AI Flight Planner...how to use it to create new flight plan?

[dhazelgrove]

Three files are required for each flightplan/flightplan set. You need:

1. The aircraft you're using,
2. The position information of the required airports/waypoints,
3. The required aircraft movement information (the flightplan itself).

AIFP uses the three files originally used in ttools, with minimal differences, in exactly the same formats. I've found that the ttools documentation is quicker to read than AIFP.
If you have ttools, you can find a detailed description of each of the three files, together with their required formats and the information required in each.
If you don't have it, then you'll need to download it and read the documentation thoroughly. Sorry, but there are no shortcuts for this -- not if you want to understand how it all works.

You can download this at flightsim.com - called ttool202.zip

Happy reading.

Dave

 

[PHo17]

The contents of those source files is explained for example here: http://www.ai-aardvark.com/FAQ/beginners_guide_to_ai.html

Text is for FS2002 but basicly it is the same in FS2004 and FSX. I believe that those explanations one can find much more on Internet That is just first I found for the moment.

 

[Navy Chief]

Thanks to Dave and PHo17 for the information NC

 

[gray eagle]

Based on what I read from link ^ I could edit any of the three txt files and, say for instance, substitute a different AC or edit the airport and input the IATA code for a different or,
change times or frequency and schedule of arrivals/departures. Prior to my knowledge of this, I was wondering format/data enty for these files starting from scratch. Looks like I
could just export these three files and season to taste (so to speak). n'est-ce pas?

When Traffic Tools decompiles the traffic.bgl, it creates three .txt files - aircraft.txt , airports.txt and flightplans.txt . Any of the files can be altered, then compiled to create a new traffic.bgl. The Tcompiler.exe function will find significant omissions and stop compiling.

 

[Navy Chief]

Have not tried this yet, but will, later today...(2007 file)

[FONT=verdana, sans-serif]Category: Flight Simulator X - Utilities[/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, sans-serif]Flightplan Decompiler v1.2[/FONT]

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[FONT=verdana, sans-serif]File Description:
This small program decompiles FSX and FS9 traffic BGL files to the aircraft.txt, airports.txt and flightplans.txt files which are used by TTools from Lee Swordy. Also the program can output to aircraft.dat and flightplan.dat files in the TDB (Traffic Database Builder) format. This version again solves a bug in the calculation of arrival days for FSX BGL files. [/FONT]
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[FONT=verdana, sans-serif]Filename:[/FONT]	[FONT=verdana, sans-serif]fsx_decompiler_v1.2.zip[/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, sans-serif]License:[/FONT]	[FONT=verdana, sans-serif]Freeware, limited distribution[/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, sans-serif]Added:[/FONT]	[FONT=verdana, sans-serif]29th March 2007, 20:35:21[/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, sans-serif]Downloads:[/FONT]	[FONT=verdana, sans-serif]6121[/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, sans-serif]Author:[/FONT]	[FONT=verdana, sans-serif]Peter van der Veen[/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, sans-serif]Size:[/FONT]	[FONT=verdana, sans-serif]55kb[/FONT]

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