Other Important Connection Software
Version 3 of this voice over internet application is used
by the club for internal chat during meetings and events. The
TeamSpeak client is therefore an essential download for Club
members. The login information may be found in the forum
here (Club
members only). The previous version, TeamSpeak 2, is used with
IvAp2, and the latest version
of IvAp2 will automatically install TeamSpeak 2. TeamSpeak
2 is included in the downloads of IVaP2 and X-IvAp, but it
does not install automatically in xIvAp.
This is an excellent (and probably the first free) VFR flight
planning tool, written by Club member Tim Arnot. The
first version was launched in 2010, and it still being enhanced
and updated. Based on an online Map and a database it builds
from your Flight Simulator, it provides everything the Virtual
pilot requires for flight planning and monitoring, including
flight tracking, instrument panel and display of other aircraft.
It is so useful it has become almost as essential for Club
members as TeamSpeak. It was designed with the VFR pilot in
mind so does not include IFR procedures or airways.
This is a free open source flight planner, similar in concept
to Plan-G in many ways, which was launched in September 2016
and is constantly being updated. It works with FSX based
sims and X-Plane. Designed for the majority of simmers, who
fly big jets very high in the sky, it supports approach and
departure procedures like SIDs and STARs, climb and descent
profiling, automatic flight plan calculations and multiple
export formats for Flight Management Systems (FMS) as well
as drag and drop flight plan editing on the map. The program
can read the PLN, FMS and FLP flight plan formats, and import
and export CSV, X-Plane and Garmin files.
ATS route descriptions can be from flight plans and
vice versa. The database
can be updated by the Navigraph FMS Data Manager. Import and
export of CSV, X-Plane and Garmin files. In short, it is somewhat
OTT for the simple VFR pilot, but it is free, so why not try
it.
Having spent effort in creating a route-plan (using PlanG, LittleNavMap,
SkyDeamon, etc) this programme will extract the required information to create
a VATSIM flight-plan that can then be loaded and used by VPilot, XPilot or
Swift. It will also produce and place on your computer's clipboard the text
required to paste into the "ICAO FPL" pop-up window on the "MyVATSIM" flight
planning web page (blue button in the top right corner on that page).
It can also be used to create route plans in the correct format of the other
major route-planning applications so they can be easily shared with your
friends.
It does this by firstly extracting the relevant information from a route plan,
then uses a set of "blueprint" files to insert that information in the correct
format for the flight-plans or other route-planning applications (hence the
"plethora" of text files included in this programme's download folder!)
A small programme to assist tuning our radios to the new 8.33 kHz spacing. It
creates the ".com" command (used by the pilot client message box to re-tune
the radio via VATSIM) and copies it to the clipboard ready to paste into the
pilot client. For full instructions, see the PDF included in the download.
FSUIPC4
(Base version is Shareware - full-featured version is payware.)
FSUIPC by Peter Dowson, now on Version 4 is an interface
tool for FSX, FSX-Steam and Prepar3D (including v4) which allows
all the flight parameters to be imported and exported to other
software. The freeware version has less functionality that
the shareware version, and most serious simmers will pay and
register to use the shareware version.
WideFS by Peter Dowson is the essential tool for using two
(or more) networked PCs for Flight Simulator and ancillaries.
WideFS will not work without FSUIPC. If you buy both together,
there is a substantial discount. Be careful to follow the install
XPUIPC is an interface tool for X-Plane which allows
all the flight parameters to be imported and exported to other
software. It is not nearly as comprehensive as FSUIPC, as it
has almost no other function. It is needed to connect X-Plane
to Plan-G, for example.
JoinFS is arguably the most useful Flight Simulator Addon
application since Plan-G. It creates a networked environment
in which FSX (boxed version), FSX (Steam Version), Prepar3D
X-Plane pilots can all fly together and see each other. Because
it is a peer-to-peer system, no host player is necessaary,
so if anyone leaves, the system maintains its integrity. It
includes facilities for accurate model matching and it eliminates
entirely the lag endemic on VATSIM or IVAO which rely on a
host server. It was created by our member Peter Memmott originally
to improve our 2-4-CIX aerobatics teams experience, enabling
close formation flight or aerobatics without any lag or aircraft "jumping
about",
but it has quickly become popular with many Flightsim groups
and is indeed a world-class application. It also includes recording
and playback facilities including "dubbing" yourself into a recording,
thus adding your aircraft to the formation (which itself can
be recorded) so that multiple aircraft can be added to a formation
or group flight recording.
ESJFS
(Freeware)
ESJFS stands for EuroScope JoinFS and is an ATC radar tool,
to display Flight Simulator (or JoinFS) traffic on the EuroScope & VRC
radar scopes. It thus enables controllers taking part in flight
operations using JoinFS to use Euroscope to provide ATC instead
of having to connect via a Flight Simulator.
