Then use TrafficDatabaseBuilder to Make a Bgl file.it works Just needs a little polishing, though It Does'nt yet change the 0 for sunday to monday.
Hope to upload it soon.
Regards Frank
 
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Frankis said:
Gday all
This is my first post and I'm hoping I,m not Standing on any toes as I am in the final stages Of producing a Program That will load TTools plans try and sort out some of the strange plans I have come across and turn them into Fsx Scedules Then use TrafficDatabaseBuilder to Make a Bgl file.it works Just needs a little polishing, though It Does'nt yet change the 0 for sunday to monday.
Hope to upload it soon.
Regards Frank
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No, you are not standing on any toes at all.

Your tools sounds great. My only concern is, that I would like it to output a .txt file so that I can manually tweak it and then run it through TrafficDataBaseBuilder myself. Sometimes TTools plans are a little weird and need...'adjusting' to work in FSX.

The new tool by Jens Rabmund works, but it does not translate the days of the week correctly. There is no author contact information, either. But it works well enough to get the job done.

A lot better than manually parsing a TTools dump txt file to FSX SDK standards. I *did* that for a 25 aircraft fleet airline, and do not relish ever doing it again. :)
 
Mace said:
No, you are not standing on any toes at all.

Your tools sounds great. My only concern is, that I would like it to output a .txt file so that I can manually tweak it and then run it through TrafficDataBaseBuilder myself. Sometimes TTools plans are a little weird and need...'adjusting' to work in FSX.

The new tool by Jens Rabmund works, but it does not translate the days of the week correctly. There is no author contact information, either. But it works well enough to get the job done.

A lot better than manually parsing a TTools dump txt file to FSX SDK standards. I *did* that for a 25 aircraft fleet airline, and do not relish ever doing it again. :)
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The program loads a fs9 TTools creates a Trafficdatabase ready Text file from Which you can proguce a Fsx bgl at the press of a button or let my program do the tweaking (it does quite a bit) then make the bgl.
 
FSX Flight Plan converter

Hi, Frank

Frankis said:
The program loads a fs9 TTools creates a Trafficdatabase ready Text file from Which you can proguce a Fsx bgl at the press of a button or let my program do the tweaking (it does quite a bit) then make the bgl.
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I downloaded and installed your application. It runs the first time and ask me to configure some folders (FSX, Traffic, etc).

After this step, I tried to run again but the program give an error message that could not find TrafficDataBaseBuilder folder and breaks.

If you could add a *.ini file to correct this would be a solution, I think.

Thanks

José
 
José said:
Hi, Frank



I downloaded and installed your application. It runs the first time and ask me to configure some folders (FSX, Traffic, etc).

After this step, I tried to run again but the program give an error message that could not find TrafficDataBaseBuilder folder and breaks.

If you could add a *.ini file to correct this would be a solution, I think.

Thanks

José
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In the Windows Registry You should have the entry similer to this,
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VB and VBA Program Settings\AiSort\Folders]
"FsX"="D:\\Flight Simulator X"
"InputPlans"="D:\\Fs2kTools\\TTools"
"FsXairpotList"="D:\\Fs2kTools\\FsX_TRAFFIC\\AirportList.txt"
"FsXTrafficText"="D:\\Fs2kTools\\FsX_TRAFFIC"
In the FsX_TRAFFIC folder you MUST have the files "TrafficDataBaseBuilder .exe"."Countries_Regions.cvs" and "AirportList.txt".
I put these files in the Working folder because TDBB gets a bit upset about long command lines.
When "AiSort" starts it looks for TDBB in the working folder (FsX_TRAFFIC) and will break if it's not there.

I hope this helps.

Regards Frank
 
Windows registry

Hi, Frankis

The last place to play around is the windows registry.

The application should write its proper configuration data in a text ini file, never in the windows registry, mainly if there is no uninstall to recover the before situation.

How can I restore my windows registry to the status before I installed AISort, please?

Thanks,

José
 
José said:
Hi, Frankis

The last place to play around is the windows registry.

The application should write its proper configuration data in a text ini file, never in the windows registry, mainly if there is no uninstall to recover the before situation.

How can I restore my windows registry to the status before I installed AISort, please?

Thanks,

José
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Gday Jose
Just use regedit to delete the entry.

Regards Frank
 
Good will

Hi, Frankis

I should reckognize your good will by writing a free application. But, please, don't modify users' registry entries or add an unistall for the your application.

I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO EDIT WINDOWS REGISTRY!

Thanks,

José
 
Does anyone know how to contact Jens Rabmund? He has no contact info with fsx_flightplan_converter at all.
 
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