Hi all,I am looking for a tool (or a way to configure FSUIPC) that would enable me to log the following very specific parameters for a whole flight, and keep it in a txt or xls (or any other format) file :1) TAT and SAT (not as important as the other 5 parameters)2) Altitude (if possible FL)3) Total Weight4) Fuel remaining and/or used5) TAS6) Distance flown since start of logall of that logged regularly, say either every xx seconds, or every xx NM, or every xxx kg of fuel burnt (of course configurable if possible)I have blackbox flightlogger, but I don't get the feeling it can create such a fileThanks in advance for all your suggestions and ideas

I'd look into one of the various ACARS applications available, for example FSACARS, XACARS or KACARS. All of them are basically digital flight datarecorders, but im not sure exactly which paramters they are logging. Its also fairly straight forward to program an application that logs the parameters you are looking to log, if you're a programmer that is

Hi Wims,thanks for your reply. i'll have a look into the ACARS softwares you suggest. However they seem to record start and end fuel, but not the fuel enroute. I'll give it a try though.As for programming... last time I programmed something was... pfew... more than 10 years ago when I was at university. I don't even have any software to build programs on my computer at the moment. But should somebody (you or any other ?) feel like giving me directions as to what programming tool to use, and how, I'll gladly try to bring back my C++ remnants. OR... if one of you programmers should feel like quickly building such a tool :(

But should somebody (you or any other ?) feel like giving me directions as to what programming tool to use, and how, I'll gladly try to bring back my C++ remnants.

Get yourself an IDE for free. You dont need to worry about the Pro editions etc as you can do everything you want with the Express edition. I have VS2008 Pro but thats because I use Visual Assist addin - http://www.wholetomato.com/http://www.microsoft.com/express/Downloads/Then get the full version of FSUIPC for reading your offset datahttp://fsuipc.simflight.com/beta/FSUIPC4.zipThen get the SDK so you can see how the offsets are read etchttp://www.schiratti.com/files/dowson/FSUIPC_SDK.zip?timestamp=010309Then download this excellent dll for vb.net/c# if that is what you are going to use (I do)http://forum.simflight.com/topic/40989-fsuipc-client-dll-for-net-version-20/Then if you need programming help use google. Lots of good tutorials to get started with the IDE and OOP.Best thing about doing it yourself is you add in what you want to! Everything above is completely free apart from FSUIPC (which you should have anyway!) and visual assist.Create classes for your data ie aircraft, flight stage etc then do all your monitoring via timers.Get the above, play around and if you have any questions etc then feel free to email/pm me.

Rgr thanks for the guidelines, I'll try to get my programming reflexes back... it's been such a long time. You mention C#. This didn't exist when I was still programming. I stopped at C++. Should I plan to use C# or stay with C++ as both are downloadable on the microsoft page you mentionned ?I do have fsuipc so that should be OK. I'll probably not purchase your addon as it's probably gonna be the only bit of programming I'll ever do for some years :DThanks again for all the advice.

C# is really easy and stress free, its pretty much like java. Its my favorite language for solving problems, since it lets you focus your energy on the actualy problem instead of spending half of it on working with the language. Its biggest disadvantage is execution speed, which isnt really a consideration for a simple program like an fsx datalogger

Ok lots of thanks to you both : the application monitoring the parameters I wanted is now created and works well with FSX. Now to logging and saving in a .txt or (better) .xls file.Thanks again for all the pointing in the right direction.

FS Flight Keeper will pretty much log those parameters and a plethora more, I do not believe that it does SAT and TAT thoughFS Flight Keeper.FS Flight Keeper ReviewThe linked review is for version 2.5 we are now ar version 3.1 for FSX. It's a great piece of software for FSX.Regards,Bob

Hi Bob, thanks a lot for the input !From what I read, as any ACARS, FS Keeper will record many things when there is an event (flaps deployed,...) but will not allow you to record and save in a specific format, specific infos at regular interval (every 100 NM for example). Or am I wrong ?Nonetheless FSFK seems an excellent software. I'll have to try the demo version anyway.

I am looking for a tool (or a way to configure FSUIPC) that would enable me to log the following very specific parameters for a whole flight, and keep it in a txt or xls (or any other format) file :1) TAT and SAT (not as important as the other 5 parameters)2) Altitude (if possible FL)3) Total Weight4) Fuel remaining and/or used5) TAS6) Distance flown since start of logall of that logged regularly, say either every xx seconds, or every xx NM, or every xxx kg of fuel burnt (of course configurable if possible)

You should be able to do all that pretty easily using a small Lua plug-in for a Registered copy of FSUIPC. Only the last needs any real calculations (you'd need to read the Lat/Lon at intervals, compute the distance travelled trigonometrically, and accumulate the results). The Flight Level needs the QNH, then you just adjust that for 1013 hPa (29.92") by a standard rate.Get the offset data from the lists provided in the FSUIPC SDK.If you look in the example Lua plug-ins provided (in the Modules\FSUIPC Documents folder in your FS) there's an example of creating a CSV file with data -- CSV files can be read as spreadsheets into Excel. The example is called "record to csv.lua".RegardsPete

You should be able to do all that pretty easily using a small Lua plug-in for a Registered copy of FSUIPC. Only the last needs any real calculations (you'd need to read the Lat/Lon at intervals, compute the distance travelled trigonometrically, and accumulate the results). The Flight Level needs the QNH, then you just adjust that for 1013 hPa (29.92") by a standard rate.Get the offset data from the lists provided in the FSUIPC SDK.If you look in the example Lua plug-ins provided (in the Modules\FSUIPC Documents folder in your FS) there's an example of creating a CSV file with data -- CSV files can be read as spreadsheets into Excel. The example is called "record to csv.lua".RegardsPete

Hi Pete,many thanks for the suggestion. Had I known this (I must admit I saw the lua thing in FSUIPC's documentation and... well you can imagin the rest. Shame on me) I would have looked there in the first place instead of developing a C# application with a nice UI :( Oh well, it was nice to get back to a bit of (very simple) programming after so many years. So no regrets anyway. For the moment my application monitors offsets :3324 for altitude02B8 for TAS0560 and 0568 for latitude and longitude126C for Fuel weight30C0 for Gross Weight11C6 for Mach number.The monitoring goes without any problem thanks to the dll graham3278 kindly linked. I just haven't written the writing to xls and/or txt formats part of the code. However I'll have a look at Lua then as it will most probably be more efficient since natively integrated into FSUIPC ?Thanks again !

I believe FSUIPC uses simconnect, just like your application, so I dont think using LUA would be a more elegant solution or anything