n1066945
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Old Chinese Porverb: Flying is simple. Not hitting the ground is hard.
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Post by n1066945 on Sept 14, 2014 20:10:02 GMT -5
Hi, I was wondering if it would be possible to add a column to the available flights list showing the direction from your current location. This info is already available in the release form, but it sure would be handy to see if a flight is going to take you closer or further away from your base.
Thanks Mark
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Post by Travis on Sept 14, 2014 21:38:04 GMT -5
Mark,
Possible? Yes!
We are planning a great revision of the Administrator for "Version 1.6" or "Version 2.0" or whatever the next big revision of FSCaptain is termed. When that comes, there should be many different fields in the available flights list for you to pick and choose from - and to sort from as well. Adding the Great Circle direction to each of the proposed destinations would be simple.
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Post by peter on Sept 15, 2014 3:23:00 GMT -5
A map would be quite useful. Maybe FSCaptain could create a file for Google Maps (may induce costs) or Open Street Maps (would be free) where your flights are displayed.
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Post by Travis on Sept 16, 2014 21:19:38 GMT -5
Peter,
I wrote a Flightplan Handler for EFB to export all points of a flightplan to a KML file, so this would be child's play.
It's actually been in my to-do list for the "Company Addon" to FSCaptain, so when I can see enough free time in the next few weeks (HA!) I could make a standalone utility to generate a KML file with "great circle" routes from AAAA to BBBB for all flights from an FSCaptain schedule.
I don't know the OSM format for "KML-ish" files, but I'd guess it would not be too complicated.
Mark... does this sound interesting at all??
Regards,
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n1066945
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Old Chinese Porverb: Flying is simple. Not hitting the ground is hard.
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Post by n1066945 on Sept 20, 2014 22:00:48 GMT -5
Yeah but I think it would be a little complicated involving goggle earth. I just want something showing general direction
Mark
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Post by Travis on Sept 21, 2014 1:37:27 GMT -5
Direction from the departure airport (using Great Circle routing) would be a piece of cake.
A separate KML file showing the GC route for all of your airline's flights would be equally simple. (This would be in FSCaptain 2 or some future release.)
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Post by Travis on Nov 26, 2014 10:42:38 GMT -5
Yeah but I think it would be a little complicated involving goggle earth. I just want something showing general direction Mark, I added this last evening for the Beta 5 build - hopefully out this weekend.
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