eleVAted Posted August 15, 2012 Report Share Posted August 15, 2012 I know that DeltaVA has bascially the most advanced acars system out there but I have seen others that record exact positions of flights like this and a line that tracks where the plane actually was even on the ground like the shot here on this Delta VA pirep. So my question is can Kacars track exact position updates and show them in the pirep for all to see instead of just a straight line from departure to arrival like it currently depicts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stealthbird97 Posted August 15, 2012 Report Share Posted August 15, 2012 It needs to be integrated into the ACARS program kACARS doesn't do it by default. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eleVAted Posted August 15, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2012 how can that be done? or is there plans for it to be a custom option? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Posted August 15, 2012 Report Share Posted August 15, 2012 http://fslive.eu/flight/view/5197 We log it every 5 minutes, as well as speed and altitude... makes for some quite nice maps & graphs... Though, we aren't using kACARS... I would expect it's fairly simple, IIRC kACARS etc just send a big chunk of XML data back to the site, so all it would have to do is create a waypoints table on the site and add location every x seconds into the massive XML string... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lorathon Posted August 16, 2012 Report Share Posted August 16, 2012 Yes a custom kACARS can do that, after the PIREP is filed. In the works is a live flight path. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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