[Release] Flying PAR/GCA approaches in BMS with vPAR/FSUIPCEmulator
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Hey Ahmed, another cool app you made here to go with your grb2fmap. Question on the transponder though, is it possible to allow the transponder to continually try and connect once told to connect to an IP address that does not have vPAR_Q or vPAR_A running? Currently it looks like it just times out and does not try and connect again until requested. If it were to continually try and connect then the person acting as the ground controller does not have to be present at the start of a mission but can start up the vPAR_Q or vPAR_A as the mission is coming to an end and the clients will automatically connect without any intervention? Just a thought to help in coordinating have ground controllers be more flexible since they may not actually be taking part in the entire flight.
The vPAR Transponder is part of the original program suite, so there is not much I can do to change that. A quick&dirty workaround for your problem could be to launch the transponder when your controller guy is up using RDP from your tablet/smartphone or a quick alt+tab.
On a side note, I have updated the Approaches to Rev3 on the first post. The Kunsan APP sector now includes a MRVA plot as well as a better coastline, and the minimums on the preset approaches are now set to DA (based on BMS elevations) as vPAR is not interpreting the DH as such.
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Gents, here’s a PAR tutorial I put together to help understand the world of PAR’s.
http://www.slideshare.net/MooseMoose2/par-gca-operations-for-falcon-bms-61140914
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Dear Moose,
useful that, almost needless to say.
And thanks a lot for having made and shared it, most of all.With best regards,
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Fsb27, does it work now?
Edit 25/04/2016:
I just try Kusan 36 approach, vPAR Quadradar and vPAR transponder running on the same computer.
WOUAHHHH , What a great tool Ahmed. You can follow your approach on Quad radar … and it is really awesome in BMS world.:D
Thanks a lotWindblow
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two issues…
1. The vPar download link does not work.
2. FSUIPC…if one has a registered FSUIPC is it needed or does it interfere with its installation of installed side by side.Thanks.
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1. The vPar download link does not work.
The site seems to be down and I am afraid I just clean formatted and don’t have a copy in my hard drive. If the website is down for good maybe somebody can upload it somewhere)
EDIT: Thank dropbox for keeping the deleted files. Here is my old copy until the vPAR website comes back up https://www.dropbox.com/s/hcrctmlu62cbebd/vPAR.rar?dl=0
2. FSUIPC…if one has a registered FSUIPC is it needed or does it interfere with its installation of installed side by side.
You don’t need the real FSUIPC for this to work, and it won’t interfere if you have it in any case. Just don’t run MSFS and FSUIPCEmulator at the same time (you wont be anyway – will get an error message advising you)
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Thanks Ahmed !
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Most fantastic! Thank you so much for this!
Regarding the FSUIPCEmulator, I would like to be able to run something like the HSI from RemoteFlight on my iPhone and connect it to BMS. Does FSUIPCEmulator expose enough data to make something like that possible? If not, can I help you add it?
https://remoteflight.net/remote-flight-hsi
Thanks again!
// Jesper
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Wonderful… looking foward to have enough time to test it…
Thanks a lot.
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Ahmed, using your sct, vPAR shows a non-sense lines, not as your image.
Any idea of what’s happening?
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I would bet first post -> known issues -> nr3.
Nothing I can do about it as vPAR is not my software and the dev is MIA. The only way of getting around it is changing your regional settings to have ‘.’ as the decimal separator. You can change it back to ‘,’ after launching vPAR.
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I would bet first post -> known issues -> nr3.
Nothing I can do about it as vPAR is not my software and the dev is MIA. The only way of getting around it is changing your regional settings to have ‘.’ as the decimal separator. You can change it back to ‘,’ after launching vPAR.
Many thanks Ahmed, I missed that point. A different solution is to replace all the points for decimal using a text editor in the sct file.
I am going to develop a sector for Yechon AB. I already have it for f4awacs so I have all the coordinates easily. The only thing that I don’t know how to do is to make circles for the sct (need to do 2, 25 and 50 NM radius). How could I make the circles?
