Another flight

[asandor]

Just did another flight in the JARDesign A330 and the altitude between the app and the web site was accurate this time, but, when I finished the flight, the Flight Summary page is plank and I can't submit the flight now.

Here is the link for the acars log.txt file.

Here is a picture of what my side shows.

[asandor]

Did the same flight again thinking it was something on my end, but did the exact same thing. Acars show Detected arrived, and shows the gate I parked at, then sends me to a blank file page.

Using the same aircraft as the previous flight, the JARDesign A330.

Here is the laravel log for this flight.

I will try another flight later with a different aircraft to see if it has the same issue.

This flight was a bid flight.

This is what was in the acars.txt file in the main xp directory

ACARS Connect [Version 1.0.0]
Compiled Aug 23 2019 18:39:30
X-Plane Version: 11351
Plugin Manager Version: 301
07:49:06.764| INFO|EXEC|Plugin Enabled, sockets opened
07:49:06.764| INFO|EXEC|Debug Logging Enabled (Verbosity: 4)
08:07:45.352| WARN|EXEC|Cleared UDP Buffer
08:08:43.063| WARN|EXEC|Cleared UDP Buffer
08:09:39.878| WARN|EXEC|Cleared UDP Buffer
08:10:04.214| WARN|EXEC|Cleared UDP Buffer
11:12:25.022| INFO|EXEC|Plugin Disabled, sockets closed

Edited September 1, 2019 by asandor

[ProAvia]

If you leave the ACARS program open for a while (possibly a few hours worked for me), can you then file the PIREP?

Are you using the latest phpVMS build? Latest ACARS build?

I had a similar issue with an older build and was able to file after waiting 2+ hours. I don't remember if any pages were blank after arrival though - just not able to file the PIREP right after flight completion.

[asandor]

I didn't wait that long, maybe about 30 min or so. Have the latest of both web and acars.

I'm going to try a different aircraft later today, maybe its actually the aircraft that is causing the issue.

[ProAvia]

I just happened to leave mine setting - so sometime between 30 minutes and 2 hours, something must have updated and then at 2 hours I clicked and it submitted.

That may be - I was using the default B737-800 that I imported from FSX. And just a short flight from KIAH to KDAL.

 

[asandor]

I tried a flight in the Zibo 737-800 on X-Plane 11 11.35 and it gave me the file screen no problem. Wonder if it has to do with the JARDesign A330. The flight is fine, though it does give the beacon on/beacon off message all the time when I turn the beacon on.

[ProAvia]

I guess you would have to try the JARDesign A330 again. 

Are you saying when you turn the beacon on in the Zibo B728 the ACARS reports it is off? Or when you turn it on, it reports on then off right away?

[asandor]

Some aircraft on X-Plane don't use the standard function to turn the beacon on and off, the JARDesign A330 is one of the, the Zibo aircraft is fine. The FlightFactor A320 is another one.

I will try the JARDesign A330 again later.

[ProAvia]

That's good to know - thanks!

Some FSX/P3D aircraft lights are also called by non-standard events also. The only actual ones documented in FSUIPC are the PMDG aircraft - but not sure it's worth the time to program an ACARS to align with them.

[asandor]

So now I've having a different issue. I added a new airport to VA site, and when I go into acars, and try to use that airport as a destination, its telling me the airport ICAO is invalid. I've restarted acars a few times and still nothing. I even rebuild the X-Plane scenery cache in acars.

No error showing up in the acars log.txt file.

But there is an error in the laravel log. Here is that log file

[asandor]

Well I just did another short flight in the JARDesign A330, and acars gave me the file screen this time. Not sure what the problem was the other 2 times I did it.

In a day or 2 I will try the KDFW to KMIA flight again and see if it works.

[asandor]

Well, had the same problem on the 2 hour+ flight in the JARDesign A330. Got to Miami, landed, set the brakes and blank page for the Flight Summary page. Will not let me file it. I'll wait a bit and see what happens.

Wonder if the issue is I set the parking brake way to early, Set it at a runway crossing since there was some traffic on the runway.

Maybe its a good idea to manually complete the flight instead of having it complete automatically. Though on the short flight I did, I did the same thing with the parking brake, but it gave me the summary page and let me file the pirep.

