Ideal Flight Accessibility phase 2

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Re: Ideal Flight Accessibility phase 2

Postby Steve Waite » Tue Dec 10, 2019 1:00 am

Yeah, the FSL loads the file automatically, but basically you have no means of control. instead a Mooney might be better in that you can control the AP with buttons and keys, if you can get help to set up that.

You might even be able to talk to the new sim. We shall see.
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Re: Ideal Flight Accessibility phase 2

Postby Orinks » Tue Dec 10, 2019 3:57 am

The Mooney works without an FMS, so Tramp can do that or FSX Pilot flies that one okay.

Can the FSLA use the regular sim AP? I know that Just Flight's freeware 767 uses it, Tramp flies it okay. With the PMDG 737 I get to a certain altitude and stall with Tramp. If these aircraft would load a plan file into the FMS automatically, or if we can set it to do that, it'd be great.

If we load a flightplan into those FMCs, that is what gives the waypoint information right? Can IF's new speech module read from that?
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Re: Ideal Flight Accessibility phase 2

Postby Steve Waite » Tue Dec 10, 2019 4:05 am

IF can read the GPS plan and any exported file type has that information. IF reads any GPS plan loaded at the sim menu. So can read out the plans. I've not put that in yet. That's coming.
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Re: Ideal Flight Accessibility phase 2

Postby Steve Waite » Tue Dec 10, 2019 4:19 am

You have two systems in operation when you have some FMS the GPS plan file loaded in the sim menu - Ideal Flight always puts that in and that's what is referred to by the sim and ATC and AI.

Next you have the file that can be loaded into the FMS. We use the Ideal Flight Exports section for that. There's no standard upheld so IF must contain a list of supported aircraft types. Most of the popular aircraft are supported.

The FMS file contains most of the GPS waypoints, apart from each end departure and arrival. We load the SID STAR and approaches there.

In the stock sim aircraft we can load the approaches with the GPS.

Whether a plane loads a file automatically or not is a hit and miss affair there are no standards of operation because these things come from trainer programs from different sources.
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Re: Ideal Flight Accessibility phase 2

Postby Steve Waite » Tue Dec 10, 2019 4:27 am

Most FMS aircraft utilise their own Navigation data tables, the AIRAC. So they have no idea about the simulator. Others use the same information within the simulator as the GPS, and so can be switched between them. So I don't think the A320 will do the same thing as the GPS, although it will acquire and refer to certain parameters the same way.
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Re: Ideal Flight Accessibility phase 2

Postby TylerK93 » Wed Dec 11, 2019 3:45 am

Hello Steve,

I can't wait to test the speech module and the flight assist functionality when that comes out. I would also like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for the time and energy that you have put in to make IF accessible for us. When It's Your Plane randomly went dark with no explanation from anybody (if I remember right), it was a pretty big step backward in terms of accessibility to a hobby that we all enjoy.

On the topic of flight assist, which I know is coming later, something that FSTramp cannot do well at all is difficult mountain approaches and departures. It will not engage the AP until you reach a sufficient height to clear the mountains. Just try taking off from, say, KASE (Aspen, CO, USA) for an example. So is there any way that IF could facilitate those tricky landings and takeoffs? I fly for a VA, and will discard any generated flight that requires something complicated like that.

Earlier in this thread, someone was asking about getting information from gauges and the like. Some aircraft, not sure about all of them, use l:vars that will expose information to FSUIPC. I'm not sure if SimConnect has something similar.

HTH, and have a blessed holiday season,
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Re: Ideal Flight Accessibility phase 2

Postby Steve Waite » Wed Dec 11, 2019 3:57 am

Appreciated!

I'll be doing whatever I can to smooth it all out.

Best wishes for the season also.
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Re: Ideal Flight Accessibility phase 2

Postby jfayre » Wed Dec 11, 2019 1:42 pm

This sounds absolutely amazing! I can't wait to play with this.
I agree that anything that could allow us to operate some of the payware aircraft would be awesome! I would love to be able to fly the Majestic Q400, but I understand that may not be possible. They pretty much replace everything in the sim with their own code.
The other aircraft I've been looking at is the A2A C182. That one has a ton of L:Vars that you can read data from.
I also want to echo what others have said. I can't thank you enough for doing all this work for our community. We're a small comunity and many other developers just can't or won't dedicate the time. I'm looking at you FS Tramp!
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Re: Ideal Flight Accessibility phase 2

Postby Steve Waite » Wed Dec 11, 2019 7:13 pm

I promised before Christmas the first phase of speaking and gladly that is almost ready.

I am just putting in some options to start out with for now, to control what we do and don't want to hear, which can be pulled up during the simulation. Then I'll package it all up and upload it.

Speech unit is for IF10 SE >augmented FSX/FSX:SE and IFPro P3D v4 only.

I want to see that the reliability is good on some other PCs, it's good here but systems can be quite diverse.

Right after that I'm looking at control options and flight assist.

I expect to find problems with some desirable aircraft we shall have to wait and see. At least I expect less problems with regular aircraft.

Also I want to say thank you for those continuing to purchase Ideal Flight - support at this stage is very much appreciated.
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Re: Ideal Flight Accessibility phase 2

Postby Steve Waite » Thu Dec 12, 2019 2:26 am

The LVars can't be used unfortunately, because that interface has to be re written each time there's a point update to P3D. There are quite a few addons that do similar things that all must be updated each time. Ideal Flight doesn't belong in that group of programs so uses its own custom handling of information and events. Also the performance of Ideal Flight is superior in terms of load on the simulator. The functions sets are slightly different but essentials are the same.

So we shall have to try it all out and go from there.

With all the new speech system, the order of speaking items and what's said where are more or less just for getting it all included for now. We can adjust it all up and I can include more options in the near future.
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