Trail .TXT file in GoogleEarth ?

[vbazillio]

Hi all,
It's my first post, so let's start with a quick presentation. I'm french, live in Paris, FS Addict for (too much) years and real PPL pilot.

I discovered Plan-G few months ago and found it outstanding. I love the UI, the strategy to use GoogleMap as background map and the valuable tools inside. One of these is the trail TXT generated (with the callsign aircraft in the name, great feature !).

Is the .TXT file a standard "GPS Like" format ?

I'm using a wellknown french tool named NAVIGATION from FOUFOU to prepare my real VFR navigation but also to convert my GPS Track in GoogleEarth format and see them in 3D. I would like to do so with .TXT Trail file. "Navigation" can import .TRK, CartaLynx, OziExplorer, IGC, Lowrance, Garlink, MapSource, DeltaRoute, Magellan, Tuner, Pegase, Navi, GlobalSat, BayoExplorer and GPX format but Plan-G .TXT Trail are not recognised.

Is there a way to convert .TXT Trail file in a compatible GoogleEarth format ? Is there a Plan-G user somewhere who succeed in using .TXT Trail file in GoogleEarth with a conversion tool (which one and how) ?

But most of all, after this big post : A BIG THANK YOU for this masterpiece.

[tim arnot]

I'm not familiar with those formats, but I imagine it's pretty straightforward to convert. The Plan-G trail has a 7 line header at the top (Title, Type, Model, ID, Airline, Flight, Plan), followed by each plot point, one per line. The plot points contain:

Time, latitude, longitude, altitude (msl), height (agl), heading (magnetic), groundspeed (kts)