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astenlund / fs2ff

A utility that connects Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 with ForeFlight, Sky Demon, Garmin Pilot, FlyQ EFB, and probably a few more EFB apps
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Traffic not always visible in ForeFlight #1

Closed wiseman closed 4 years ago

wiseman commented 4 years ago

First, thank you! This is great, and thank you for doing it.

I'm using FS2020 and ForeFlight. Currently I'm seeing "live" (ADS-B) traffic that FS2020 imports from Flightaware or whatever on ForeFlight, but I don't think I'm seeing any other player traffic. Here's an example of traffic that doesn't show up in ForeFlight:

0 XTRAFFICMSFS,1,34.04482,-118.25918,1359.8,-2099.9,1,80.528,120.4,AS-XGSK

And here's traffic that does:

12.2 XTRAFFICMSFS,17171,33.94483,-118.43457,126.3,0,0,259.889,0,Southwest 1324

(The 0 and 12.2 are the distances in miles from me to the traffic; I print it just for debugging purposes and don't send it to ForeFlight.)

The only thing that sticks out is the ID, 1, of AS-XGSK. I mean, 17171 isn't a valid ICAO either as far as I know; It's not possible that ForeFlight cares about the ICAO, is it?

wiseman commented 4 years ago

Also, since I see that traffic support is new, I'll mention another weird thing I see: A bunch of player aircraft seem to be coming in with latitude 0, longitude 0.

astenlund commented 4 years ago

John,

Thank you for this information, I will check it out as time permits!

Sincerely, Andreas Stenlund

On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 at 06:29, John Wiseman notifications@github.com wrote:

Also, since I see that traffic support is new, I'll mention another weird thing I see: A bunch of player aircraft seem to be coming in with latitude 0, longitude 0.

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wiseman commented 4 years ago

Digging into this some more, I realized that AS-XGSK was my aircraft, so I guess that's why I'm not seeing it. I think there are still players flying in the sim that I don't see in ForeFlight, but I'll have to do more testing to confirm that. There are definitely still aircraft with coordinates (0, 0).

astenlund commented 4 years ago

Just going to the main menu and connecting the fs2ff app indeed gives me two objects (id 0 and 1) with Lat/Lon of 0 degrees. I have no idea what those objects are, but I guess at least one of them is my own aircraft. In that case, those coordinates should no longer show up once the player has spawned at an airport. Will have to test that later.

EDIT: I've done some more testing and it seems that only live traffic is visible, not other players. This is all the data I'm getting from the SimConnect SDK, but I will investigate further.

astenlund commented 4 years ago

The missing traffic is apparently a bug (or missing feature) in the SimConnect SDK, so nothing that I can do anything about. XMapsy has the same issue. Re-open if this is still not working after a fix has been announced by Asobo/Microsoft.

wiseman commented 4 years ago

Thanks for the info. I'll keep an eye out for changes.