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1. no wee DHOL n NITOMS de Hadise Dh P100 v DHEA w NITOMS de Hydd Dosh P100 Pet w nm DHA n M7TCOMG dern Dow BIO Paez 9 o D Boang HOEF w oft Peat 0 OF E 23 tiraa U4 6933 DIMAS As 2 FSXAIS internal DB settings FSX AI Spotter User Guide Copyright 2012 Page 19 of 20 The magic button is the Rebuild DB but it is important also the value for the include with less of that the user can set in order to tell FSXAIS to search and include only aircraft wich texure folder count a certain number of bitmap files In this manner the Al aircraft DB will contain only the ightest aircraft and so reduce the FSX work to diplay them The A C Type substitutions is an utility that is used to match the data coming from the external source by DPE connector with those of user Al aircraft For example if the external provider codes the Boeing 777 Long range aircraft with the string B77L but the user has only a B772 for that airline FSXAIS will use this instead of say aircraft not found in the log window This name must be used in case of user provided application that wish to dela with FSXAIS offline mode The value of ate model FSX AI Spotter User Guide Copyright 2012 Page 20 of 202. Wait next interval During the checking of FSX freezed state before any important phase of the program FSX is not in Ready to mode Error retrieving FSX current time During the checking of FSX time each minute Heavy load on FSX SimConnect interface Error receiving id for Creation of parked aircraft Departure phase or creation of enroute aircraft Arrival phase Heavy load on FSX SimConnect interface no AC Id assigned FP NOT assigned Flightplan not assigned due a problem with FSX Heavy load on FSX SimConnect interface Error calling SetTrafficDensity 0 Problem aencounter at first start of FSXAIS FSUIPC related call failed Stopping simulation The user clicked the Stop button or an error was encountered Normal behaviuor in the most cases offline work suspended missing text files During the offline works No traffic files to load Connector Execution problem stopping simulation Problem encounter during execution of the connector application during FSXAIS running General error when FSX is loading or reloading a flight or aircraft or scenery FSXAIS will try to assign the correct ID as the aircraft despite this error is EVEN created FSX AI Spotter User Guide Copyright 2012 Page 15 of 20 Connector Timeout stopping Problem encounter during execution of the The remote Web Data simulation connecto
3. flights each x seconds one from the other This to avoiding multiple A C created in the same sky zone e Introduce alerts for take off and landing aircrafts providing destination runway info too e Try to fix SimConnect server problem on slow PC The aircraft are created right but some mandatory info are missed by Microsoft FSXAIS try to fix these in order to provide better A C status retrievement Rel 1 1 6 e Old log files are automatically deleted from the folder From now on FSXAIS will not use A C Tail as search key but it will try to use the airline variants of the same A C Example if an airport schedule presents more than one Ryanair B738 and FSX has more than one Ryanair B738 Title A C to provide the program will use one of each to fill the schedule Rel 1 0 0 e First public release of the program FSX AI Spotter User Guide Copyright 2012 Page 5 of 20 3 Describing System 3 1 Key Features FSXAIS is indicated for people loving airports environments and air watching in the world of MS FSX Al Spotters The program using the user installed Aircraft is able to create both departure and arrival flights in a certain airport starting from a couple of simple text Comma Separated Values files describing the flights themselves In order to perform this kind of works the AI aircraft must have the appropriate values for a couple of properties in the aircraft cfg file An alerting system wi
4. here the user must insert the airport ICAO code where the traffic files must be generated e Settings button this button will display a window with FSXAIS related settings FSX AI Spotter User Guide Copyright 2012 Page 9 of 20 DB this button will display the panel that report the current Aircraft located on the FSX e DPE Settings This button will show the window with Data Service Provider connector settings Note The very first time the program starts it will going to populate the internal AC DB of Al Aircraft first A window will ask for this click Yes and wait for the DB creation A status bar is also present during the simulation it will be filled with useful operational informations 4 2 Register FSX AI Spotter FSXAIS is first released as shareware form with the following limitation 1 3 flights potentially generated In order to unlock the above limitations you must have registered the programs buying a personal license from the vendors Having these data click on the Settings button next on the Register button A dialog box will appears Registration data User ID Cancel Serial tt Inputs for the register windows Type the user id and serial number you get into the appropriate fields and then click on the Ok button if the data are valid your copy of FSXAIS is well registered Thank you This means that FSXAIS will count each flight in the traffic
