Board of Governors Don Desfosse 33 Posted February 27, 2016 Board of Governors Share Posted February 27, 2016 As Ross mentioned in his thread announcing vPilot v2.0,new functionality requests should be posted in a separate topic. I've opened this topic to capture ideas/suggestions/requests. One request I have is a button in the flight plan window that swaps the contents of the departure and arrival airport fields for folks like me that often do a round trip. One thought that I had and figured I'd float, based on a few recent threads where students don't have the ability to influence university port settings would be an alternative to requiring port forwarding. I'm not a network engineer, so don't know if some kind of uPnP scheme would be an option, but figured I'd throw the idea out there to see if any smarter folks could carry on the brainstorm. Don Desfosse Vice President, Membership Link to post Share on other sites
Thimo Koolen 3 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 I don't know how much it would be possible, but Euroscope's Tower View possibility in vPilot 2 would be really awesome. I just can't get FSInn to work here. ACCNL5 (Assistant Training Director) - Dutch VACC Link to post Share on other sites
Ross Carlson 156 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 I don't know how much it would be possible, but Euroscope's Tower View possibility in vPilot 2 would be really awesome. I just can't get FSInn to work here. I'm planning to have an option to enter an IP address for tower view connections provided by vSTARS. It should also work with ES, but I don't know for sure. Developer: vPilot, VRC, vSTARS, vERAM, VAT-Spy Senior Controller, Boston Virtual ARTCC Link to post Share on other sites
Thimo Koolen 3 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 That would be awesome. Glad to hear that Ross ACCNL5 (Assistant Training Director) - Dutch VACC Link to post Share on other sites
David Zhong 0 Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 One thought that I had and figured I'd float, based on a few recent threads where students don't have the ability to influence university port settings would be an alternative to requiring port forwarding. I'm not a network engineer, so don't know if some kind of uPnP scheme would be an option, but figured I'd throw the idea out there to see if any smarter folks could carry on the brainstorm. What is the issue at hand? I don't use any port forwarding with VATSIM and everything works (except G-G comms in the controller client). David Zhong Link to post Share on other sites
Board of Governors Don Desfosse 33 Posted March 3, 2016 Author Board of Governors Share Posted March 3, 2016 I've seen a recent increase of folks that may participate in a university environment that cannot use VATSIM reliably because they don't have the ability to effect port forwarding (and the university won't allow it). May not be possible/practical, but just tossing it out there as a thought. Don Desfosse Vice President, Membership Link to post Share on other sites
David Zhong 0 Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 Don, I [Mod - Happy Thoughts]ume you are referring to this issue: viewtopic.php?f=52&t=69758 The way to fix this is to get the voice servers/clients to send "keep alive" packets. The voice protocol runs off UDP which is a connectionless protocol. Routers add an entry to the routing table when the client first sends a packet, but the router doesn't know when the "connection" has come to an end, so it has a timeout. If no packets are seen within a certain time, the router will delete the routing entry. I would have thought that it would be fairly painless to have the client send empty packets to the server at frequent intervals and to ensure that the server ignores these. David Zhong Link to post Share on other sites
Board of Governors Don Desfosse 33 Posted March 5, 2016 Author Board of Governors Share Posted March 5, 2016 Yes, David, exactly. And thanks for that insight. Kieran, is that something we could/should do? Don Desfosse Vice President, Membership Link to post Share on other sites
Mehdi Naguib 0 Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 hi addition of a TCAS would be a plus. thanks Mehdi NAGUIB (1350202) vRAM Staff - http://www.royalairmarocvirtual.com Link to post Share on other sites
Ben Lim 0 Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 How about a double click on controller active, or right click and select to tune active radio? I don't have a radio panel now and that feature would be helpful instead of typing .com1 123.70 all the time. Cheers. Soarbywire - Flight Simulation and Avionic Engineering Link to post Share on other sites
Niklas Osbahr 1244675 0 Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 Hi. I have a homecockpit with two headsets. There are two requests: Is it possible to set up two headsets? I know that there are double stereo types but I am using USB. And the second: Is it than possible that headset one is on com1 and headset two on com2? Thanks Link to post Share on other sites
Magnus Meese 5 Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 Niklas, I have no idea how it's done or what the price tag is, but this simulator has a linked headset setup that provides intercom for 3 stations ("jumpseat" as well), pluss the ability for either pilot to transmit through vPilot. You could try to reach out to the owner and ask about it. Link to post Share on other sites
Niklas Osbahr 1244675 0 Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 I guess that he do not have USB Headsets. With to "normal" headsets there will not be any Problem! So I do not know if it is so complicated to impliment a second in and output also for just one com(but I guess they can be both parallel with one headset). Link to post Share on other sites
Ross Carlson 156 Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 It would involve having a second area in the config for choosing the audio device, calibrating the mic, and setting a PTT. I would then have to modify the code that watches for PTT presses and have it look for two different ones. Not terribly complicated but it would be a non-trivial amount of work to add a feature that VERY few users would benefit from. Buy me a full two-place home cockpit setup and I'll definitely do it. Developer: vPilot, VRC, vSTARS, vERAM, VAT-Spy Senior Controller, Boston Virtual ARTCC Link to post Share on other sites
