Australia West and Maine-New Hampshire in the Log Book.
4 years 9 months ago #15877
by jer029
John Rogers
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Replied by jer029 on topic Australia West and Maine-New Hampshire in the Log Book.
Nice post Smitty,
I'll have to move the Main/New Hampshire Float Plane Tour up on my list of flights to do.
As for the SPAACARS handling of crashes and disconnects, the pdf manual covers this:
Resuming Flight After Simulator Crash
Don’t close SPAACARs!
Method 1:
If there is a disconnect of FSUIPC – most likely through FSX simulator unexpected closing, you can restart your flight at the location last recorded. The easiest way to do this is by using FSUIPC’s “Auto-Save” feature. Just load the auto-saved flight and you should be flying again about where you left off prior to the sim crash. SPAACARS will link up automatically and continue your flight.
Method 2:
Non-registered FSUIPC users may select the “Use Autosave” option in SPAACAR’s Settings Menu. This will autosave a flight SPAACARS.FLT that can be reloaded in the event of a simulator crash. SPAACARS will link up automatically and continue your flight.
Method 3:
In the absence of a saved flight you can use the position and fuel on board information for that last position update located in the “Acars Messages” tab. Once your simulator is running again and your plane is configured the way it was during your crashed flight, set the fuel on board to match that from the position update block and then cut and paste the lat and lon into the
simulator map/location to have your plane jump to that last recorded location. Again, SPAACARS will automatically reconnect and start recording the flight data.
It's been a while since I've had to restore a simulator or computer reset mid-flight, but I had been using Method-1 above with pretty good success. Occasionally you might get the fuel or time error box upon reconnect, but those error boxes display correct fuel and/or time information to set your simulator to in order to clear those error boxes and continue flying.
I've been meaning to create an instructional video on dealing with those nuisance error box popups, as some pilots have trouble getting the data reset correctly so those boxes will close without popping back up again.
John
I'll have to move the Main/New Hampshire Float Plane Tour up on my list of flights to do.
As for the SPAACARS handling of crashes and disconnects, the pdf manual covers this:
Resuming Flight After Simulator Crash
Don’t close SPAACARs!
Method 1:
If there is a disconnect of FSUIPC – most likely through FSX simulator unexpected closing, you can restart your flight at the location last recorded. The easiest way to do this is by using FSUIPC’s “Auto-Save” feature. Just load the auto-saved flight and you should be flying again about where you left off prior to the sim crash. SPAACARS will link up automatically and continue your flight.
Method 2:
Non-registered FSUIPC users may select the “Use Autosave” option in SPAACAR’s Settings Menu. This will autosave a flight SPAACARS.FLT that can be reloaded in the event of a simulator crash. SPAACARS will link up automatically and continue your flight.
Method 3:
In the absence of a saved flight you can use the position and fuel on board information for that last position update located in the “Acars Messages” tab. Once your simulator is running again and your plane is configured the way it was during your crashed flight, set the fuel on board to match that from the position update block and then cut and paste the lat and lon into the
simulator map/location to have your plane jump to that last recorded location. Again, SPAACARS will automatically reconnect and start recording the flight data.
It's been a while since I've had to restore a simulator or computer reset mid-flight, but I had been using Method-1 above with pretty good success. Occasionally you might get the fuel or time error box upon reconnect, but those error boxes display correct fuel and/or time information to set your simulator to in order to clear those error boxes and continue flying.
I've been meaning to create an instructional video on dealing with those nuisance error box popups, as some pilots have trouble getting the data reset correctly so those boxes will close without popping back up again.
John
John Rogers
Webmaster
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