5. 4321 EDDF UUDD 19 08 2012 15 40 00 DLH42 6735 EDDF EDD W 19 08 2012 15 50 00 s 6 Input Airport ICAO code G Settings je A C DB settings Sim time Sun 19 08 2012 15 54 2 UTC AC 6 FP 6 In queue arrivals 0 The main working FSXAIS window Depending on the number of aircrafts to be displayed FSXAIS will work like the following screenshot One for the departure roaster and one for the arrival FSX AI Spotter User Guide Copyright 2012 Page 12 of 20 The Log view display informations about operationals routine of FSXAIS Each departure flight is displayed using the best matched AI Aircraft located in FSX if no such aircraft is available that flight will be not visualized When it is the time to depart FSXAIS will assign the related flight plan to that aircraft FSX AI Spotter 1 3 1 3 genixsoft xl FSX Link FSUIPC FSUIPC rel 4 840 FSX kJ Stop SIMCNT SimConnect 10 0 61242 0 Input Airport ICAO code Parking aircraft Wod_DJC_A321_IAE_DLH Lufthansa_D AlSO EDDF Parking aircraft x i Wod B 44 GE DLH Lufthansa D amp BTB Settings aircraft parked Parking aircraft A320 200 DLH Lufthansa A C DB alrcraft parked LOT E170 model not found xj lt gt settings Sim time Sun 19 08 2012 16 01 2 UTC 9 FP 6 In queue arrivals 0 Main FSX Window with departures
6. files as valid regardless of the creation or not in FSX FSX AI Spotter User Guide Copyright 2012 Page 10 of 20 4 3 Exit FSX Spotter To exit FSXAIS program click on the standard Windows close button on the upper left corner of FSXAIS main window EG FSX AI Spotter User Guide Copyright 2012 Page 11 of 20 5 Step by Step Instructions for using FSXAIS In the following chapter we ll assume that MS FSX is up and running so before continue reading this user guide please START FSXAIS BY DOUBLE CLICKING ITS DESKTOP ICON 5 1 Instructions Referring to the main FSXAIS window edit the ICAO code text of the airport where you stay lo cated with your vehicle here KJFK and next click on the Start button FSXAIS will start the routine for the connector if the online mode is enabled next the routine for cancel all static BGL related aircraft next it will collect the FSX Time UTC The routine from the connector will produce the traffic files and their content displayed in the log window FSX AI Spotter 1 3 1 3 genixsoft x FSX Link FSUIPC FSUIPC rel 4 840 FS SIMCNT SimConnect Rel 10 0 61242 0 Calling external fsxaisconnector exe External connector executed Starting txt traffic files analisys DEP DEPARTURES ROASTER DLH8256 MD11 EDDF GO0Y 13 08 2012 15 15 00 UAL327 B 72 5 19 08 2012 15 25 00 CLH148 CRJ7 EDDF EDDN 19 08 2012 15 40 00 DLH1450
7. load a connector click on the Load button A standard Windows File Open dialog will appear Select the connector executable and click The DPE Settings window will filled with the connector name the release note and the connector traffic files names 7 FSX AI Spotter User Guide Copyright 2012 Page 18 of 20 Data Provider Configuration Ex Connector configuration Connector informations fsxaisconnector exe User i er Software Connector for Password FlightAware FlightXML rel 1 4 d ver class C2 Max Row for query 15 A Connector call interval min 15 2 Connector file depart sched tet Connector timeout sec fi 5 Connector arrivals geniX soft is not responsible in any way of costs and contents coming from the data provider v Confirm x Cancel FSXAIS Data provider connector settings If no connector is specified the standard names are used sched txt for departure flight enrou txt for arrival flights 5 4 FSXAIS AI Aircraft Database FSXAIS own an internal database of the Al Aircraft that are installed in the user FSX simulator The creation of this aircraft is obviously fundamental for the FSXAIS program The following chapter will explain the use of the A C DB windows 5 4 1 A C DB window Below the screenshot of the A C DB window o an Sheet 1725 no blew