Niklas Osbahr 1244675 0 Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 Ok. I just thought that this is copy and past with changing some variables. Then I will try via Proxy or an observer Account Link to post Share on other sites
Maurizio Cinti 0 Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 The only BIG request that I'd like to see solved in new release is about sound quality. I think nobody here will feel hurt if I say that voice quality of radio transmissions is far to be acceptable most of the time. In the "other" simulated ATC network I must (very sorry) say that voice is clear and loud all the time..... Would it be so hard to adopt the same voice software or at least some other better solution ? Maurizio http://www.sim737ng.it http://www.sim737ng.it Link to post Share on other sites
Ross Carlson 156 Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 Work is already happening to improve VATSIM's voice architecture. It will take a while ... it's much more than just a vPilot feature, since it affects all client software. Developer: vPilot, VRC, vSTARS, vERAM, VAT-Spy Senior Controller, Boston Virtual ARTCC Link to post Share on other sites
Maurizio Cinti 0 Posted March 26, 2016 Share Posted March 26, 2016 Well, I really do hope voice will be better than now in new development Keep up the good work guy ! Maurizio Www.sim737ng.it http://www.sim737ng.it Link to post Share on other sites
Reinhard Brantner 0 Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 Hi, Another nice feature for the client V2 would be, if it would be possible to undock the several sub elements of the client window. This means, that if we would be able to move and resize ATC, chat and input windows according to the screen layout, this would give great flexibility. And by defining these positions and size information in the config file, would allow to start with different setups. Best regards Reinhard MfG / Kind Regards Reinhard Brantner, AUA668 "With A Smile In The Sky" Link to post Share on other sites
David Ayoub 1274315 0 Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 Would it be possible to look into transmitting aircraft position/performance data via P2P in addition to parsing to the VATSIM servers? Those of us with fast internet connections could see aircraft moving much more realistically, while those with slower connections wouldn't be penalized and could still see traffic transmitted by the VATSIM servers. I hope this was clear enough and I might be dreaming in technicolor. Good luck with the update. I'd also like to second the voice quality improvement, I found FSINN had much better voice than vPilot for some reason. Link to post Share on other sites
Pierre Ferran 23 Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 As suggest before, a very interesting feature would be that vPilots starts sending mode S EHS data, so that'd be the aircraft indicated airspeed, mach number, selected altitude in the autopilot, the true airspeed and the vertical rate. Some of this data would be very good for helping new pilots, and making sure everything will go to plan. Plus it'd be a lot more realistic for quite a few countries. I know that controller client would have to be updated to use that data, but we have to start somewhere If there is anything I can do to help implement this, just ask ! vSMR Plugin for EuroScope Link to post Share on other sites
Anders Moen 0 Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 Weird request, but default output volume: can it be lowered? I've set my vPilot to max 15% and turned up the sound in Windows instead and I never have any problems hearing ATC (unlike very very many people, as you can see in a couple of posts in this thread as well). I've given a few people who have been struggling a lot hearing ATC transmissions this suggestion, and they too say it's a lot better this way. Thanks Virtual Norwegian | Oceanic Procedures Link to post Share on other sites
Pierre Ferran 23 Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 Another simple thing that would be nice is a "CLEAR" button in the flight plan window, that just clears all the fields. vSMR Plugin for EuroScope Link to post Share on other sites
Simon Kelsey 39 Posted April 10, 2016 Share Posted April 10, 2016 Niklas, I have no idea how it's done or what the price tag is, but this simulator has a linked headset setup that provides intercom for 3 stations ("jumpseat" as well), pluss the ability for either pilot to transmit through vPilot. You could try to reach out to the owner and ask about it. I'm not familiar with that particular simulator, but I do have some involvement with a similar project and the same thing is all handled externally from vPilot via IP-controlled audio mixers -- in very simple terms (it's a bit more complex because the ACPs are all wired up as well and so it's not just a simple one input-one output setup) all the headsets go in to the audio mixer and the output of the audio mixer goes in to vPilot. When you press the PTT in one place, as well as sending a PTT command to vPilot it also sends a command to the audio mixer to mute the other mics. Weird request, but default output volume: can it be lowered?I've set my vPilot to max 15% and turned up the sound in Windows instead and I never have any problems hearing ATC (unlike very very many people, as you can see in a couple of posts in this thread as well). I'm not sure what the relationship between the vPilot output level slider and the Windows sound settings etc is, but I can attest that I've also noticed the vPilot slider has very little effect on the actual output level except between about 0-10%. Link to post Share on other sites
Semir Gebran 0 Posted April 10, 2016 Share Posted April 10, 2016 I would love to have a more intelligent handling of the performance, where the radius and the max aircraft count are governed by rulesets similar to those for AI. For instance the range radius value would increase the higher the aircraft is ( up to a limit ) while the aircraft display count would decrase ( down to a limit ) Link to post Share on other sites
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