Tim,

thanks for the reply - I'll try doing it that way.

Cheers
Jack

Hi Tim,

I have a frustrating problem which I hope you can help with. I've searched through the forum and not found any mention of this, so don't know if it's something on my end or not.

Problem is this - I start to create a flight plan by adding my departure and arrival airports to the plan, this lets me see where I'm headed. I then start to add VOR's or NDB's as waypoints. These of course are added under the last entry ie my arrival airport. This in itself is not the problem, I then right click on the new waypoint in the plan and select "move waypoint up". Now the problem - as soon as the waypoint moves up, the zoom automatically resets itself on the map and zooms way out to level 5 or 6. Then I have to zoom in again to level 10 or 11 and select my next waypoint, move it up and the zoom once again resets. This is particularly frustrating when there are several waypoints to insert in a longer plan.

Am I doing something wrong, or is this a known issue?

Thanks
Jack

False alarm!

It's working again after a reboot of the FSX PC. Sorry to have bothered you.

Cheers
Jack

Hi Tim,

just had a problem this evening, where my AI traffic has stopped showing up (been working perfectly up to now).

I run Plan-G on a laptop over a network, connecting to FSX through FSUIPC. As I said, it's been working for ages, just not tonight. here's an excerpt from the log, which seems to say why, but I don't know what to do about it. Any help appreciated!

17:36:53.9 =====>> PlotOverlayElements. N = 46.2368525814399 s = 45.4100202346398 w = -123.649749755859 e = -121.506042480469 Zoom = 10
17:36:53.9 PlotOverlayElements - starting plot
17:36:53.9   Airspace
17:36:53.9 GetAirspaceInBounds retrieved 16 boundaries
17:36:53.9   NDBs
17:36:53.9   VORs
17:36:53.9   Airports
17:36:53.9 GetAirportsInBounds retrieved 65 airports.
17:36:53.9   ISECs
17:36:53.9   UWpts
17:36:54.0   done
17:36:54.3 Dequeued: AI   50000   True   True
17:36:54.3 AI thread blocked

The last 2 lines seem to point to some problem.

Thanks
Jack

Thanks Tim,

all working now - great support, great programme  ;D

Jack

Hi Tim,

I have installed Plan-G on 2 pc's - on the pc where FSX is installed, and on a networked laptop. I did the installation on the FSX pc only when I couldn't get any database installed on the laptop.

On the FSX pc Plan-G is installed in its own folder on drive F:, while FSX is in drive:E. I'm running Vista Home Premium, 32 bit, German language version, but FSX is English language version, with Acceleration installed. running everything as administrator and have UAC switched off.

I successfully imported the OZx fields data and they show up ok along with the VORs, but as said, none of the base FSX data nor the NDBs are showing and the mdb files are very small.

I just tried creating a database again, but with the same result.

Cheers
Jack

Sorry to bother you again Tim, but have you any idea how I can get Plan-G to load the airports into the database? As you can see from above log extract, it is only loading VORs, but there are no airports being loaded.

Thanks
Jack

Checked the logs on both machines and found the following:

On laptop connected over network, log reports a lot of errors, which seem to be due to the fact that my scenery files are not in the same location as the FSX folder (except for ORBX). The scenery.cfg points to drive E:\ on the server pc, and although this drive is mapped and assigned to Plan_G via Locations, it seems to be searching for Drive E on the client machine and not finding it.

On the PC where FSX is installed, Plan-G successfully finds everything, but is only writing the VORs to the database - no airports or NDBs. The .mdb files are only 524 and 648 Kb respectively, so obviously something is amiss here.
Here is the relevant extract from the log:


5:57:19 Decoded file: MMTX_ADE_FSG_ALT.BGL
15:57:19 Decoded file: MX58_ADE_FSG_ALT.BGL
15:57:19 Decoded file: MX86_ADE_FSG_ALT.BGL
15:57:19 Decoded file: ORBX_YCNK_AFX_ARP.bgl
15:57:19 Decoded file: Traffic_000_WoA_KLM Flight Academy_Wi08_FSX.bgl
15:57:19 Decoded file: Traffic_91_WoA_Jade Cargo_Wi06_FSX.bgl
15:57:19 Decoded file: Traffic_MAIW_Bangladesh Air Force C-130 Component_Wi06_FSX.bgl
15:57:19 Decoded file: Z93_ADE_FSG_ALT.BGL
15:57:19 Writing 9571 VORs
15:57:19  Writing 9571 VORs to VORsX table.
15:57:39 RibbonButton_Click_ConnectFS
15:57:39 FSUIPC.Connect
15:57:39  DEBUG: Building encoded trail
15:57:40 Nearest WX to LAT -27.6365391746008 LON 152.708141165387: YAMB&A28 312348Z 00000KT&D985NG 27019KT&A1973NG 27024KT&A5973NG 100KM&B-476&D3048 2CU056&CU001FNMN000N 6CI392&CI001FNMN000N 15/05 Q1013 @@@ 66 15 270 19 | 197 15 270 24 |
15:57:40 New AI: n/a

Jack

I installed Plan-G on a networked laptop, everything is set up ok.

I can connect to FSX, can also make the database.

When I am connected to FSX, I can see my aircraft on the map, I can see AI traffic and I can see VOR symbols. But that's it. I cannot actually do anything. No airports show up, and if I try to use "Find" function for airport, I get nothing. The filters show City (0) State (0) Country (0). I cannot create a flight plan as it does not seem to see anything other than VORs.

My log shows that it has found all the installed scenery ok. Strangely though, when I open either the Plan-G.mdb file or the _Plan-G.mdb file, there is no data in either of them.

Thinking this might be caused by a network problem I then installed Plan-G on my machine which runs FSX, but the results are exactly the same.

It's obvious I am doing something very wrong, but what? Documentation will be a huge help for idiots like me when it's ready  :D


Thanks in advance for any help.

Jack