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This is the new design i created for my VA. It will also be available as layout option for the custom cACARS Version. Its not 100% finished yet but since some people were asking me if it is possible to costumize the layout i thought i put it up here as example.

Yes of course the Design can be completely adjusted to the liking of the VA. The prices then depend on the specific layout the VA wants to have.

Hey guys, I have now released v1.00 of the cACARS Free flight tracking client. The module and client can be downloaded here: http://www.crazycreatives.com/cacars-free/ Also the first pack of custom options are available. You can find prices and available options here: http://www.crazycreatives.com/cacars-flight-tracker/ Further options will be added in the future.

Is that in the default ACARS script or is it in the script of the acars client? Would be cool if you could find the code. I could of course write something myself but i want to keep the free client as simple as possible when it comes to such stuff so that anybody can use it. I really wouldnt like to generate flight numbers which then may break the flight numbering concept of a VA or so.

yeah it shouldnt be a problem at all to add dropdowns for the airports and aircraft. But what is actually going on on your site when someone flies such a charter flight? for example what is displayed as flight numbe. in the live acars? i never had a charter system in our client at hellenic airways so i need to get info from someone who uses this function Once i figure out how it is supposed to work it should be no issue to implement it.

Mark thats what I meant..... how does that work? does the client create a schedule for that flight? cause as far as i remember a PIREP doesnt get submited if there is no schedule for that flight.

Actually because for the custom versions i am working on i need stuff which isnt covered by the default functions since its stored in seperate tables. For the free version i just removed those lines But i think there are only 2 custom queries in the free module anyway...the other stuff uses the default functions. However even for my modules i prefer to write my own queries. For me it is faster than searching the function names in the core file. plus i have control of what data i need to query. i had to adjust a lot of queries in the past at Hellenic Airways because the phpvms core functions lead to out of memory errors. Most often that is because phpvms loads all data with *. Adjusting it to query only the required fields immediately got rid of these problems.

Well there are already Charter modules which do that....i have one on my site and simpilot has one. Both allow pilots to create flights and book them from the site.

I think i got the simrate thing fixed in the next Version....just fixing some other stuff as well before i upload it. For Charters i could add a field to select an aircraft. However the limits are more for a custom Version cause i think kany VAs dont restrict the pilots to their own and the aircraft location for Charter flights. So that would be unuseable for them. What i dont really understand yet is how flight numbers work on the Charter options of other Clients. As far as i'm aware of a pirep can only be Submitted when the flight exisits in the schedules right? Now if i let the client add a new flight for all Charter flights flown they would also appear as schedules on my website and i wouldnt really want that!?

Well i havent added Charters because the customers for which i started developing this use a charter module on their website and didnt want to allow pilots to just fly where they want from within the client but it should be pretty easy to add. How do you guys want the Charter option to work?

Rgr that i will look into the simrate issue. Stall and Overspeed are already logged in the free Version. The custom versions will include Com and Nav frequencies, transponder, weather conditions at takeoff and,landing, lights,.... Those are planned to be basic for all custom versions. Additionally more or less anything can be added to the log in custom versions.

I will have a look at this... i havent seen that yet. Do you actually change the simrate or is this coming up without you doing anything?

Aah yeah & breaks the xml....i will adjust the code so that it doesnt break if there is a & in any of the fields

canyoupost a screenshot of the airport data for LQSA

Hm whats with the second floght? is it normal that it has 2 values for all the times?

From now on i post updates to the files only here: http://www.simval.net/index.php/topic/35-cacars-beta-download/ That is easier than sending them to everyone seperately. If you do not want to participate in the testing please do not download the files yet. It definately is not ready for release yet.

Ok i'll add that as option which can be turned on in the module

Ah yeah that should be no problem...but should it overwrite the existing route in the schedules table or add routes to a seperate table from where you could then echo them on your briefings?

Thats indeed very interesting but the question is where to get them from. Using an API would cost money so it wouldnt be added to a free Version anyway. However since most likely you would like to have the Info also on your websites Briefing page and not only on acars it would be better to update the routes in your DB by getting routes via an API or so. At my VA i let the pilots keep the routes updated. On the Briefing page they can add different routings. When another pilot books a flight between those airports he gets a list of all routings in our database for this leg with the most used routing on top. That so far was the best free solution i came up with since i really didnt want to pay an expensive API for each route request.

Eh well 18 years i guess is 8 years older than 10 years

Hey guys i`m currently developing an ACARS client for some of my website customers and am going to release a basic version of it for free. I`m now starting the Beta Test Phase of it and would need some guys who are interested in trying it and give me some feedback on what i need to improve before i can release it. If you are interested please PM me so that i can send you the required files. Here are some screenshots (WIP):

I usually do not comment in the code unless its really much and complicated or at some specific spots to help me find them quicker.

500kts Groundspeed as average seems indeed pretty high. But what i actually meant was the distance of some of the flights 9500nm+ seems also too high. What aircrafttype is used on these flights?

Very nice module but i think you need to look again at a few functions. All flightlevels on the Sample page are very low and some flights are ~ 18h over 9500NM. I doubt that this is possible to achieve with a commercial aircraft.

Leipzigair is not running on phpvms as far as i know. They use a custom system.