Andy Cleeremans 828954 Posted March 20, 2006 at 02:48 AM Posted March 20, 2006 at 02:48 AM I didn't see this in the manual anywhere.. but here goes. I create a big arrival stream on the CLARR2 into las vegas, and I get finished, but decide I need to create one last troublemaker a/c. The problem is, I already saved my situation file. How do I add yet another aircraft into it. My only options are "New Situation File" and "Open Aircraft File" whether connected or not.. paused or not. I tried manually creating the a/c in the acs file using notepad. This is not a good solution as it only displays the # of a/c I created through ACSim and nothing afterwards... Oh, one other question, all my a/c start off squawking 0000 despite [Mod - Happy Thoughts]igning them a squawk code when I created the file. Could this be caused by using the latest beta ASRC build or not? Andy Cleeremans ZLA Training Administrator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Serio 823884 Posted March 20, 2006 at 11:21 AM Posted March 20, 2006 at 11:21 AM Open the file up in notepad and change what you need. It's pretty simple to do once you understand what each field means. Most of them should be fairly obvious. If not, there's another thread floating around here where Dan Everette specified what each one meant. Christopher Serio, Developer XTower/AVC/XSB/ACSim (Sweatbox) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Everette Posted March 20, 2006 at 12:02 PM Posted March 20, 2006 at 12:02 PM Andy, The .acs files are simple text files, which you can add all the aircraft you want to. As a matter of fact, the scenarios I've written have all been done this way, and I never used the "Add Aircraft" or "New Scenario" feature in ACSim. Here are two recommendations (that have worked for me): 1 - Create a file in Excel (or other spreadsheet program), with a column for each field, and one row per aircraft. Export as CSV, then just manually go in and insert carriage returns at the appropriate spots. Rename as .acs and you're good to go. 2 - Use a database utility to store aircraft, and spit out formatted .acs files. I've found that when having a lot of aircraft, a "master file" is quite handy, and the above two methods will make it a bit eaiser to manage, but that's me. -Dan Everette CFI, CFII, MEI Having the runway in sight just at TDZE + 100 is like Mom, Warm cookies and milk, and Christmas morning, all wrapped into one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Serio 823884 Posted March 20, 2006 at 12:16 PM Posted March 20, 2006 at 12:16 PM Check this post out.... http://forums.vatsim.net/viewtopic.php?t=8382 Christopher Serio, Developer XTower/AVC/XSB/ACSim (Sweatbox) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Cleeremans 828954 Posted March 21, 2006 at 01:44 AM Author Posted March 21, 2006 at 01:44 AM That's exactly what I was doing, and I must have some formatting wrong, because I made a file with 10 using ACSim to create the file, and then opening it in wordpad and adding a lot more using the same format. However, it doesn't create an entry for any a/c after #10. Maybe using notepad does something wierd to it? or it could just as easily be a PICNIC error. Andy Cleeremans ZLA Training Administrator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Serio 823884 Posted March 21, 2006 at 01:50 AM Posted March 21, 2006 at 01:50 AM No, notepad is what i used. If you want to paste it here we'll look at it. Christopher Serio, Developer XTower/AVC/XSB/ACSim (Sweatbox) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Everette Posted March 21, 2006 at 02:13 AM Posted March 21, 2006 at 02:13 AM Andy, check out the reply I made to the ACSim sticky in the VATUSA TA forum. May have some more info for you. -Dan Everette CFI, CFII, MEI Having the runway in sight just at TDZE + 100 is like Mom, Warm cookies and milk, and Christmas morning, all wrapped into one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerry Hattendorf 935415 Posted March 21, 2006 at 06:10 PM Posted March 21, 2006 at 06:10 PM ... However, it doesn't create an entry for any a/c after #10. Hmm, so who's going to be your first victim, ahhemm, student? Gerry Hattendorf ZLA Webmaster VATSIM Supervisor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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