Flightplan Visualizer

As I wrote as a reply to a previous post, I am currently working on support for MSFS2024 scenery-scan via navdatareader (made by Alexander Barthel - the developer of Little NavMap). The reason for this is because MakeRunways (by Peter Dowson) was only able to scan scenery via BGL-files, which are no longer in use for MSFS2024), hence Flightplan Viewer was not able to show the gates matching your active scenery for MSFS2024. I am currently working on having Flightplan Visualizer import the database generated by navdatareader, and I still have a few changes to do, and things to check. But hope I will be able to release a new version within a month or so. To use …

Hi all, Just wanted to say I’ve been using Flightplan Visualizer for a while now and it’s a really handy tool. Being able to quickly view and search AI flightplans on a map makes route planning much easier and more enjoyable. Thanks to the developer for keeping this available — still very useful today.

In a previous post I posted the link to the tutorial-video recorded for version 1.24, and as per usual this video can also be accessed from within the program using the Help-menu. Version 1.24 primarily contains enhancements to the logbook/employment-feature added in version 1.23 (that was released in January). However it also contains new/updated flightplans, bringing the total count to 1823. If you have not yet updated to version 1.23, remember that you need to ensure that .NET Framework 4.8.1 is installed on your system (can be downloaded using the link below, you only need the runtime). The installer for version 1.24 is now available via AVSIM using the following link…

The tutorialt video recorded for version 1.24 is now available using the link below. I still have a few flightplans to impoort (that should be bundled with the installer), and to build- and upload the installer to AVSIM, so I guess version 1.24 will be available within a few days. This version contains mostly improvements to the logbook/employment-feature released in previous version. Version 1.24 tutorial video: https://youtu.be/2wXEn1xpNwY

I plan to release version 1.24 within the next few weeks. Even though version 1.23 is less than a month old, I've been making many improvements to the new logbook/employment-feature. While developing the logbook/employment feature I was mostly "faking it" using my debug/cheat-form, and the majority of my focus was to make sure the data was stored/retreived correctly, that I had all the data I needed and that everything was robust, and working ... so I didn't do many "real flights" in the simualtor while developing this feature. After the release of version 1.23 I decided to create myself a brand new logbook and do some "real flying". Having just bought the FSR…

Flightplan visualizer 1.23.1 is now available via AVSIM using the link below. Don't forget that FV 1.23 requires you have .NET Framework 4.8.1 installed. So if you don't have it installed in your computer it can be obtained via the other link below (you just need the Runtime): https://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?CatID=msfs20util&DLID=229172 https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet-framework/net481 Here is a link for the video recorded describing what have changed in version 1.23.0, and in another post here at the forum you will find a link to the video describing the new logbook/employment feature also added in versions 1.23. Further dow…

I had anticipated releasing Flightplan Visualizer (FV) last weekend and even recorded and uploaded the release video, but it turned out that it wasn't ready for launch. Despite it running smooth on three different development PCs, version 1.23 encountered a critical error on my fourth test computer. The installation process completed without issues, but attempting to launch the updated FV resulted in an immediate fatal error. Originally, I suspected the problem might be due to FV version 1.23 targeting .NET Framework 4.8.1, which was also installed on this fourth PC. To resolve the issue, I attempted to revert both the program and all libraries to the versions used in FV …

Version 1.23 of Flightplan Visualizer - including the new Logbook/Employment feature - is still not at this time available. However the tutorial video describing how to use this new feature is now available for those who might be interested. It turned out to be a "long" video as there are many things I want to describe, but a list of time-stamps is available, so its easy to jump to specific sections: I hope to be able to release version 1.23 within the following week, as I expect the program to be ready for release. I still do have a few items on my to do list, such as record yet another video describing the (other) changes in version 1.23, and b…

One reason the previous release, as well as the upcoming one, have been in development for such a long time (aside from "real-life" sometimes getting in the way), is due to a brand-new feature I've added to Flightplan Visualizer (FV). In fact, even before version 1.17, many of the changes I made to FV were in preparation for this new feature, as this idea wasn't new to me. Personally, my primary motivation for using FV is to find inspiration regarding which aircraft and which routes to fly. Initially, the bundled flight plans only incorporated commercial airline traffic, but later versions included lots of business jet flight plans as well. If you're primarily intere…