Here is the acars log.txt

[Nabeel]

12 hours ago, asandor said:

Well, had the same problem on the 2 hour+ flight in the JARDesign A330. Got to Miami, landed, set the brakes and blank page for the Flight Summary page. Will not let me file it. I'll wait a bit and see what happens.

Wonder if the issue is I set the parking brake way to early, Set it at a runway crossing since there was some traffic on the runway.

Maybe its a good idea to manually complete the flight instead of having it complete automatically. Though on the short flight I did, I did the same thing with the parking brake, but it gave me the summary page and let me file the pirep.

Here is the acars log.txt

When/where you set the parking brake shouldn't really matter, unless you want it to try to detect the gate. I've seen this happen sometimes. I've been refactoring internally a ton because the way I have the navigation internally is a little wonky and I'm seeing some weird behaviors like this.

I like the idea of having a "complete flight" button instead of trying to do it automatically, an extra click won't matter.

[Nabeel]

On 9/1/2019 at 2:24 PM, asandor said:

Did the same flight again thinking it was something on my end, but did the exact same thing. Acars show Detected arrived, and shows the gate I parked at, then sends me to a blank file page.

Using the same aircraft as the previous flight, the JARDesign A330.

Here is the laravel log for this flight.

I will try another flight later with a different aircraft to see if it has the same issue.

This flight was a bid flight.

This is what was in the acars.txt file in the main xp directory

ACARS Connect [Version 1.0.0]
Compiled Aug 23 2019 18:39:30
X-Plane Version: 11351
Plugin Manager Version: 301
07:49:06.764| INFO|EXEC|Plugin Enabled, sockets opened
07:49:06.764| INFO|EXEC|Debug Logging Enabled (Verbosity: 4)
08:07:45.352| WARN|EXEC|Cleared UDP Buffer
08:08:43.063| WARN|EXEC|Cleared UDP Buffer
08:09:39.878| WARN|EXEC|Cleared UDP Buffer
08:10:04.214| WARN|EXEC|Cleared UDP Buffer
11:12:25.022| INFO|EXEC|Plugin Disabled, sockets closed

Those "Cleared UDP Buffer" messages are interesting... do you remember seeing a drop in framerates then? That message means that it was taking it some time to process events and it needed to flush what was queued to catch up.

[Nabeel]

On 9/2/2019 at 4:11 PM, asandor said:

So now I've having a different issue. I added a new airport to VA site, and when I go into acars, and try to use that airport as a destination, its telling me the airport ICAO is invalid. I've restarted acars a few times and still nothing. I even rebuild the X-Plane scenery cache in acars.

No error showing up in the acars log.txt file.

But there is an error in the laravel log. Here is that log file

That Laravel error is unrelated but I fixed it in the latest dev. That error means it can't be found in the scenery lookup. Which airport and is it an addon?

[asandor]

2 hours ago, Nabeel said:

Those "Cleared UDP Buffer" messages are interesting... do you remember seeing a drop in framerates then? That message means that it was taking it some time to process events and it needed to flush what was queued to catch up.

I get frame rate drops now and then when entering areas where I have extended scenery like in the Miami area which has orthos set up around the city, plus the city is payware and so is that airport. So I just assumed that the frame rate drop is when enter that area and it has to load a bunch of stuff.

The only other thing is that I was using the JARDesign A330 and was getting a lot of the Beacon Off/On messages.

Edited September 4, 2019 by asandor

[asandor]

2 hours ago, Nabeel said:

That Laravel error is unrelated but I fixed it in the latest dev. That error means it can't be found in the scenery lookup. Which airport and is it an addon?

For that log, the 2 airports where KDFW which is a payware airport and KMIA which is another payware airport.

[Nabeel]

21 hours ago, asandor said:

For that log, the 2 airports where KDFW which is a payware airport and KMIA which is another payware airport.

Can you attach the dat files? I wonder if there's something else that's also in that file format that I'm not parsing correctly. 

[asandor]

3 hours ago, Nabeel said:

Can you attach the dat files? I wonder if there's something else that's also in that file format that I'm not parsing correctly. 

Ok, here are the airport dat files for KDFW and KMIA