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Using FS only for visual displaying

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Hi you all,
I am new to FS Community, and I want to use FS mainly to send the airplane data namely
Latitude, Longitude Altitude, heading, pitch, bank, and have FS display the visual or scenery of the position for a theoretical plane.
I am not interested in seeing the cockpit pannel.
Airplane data is sent in real time by a TCP/IP socket or computed by a program and to be sent at regular time interval to FS for visualisation.
Did somebody of this community solve a similar problem, or if not does someone have a clue to solve the problem.
Thank you in advance to all.
 
Hi,

That is possible. You need to interface with FS in that case. If you are using FS2004 you can use FSUIPC for it, for FSX you can use the SimConnect interface.

It allows you to feed the sim with external data. If you then make sure that you hide the cockpit you have only the visualisation that you want left.
 
Nothing works

I installed FS SDK for the installation DVD together with SP1A and SP2.
And I always have a receive error with
data.dwExcetion of SIMCONNECT_RECV_EXCEPTION data object
equals to 5
I think this means a version Mismatch
Can anyone be of any help.
In fact I simply copied the Managed Data Request of the samples given with the SDK compile it and run it.
I tried to find help on the Internet and didn't find any.
 
I moved your post to the SimConnect forum to get more response. I don't know the answer myself unfortunately.
 
Finally

I tried many things
Finally I did solve the problem by uninstalling
fs SimConnect Client
Fs SDK v 2
Installed again FS SDK
and installed SimConnect Client with
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X SDK\SDK\Core Utilities Kit\SimConnect SDK\lib\SimConnect.msi
Now SimConnect Client vesion is
10.0.60905

And I do have the sample program working
I did not instal neither Update SP1A nor SP2 as installing them seem to create a problem at least on my version.
 
Yes, that's easily done. I've done exactly the same thing for a UAV gimbled camera simulator. The only real limitation is you can't zoom in on far away terrain and get it to load the high level of detail textures.

Si
 
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