Sky Dolly

Sky Dolly - The Black Sheep for Your Flight Recordings.

About

Sky Dolly connects to a running Flight Simulator 2020 instance and records various simulation variables, for replay.

The connection is made via SimConnect, a standard API introduced with Flight Simulator X to connect with the flight simulator.

Aso refer to the ABOUT.md.

Features

• Record / Pause / Play
• Formation flights (multiple aircraft, replay during recording, "fly with formation", time offset)
• Settable recording sample rate: fixed or variable ("auto")
• Adjustable replay speed ("slow motion", "timelapse"), replay loop
• Position, velocity and basic flight control simulation variables (ailerons, rudder, flaps, gears, ...) are recorded
• Plugin architecture with various import/export plugins (CSV, GPX, IGC, KML)
• Location module with over 100 default locations and import/export functionality
• Database (SQLite) based persistence ("logbook")

Watch the (preview) release trailer on YouTube:

For more videos created with Sky Dolly also refer to SHOWCASE. New and upcoming features are found in the CHANGELOG.

Basic Usage

• Start a flight
• Click on "Record" (key R)
• You may pause recording (key P)
• Stop recording (key R) and click on "Play" (spacebar)
• Adjust the replay speed and seek the play position, also during replay
• Recorded flights are automatically persisted in the "logbook"
• Select a flight in the logbook and press "Load" (or double-click the row) to load the persisted flight

Formation Recording & Replay

Recording

• Switch to the "Formation" module (key F2)
• Click on "Record" (key R)
• Each recorded aircraft is added to the current flight
• While existing aircraft are replayed during the recording with "auto" sample rate you may still change the recording sample rate

Position

• The last recorded aircraft becomes the "user aircraft" (being followed by the camera in the flight simulator)
• Select a position relative to the current "user aircraft" before recording

Replay

• Simply click on "Play", "Pause" and seek in the timeline, just like with a single aircraft flight
• Change the "user aircraft" (also during replay) to "jump from cockpit to cockpit"
• Take control of the "user aircraft" by selecting either "Take control" or "Fly with Formation" option

Managing Formations

• You may delete single aircraft from a flight ("formation")
• There must be at least one aircraft per flight, so the last aircraft cannot be deleted
• Add a time offset to the selected aircraft ("multiplayer formation flight synchronisation")
• To start a new, single-aircraft flight change back to the "Logbook" module (key F1) and click on "Record" (key R)

Why don't you try it with one of the guided "Tell Tours"? :)

Download

Go to Releases and download the latest release.

Latest (pre-)release: Sky Dolly 0.17.5

Compute and compare your checksum against the published SHA-256 checksums, to verify the integrity of your downloaded copy.

Build

Refer to the BUILD documentation.

Related Projects

• https://github.com/nguyenquyhy/Flight-Recorder - A .Net based flight recording & replay application
• https://github.com/saltysimulations/saltyreplay/ - A recording & replay with a web user interface
• https://github.com/SAHorowitz/MSFS2020-PilotPathRecorder - Records the flight and generates Google Earth (KML format) "replays"
• https://github.com/Elephant42/FS_Tool - A simple tool that allows to set the aircraft location and simulation rate
• https://github.com/pyviator/msfs-geoshot - Takes screenshots and automatically "geotags" them
• https://github.com/ijl20/msfs_logger_replay - IGC logger and replay (for FSX)
• https://joinfs.net/ - Allows to synchronise multiplayer flights across different flight simulators (MSFS, Prepar3D/FSX, XPlane). Also provides a flight recorder with formation flight recording ("overdub").
• https://github.com/paulalexandrow/a32nx-webremote - WebRemote for FlyByWire's A32NX: control cockpit functionality of the FBW A320, using FSUIPC7
• https://flightloganalyzer.com/ - FlightLog Analyer analyses the MSFS logbook and has a CSV export readable by Sky Dolly
• https://github.com/BojoteX/FSAutoSave/ - FSAutoSave automatically (or upon request) stores flight plans
• https://github.com/mracko/MSFS-Landing-Inspector - Analyses your landing performance

Other Useful Resources

• https://obsproject.com/ - Screen capture / broadcast application
• https://sqlitebrowser.org/ - Browse the Sky Dolly logbook (*.sdlog) database files, execute your own SQL queries