Is FSCaptain Dead?

[lochlanna83]

I just got back into flying with FSCaptain and notice their has not been any updates since December 2017. Is this program still in development?

[peter]

Hi Lochlanna83,

welcome to the FSCaptain forum. I don't think FSCaptain is dead at all:

1) The last public beta of 1.8.1 was released on May 20, see the announcement forum. If you have not installed it, I highly recommend to do so.
2) One-hour response time to your question on this forum. Quite alive
3) Beta testers have access to more recent versions of 1.8.1 beta. The last refresh was distributed two weeks ago.

Having said that, I agree that the development pace has been more slow in 2018. However, that's mainly a factor of real life commitments that Dutch and Travis currently have. Plans to publish FSCaptain 2.0 are still alive and well, though.

Cheers,
Peter

[Travis]

Hello Lochlanna83,

FSCaptain (as well as me) is still not dead.

I am much slower in development than I have been in the past few years though. That's why there hasn't been as many updates as there were previously.

There have been some interruptions, including some adaptations for some new aircraft and for "GSX Level 2".

As Peter noted, there has been "Tester updates" this year. A new update from me will be posted to the testers, and I really hope that a Public Beta 2 will be available before the end of this week (by October 6th).

Best regards,

[airbumps]

Hi Travis,

Are you able to comment on improvements with GSX L2 intergration.

[Travis]

We set the number of passengers to board / deboard. If your next flight has you with 30 PAX on a 737... GSX will send 30 souls into and out of your aircraft.

We can now see the type of anti-ice fluid requested from GSX, and can set our Holdover Time to match.

If you have the option HONOR_OTHER_GROUND_SERVICES enabled, then we can do the following things....

We monitor the GSX LVARs of how many passengers have boarded / deboarded. Our rules are that PAX are boarded when they take their seat, and from what I've gathered, GSX's rules are that PAX are boarded soon after they enter the aircraft. So our counts are minimally behind theirs, but it's not a big deal.

If you leave your FCDU on the "READY TO LOAD" screen (#42?) and start GSX boarding, the FCDU will auto-advance to begin passenger boarding. If you have your FSCaptain crew control your aircraft's exits, they won't close the exits before GSX has boarded all their passengers.

The same process can occur when you go IN. If you initiate GSX deboarding while on the initial arrival FCDU screen, we will auto-follow the GSX deboarding count.
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All of this might even work with "GSX Original" but since I installed "GSX Level 2," I can't be certain. I would greatly appreciate it if a GSX Captain who hasn't installed "Level 2" could test.

Regards,