8. 4 looking towards geniX Software Development User Guide FSX AI Spotter for FSX Version 1 4 X Date 9 20 2012 Table of Contents 1 ABOUT THIS GUIDE ouo aa oen FR a a Yn EU na eara o sissen aus uno duae e uana Rea 3 1 1 tete etre vere eme ned 3 2 INTRODUCTION E 4 2 1 PURPOSE edit Re ERI en hd aate eva timen m te eh ere aedi 4 2 2 SCOPE nii ERA DOW BI eq a BRE DAT 4 2 3 SYSTEMIORGANIZATION 102 25 a Pea o eoa re edo E 5 24 HISTORY iie ERR GUN TORNO MER 5 3 DESCRIBING THE SYSTEM evan osi esti une une EG 6 3 1 A ovd rid M uod ASNE 6 3 2 PROGRAMUINVENT ORY d tete eye naan ve eet ede eve a ed 6 3 3 BNVIRONMENT zu het oven 7 3 4 SYSTEM OPERATIONS eu vede 8 4 3SEARTING ESX AL nee eoo eren ue enean un uae ce a 9 4 1 EIRST TIME USERS non one RR EN naa eed nds e ees 9 4 2 IREGISTERHE SX A Is SPOLTERS A 55er E tr b de S c eb as E ee ER RE ER 10 4 3 EXIT FSX AI SPOTTER uice eerte th tate tbe en ute dee duce e od ee de e NE eT CNN 11 5 STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS FOR USING FSXAIS 0 cccccssssscscesecessscsce
9. ccsesssssccceccsessseeseseeesesees 12 5 1 INSTRUCTION S et EG n FAR 12 5 2 ERRORS MALFUNCTIONS riz atienden adipis d gni db ada 14 5 3 ESXAIS SETTINGS WINDOW rant read ee ned ena De rre nad eA EUH 17 5 4 ESXAIS ALAIRCRAET DATABASE 5a Gee pateret eet e i o e e fa e ei in ee rd d eu 19 FSX AI Spotter User Guide Copyright 2012 Page 2 of 20 1 About this guide This document is divided into the following chapters e Chapter 2 Introduction that expose a briefing of the program e Chapter 3 Describing the system that illustrates the general requirements e Chapter 4 Starting FSX Al Spotter that describe a first start of FSXAIS e Chapter 5 Step by step instructions for using FSXAIS that contains detailed instructions on how deal with the program In this document Microsoft Flight Simulator X amp and Microsoft Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation 1 1 Who Should Use It This guide is intended for users of different degrees of knowledge and experience with the following applications e MS Windows Operating Systems MS FSX release fsx sp120070510 2038 MS SimConnect dll installed release 10 0 61242 0 minimum This guide assumes that you have some knowledge of the operating of the above programs and applications For more information see the appropriate related documentation FSX AI Spotter User Guide Cop
10. cs for the connector and the traffic files format FSX AI Spotter User Guide Copyright 2012 Page 17 of 20 5 3 2 settings Below the screen shot of the dialog box x Connector configuration Connector informations User Load Password O ver Max Row for query 15 Connector call interval min 15 Connector file depart 1 Connector timeout sec 15 24 Connector file arrivals soft i ible i geniX soft is not responsible in any way of the costs and contents coming from the data provider v Confirm x Cancel FSXAIS Data provider configuration settings window This windows is mainly for connectors configuration The connector configuration box permits the input of User and Password couple for access Data Provider on the internet These values are passed to the external connector when called The Max Row for query that can be optional is used in the case the connector can ask the DPE for a certain number of flight instead of all The connector call interval defines the minutes between two consecutive connector call The connector timeout defines how many seconds FSXAIS should waits before declare a connector timeout The connector informations box groups the connector data such as filename and version The filename for departure and arrivals normally are filled by the connector itself during the loading phase In order to
11. g box x proximity to apt on arrival gt about 8 10 of the plan USES RE Separation on oldest arrivals min 1 24 offline mode C abo 6 10 of the plan Clear and save log files at 300 lines Update setings Register FSRAIS FSXAIS general settings window The A C proximity selector tells FSXAIS the distance more or less respects the flight plan where it should create the enroute aircraft that will landing The creation is made according with the arrival time for the flight Note FSXAIS doesn t take in account any third party application that manage arrival flight nor FSX policy for landing aircraft This means that the arrival time could be modified from other programs such as AlSmooth or FSX Al Algorithm itself The offline mode flag permits to tell FSXAIS how manage flights creation If this flag is checked FSXAIS will use the timer interval see DSP settings only to load the traffic files without calling any external connector The user is responsible to provide in any way such files to FSXAIS The Separation value is used to avoid groups of aircraft in the same sky zone All the arriving flights aircrafts will be created with the interval selected here The clear and save log variable determines how many lines the log windows will contains before clear and save the log in a text files a geniXsoft provide for free the Technical Spe
