[Vatsim aircraft icons and labels]

There is no blue fake aircraft ?!?. Please describe your issue in detail, thanks.

[EDDS Stuttgart Airport from Justsim]

Did you run the DbBuilder (Function "Update Simulator") after installation of JustSim EDDS?

 

[What is the directory for installing EFB2 in MSFS2020.]

Hi Frans,

To find the installation path, look for the file 'UserCfg.opt'.

The path to this file is: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache

Open this file and scroll to the end of it. There you will find a line starting with "InstalledPackagesPath". This is the installation path.

 

[LFMN Nice/Nizza no taxiway letters on EFB-ground chart]

Hi Peter,

the taxiway names are simply not available in the underlying BGL file. I'm not sure what you mean with 'NO runway letters (A B etc.)' . Are you talking about the parking spots? Runways have no letters A, B ..

[KASE new GPS approach not in EFB]

Hi Ron

I guess this is a 'let down' or 'circling approach' procedure because it has no runway identifier in the name of the procedure. Due to legal restrictions we don't receive these kind of approaches from Navigraph.

[No AI traffic above 10.000ft aprox.]

Hi Bernd,

 

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I assume, that UT Live is sending the information to P3D and the EFB is receiving it from there ? Or is there a direct link UTLive - EFB ?

EFB is getting traffic data from FSUIPC which is reading this data from the simulator. There is no other way of getting traffic data (except 'snapshot' data from the online networks VATSIM and IVAO). No direct connection between EFB and UT.

 

10 hours ago, wolkenschieber said:

This happens as well in ProSim as well as in the EFB.

If the error appears in both programs in the same way, the reason for the problem must be found in or before the data source which supplies these two programs.

 

[Flightplan removed after landing]

21 hours ago, bmaik said:

Now, in P3Dv5 I have the same old problem again, but I forgot the fix, so maybe Urs or somebody else can help me.

 

Maybe this will help ...

 

[loss of connection]

https://forum.aivlasoft.com/topic/2522-forum-rules-read-before-post/

 

[How to specify folder to save .pln flighplan]

14 hours ago, OldTiredSailor said:

MSFS reads the flight plan from wherever I tell it to read

This might be correct as long as do it manually via the MSFS GUI.

But unfortunately it cannot be selected when forwarding a flight plan via the FSUIPC interface. Using the interface the flight plan MUST be copied to the folder mentioned above by lonewulf47. This restriction cannot be circumvented.

 

14 hours ago, OldTiredSailor said:

I am on day 3 of a 30-day trial - IF I uninstall ALL the AivlaSoft stuff and then reinstall - will I still have 27 days to continue the trial?

Yes.

[Profile A340-600]

Profiles can be easily created using the built-in profile editor from the EFB Client. Take a similar profile as a basis then update the values according to the documents of the aircraft.

[Poscon Network]

Hello,

thanks for the link to the API description. Seems to be a similar data download like VATSIM and IVAO. I will put it on the list of possible features for a future version, but nothing is promised so far. Thanks.

[Regarding the problem that this folder cannot be found.Visual FX Tool.Traffic Toolbox]

Just as an addition to what lonewulf47 already stated:

Compared to other paths on that screen it seems that the two paths in question are relative paths, not absolute paths. Maybe that's the reason for the warnings.

 

 

[Why do I see more runways at EDDF than in real life.]

Tobias,

thanks for the files. I had a look into them using ADE (Airport Design Editor) and I can see that the runways 36L/18R and 36R/18L are somewhat fake runways. I have no idea why the designer of this airport created these two fake airways.  Both of them have a length of 60m which is 'bad luck' because EFB is filtering fake runways which are <= 50m.  In other words, EFB cannot do anything, you would need to edit the BGL file to remedy this.

 

You may try to use the EDDF file for the EFB database from the 'Download/AFCAD' section of this forum. Please read carefully the instructions on that page and DO NOT REPLACE YOUR AIRPORT IN THE SIMULATOR, use it only in EFB.

[Why do I see more runways at EDDF than in real life.]

Tobias,

First question is: Which designer created this airport?

Second question: if your EFB Client is running, please select EDDF as your active airport. Then press on the info button ('i') on the right side of the button 'Airports'. This will open the airport information window. There you can see a list of files which are used to depict the airport. Either number 1 or 2 is the path to the main airport BGL-file.  Can you provide this file for further investigation?

[Why do I see more runways at EDDF than in real life.]

Tobias,

 

which airport scenery is in use? Can you provide the BGL-file for further investigation?

[crj 700 aerosoft ms 2020]

An Electronic Flight Bag is per definition not a flight planning tool, therefore it is suggested to use the free SimBrief web application which creates flight plans in more or less all data formats required as per today, also for the CRJ 700. 

[Server not starting]

7 months is quite a long time for not regularly updating the system. I suggest to uninstall EFB Server AND Client, then download the latest complete installers from the download page and do a clean reinstall.