Its been more than a year since the release of version 1.21.1, however now finally version 1.22 is here, and the installer comes bundled with with 1599 pre-imported flightplans, and +300 airline logos (optional install). As usual the installer is available for download from AVSIM using this link: https://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?CatID=msfs20util&DLID=226777 If you have AIG AIM (AI Manager) installed on your computer and you have installed all/many of the trafic-files, you will have a folder on your computer containing airline logos for those files, and in settings of Flightplan Visualizer (FV) you can now specify the path to this folder (it should s…

If I try downloading FP´s from AIG, I am getting an "Unhandled exception error 503 Server unavailable". Have only FP´s up to 2020, but nothing later. However AIGtech Manager is uptodate with FP´s. (Win10, P3DV5) Did I miss something? Many thanks. Gerd

For those of you running MkRwy to update the files you use with Flightplan Visualizer (FV) it appaers MkRwy have an issue with the latest (Canada) WU for MSFS ... at least on my system. When scanning the scenery for the airport "CAN9" ("Château Frontenac") it inserts an illegal char in the generated "runways.xml" file. This illegal char prohibits FV reading this required file, hence FV cannot start-up. If any of you runs in to this issue, you can manually edit your "runways.xml" file, however you need an editor that can load such a large file (when I generate it, I include all runways longer than 1500 feet, hence the generated file will be some +91 MB). When l…

Since the last release (1.21.1) I've kept busy working on a brand new feature-set (to be discussed at a later time), and I've added many new features and fixed various issues I came about, and as usual I also made many updates the databases that are used by Flightplan Visualizer (FV). Once such new feature already mentions was the feature to download and display (AIG) airline-logos when browsing airlines. Also I made various changes to the feature of directly downloading AIG (AI) flightplans to be imported into FV. However all these new/updated features went out of the window the second AIG had to move to a new server-setup to cope with the increased bandwidth requirement…

Hello, First of all, I would like to thank you @pellelil for the outstanding program. I think this software is so underrated and I think many flight simmers do not know that such incredible software exist. Maybe advertise via FlightSim Reddit? Just a suggestion While I appreciate pre imported flight plans, I would like to have all flight plans imported between 2008 - 2021 from the AIG: https://alpha-india.net/aigfiles/files/Flightplans/ For now I try to import the flight plans one by one but it is very very time consuming (using "import AIFP flightplan" option) Is there any way to import all flight plans from the AIG dat…

First of all, I hope you all had a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. The last released version is 6 months old, and in those 6 months I've only posted a single post regarding the addition of airline logos. However that is not the only thing I have been working on in that time (those logos are just a small part). In this time I have been working on a completely new and huge feature to be added sometime in the future. However that new feature is far from being completed, and there is still a lot of tasks on the to-do list, and a lot of testing. So until I get to check-off more of those items, I will not go deep into details with this new feature - except the blurred tease…

In next version when looking at airline details (and other new places to be discussed at a later time) the program will now show a logo for the airline/company. A big thank you to AIG (Alpha India Group) for allowing access to their +1250 logos. The logo requirement for AIG and Flightplan Visualiser (FV) are different. AIG uses airline logos for their flightplans whereas FV users it for the airlines (carrier and/or operator). So while AIG might need to have a logo for "United Exress" FV in stead needs logos for all the operators (e.g. Mesa Airlines, Republic Airways, SkyWest Airlines, ExpressJet Airlines, GoJet Airlines and so on). So beside the l…

Version 1.21.1 have just been released, and it can be downloaded from AVSIM using this link: https://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?CatID=msfs20util&DLID=222445 As written in another post version 1.20 was skipped due to a bug introducted in version 1.19 regarding the version check. To mention a few things this version comes with A LOT more biz-jet flightsplans (692 where the previous only had about 380). This version will automatic move obsolete and defuct flightplans to the diabled sub-folder, but this can be disabled in settings. Here is a link for the video recorded for version 1.21 explaining how you can manage your flightplans (to ensure new versions…

I found, and fixed a bug introduced in version 1.19 that results in version 1.19 not being able to detect version 1.20 as a new version (so no one would be notified when the next version is made public). So the next versions will instead be 1.21.1 which will be noticed by version 1.19 as a new version. If all goes well I hope to be able to release version 1.21.1 within the next few days, depending on how thinks pan out.

