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developing a flight viewer with simconnect??

vaikan

vaikan

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hello everyone

this is my first post in this forum though have been a lurker for sometime now:). I was thinking of possibilities for developing a flight or traffic viewer for FSX. Somewhat like Super traffic board with some additional features if possible. I have learned that simconnect is used to connect any utility add-on in FSX, so is it necessary to use simconnect or are there other possibilities to do so.
Also I would like to know some essential things that have to be considers before developing an tool/add-on for FSX. I have done repaints and airport designs before but have no knowledge about utility add-on development..:(

Any help will be appreciated.

Saurav
 
I read some posts here at Simconnect sub forum and learned that Traffic Toolbox Explorer do not require simconnect to connect to FSX. So how does that works?

Thanks,
Saurav
 
Hi,

The traffic monitor that is part of the SDK was made by MS, so they could connect it directly to FSX. But if you want to make something like that yourself using SimConnect is a good idea.

Have a look at the SDK documentation about SimConnect. It will give you an idea of the kind of information you can request through the interface.
 
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