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    Detect if (Fighter) Jet

    Hello Doug, first thanks a lot for your very quick reply! Using the engine positions I would be afraid a bit that also the smaller business jets (with engines in the center at the end of the plane) would fall in this category then. So I agree that reading the "aircraft.cfg" and checking the...
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    Detect if (Fighter) Jet

    Hello, does anybody know a way to detect via SimConnect variables if the current user aircraft is a Fighter Jet? I checked the "ENGINE TYPE", but "Jet" is also returned for "normal" turbine aircraft. Then I thought maybe to just check if there is an afterburner available or not, but I also...
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    How to get overhead status from simconnect

    Hello Laurent, yes, I'm using Microsoft Visual Studio - everything else would make it just more complicated for me. ;-) What about the FSX specific part? How the DLL retrieves the LVar data from FSX? Best regards and thanks again Andreas
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    How to get overhead status from simconnect

    Hello Laurent, That sounds exactly what I'm searching for. ;) If you are able to access the data over network from your DLL, then it also should be very easy to access this data from a different process (the worst case would be using "local" TCP connection or pipe). Would you mind sharing...
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    How to get overhead status from simconnect

    Hello Laurent, first thanks a lot for your very quick and detailed reply! Basically I don't want to access the LVars from a gauge, but from a separate process outside FSX/Prepar3d and if I understood it correctly there is currently no way to access these LVars over the "normal" SimConnect SDK...
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    How to get overhead status from simconnect

    Hello Laurent, did you managed to get your bridge running? I would also really like to access to LVars from an external application (provided over a DLL bridge just as you planned to). Therefore I would be very interested in your experiences if you got that to work! Best regards and thanks...
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    BGLViewer for FSX BGL files.

    Hello Patrick, first thanks a lot for taking the time to reply so quickly! I just saw that updated "magdec.bgl" files are available from this website: http://www.aero.sors.fr/navaids.html Do you think they just compiled these files from scratch without extracting the values from the old files...
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    BGLViewer for FSX BGL files.

    Hello Patrick, first thanks for your great tool! But I have one question regarding the magnetic variation shown in your tool from the BGL files: if I understood that correctly this value is not used by FSX/Prepar3d at all - so it's just ignored completely, right? Instead of this value the...
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