Justin Stemach 1267735 Posted May 15, 2017 at 02:08 AM Posted May 15, 2017 at 02:08 AM Hello, Recently my co-pilot and I have experienced some issues. Whenever he logs in as observer, its creating a duplicate plane that follows us around. This gets quite annoying when trying to set flightplans or follow checklists in the cockpit because the duplicate clips into the cockpit. This issue didnt always occur and im wondering why it just started. If anyone has any ideas to a solution that would be great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bradley Grafelman Posted May 15, 2017 at 04:10 AM Posted May 15, 2017 at 04:10 AM Which version of vPilot are you both using? When the copilot connects, is he copying the pilot's callsign and appending a letter at the end? EDIT: Now that I think about it, I forget why the letter bit is even necessary with the creation of the observer mode... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Stemach 1267735 Posted May 15, 2017 at 04:25 AM Author Posted May 15, 2017 at 04:25 AM Were both using the latest version of vpilot, he is using observer mode and adding a letter to the end of the callsign. I guess we could try not adding the extra letter to the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Carlson Posted May 15, 2017 at 05:47 AM Posted May 15, 2017 at 05:47 AM EDIT: Now that I think about it, I forget why the letter bit is even necessary with the creation of the observer mode... The letter is necessary so that the observer doesn't inject a model for the non-observer aircraft. Developer: vPilot, VRC, vSTARS, vERAM, VAT-Spy Senior Controller, Boston Virtual ARTCC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bradley Grafelman Posted May 15, 2017 at 05:49 AM Posted May 15, 2017 at 05:49 AM EDIT: Now that I think about it, I forget why the letter bit is even necessary with the creation of the observer mode... The letter is necessary so that the observer doesn't inject a model for the non-observer aircraft. Well... it seems so obvious now that you pointed it out. (Although, I think you meant it the other way around.) @Justin - I see you've connected numerous times lately as "N126TX". Was this when you were trying to do a shared cockpit setup? If so, who were you flying with? I couldn't locate any connections for "N126TX" followed by a letter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Carlson Posted May 15, 2017 at 02:05 PM Posted May 15, 2017 at 02:05 PM Well... it seems so obvious now that you pointed it out. (Although, I think you meant it the other way around.) No, I meant it that way, but I can see how my wording could be interpreted either way. To be more clear, the letter is so that the copy of vPilot running on the observer's computer will not inject an aircraft into the observer's sim to represent the non-observer's aircraft. Developer: vPilot, VRC, vSTARS, vERAM, VAT-Spy Senior Controller, Boston Virtual ARTCC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Board of Governors Simon Kelsey Posted May 18, 2017 at 11:38 AM Board of Governors Posted May 18, 2017 at 11:38 AM Further to this - a related but not quite identical issue... When conducting shared cockpit flights using the FSX-SE multiplayer function, whilst Observer mode prevents the user aircraft from being duplicated, we are finding that other traffic is duplicated. I [Mod - Happy Thoughts]ume that what is happening is that vPilot is injecting the aircraft in to the session for both parties, but FSX is also propagating the aircraft across the multiplayer session. Any ideas? Would it be possible, for instance, to prevent the vPilot 'observer' from injecting any aircraft at all (obviously this would need to be a selectable option as other shared cockpit solutions don't use the FSX multiplayer session and thus would need vPilot-injected aircraft). Or is there something in the FSX settings that we're missing? Cheers, Simon Vice President, Pilot Training Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Carlson Posted May 18, 2017 at 12:03 PM Posted May 18, 2017 at 12:03 PM I believe others have dealt with this by setting the max number of aircraft to zero in the vPilot settings. Developer: vPilot, VRC, vSTARS, vERAM, VAT-Spy Senior Controller, Boston Virtual ARTCC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Board of Governors Simon Kelsey Posted May 18, 2017 at 02:02 PM Board of Governors Posted May 18, 2017 at 02:02 PM Good idea! We'll give it a go. Thanks as ever, Ross. Vice President, Pilot Training Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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