Richard Asberg Posted December 7, 2015 at 04:13 PM Posted December 7, 2015 at 04:13 PM Recently I've been getting quite a number of these error messages on vPilot's Messages tab. Not sure if the problem is vPilot or the network itself? [16:08:38] Network error: P[Mod - Happy Thoughts] error. (Raw packet: S:VTK322:1200:1:55.42089:nan:594:0:8391384:406) Richard Åsberg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Board of Governors Don Desfosse Posted December 7, 2015 at 10:02 PM Board of Governors Posted December 7, 2015 at 10:02 PM There is a bug in the server where it will sometimes send aircraft position data to other users that are way out of range. Happens with controllers, too. Don Desfosse Vice President, Operations Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Asberg Posted December 7, 2015 at 10:12 PM Author Posted December 7, 2015 at 10:12 PM Ok, thanks for the explanation and good thing it doesn't seem to have any bad effects on your own connection. Richard Åsberg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Carlson Posted December 7, 2015 at 10:22 PM Posted December 7, 2015 at 10:22 PM Ok, thanks for the explanation and good thing it doesn't seem to have any bad effects on your own connection. The bug that Don mentioned is actually related to why sometimes you'll see these errors for aircraft that are nowhere near you. The bug that causes the error to begin with is a bug in vPilot. Somehow, vPilot is sending out invalid position packets for some aircraft. (Notice it has a "nan" in place of the longitude value ... "nan" means "not a number".) The server dutifully p[Mod - Happy Thoughts]es these position packets on to any aircraft in range. vPilot shows you the error if you are in range, because your vPilot can't interpret a longitude value of "nan". I haven't been able to reproduce the error yet, so I haven't been able to implement a fix. The next version of vPilot will likely just log and suppress these errors, since there's nothing the user can do about them anyway. Developer: vPilot, VRC, vSTARS, vERAM, VAT-Spy Senior Controller, Boston Virtual ARTCC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Asberg Posted December 7, 2015 at 10:25 PM Author Posted December 7, 2015 at 10:25 PM Ok, sounds good next version of vPilot will hopefully be able to handle this problem in a better way. Richard Åsberg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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