Version 1.12 of Flightplan Visualizer released

[pellelil 59]

Version 1.12 have just been released. I tried to upload it to AVSIM last night, but I think something went wrong as I never received a mail from them confirming the upload. Anyway in the meantime I have decided to make it available using this dropbox-link: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mbs0nz2btkfg3c7/AADZx4X9uLdG2iXE63GLjsp6a?dl=0

 

I urge you to watch the video recorded for the release of version 1.11 as it gives you some valuable information regarding how to manage your flightplans. This installer comes with +30 new/updated flightplans, but don't forget the installer will never overwrite flightplans you already have in the ROOT flightplan folder (once again - watch the video for 1.11 - the "Help" menu in FV has a menu-item that will link to it). For version 1.12 I have also recorded a video with the main changes in version 1.12:

 

 

Here is a list of what have changed in version 1.12:

• - Ability to automatically check for available program-updates. The actual download of the new installer is still a manual process, but the program will at least list the download-URL. However You cannot see this feature in action until the next version will be released
• Updated the flightplan file-format to accommodate changes in the latest versions of (AI) flightplans. The program remains backward compatible and can still read older flightplans, however these might “miss” some (at this time) non-essential information. As a result all “Wi18-19” and “Su19” (and a few “Su18) flightplans have been re-imported and have been bundled with the version 1.12 installer, using the new file-format.
• Added new "Generate redirection report" button to the redirection edit form. Pressing this button will generate- and display a report of all active pseudo airports and redirections per flightplan.
• Added new menu-item to re-process all flightplans, according to specified airport-redirections.
• The "UserAirportRedirect.xml" file bundled with the installer have been updated, based on output from the new "Generate redirection report". These updated airport-redirections have been used to re-process/update all flightplans bundled with the installer.
• Buttons have been added to the "Leg Info" which allows you to transfer data for a particular leg/flight from FV to SimBrief in order to kick-start your "paper work" for a flight to fly.
• The "Leg Info" form also got buttons to show decoded METAR/TAF, and the raw METAR/TAF is also embedded in the text copied to the clipboard (when pressing the appropriate button).
• In settings you can now specify the path of the folder holding the files that MakeRunway generates (if not specified it will use the UserData folder). Once set to the folder where MakeRunway generates its files (e.g. the P3D folder), you only have to run MakeRunway, you no longer have to copy the 3 files to the UserData folder.
• A few new traffic-charts were added to the "Airport Info" form (traffic per: region, sub-region and country), and a combo-box was added to switch between inbound- and outbound-traffic.
• The "Nearby Airport" form that can be opened from the "Flightplan Import" form now have an extra comment-column with information about the non-pseudo/pseudo airports.
• The comment column on the airport tab-sheet of the "Flightplan Import" form now also contains more info about non-pseudo/pseudo airports.
• The Generic Randomizer form got a new button called "Pick random flight", which will display info for a flight, randomly picked from all flights for the selected flightplan, or last search.
• In the "Search legs" form, you can now enter multiple ICAO-codes (separated by comma) to search for flights to/from these (e.g. search for all flights to/from EBLG or ELLX, by entering "EBLG,ELLX"). If you press SHIFT while clicking the airport browser button, the selected airport will be added to the comma separated list. If you do not hold SHIFT, the list will only contain the newly selected airport.
• Added support for using FS Global Real Weather (FSGRW) as a Weather provider for METAR-messages (FSGRW does not support TAF-messages). To use FSGRW you must go to settings and specify a full path (including filename) of the file generated by FSGRW.
• When editing a flightplan the user will be warned if trying to close the form, if changes were made.
• The menu-item to generate report with all defunct-/obsolete flightplans have been removed from the main-menu, but can now be generated using a button on the "Enable/disable flightplans" form.
• Now all applicable authors are shown when hoovering the mouse over the flightplan combo-box when a search is active.
• In previous versions the "Edit" buttons next the flightplan combo-box (on the main form) was only active when a flightplan was selected. Now its also active when "[Last Search]" is selected. However it will instead launch the "Search Legs" form, where you can then edit the criteria of the search.
• A few airports and airlines have been added/updated in the data-files bundled with the updated installer to accommodate the additional bundled flightplans. The Beluga XL Freighter was added as well as many of the other aircraft were updated with various changes.
• Added support for a bunch of military aircraft: A6/AE6, A10, C5, C17, E2, E3, EF2000, F14, F15, F16, F18, F22, F35, F111, F117, JAS39, KC10, KC135, MiG 21/23/25/27/29/31, Mirage III/5/2000, Rafale, SU 17/20/22/24/25/27/30/32/34, V22.
• New "Exclude military aircraft" setting have been added (defaults to true). When true military aircraft will not be shown (can be changed in the settings form).
• Added new menu-item to load/display current log-file.
• FV tend to be somewhat memory-hungry while (re)loading all active flightplans, and you might see a peek in memory consumption. But from this release and forward it will try to free up most of the memory once all flightplans have been loaded.
• Minor changes to the "Enable/disable flightplans" form, to make it more responsive, and added a progressbar that is visible while flightplans are being moved, copied or deleted.
• Fixed: issue when trying to import a flightplan zip-file containing multiple "Flightplan_XXX" files. If the same zip contains multiple sets of matching files (Flightplan, Aircraft and Airport) the user will now be presented with a combo-box from where the user can pick which set of files to import (only the flightplan-file will be shown).
• Fixed: The file "f5.csv" was missing from previous installers.
• Fixed: issue with pseudo-airports when using the "Nearby airports" tab-sheet in the Airport Info form.
• Fixed: Saving a flightplan that was edited, it would try to save it in the (flightplan) [ROOT] folder even if it was loaded from a sub-folder. Now it will always try to save it in the same location with the same filename. If you want it saved elsewhere/with another filename use the "Save As" button in stead. Imported flightplans will still be saved to the [ROOT] flightplan folder.
• Fixed: Pressing ENTER in the Flightplan import/edit-form while the comments-field had focus, would close the form (saving the flightplan).
• Fixed: Result-viewer will no longer display with all text selected.
• Fixed: METAR/TAF decoder  will no longer display with raw-message selected.
• Fixed: In some cases the program needed to be restarted if changes were made to the weather-provided data in the settings-form.
• Installer: Comes with +30 new pre-imported (Summer 2019) flightplans of which some are replacements of obsolete flightplans (from previous installers), and 2 of the "old" flightplans have been marked as defunct.

I realize it might be hard to fully understand the importance of setting up airport-redirections, and re-process the flightplans. Anyway if you have any questions don't be shy to ask them here at the forum

[pellelil 59]

For those who prefer a direct download link:

www.liljendal.dk/portals/1/files/tmp2019/flightplanvisualizerinstaller_1_12_0.zip