12. ll provide informations on aicraft landing and departing directly into MS FSX main window 3 2 Program Inventory FSX AI Spotter is composed by the following files Ais traffic xml XML raw DB containing airline traffic information Ais aircrafts xml XML raw DB containing user Al aircraft available in FSX Midas dll Internal library of FSXAIS Airlines xml XML raw DB containing real world airline information not used in 1 x Standard xml FSX standard xml template for flight plan not used in 1 x FSXAIS exe manifest net extension used to load the RTM version of Simconnect dll FSXAIS exe Main FSXAIS executable FSXAIS ico Main FSXAIS icon FSX AI Spotter User Guide Copyright 2012 Page 6 of 20 Main FSXAIS configuration file FSXAIS sub Internal file for aircraft substitution filled with samples Standard org FSX standard template for flight plan Release notes FSXAIS latest release notes User Manual FSXAIS user manual That must be all togheter into the destination folder selected by the original setup 3 3 Environment To run FSXAIS is necessary e MS Windows Me XP 2000 Operating system e MS SimConnect dll installed release 10 0 61242 0 minimum e Arunning MS FSX SP1 e default printer assigned into MS Windows e Minimum 5 Mb of free disk space e About 7Mb of free RAM memory e FSUIPC dll from P Dowson 4 5 mini
13. mum We assume also that the system hardware configuration where FSXAIS will run are adequate to run MS FSX first FSX AI Spotter User Guide Copyright 2012 Page 7 of 20 3 3 1 aircraft cfg recommendation In order to display the best aircraft for a certain flight FSXAIS needs that 1 atc parking codes is equal to the effective 3 letters ICAO code of the aircraft airline 2 atc model is equal to the effective 3 letters ICAO code for the aircraft When more than one airline ac type aircraft is present in FSX the assigning phase of an aircraft Title for a certain flight is based on a cyclical algorithm In this manner at list one different ac title will be assigned for each different flights Note For those people that seems give low importance expecially to atc parking code we remember that aspects of a full correct behaviour of the MS FSX is related on HOW are corrects the aircraft cfg files along textures and other things Infact these configurations will affects FIRST your FSX environment next FSXAIS behaviour 3 4 System Operations FSXAIS must be started after MS FSX but only for configuration purpose it can be started alone This case is when you need to rebuild FSXAIS internal DB of AI Aircraft configuration or install a connector Connector is the way to define an external Win32 Console Application that FSXAIS can execute at a certain interval in order to produce the traffic files This operation is what
14. r application during FSXAIS running Provider didn t respond in timely manner Probably Network connection Error Problem encounter during execution of the The connector works stopping simulation connector application during FSXAIS running fine but no traffic files where produced probably a Web Data Provider remote problem 5 2 2 SimConnect specialized messages Below the table the display FSUIPC error messages that can appears in the FSXAIS log Space Message Why SIMCONNECT_EXCEPTION_CREATE_OBJECT_FAILED FSX is not able to load create the Al Aircraft selected by FSXAIS Sometimes for A C enroutes this issue is resolved setting a lowest AC proximity value SIMCONNECT_EXCEPTION_OBJECT_ATC The airport where is FSXAIS working doesn t have ATC Parking space to accommodate the aircraft SIMCONNECT_EXCEPTION_OBJECT_CONTAINER The AIC is installed in FSX but is not detected Restarting FSX should resolve the problem Warning All the SIMConnect error have the form SIMCONNECT EXCEPTION xxxxxx where XXXXXXX is a message string ov variable length The table above lists only those messages that are most common Please report to geniX technical support FSX AI Spotter User Guide Copyright 2012 Page 16 of 20 5 3 FSXAIS settings windows In this chapter we are going to explain the various optional settings of FSXAIS 5 3 1 FSXAIS Settings Below the screen shot of the dialo
15. we indicate as online mode In another way offline mode FSXAIS simply load the traffic files at certain interval in this mode the user could provide himself to generate the traffic file that the program will load From the FSXAIS perspective the master key in such traffic files is the couple ICAO airline code 3 letter Flight number This information is used with one exception throughout the whole program good source for codes is http homepages mcb net bones Flight Sim data FS Aircraft Codes htm FSX AI Spotter User Guide Copyright 2012 Page 8 of 20 4 Starting FSX Al Spotter 4 1 First time Users Note As for the Installation Guide to start FSXAIS click twice with the mouse on the pro gram desktop icon The main FSXAIS interface is the following FSX AI Spotter 1 4 1 4 genixsoft xj FSX Link FSUIPC FSUIPC rel 4 840 FSX Start SIMCNT SimConnect Rel 10 0 51242 0 Input Airport ICAO code p c7 Settings 44 A C DB settings The figure show the main FSXAIS window FSUIPC rel 4 840 FSX SimConnect Rel 10 0 61242 0 Starting from the left from top to down we have FSXLink info box here are the information on the loaded version of FSUIPC and SIMCONNECT Log view panel here are the program log lines written during the running of the application e Start button this button will start the FSXAIS operations Input ICAO code box
