Aircraft Direction

[CPC900]

Does the aircraft icon show the direction in FS Acars, or is that a future function?  Mine shows the same icon direction. but I see there are different icons for every possible direction.  Am I missing something?? (probably am )

Bruce

[Nabeel]

It should be showing the heading, yes. FSACARS doesn't report it, so I just try to calculate it

[CPC900]

Ok, I can NEVER see any change to direction to the icon.  It always points SSE it seems.  I have seen other sites show a different direction, so I assume I must be missing something here?!!?

[CPC900]

I took a peek at "http://citybird-va.ccvagroup.org/index.php/acars" and their a/c shows a correct direction.  Any ideas?

[joeri]

yes indeed

thay use xacars or fsflightkeeper to track the flight

gr joeri

[Nabeel]

For FSACARS, it doesn't supply a heading so I have to calculate it, so it was always point towards the destination airport's coordinates

[CPC900]

Ok, so Xacars is a better option then?!  I used it before, but it kept crashing my FSX.

[Nabeel]

Honestly, both XAcars and FSACARS are flaky. Xacars gives better flight tracking, but not flight logs. FSACARS gives great logs, but crappy tracking. I use FS Flight Keeper, it works much better.

[CPC900]

Yes, I agree....FS Flight Keeper is awesome for that, but a lot of people DO NOT use it unfortunately.