Hi,

Would like to ask if I am doing something wrong on that:
Rex Weather Force now provides a metar_report.xml file, that is updated regularly. As I wanted pilot2atc to get the weather from this file instead from NOAA, in the WX tab of the options I linked to the directory (XXX:\rex weather force bla bla\export\ ) and checked the option to use REX. But... nothing happens. Tried different locations (in sim), did this on different times (in sim and in real), disabled UAC, started as admin, blah blah... Pilot2ATC simply doesn't show me the weather. ATIS tells me it's not available and the alt setting is always 29.92.

The second thing: in the options traffic tab if the checkbox is checked, traffic warnings keep coming when taking off and landing or passing low in the vicinity of an airport. But if I ask for clearance to cross a rwy I often get cleared into departing traffic. This feature doesn't work (at least in MSFS) at all... 😞

and the third thing: How do I put "new" airports and airfields into the database? MSFS has many airfields that doesn't exist in pilot2Atc. I tried to run the new "makerunways" for fs2020 and then let pilot2atc pick up the date from the files. But I ended up in like 3 x 2 hours "reading data" with 2 x empty database in the end. The third time it obviously turned out better, but still no new airports. And yes... I checked the files manually. The airports are there...

Any ideas how to solve that?

6 hours ago, quastl said:

Would like to ask if I am doing something wrong on that:
Rex Weather Force now provides a metar_report.xml file, that is updated regularly. As I wanted pilot2atc to get the weather from this file instead from NOAA, in the WX tab of the options I linked to the directory (XXX:\rex weather force bla bla\export\ ) and checked the option to use REX. But... nothing happens. Tried different locations (in sim), did this on different times (in sim and in real), disabled UAC, started as admin, blah blah... Pilot2ATC simply doesn't show me the weather. ATIS tells me it's not available and the alt setting is always 29.92.
 

Ok, just found a post where Dave already told us, that it will get fixed in the next version. Sorry for double posting that.
The other two problems still persist.

On the weather, be sure you are connected to the SIM and the metar_report.xml file is in the folder you specified for REX Weather with that airport in the file, and the REX Weather button is selected for Weather Source.  If so, P2A will find and use the weather.  It should default to NOAA weather otherwise.  So if you get a weather not available, it is not finding the file and your internet connection is down, or the NOAA site is down (this happens more often that you would expect) or the airport is not a reporting weather station.

You can import "new" airports from MakeRunways files if they have taxiways and runways and you check the "Import New AIrports from MakeRwys" option on the Import Scenery tab of TaxiMnt.  However, this only imports the runways and taxiways and not frequencies and other information, so these "new" airports will be treated as uncontrolled airports with no IFR procedures.

Dave

38 minutes ago, Dave-Pilot2ATC said:

However, this only imports the runways and taxiways and not frequencies and other information, so these "new" airports will be treated as uncontrolled airports with no IFR procedures.

Hi Dave, 

You might like to consider, one day, importing the airport related frequencies encoded in the "F5.CSV" file created by MakeRwys. It was quite a palavah getting that information from MSFS because, unlike with FSX and P3D airport files, all of that data is separated into "NAV" BGLs. I presume this has been done to make it easier to update them, but it was a nuisance!

Pete

 

Thanks Pete.

I'll add that to the futures list.

Dave

Thanks for the reply, Dave.

Yeah, that's how it should work. But unfiortunately it doesn't!
I made a video, where you can see, that the right path is entered and the file is being found by p2ATC, but it just doesn't work.

See here:

 

Thank you very much for the detailed video.  I was able to find and fix the problem for the next update.

Again, Thank you!

Dave