[MSFS Integration / Bug reports / Discussion]

As you might have read in the logfile, there are several default paths in you current MSFS installation which cannot be found.  I have no idea why.

It is recommended to do a new installation of the simulator.

[MSFS 2020 - Database builder skips every scenery]

Ingo,

 

not every single scenery is skipped, only these directories which do not contain relevant data for the EFB database. It is still scanning 3949 BGL-files which might be OK.

 

From the logfile I can see two different kind of errors:

 

1) The access to the path: C:\Users\Ingo\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Packages\community\elhakimi-eddf-terraforming\scenery\world\scenery\eddf-terraforming-scene.bgl is denied. You have to check your system why this problem occurs.

 

2) Some of the paths from the PC-6 addon are getting to long. This is a known problem with MSFS because its paths are sometimes unusually long.

 

If you ever come to the point where you will do a new installation of MSFS, try not to use the default path instead of an own partition. This will significantly reduce the length of certain paths.

For the time being I recommend that you try to fix error no. 1 and then try again. BTW, creating a new database is only required if there is not yet a database available for the simulator type. If you already have a database, just use the function "update database". For further details please consult the manuals.

 

[Tool and IVAO possition at same time]

Do you enter your callsign on the second page of the EFB flight plan creation window?

Can you see your callsign in the route panel on the EFB sidebar?

Are you using the exactly same callsign when you file your flightplan to the IVAO server?

[Scenery scanning when deactivated not working as expected]

3 hours ago, Berzerker said:

As an aside, would it be possible to add a box disabling the ask to rebuild the scenery database if it detects change? I see this fairly often since I'm always enabling and disabling sceneries.

Currently we do not have plans to introduce this functionality in the near future.

[Double track of my plane]

Hi Claudio,

could you please take a screenshot from the Client (entire window, not only an excerpt) and also a set of support files (one from the Server and one from the Client) and send all to support@aivlasoft.com? Thanks.

 

[Scenery scanning when deactivated not working as expected]

Hello,

 

thank you for sending the files. I have analyzed them and came to the following conclusion:

 

First of all a brief description about the so called 'package-system' and the relations between the files 'add-ons.cfg' and 'add-on.xml':

 

The file 'add-ons.cfg' is kind of a table of contents and it contains the list of your add-ons and for each of these add-ons a path to the directory where the files of the add-on are stored. There are two locations where the file 'add-ons.cfg' can be found, one is below '%ProgramData%' and one is below '%AppData%'.

 

The file 'add-on.xml' contains information about the add-on itself. One part of this information is whether it is a scenery-add-on, or not. If it is a scenery-add-on then the file must contain an XML-node containing the text 'scenery'. This is what the DbBuilder is looking for.

 

Basically the logfile entry '-- No scenery category found' is OK, because there are add-ons listed in the add-ons.cfg which do not have a scenery node (e.g. FSLabs, or FSUIPC). But if the '-- No scenery category found' entry is logged for a scenery-add-on then this is an indication of a serious problem, or in other words, it looks like the 'scenery-node' in the add-on.xml has been removed or has been commented out. If no 'scenery node' can be found in a certain add-on.xml, the DbBuilder will no longer try to scan this add-on when it is creating/updating the database.

 

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I guess, let me clarify my question. Is there any way to have the EFB scan all add-ons even if they are listed as disabled, and utilize custom scenery over default scenery, even if it's disabled? I thought that's what the checkbox was supposed to do, but it doesn't seem to be scanning it properly.

That's correct. The DbBuilder distinguishes between active and inactive sceneries by simply reading the 'Active=true/false' flag in either the 'scenery.cfg' or in the 'add-ons.cfg' file(s). If the box 'Check all' is ticked then all add-ons will be considered, regardless whether the flag is set to true or false. If the box is no ticked, only active scenery add-ons will be considered.

 

In the logfile which you sent us I can see for example the following entry:
-- No scenery category found in: C:\Users\<username>\Documents\Prepar3D v5 Add-ons\Flightbeam - KDEN\add-on.xml

 

This seems to be a valid scenery add-on of KDEN airport, but it looks like the corresponding add-on.xml does not contain a 'scenery-node' (see above) and therefore this add-on will no longer be considered in the process of creating/updating a database.

 

Conclusion:
I don't know what exactly the Lorby-Organizer is doing when you set a scenery to ON or OFF, but from my point of view it seems that it does some changes in the add-on.xml file. Could you please check whether the content of the file C:\Users\<username>\Documents\Prepar3D v5 Add-ons\Flightbeam - KDEN\add-on.xml will be changed in any way when you switch the KDEN scenery from ON to OFF and vice versa?

 

 

 

[Intermittently the client closes]

Hi Ron

please create a support file and upload it here. Maybe this will tell us why the Client closes.

[Suggestion - filter gates by Airline]

I will put it on the list of possible features for a future version. But keep in mind that the proper functioning of such a filter highly depends on whether the information about the airline is available through the airport-BGL file.