Ideal Flight Accessibility phase 3

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Re: Ideal Flight Accessibility phase 3

Postby Steve Waite » Tue May 11, 2021 10:37 pm

No problems here. Check with other apps off, any AI traffic programs disabled, try other airports etc.
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Re: Ideal Flight Accessibility phase 3

Postby Steve Waite » Wed May 19, 2021 4:02 pm

At the moment in the current preview build the temporary hold short locations are computed to be nearby the runway starts, so now the Assist function to warp to hold short points is being updated with the true hold short designated locations. I will be hoping to continue work on the taxi assist soon after. For sighted users, I have included the Hold Short and ILS Critical Area markings in the airport maps.
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Re: Ideal Flight Accessibility phase 3

Postby Steve Waite » Fri May 28, 2021 3:14 pm

28/May/2021:

Preview build 14:

Ideal Flight Professional P3D v4/5
Ideal Flight 10 Professional P3D v2/3
Ideal Flight 10 Special Edition
Ideal Flight 10 Original

This build includes the proper hold short places in the Assist window so, in accordance with ATC instructions, you can warp to those instead of pushback and taxi, then warp to the runway start next.

Please see the report page for more details:
http://www.codelegend.com/idealflight/report.htm
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Re: Ideal Flight Accessibility phase 3

Postby Orinks » Tue Jun 15, 2021 12:34 pm

Just checking in for a progress update? It's been quiet here.
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Re: Ideal Flight Accessibility phase 3

Postby Steve Waite » Tue Jun 15, 2021 12:44 pm

I've been busy with unavoidable other things for a couple of weeks but I have been progressing with Ideal Flight as well. Right now I'm in the middle of experimenting with climb assist without the use of the autopilot for those aircraft that don't use the in-sim stock autopilot and also have the taxi assist data arranged for route finding. There will be a few weeks yet before the next update.
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Re: Ideal Flight Accessibility phase 3

Postby Steve Waite » Tue Jun 15, 2021 1:26 pm

I have found a line of code that got remarked in the PMDG AIRAC reader so it causes the reader to miss the SID exit waypoint and instead returns the first FIX in the table. That's now working OK in build 15 for the PMDG data, so with the current build 14, only the other AIRACS Ideal Flight uses work OK, AXE, Level-D, and iFly. Level-D and AXE more closely resemble the PMDG data so those can be used for the time being.

Anyway, that reminded me to relay a note about the Mission page Departure with "SID and IDF" and how the IDF (initial departure fix) is selected might appear odd:

Remember that usually, aircraft that use an AIRAC for navigation data, and when we need a plan with SID, that will only require that the route be found from the SID exit waypoint (usually a waypoint on an airway heading off to our destination). Since the SID will be selected in the FMC for departure, the waypoints in the SID are not added to the GPS plan as they might not all be true GPS waypoints we fly over.

Often in a SID (Standard Instrument Departure), there might not be an IDF because the first part of the climb might only include a heading out from the runway with no FIX associated with that part of the route.

However, on the Ideal Flight Mission page, we can select a departure plan "SID with IDF", perhaps we might want to see a waypoint directly out from our runway in the GPS plan. These are shown in the briefing route table and added to the GPS Plan. What Ideal Flight does is add the FAF (final approach fix) from the other end of our runway to guarantee we have a FIX waypoint that is directly off the end of our runway heading. So our Departure 26L will show an IDF fix of the FAF 08R.

For example, I just built flight plans using each of the four AIRACS from EGKK to LFPG where the route due to wind direction WNW, selected Runway 26L with SID HARD1X, and they all show FAF Fix EG CF08R as the IDF. It might seem odd to do that but this guarantees the fix is available in the AIRAC and is directly out from the runway in the proper heading. When using the stock GPS any AIRAC waypoints missing from the data are represented as User waypoints so they can appear in the GPS.
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Re: Ideal Flight Accessibility phase 3

Postby Orinks » Sat Jul 03, 2021 2:09 pm

Figured I'd check in... been almost a month... How are things with you and IF?
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Re: Ideal Flight Accessibility phase 3

Postby ke7zum » Sun Jul 04, 2021 3:05 pm

This is either my computer being stupid or the preview barfing.

basically I set my pmdg737ngxu as the plane I'm using. that goes well. I then load the plan i sant to use, that goes well. I then launch the sim. that goes well, until I alt tab to check on other things, then the sim crashes. I should note I do have UAC turned on, however I don't see how that can make a difference. I'm going to try some toher troubleshooting steps as well such as disabling the airic I have attached to ideal flight which so happens to be the pmdg one. I also plan to try this with other planes I have such as my freeware a320n to see if the sim crashes.

Thought I'd report this in case it was an IF issue.
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Re: Ideal Flight Accessibility phase 3

Postby Steve Waite » Mon Jul 05, 2021 10:24 am

Hi Orinks,

It will be a few more weeks yet before next update.


Hi ke7zum,

ALT+TAB changes between sim and next application window which suggests the sim is crashing from a lack of resources which can be any of many reasons, settings in the sim, or even the display driver and so on, the PMDGs are heavy loads on the sim. There's nothing in Ideal Flight that can crash the sim. Also, since you are using a PMDG, that saves files in the sim folder which is read-only, which could be an issue with permissions, however, you are running as admin so usually that takes care of permission to modify. What I do for the PMDGs is add the 'Modify Allow' permission to the parent folder of the sim program since if permission is required we only need add the permission, that is the same as setting to read-write.

I mention how to reduce resources in this post:
http://www.codelegend.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=869&start=120#p8720
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Re: Ideal Flight Accessibility phase 3

Postby Steve Waite » Mon Jul 05, 2021 12:18 pm

I have been going through all the AIRAC handling and found a few problems with certain AIRACs and route types, where routes have been missing out on certain waypoints. This has taken up a lot of time to go through the vast combination of AIRAC types and route types with departures and approaches. Some problems affected how SID/STAR was selected, and some affected the route if runways with left, right, and centre selected. Problems didn't affect building routes or how plans are interpreted by GPS or FMS, just that it missed some waypoints and affected how things were displayed in the briefing. All fixed now.

I found an error in the German text which affected a handful of certain words and phrases in the newer preview versions of Ideal Flight.

I have been testing and evaluating how things are working in Prepar3D v5. This has also taken up a lot of time. All seems to be working well considering the number of recent updates to P3D v5.

I have been experimenting with takeoff assistance and hope to have a working system in place for the next preview update hopefully to be uploaded in the next few weeks. The taxi assist is still in the pipeline and progressing, but will have to be included in a later build.
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