P3D Kneeboard

[reecemj]

Steve is it possible for me to put my on checklist in the kneeboard?

[Steve Waite]

Yes!

We add plain text or html doc to the end section of the briefing which will be added each time we do a build.

If you goto the help page - Briefing, scroll down to "Insert html into your own section" and have a look there. Come back if it's not too clear how to go about it.

Steve

[reecemj]

will check it out. Thanks

[Steve Waite]

...let's say you are pilot_0, we look in the folder:

C:\ProgramData\Ideal Flight Professional\Profiles\0_ID


in there we see a file called: IF_Briefing.txt

Opening that in Notepad, this has a pre-installed section of html (you can remove or do what you like with) that shows the Ideal Flight logo. In there between the <pre> tags I've typed "Hello!"

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IF:NOTITLE:SECTIONEND
</pre>

Hello!

<p>
<img src="file:///C:\ProgramData\Ideal Flight Professional\Profiles\Images\if_logo_white.jpg" />
</p>
<pre>


Note: the '</pre>' tag is first because we are excluding this from within a <pre> section.


This shows in the next build in the briefing as:


Hello!



In the help page for Briefing, describes using the keywords IF:NOTITLE:SECTIONEND

[Steve Waite]

What we are looking at is in fact somewhere inside an html document, the top and bottom of the document being built and added during the IF flight generation.

So we simply insert the kind of command we might put in any kind of html page.

This example uses the html Object tag to insert a simple text file.

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IF:NOTITLE:SECTIONEND
</pre>

<div>
<p>
<object data="C:\Users\Steve\Desktop\Checklist.txt" width="550" height="600"/></object>
</p>
</div>


<p>
<img src="file:///C:\ProgramData\Ideal Flight Professional\Profiles\Images\if_logo_white.jpg" />
</p>
<pre>


[Steve Waite]

...and here I am including an html document, we only need change the file name. Generally safer to include the 'file:///' part in the code:

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IF:SECTIONEND
</pre>

<div>
<p>
<object data="file:///C:\Users\Steve\Desktop\Checklist.htm" width="550" height="600"/></object>
</p>
</div>

<pre>


Also I have removed the ':NOTITLE' keyword and in the briefing I see the heading:

Profile User Information:

[Steve Waite]

OK. So we can include a User section that appears in each briefing, perhaps that would contain information to remind us whenever we fly any aircraft.

What about on a per-aircraft basis?

In that case we look at the folder:

C:\ProgramData\Ideal Flight Professional\Profiles\Aircraft

We want a custom section depending on the aircraft we selected. We need to create a text file for that aircraft section and place it in the \Profiles\Aircraft folder:

In P3D we can find the "\Airplanes\Alabeo Extra300S P3D" folder contains the simulator instructions for the Alabeo 300s:

"C:\Program Files\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v4\SimObjects\Airplanes\Alabeo Extra300S P3D"

We want to attach our own section whenever we use this aircraft. Make a new text file from the

'folder and parent folder'

names for the aircraft:

"Airplanes_Alabeo Extra300S P3D.txt"

We separate the parent folder name from the subfolder with the underscore character "_" and place the text file into the Ideal Flight app data folder:

C:\ProgramData\Ideal Flight Professional\Profiles\Aircraft

So we have the file:

"C:\ProgramData\Ideal Flight Professional\Profiles\Aircraft\Airplanes_Alabeo Extra300S P3D.txt"

Now we edit the file wiith Notepad, and include in the same manner the html code to call in the text file or .htm document.

We see the new section added to the briefing whenever we use that aircraft:

Aircraft User Information:

[Steve Waite]

...the same functions work for users with FSX and FSX:SE and IF10, where we use FSX folders and the IF10 folders. Example:

FSX:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\SimObjects\Airplanes\Aircreation_582SL"

IF10:
"C:\ProgramData\Ideal Flight 10\Profiles\Aircraft\Airplanes_Aircreation_582SL.txt"

[Steve Waite]

Incidentally; the folder:

"C:\ProgramData\Ideal Flight Professional"

is the physical location of the folder:

"C:\Users\All Users\Ideal Flight Professional"