Wrote to OzRunways for a second time regarding support for Simulator Mode for FSX so that the moving map on OzRunways could be active whilst flying. OzRunways supports XPlane and I was interested to see if this functionality could be adapted for Microsoft Flight Simulator. I have included the reply from Rowan Willson at OzRunways. Maybe someone might be able to get this thing up and running.

 

 

Hi John,

 

Thanks for the email - we've actually been looking for somebody in the flight sim community to write a plugin for FSX to output lat/lon/altitude/heading in the same format that XPlane does so it can plug straight back directly into OzRunways.

 

Basically, XPlane outputs a bunch of data in packets via UDP, which we "listen" in on and save the latest packets for use in OzRunways as a position.

 

If FSX can simulate those packets via a plugin, it will work identical to if you were running XPlane. We looked into doing any native FSX support, but it was fairly difficult (Neil is the expert on that & didn't have much luck). Also what he did look into, was quite complicated to set up in FSX. A plugin would be 100 times simpler.

 

Anyway if you want to post on the forums that would be great! As a sweetner, anybody who writes a good FSX plugin we can hook them up with 5 years OzRunways subscription

 

This document provides details of how we set up XPlane to output on port 49002 to the iPad's IP address:

http://www.ozrunways.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/OzRunways-Xplane9-Documentation.pdf

 

The key is that the fields 18 (pitch/roll/heading), 20 (lat/lon/altitude) and 21 (loc, vel, distance travelled) are ticked & the FSX simulates the output the same as if you had ticked these in XPlane. A session on TCPDUMP and the XPlane dev forums should do the trick!

 

Thanks again for your support,

 

Cheers,

Rowan.

Hi all,

For those of you interested I have coded up a plugin that allows you to use OzRunways with FSX. The OzRunways app is great in that it is an EFB with moving maps and planning features. The maps include all the current VNC, VTC, high/low charts, WACs etc. It has the current ERSA and DAPS.

 

Now you can use this with FSX. Great for use in VFR flights to show the airspace boundaries, VFR routes, etc. There are some example screenshots in the documentation attached.

 

To install extract the file into ..... /Microsoft Games/Microsoft Flight Simulator X/Modules/

Read the documentation in the relevant folder.

version 1.1 version but should work fine. If you have any feedback on the plugin or documentation let me know.

 

DOWNLOAD http://vatpac.org/forums/showthread.php?14735-FSX-plugin-for-OzRunways-EFB&p=106088#post106088

or check the OzRunways site

 

Cheers

Jason