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  1. What are your system specs?

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    I have 4.00 Gb of ram. I will have a look into upgrading the graphics card.

    thanks :D

    James

    you have 4 gig on the motherboard but what do you have on the graphics card 256,512,1GB that makes a big difference to how well flightsim runs also the clock speed of the card is important.

    Scott

  2. What are your system specs?

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    Dell Inspron 545 prosesser:Intel® Core2 Quad CPU Q8300 @ 2.50GHz 2.50GHz

    Installed memory (RAM):4.00GB Windows 7 g4-bit Operating System

    Graphics card: ATI Radeon HD 4350

    Does anyone know what I need to upgrade to get more FPS in fsx?

    thanks

    I would say you would need to upgrade your graphics card nothing else. From what I remember as I do not run FSX ( I have it but FS9 is better) FSX will only ever use 2 of you 4 cores so you have enough power I would say it is just your graphics card how much onboard RAM on the card do you have?

  3. Added MS Flight Sim Flight Plan Downloads

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    That wouldn't save you any time really, because the only useful information it could take from the plan is departure icao and arrival icao, possibly cruise altitude...

    Thanks Tom always a font of knowledge I would really love to find someway of adding Schedules other than inputing them manually

  5. Added MS Flight Sim Flight Plan Downloads

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    That sounds like a good idea for a little web app :P

    I may look into it.

    In fact, it would be pretty awkward to code, and equally as awkward to use. You'd need to enter the dep/arr times, days of the week, flight num, price... blah blah. It wouldn't really save any time.

    would it be possible to change the way phpVMS asks for that infomation.

    so that you match on the website the layout of what you are useing to set up your schedules?

  6. Added MS Flight Sim Flight Plan Downloads

    in Releases

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    From a glance, this appears to be turning your phpVMS schedules into MSFS flight plans. Turning them back into schedules would be useless.

    I guess it would be great if you could create the schedule in flightsim or vroute or FSnav then convert them in to the .CSV format and add them to the website.

  7. Creating Schedules using Ultimate Airlines

    in Support Forum

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    Hi all,

    I am not sure but I think I may have found a way to generate Schedules for phpVMS, although I have hit a bit of a problem I know nothing about how to set the exported file from UA which is a .UTT file extention. I have dicovered that the file can be opened with excel but I have no clue how to set it up to be a .CSV file or how to get all the required fields in to the right table format.

    If anyone has any ideas please let me know.

    If I can get this to work I will do a file dump of all the routes and Aircraft so you will be able to download it and choose which Schedules you would like and upload it to your VA.

    You will still be able to add your own routes but if you emulate a real world airline this will save you alot of time inputting data to the VA.

    Thanks

    Scott

  9. Added MS Flight Sim Flight Plan Downloads

    in Releases

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    I have made a neat little tweak I made to my site, it may come in handy if anyone wants to enable FS flight plan downloads like I did for each scheduled flight. Basically, I use vRoute to create MS Flight Sim flight plans, and then put them in a folder on my server. I wanted other member pilots to be able to download these, so they could just load them up in the flight sim. The way I done it is probably very rough and ready as I am a newcomer to PHP and SQL.

    First I added a new field to the phpvms_schedules table in the database. I called this table 'flplan'. The field type was set to text.

    Next I thought about how to add the flightplan to the database, and decided that I would use the flight plan's filename as the stored data. In my case I have named each flight plan file bav####.pln (the #### being the flight schedule number). Here's how I done it:

    Open /admin/modules/Operations/Operations.php.

    Added this -  *'flplan'=>$this->post->flplan,* on new line after Line 669: Don't enter the *'s, I used these to show where the new line is entered. Here's how it looks after inserting the line:

    'price'=>$this->post->price,
'flighttype'=>$this->post->flighttype,
'notes'=>$this->post->notes,
'flplan'=>$this->post->flplan,
'enabled'=>$enabled);

    And added the same new piece of code after line 724:

    'price'=>$this->post->price,
'flighttype'=>$this->post->flighttype,
'notes'=>$this->post->notes,
'flplan'=>$this->post->flplan,
'enabled'=>$enabled);

    Once that's done save the file.

    Next up is to create a field in the add schedule form. So open /admin/templates/ops_scheduleform.tpl

    Insert a new line after the </tr> on line 191. On this new line add the following:

    <tr>
<td valign="top"><strong>Flight Plan</strong></td>
<td valign="top" style="padding-top: 0px">
<textarea name="flplan" style="width: 40%; height: 30px"><?php echo $schedule->flplan?></textarea>
</tr>

    This will create a text field for you to enter the flightplan's filename on the schedule. Once filled in it will save the value to the database.

    Next up, I wanted the link to the flightplan to be available on the pilots brief page. So open /core/templates/schedule_briefing.tpl

    Add the following code so that the table appears where you want it:

     
<table align="center" padding="2" style="width: 98%">
<tr style="background-color: #333; color: #FFF; padding: 5px;">
<td style="width: 98%">Pre-compiled Flight Plans</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 98%px">
<a href=" *The full URL to the folder where your flight plans are stored* /<?php echo $schedule->flplan?>" target="_blank">Download MSFS Flight Plan</a><br><br></td>
</tr>
</table>

    Once that's done save the file.

