[FREEWARE] Flight recorder and Replay app.

[TENPATROL 138]

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A simple recorder to record and replay flight in Microsoft Flight Simulator.

Features

• Record and replay in the sim
• Save recording into a file and load it on another computer
• Quickly jump to any place in your recording (you have to start replay and then pause replay first)
• The tool records this list of variables from SimConnect Structs.cs for each sim frame. Some of them are only for analysis and display and don't affect replay.

Current Limitations and Other Notes

• I don't know a reliable way to tell if an engine is running or not, so this tool cannot auto-start an engine. Hence, you should start recording when engine is already running and stop recording before turning off the engine.
• Replay is not very smooth at the moment, especially when turning on the ground. I'm still experimenting with different ways to perform the replay to find the best one.
• To prevent fighting with MSFS own calculation, the tool sends freeze command when you start replay and unfreeze when you stop. This means it might conflict with other tools leverating the same feature (e.g. YourControl when you are not in control, other replay tools).

Issues

Please report any issues or feature request in GitHub Issues https://github.com/nguyenquyhy/Flight-Recorder/issues.

Tested yesterday and working very well.

Source https://github.com/nguyenquyhy/Flight-Recorder

Releases (download) https://github.com/nguyenquyhy/Flight-Recorder/releases

Edited February 18, 2021 by _Patrol

[devgrp 1,233]

I've tested it and so far so good. The replay is very smooth on my end, nit like fs replay which I also have. I like this better because it's simple. Hoping the dev will add ff and rewind 

[TENPATROL 138]

10 minutes ago, devgrp said:

Hoping the dev will add ff and rewind

Yup :)

[edpatino 1,964]

It's also available at Flightsim.to, v0.8, still in development, but it's working quite well and yet very simple and intuitive to use.

Good work!.

Cheers, Ed

[SierraHotel 982]

Must try this, would be rude not to. Many thanks for your efforts.

[kt069 569]

The good thing about this free replay tool is; you can resume your flight after record/replay operations.

Thanks to the developer.

[NguyenQuyHy 19]

Please let me know here or flightsim.to or GitHub or my Discord server (https://discord.gg/azqQrWWEbV) if you have any problems or suggestions 😁.

[captain420 3,099]

With the slow abundance of replay addons becoming available for MSFS, can you watch your replay using the drone camera? I would love to be able to watch replays of my take-off and landings using the drone.

[NguyenQuyHy 19]

Of course 😂

[Fielder 3,676]

The always reliable Flying Theston...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUHlePjNxk8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUHlePjNxk8

[737_800 434]

17 hours ago, _Patrol said:

I don't know a reliable way to tell if an engine is running or not, so this tool cannot auto-start an engine. Hence, you should start recording when engine is already running and stop recording before turning off the engine.

couldn't you read out the status of the engine parameters to see if the engines are running or not? Either N1 or N2 should do?

 

But anyways, thank you very much for your effort!!!

Edited February 19, 2021 by 737_800

[NguyenQuyHy 19]

I don't think every aircraft has N1 and N2. But I can check those later. I also want to cater for situations where you turn off and restart engine mid-flight, which is a bit tricky to detect in props 😂.

[737_800 434]

12 minutes ago, NguyenQuyHy said:

I don't think every aircraft has N1 and N2. But I can check those later. I also want to cater for situations where you turn off and restart engine mid-flight, which is a bit tricky to detect in props 😂.

Maybe it's the RPM in Props?

[NguyenQuyHy 19]

Yeah I think of that too. But RPM seems to stay > 0 even if engine is off if you have enough airspeed.

Main thing is that I don't really see this as a very big issue or one with straight forward & reliable solution. Starting engine itself is a relatively complex topic. There is a auto-start event (similar to ctrl+E) that the tool can trigger, but I don't think it work on all aircraft because ctrl+E doesn't either. Auto-start also try to take control of some variables, which might conflict with the on-going replay itself. Another way is to replay all the proper start-up procedure, which would require recording a much larger number of variables, some might not be available via SimConnect at all (e.g. most stuffs on the 32NX).

All in all, I'll definitely try to tackle this as this would definitely open up the possibility to record even more exciting flights (testing engine off during flight 😂), but it will require more experimenting than I can do right now.

Edited February 19, 2021 by NguyenQuyHy

[PAT_Noe 6]

Hello
I have a question about saved recordings.
How to restore a saved flight later to make everything work?
So that the engines start, the lights shine, etc.
I have a problem that the plane is flying with the engines off after reloading the simulator. the same thing happens if I land, turn off the plane, and go into a replay to watch me land.