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Used Circle Plotter for that. Working Properly.
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Here you have my sector and PAR parameters for YECHON (RKTY) and a Radar minimum chart for Yechon (Chart in progress)
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/omv0oaqt83gglkv/AADpDFI5Oxr8MY2H7d_bZOhFa?dl=0
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Hi there !
Thanks Ahmed for this beautiful work but is it still working at this time ?I have also a problem when launching vPAR_Q, multiple windows are lauching and the message is “Abnormal program termination” do you know what can be the source ?
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@erwand59:
Hi there !
Thanks Ahmed for this beautiful work but is it still working at this time ?I have also a problem when launching vPAR_Q, multiple windows are lauching and the message is “Abnormal program termination” do you know what can be the source ?
Thanks in advanceFSUIPCEmulator should still work with latest BMS build as it just uses publicly exported shared data. About your error launching VPAR_Q, I just tried launching it on the latest W10 build and had no problems whatsoever… As I didn’t code that tool and the error you mention is quite generic, I’m afraid that I have no clue of what may be the reason Maybe somebody experienced and fixed that problem as well?
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Thank you for your answer,
My problem is weird it’s true , maybe can you send me your VPAR_Q file to see if the problem comes from my computer ? -
FSUIPCEmulator should still work with latest BMS build as it just uses publicly exported shared data. About your error launching VPAR_Q, I just tried launching it on the latest W10 build and had no problems whatsoever… As I didn’t code that tool and the error you mention is quite generic, I’m afraid that I have no clue of what may be the reason Maybe somebody experienced and fixed that problem as well?
Will you improve FSUIPCEmulator for other theatres ??
I am willing to create new sectors for other theatres
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Hola Mario,
FSUIPCEmulator is just the tiny tool that allows you to use FSUIPC based addons in BMS (well, actually only vPAR so far, but I could make more stuff compatible if anybody were interested). What I think you mean is if I’m planning on defining other approaches/sectors for additional theaters in vPAR.
At the moment I’m not planing on defining more, but it is quite a simple task. You can easily define new approaches within the approach editor of the vPAR tool. If you want to create new sector files (i.e. the radar backgrounds for initial approach vectoring) you can check the included KUNSAN_APP.sct file for an example. The format for sector files in vPAR is the same one than ProController or IvAc1. You can find info about this format with a quick google search. If you go for it and have any questions feel free to drop me a pm.
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Hola Mario,
FSUIPCEmulator is just the tiny tool that allows you to use FSUIPC based addons in BMS (well, actually only vPAR so far, but I could make more stuff compatible if anybody were interested). What I think you mean is if I’m planning on defining other approaches/sectors for additional theaters in vPAR.
At the moment I’m not planing on defining more, but it is quite a simple task. You can easily define new approaches within the approach editor of the vPAR tool. If you want to create new sector files (i.e. the radar backgrounds for initial approach vectoring) you can check the included KUNSAN_APP.sct file for an example. The format for sector files in vPAR is the same one than ProController or IvAc1. You can find info about this format with a quick google search. If you go for it and have any questions feel free to drop me a pm.
Mmm I might be wrong, but…
FSUIPCEmulator converts x-y coordinates from falcon to Geographic coordinates and sends it … for KTO, (x=0 and y =0 means N 33º50.625’ and E 123º00’)
If I fly a different theatre , for example, Balkans, (x=0 and y=0 means N36º37.500’ E011º 000’) when I create a sector file for Balkans, with Falcon converted coordinates, Vpar receives the “KTO” coordinates (GEO) instead of the Balkans (GEO) coordinates because FSUIPCEmulator is converting the xy coordinates with the KTO algoritm and draws my aircraft far away of the information contained in the sector
Maybe I am not so good explaining myself but you should know about what I mean.
I think I could mitigate it creating an excel sheet that converts my Balkans GEO coordintaes to XY, then that XY to KTO GEO. But I have some doubt about the longitude conversion (Cos(LAT), etc…)
Thank you in advance.