16. working Each arrival flight is displayed using the best matched Aircraft located in FSX if no such aircraft is available that flight will be not visualized Depending on the proximity selected see Settings paragraph for further info FSXAIS will try to display the arrival flight at a distance from the airport respect to the flightplan and according to the arrival time scheduled 5 1 1 Status bar info The status bar info are divided into two areas At the left there is the current MS FSX simulator time plus the UTC shift as they coming from the simulator itself At the right there are three informations ive e AC aircrafts created deptarr e FP flightplans created and assigned to aircrafts n queue arrivals if the Separation value is greater than 0 all arriving aircrafts will be forced in a queue Each time interval Separation value one aircraft will be visualized FSX AI Spotter User Guide Copyright 2012 Page 13 of 20 5 1 2 Pausing FSXAIS After start working FSXAIS the Start Button become Stop button This Stop button is useful when you need to stop working FSXAIS but not the actual Al traffic in the FSX generated by the program that remain alive 5 2 Errors and Malfunctions FSXAIS is able to detect some errors and display messages on the Windows desktop Some windows will be displayed if one of three important files are missed in the main FSXAIS directory ais aircrafts xml A bo
17. x window will appear with the message Aircraft DB not exists Exiting Standard org A box window will appear with the message FSX Standard template plan not exists Exiting ais traffic xml A box window will appear with the message Al Traffic DB not exists Exiting After the message box the application will exit Another message box could be displayed in the case of wrong registration code or user Not a valid registration In this case the program will continue to work in the shareware mode A warning will be written in the DPS Setting Window in the space for the connector information if these are missed once loaded a connector program Warning No info from connector Please re load This error could put FSXAIS in the offline mode the error could be related to the connector itself FSX AI Spotter User Guide Copyright 2012 Page 14 of 20 5 2 1 FSX Spotter Messages These messages could be displayed in the FSXAIS log space Message Where Why Connector Execution problem Problem encounter during execution of the connector application during its installation phase Load button in the DPS setting window General error The executable could be the primary cause of this Error retrieving FSX current state During the checking of FSX freezed state before any important phase of the program FSXAIS is not able to get the current freezed status of FSX FSX Freezed
18. yright 2012 Page 3 of 20 2 Introduction 2 1 FSXAI Spotter FSXAIS is a software add on for MS FSX This software can create Aircraft in departure and arrival conditions simply by loading traffic files The traffic files here aren t in the standard bgl format but are very simple text files Moreover FSXAIS is able to call any custom Windows Console Application in order to generate live traffic files for example an application that connect on internet and arranges for the traffic files based on live airport information or load at configurable interval the traffic files itself for example traffic files generated by a more complex Windows Application Purpose of this document is to provide all information on how interact with the program 2 2 Scope Scope of this guide is to provide a panoramic view of how to play with FSXAIS Further some mandatory prerequisites are listed in order to run the program FSX AI Spotter User Guide Copyright 2012 Page 4 of 20 2 3 System Organization This document applies to e FSX AI Spotter for FSX e Version 1 3 x e All builds 2 4 History Rel 1 4 1 e The complete departure arrival roaster now is visible unchecking the Full Log flag Rel 1 3 1 e Improved GUI interface with some useful info on A C creation flight plan assignment and arrival flights queueud e Introduced separation concepts on arrival flights Now is it possible to create arrival
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