    Sorry about this post being a bit noobish, but this is the first time I have shared my tweaking efforts :D  I can't guarantee it will work on your site, but it works a treat for me. Here's how it looks on my site:

    On the pilots brief page:

    flplan.PNG

    On the admin add schedule page:

    flplan2.PNG

    Hope some of you guys find it useful!

    Cheers,

    Stu

    Would it be possible to create a VA's Schedules from this and add them to phpvms?

    Or am I missing the point of the add on?

    Thanks Scott

  11. Best way to set up schedules

    in Support Forum

    Posted

    Hi Scott. Now this is going to sound far fetched but please stick with me until the end.

    If you have Ultimate traffic, pick a random airline and generate their time tables. If you do not have it, I am more than sure you can find someone that can generate them for you and email the pdf docs or something like that. That is how I am doing it.

    If that does not work for you as an option, feel free to add schedules as you wish man. It's your VA, run it your way. That is the awesome thing about running an airline that is not mirrored off of a real airline. You are free to do as you want.

    I have found a program which could possibly solve the problem of setting up schedules it is called Ultimate Airline from flight 1 there is just one problem with it they do not make the program anymore, niether can i find it anywhere on the web to download it if any one know where i might be able to find this software i would be eternally grateful.

    Here is a link to the documentation I have found http://www.flightsim.com/main/review/ult/ult.htm

    Thanks Scott

  12. Best way to set up schedules

    in Support Forum

    Posted

    Hi Scott. Now this is going to sound far fetched but please stick with me until the end.

    If you have Ultimate traffic, pick a random airline and generate their time tables. If you do not have it, I am more than sure you can find someone that can generate them for you and email the pdf docs or something like that. That is how I am doing it.

    If that does not work for you as an option, feel free to add schedules as you wish man. It's your VA, run it your way. That is the awesome thing about running an airline that is not mirrored off of a real airline. You are free to do as you want.

    Ok great tip thanks very much!!!

    I am sure there is some clever person out there that could link ultimate traffic to phpvms so you can select the airline you want to use as a copy and insert it into the shedules.

    I know this is a pipe dream but it was just a thought.

    Anyway thanks again

    Scott

  14. Best way to set up schedules

    in Support Forum

    Posted

    Hi all,

    I have been using phpvms for about 2 months now and I think I have finally figured out most of it I.E when i need to change something which .TPL file I need to edit.

    But what I can't seem to get my head around is the schedules, I have bought the simpilot Tour System add on which I have got to work after a fashion.

    This is only because of my schedules, I have had to add a load of schedules which I had not intended on adding just to get the Tour System to work.

    So my question is has anyone else got the tour system and if so how did you set up the schedules in order to make it work correctly, also my schedules seem to be quite eratic due to the fact that I do not have a real world airline to copy routes from as they do not exsist anymore.

    So has anyone got any suggestions?

    Thanks in advance

    Scott

  20. Angel Air VA is NOW OPEN

    in Virtual Airlines Discussion

    Posted

    Hi all,

    After many hours of sitting in front of my computer neglecting my family and friends I bleieve I have got the website to the point where it is ready to be released to the general public.

    I would like to add that it is still very much a work in progress but the site is all working well and kACARS is now functioning correctly.

    So as the title says we are ready to recruit pilots and staff.

    here is the link to the site Angel Air VA I am sure there is still lots of room for improvement which will all come in due time.

    All in all I believe that this is 1000% better than my first attempt check it out and tell me what you think.

    Thanks

    Scott Bridge

    CEO Angel Air Virtual Airline

  21. VAForum 2

    in Releases

    Posted

    It would be great to have a regular editor with full function, but the last one we found to use in the forum gave a nice opening for hackers.

    Someone recently posted another text editor, but I am not sure of it's status.

    And it is not the fact that they can not get their heads around code so much as having to have them upload to photobucket then place the bbcode on site etc etc. It would be much easier to load an image as an attachment and it shows up in the post kind of like the screenshot gallery does, but it would not need admin approval.

    Hi,

    That would be exactly the type of setup that would be needed i.e screenshot gallery also I think I am not sure but the editor you are talking about is the VMSeditor which can be found here http://forum.phpvms.net/topic/4606-vmseditor-11/ Which I have installed on my site but could not get it to work.

    If there is some way to adapt this to work with the forum that would be great.

    With the creators permission of course :)

    Scott

  22. VAForum 2

    in Releases

    Posted

    Sorry Angel Air. Now after reading your post for the 3rd time, I finally got the blonde out of my hair and caught on to what you were saying.

    Can you not use BBCode in your posts? We do on my site.

    if that is the way I can do it then I will any pointers on how to implement the BBcode into the forum?

    Thanks scott

  24. VAForum 2

    in Releases

    Posted

    Ray, what did you mean earlier by category heirarchy? Like categories within categories or..?

    I'll give you a few ideas I plan to include in the next forum:

    - text editor (there's your button to include an image)

    - possibly bit.ly & an image site API integration for images and URLs

    - read and unread topics, with forum and topic icons to indicate this

    - category visibility by pilot group

    - move admin into admin panel (probably using a 'forum admin' group)

    I think I have more but these will do for now :P

    I cant wait too see the update

    Scott

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