Re: [Flightgear-devel] possible solution to online flying (VATSIM)?!

[John W. <ca...@mm...>]

Interesting...

I'm about to delve into XPlane and have zero understanding regards how 
the third party plugins or datarefs work.

OTH I can do FG in my sleep. Perhaps there is any opportunity for some 
common sharing and help.

Contact me off list

JW


Major A wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I've just had an idea, maybe some of you find it interesting. I'm
>currently in a big dilemma -- I fly on VATSIM more or less regularly,
>and I'm fed up with clicking radios etc. on the screen, so I'm
>planning to build my own flight deck. Now FG is the best simulator as
>far as customization and hardware connection go, and I'd certainly
>like to run it once I have the flightdeck, but there is no VATSIM
>support in FG (and there won't be, apparently, from what I've read.)
>
>Now here's the idea -- use X-Plane or MSFS for VATSIM, but fly FG! It
>would need two computers, but I think it would work like this: in
>X-Plane/MSFS, use the plugin system or FSUIPC/WIDEFS, respectively, to
>IMPORT the current position and velocity data from the other machine
>(running FG) on a regular basis, along with the NAV frequencies,
>transponder settings, and the PTT state. That would give you a view of
>all other flyers on the X-Plane/MSFS computer, plus it would relay
>your position to them as well. Voice comms would of course be on the
>non-FG machine.
>
>Nobody will notice because, as far as VATSIM is concerned, you're
>flying an approved client, and the only drawback is that FG won't
>display the other traffic (but you can see that on the other
>computer).
>
>I would be more than happy to run two computers simultaneously if this
>really was the solution to combining FG and VATSIM. Would anyone be
>interested in coding a proxy that connects FG and X-Plane/MSFS over
>the network? I'm willing to help, of course, even with coding if it
>doesn't involve me delving too deeply into the internals of FG. I tend
>towards interfacing with X-Plane, mainly because its internal
>structures appear to be much more openly available (the plugin
>interface seems to be rather clean compared to FSUIPC, and the SDK is
>free). The only big question is whether the internal FDM of X-Plane or
>MSFS can be overridden with external data just like that.
>
>Let me know if this is all nonsense,
>
>  Andras
>
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