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#1
Plan-G / Incorret Runway ID's
February 25, 2010, 05:54:32 PM
 I have compiled fresh databases with this version (0.9.1.423).  There seems to be a problem with the runway numbers.  For example: NE49 shows runways 37/41 and so does NE64. This occurs in the FS9 database as well as the FSX database.  For FSX (at least) I am sure that I have no add on scenery that might cause this.  I'm guessing it is something in the algorithm.
#2
Plan-G / Re: Wishlist of New Features
December 11, 2009, 04:31:30 AM
Yes, Aeroworx is correct.  What I am looking for is the operational range of any navaid (VOR or NDB) so I know at what point along the route I should be able to receive the station and it's navigation information.
#3
Plan-G / Wishlist of New Features
December 10, 2009, 08:54:56 AM
I have no idea how difficult these would be to implement, so I'll just throw them out here for my 2 cents worth.

When I hover my mouse over a navaid, what I would like to see is it's range.  I might skip a 38nm VOR in favor of a 195nm VOR some distance further away.  I know that their are various power levels on both VOR's and NDB's.

Are there any future plans to include victor airways, intersections, and such; or is that too IFR'ish?
#4
Plan-G / Re: ETA's counts upwards
December 10, 2009, 08:12:16 AM
It varies but the main factors seem to be:
Connecting to Plan G after departure  (before or after 1st waypoint)
high zoom on google map (to see the towns)

You covered it in section 7.3.8 of the manual, I just didn't RTFM close enough.

Thanks for your patience.
#5
Plan-G / Re: ETA's counts upwards
December 09, 2009, 07:43:21 AM
OK, I've duplicated the conditions, and yes that seems to solve it.

Thank You.
#6
Plan-G / Re: ETA's counts upwards
December 08, 2009, 01:52:35 PM
That would explain the ETA Next increasing, but not necessarily the ETA Dest.  Assuming both are independent calculations, the ETA destination should never increase unless I have overshot the destination, or turned around (flying away from it).  Even if I were to fly towards the destination at a speed slower than predicted, it should momentarily jump up, then being counting down again.  Is there any error trapping routines that eventually make it recalcuate from the next waypoint (like if I cross over the next waypoint)?  From my experience so far, it seems like if it looses track of waypoint 1, the whole ETA calculations are shot for the entire flight.  One last thing comes to mind after reading other posts, I am running dual monitors LG1952 Widescreen for FS9 (1440x900) and Standard CRT type (1024x768) for Plan-G.  They are configured on my video card as independent monitors stacked vertically.

I don't know if this has any bearing on it or not but I've also noticed that it seems to happen when I have zoomed in on Google Map to look at the names of the towns that I am passing. 
#7
Plan-G / Re: ETA's counts upwards
December 07, 2009, 04:30:18 PM
Your explanation is exactly what I would have expected from the planner.  However it does not always work that way in the execution of the code.  Go figure  :P

This morning I flew from KMLE-KDSM using 2 VOR's as waypoints.  Initially the planner worked flawlessly counting down as you explained.  I shut down Plan-G and waited till I crossed the first waypoint and restarted it.  Again it worked flawlessly.  Then I remembered that I had adjusted the configuration mid flight yesterday.  It was in free mode and sound was off.  I changed this back and everything still worked.  When I reverted the settings to Locked and Sound,  it started working as I had described.  I closed the planner, waited 15 seconds and restarted the planner.  It remained working backwards.

So that you may rest assured that I am not delusional, I captured some screenshots.

http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu76/grizzly_bear_usa/Plan-G/PlanG-2009-dec-7-001.jpg

http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu76/grizzly_bear_usa/Plan-G/PlanG-2009-dec-7-002.jpg

I hope this helps.
#8
Plan-G / ETA's counts upwards
December 07, 2009, 05:05:44 AM
Forgive me if this is covered elsewhere, but I didn't find it in the titles, so I will post it as an original question. 

First of all thank you for filling a much needed gap in FS especially in FSX. 

My question, however, pertains to FS9.  I am using Plan-G version 0.8.1.389 in FS9 with FSUPIC ver. 3.40.  I have built the databases and Navaids and airports appear on my map.  So does my aircraft when I connect.  I have the waypoint announcments turned off as the flicker in FS9 so as to be unreadable.  (Sidenote: the announcements Work correctly in FSX)  What I do not understand is that the ETA Next: and ETA Destination: count up.  It is not the local arrival time.  First of all I did not connect to my FS session until the flight was partially underweigh.  It was an IFR flightplan but included only VOR's and NDB's as waypoints.  I called up my .pln file and it read all the waypoints corrently.  I set my airspeed (for the calculations) to 5 KTS lower than my actual KTAS as indicated by DME and crosschecked by the RKG Fuelstats gauge.  I expected the ETA's would decrease as I was flying faster than the calculations indicated.  It started with the calculated ETA and added my flight time to it as I flew.  I also crossed a timezone (W to E) and the ETA arrival time jumped up an hour.  Shouldn't this be a countdown timer?  Am I doing something wrong?

As a final note, I am extremely pleased that the app is essentially portable.  I carry a copy on my flash drive and plan my flights at work with the odd spare moment.  Being able to see the terrain, helps considerably so that I don't have our multiplayer group (VFR) flying over boaring terrain or climbing above mountains without realizing it.  Thank you.