Downloading Flight Plan info entered in Vatsim

[Trey Damico 1344755]

vPilot has a feature to retrieve the flight plan from Vatsim using the "Fetch from server" option. How is vPilot accomplishing this download? Is there an api available to do this? Maybe vPilot is s[Mod - lovely stuff]ing it off the Vatsim page. I am interested in auto downloading the flight plan information using a c# program to use for a small fsx flight monitoring prototype program.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

[Ernesto Alvarez 818262]

you can pull it from the data feed, even prefiled

[Bradley Grafelman]

you can pull it from the data feed, even prefiled

Just know that if you use the data feed (which vPilot does not), you'll potentially see a 2-3+ minute delay between updates since that's the update interval of the datafeeds.

[Trey Damico 1344755]

I searched, could not find much on Data Feeds at Vatsim. Can someone point me to general docomeentation on data feeds or what they are generally referred to as , so I can gear my google searches towards those terms. Thank You.

[1275389]

I searched, could not find much on Data Feeds at Vatsim. Can someone point me to general docomeentation on data feeds or what they are generally referred to as , so I can gear my google searches towards those terms. Thank You.

http://bfy.tw/5CHq

First result has all the data feed URLs.

[David Zhong]

Since vPilot is connected to the network servers, it retrieves it from there, just as an ATC client would.

[Trey Damico 1344755]

I searched, could not find much on Data Feeds at Vatsim. Can someone point me to general docomeentation on data feeds or what they are generally referred to as , so I can gear my google searches towards those terms. Thank You.

http://bfy.tw/5CHq

First result has all the data feed URLs.

 

Wow, I originally saw that page ,but was looking for some kind of outward docomeentation, so I moved on. I see now in the .txt files they also contain metadata.

 

Thank you very much for setting me straight! I might have a couple questions once I digest this data, but looking good right now.

[Daniel Hawton]

I searched, could not find much on Data Feeds at Vatsim. Can someone point me to general docomeentation on data feeds or what they are generally referred to as , so I can gear my google searches towards those terms. Thank You.

http://bfy.tw/5CHq

First result has all the data feed URLs.

 

Wow, I originally saw that page ,but was looking for some kind of outward docomeentation, so I moved on. I see now in the .txt files they also contain metadata.

 

Thank you very much for setting me straight! I might have a couple questions once I digest this data, but looking good right now.

 

How to p[Mod - Happy Thoughts] the data feeds are also in the txt files as it is colon delineated. Each field in the data block are specified in the comment lines for each data type.