Plan G Observations

[Scotflieger]

I have recently been introduced to Plan G. It is a fantastic resource when flying VFR in VATSIM. There are a few things I have observed and not been able to find an answer to:

• Missing ATZ and MATZ zones on the map for the UK. Most other airspace classifications are displayed but these Airfield and Military traffic Zones for smaller airfields are missing.
• When a user disconnects their red and blue aircraft symbol remains at the last location even if the user reconnects. These symbols should time out.
• There appears no means of saving your plotted flight which disappears when you disconnect.
• When using multiple displays (I use 3), the various sub windows (eg. traffic, vatsim, plan) can appear off the visible screens with no way of pulling them back the main window screen. 

[tim arnot]

1. Plan-G works with the airspace defined in your sim. There are various addons available to enhance airspace, from sites such as https://www.cixvfrclub.org.uk or http://soaringweb.org/Airspace/HomePage.html (X-Plane). They have to be installed and the database rebuilt for Plan-G to see them.

2. They do time out, according to the refresh period defined in Options.

3. Make sure Log Trail is ticked in Options. Trails are stored in Plan-G Files/Trail, in .IGC format, which can be displayed both by Plan-G and 3rd party soaring apps.

4. Options- > Reset Tool Windows

[Scotflieger]

Thank you Tim for your response to my questions. I have achieved a couple but need to investigate the others.

The other aircraft red/blue aircraft symbol are no disappearing after the refresh period when the other user disconnects from VATSIM. It can leave the last position marked until I log out.

I also found Plan G freezing/extreme go slow when I changed in Options to SimConnect P3D to match my P3Dv4.1 sim. I had to revert to the previous setting of SimConnect FSX to regain use of Plan G. PLEASE IGNORE - fixed post read. Note there is a typo "1.Create a Simconnext.xml file " (x to c needed)

[tim arnot]

Red or blue? Red aircraft are local AI, blue are Vatsim. Red aircraft won't disappear after you disconnect from Vatsim!

[Scotflieger]

Hi Tim

I am aware of the 2 colours and their sources. The red TCAS/AI symbols remains at the last position when the other users disconnect from VATSIM and their TCAS is lost. You see this particularly at the local airfield. The red symbols then remain on screen until you disconnect your Flt Sim Plan G. The last VATSIM position blue symbol also remains on screen under the same conditions. They do not time out.