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Hi,

I would like to get the airport ID where the aircraft is landed (the nearest airport would make the trick) but it seems there are no variables about it on the docs.

I have found the GPS variable NearestAirportCurrentICAO for gauges but I cannot make it work using SimConect.

Any ideas?

Regards,
Javier.
 
I'm using access dB lookup table. If you are working in C# look in to fslog source code over here in the forum.

José
 
Hello José,

I looked at your code (a complete one, indeed) but I wanted to avoid the "bgl-decompile" process to get all the airports.

My point is... if the info is already in the running FSX, why to have a paralell database? But, well, up to now, it seems the only way. I'm failing trying to get anything from the GPS gauge with SimConnect. :(

Regards,
Javier.
 
Yep... that seems a real pain. I would have thought SimConnect would have had a way to query the airports, runways, taxiways, radio frequencies (ILS, ATIS etc), navaids etc. Maybe they will add in a SimConnect patch? Someone should ask Aces to add it.
 
MatthewS said:
Yep... that seems a real pain. I would have thought SimConnect would have had a way to query the airports, runways, taxiways, radio frequencies (ILS, ATIS etc), navaids etc. Maybe they will add in a SimConnect patch? Someone should ask Aces to add it.
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I did ask, long ago. They were reluctant because they were worried it would make it too obviously easy for folks to extract all the data which apparently they have been bound by commercial agreements to keep to themselves (presumably a Jeppesen contract).

I have pointed out that folks who want to do that would simply decode the data from the BGLs (and in fact I use a program for doing just that) -- they said, ah, that's different, they don't actually publish the formats of that information (any more), so such extraction is not their fault, they aren't violating any agreements.

I also pointed out that to extract stuff in bulk by visiting every one of the 24000 airports in turn and using a published SimConnect call would be a rather ludicrous and unlikely way for folks to "steal" this proprietary information.

Anyway, the upshot of all this is that something of the sort is hopefully on their list for one of the promised SimConnect updates. No dates of course, and at present there are far more serious concerns bugging them, literally.

I have quite a list of things still to go into the SimConnect interface and I'll be formalising it for re-presentation to the right folks as soon as the urgent bug-fix and performance problems are out of the way.

Regards

Pete
 
Pete Dowson said:
I have quite a list of things still to go into the SimConnect interface and I'll be formalising it for re-presentation to the right folks as soon as the urgent bug-fix and performance problems are out of the way.
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Microsoft is more likely to take notice of you than most other people.

Another thing i thought of was ATC events. At some stage i was thinking of writing a virtual co pilot module and it would be nice if my co pilot could respond to all atc events including as frequency change, heading, altitude and speed change, clearances etc.

For example, if I'm on final and i'm the pilot flying, and my virtual copilot is handling flaps and ATC, i would like him to be able to respond to the ATC "cleared to land" clearance. That sort of thing.
 
MatthewS said:
At some stage i was thinking of writing a virtual co pilot module and it would be nice if my co pilot could respond to all atc events including as frequency change, heading, altitude and speed change, clearances etc.
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We've long wanted the ability to detect the prompts the ATC issues and the related reply numbers. I tried to find a way to get at that in previous versions of FS. I am pretty sure it is on this list for additions we'd like to see in Simconnect.

Regards

Pete
 
I agree. I see SimConnect as a first step but it still lacks important functionalities and parameters from FSX.

Pete Dowson said:
We've long wanted the ability to detect the prompts the ATC issues and the related reply numbers. I tried to find a way to get at that in previous versions of FS. I am pretty sure it is on this list for additions we'd like to see in Simconnect.
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I haven't tried this myself so this is just an idea: Is is possible to use Win32's functions (FindWindow, SendMessage...) to interact with the ATC window?

Regards,
Javier.
 
Javier said:
I haven't tried this myself so this is just an idea: Is is possible to use Win32's functions (FindWindow, SendMessage...) to interact with the ATC window?
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And do what with it? I've never found a way to get the test from it, which would be a start. Not sure why you'd want to send stuff to it. There are ATC controls to respond, to make the choices. What else would there be?

Ideally I'd want to be able to suppress the window entirely and instead have the choices with values sent in one of a variety of fixed (ideally structural rather than textual) defined formats to a recipient client so that the choices can be automatically processed -- or simply manually processed but elsewhere, on a Networked PC for instance -- and the response selected and sent.

Regards

Pete
 
Pete Dowson said:
Ideally I'd want to be able to suppress the window entirely and instead have the choices with values sent in one of a variety of fixed (ideally structural rather than textual) defined formats to a recipient client so that the choices can be automatically processed -- or simply manually processed but elsewhere, on a Networked PC for instance -- and the response selected and sent.
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Exactly... needs to be a proper SimConnect event and response mechanism.
 
Pete Dowson said:
And do what with it? I've never found a way to get the test from it, which would be a start. Not sure why you'd want to send stuff to it. There are ATC controls to respond, to make the choices.
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So, a keystroke to answer. :)

Regards,
Javier.
 
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