Version 1.19 have just been released, and it can be downloaded from AVSIM using this link: https://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?CatID=msfs20util&DLID=221824 Here below is a link to the video recorded for the 1.19 release explaining what have been added and what have changed, and below that there is a full list of changes. To mention a few this version can now connect to the simulator using FSUIPC and show your location on the map. Also I have once again decided to include all of the biz-jet flights (each prefixed by "Bz_" so they are easy to identify, in case you want to put them in a separate folder). A lot of airlines have been updated/added including…

Hello Pele, i´am using you great tool every day and i can´t even know how we could live without it. But there is a small improvement i would like to request. Is it somehow possible to filter or restrict the shown legs of an Airport by the current date or better a specific day of the week. When i´am looking for an actual flight by Lufthansa for instance outbounding EDDM i usually go to eddm and have look at the legs tab. Even i have restricted my search already to show only the flightplan for Lufthansa it would be nice if i could restrict the legs shown only for a specific day. If i want to know to where i could pilot a LH flight outbound from EDDM on Sunday arround …

Just starting off in the latest version and get this error before it even loads. See the end of this message for details on invoking just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box. ************** Exception Text ************** System.Xml.XmlException: Invalid character in the given encoding. Line 1224199, position 33. at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Exception e) at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(String res, String arg) at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.InvalidCharRecovery(Int32& bytesCount, Int32& charsCount) at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.GetChars(Int32 maxCharsCount) at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.R…

Many users uses FlightplanVisualizer (FV) for different things. I use it mostly myself to find inspiration of flights to fly. Now that the CRJ 550/700 have just released I know what I will be flying for the weeks to come 🙂 and I know I can find inspiration in FV where there data supplied by AIG (for AI flightplans) based on real life flightplans. So if you are not familiar with the Search Leg feature here is short "how-to" find flights for the CRJ 550/700. Press CTRL+L to open the search legs window. Click the "Reset" button, reset/clear any previous criteria. Click the "None" button in the Aircraft-types group-box to un-select all aircraft…

For version 1.18 of Flightplan Visualizer (FV) I had something entirely different planed, and I have been working hard on adding an entirely new set of features, where I am still a long way from being able to release anything, as it contains a lot of new data, forms, and functionality, where I also will have to do a lot of "investigation" and testing - at least I know how to spend my time throughout the long, cold, and dark winter nights 🙂 Those future plans were pushed a bit in the background (for another release), and in stead version 1.18 became all about the support for MSFS, and support for multiple simulators. As written in a previous post, FV have not b…

Per say Flightplan Visualizer (FV) have not been made for a particular Flight Simulator. However it relies on the output from Make Runways (by Pete Dowson) which is able to scan installed FSX/P3D scenery, and extract information about Airports (including runways, gates and frequencies). Likewise the bundled (pre-imported) flight-plans are intended for AI traffic in FSX and P3D, but who are to say a person flying in MSFS cannot use these as inspiration, as they are based on real-life flight-plans. So in theory you can use FV with any sim, if you simply want to use it to find inspiration of flights to fly (more on this at a later time, when I feel ready to revea…

Every time I have released a new version I have noticed that there are still a few download of the old one. In this case I that estimate version 1.16 have been downloaded 10-20 times since version 1.17 was released. I am guessing that most of these are people who have just come across the version 1.16 and downloading it, not knowing there is a version 1.17. Also I can be someone who want do have some of the older flightplans, that were made obsolete (hence not included) in version 1.17. Anyway I would like to hear if any of you ever have been downgrading to a previous version and if that is the case, why?