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Euroscope Tower View


Jake Fitzgerald 1460640
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Jake Fitzgerald 1460640
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Hi,

My question is can X-Plane11 be used in the Euroscope Tower view function and if so how? I don't know a lot on how it works so any help would be appreciated

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Andreas Fuchs
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Yes, you can do this! I do use swift for TowerView and it is very simple to do.

 

https://dev.swift-project.org/w/help/spc/towerview/

 

Tutorial videos re swift installation, setup and TowerView :

 

I think you can use xPilot for it, but I haven't tried that yet myself.

 

If you have further questions, drop me a line here.

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Jake Fitzgerald 1460640
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Yes, you can do this! I do use swift for TowerView and it is very simple to do.

 

https://dev.swift-project.org/w/help/spc/towerview/

 

Tutorial videos re swift installation, setup and TowerView :

 

I think you can use xPilot for it, but I haven't tried that yet myself.

 

If you have further questions, drop me a line here.

 

Thanks! I managed to get it working with xPilot.

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Amir Golmohammadi
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Yes, you can do this! I do use swift for TowerView and it is very simple to do.

 

https://dev.swift-project.org/w/help/spc/towerview/

 

Tutorial videos re swift installation, setup and TowerView :

 

I think you can use xPilot for it, but I haven't tried that yet myself.

 

If you have further questions, drop me a line here.

 

Thanks! I managed to get it working with xPilot.

How did you manage to get it working with xpilot? I could not. Can you please share your experience here.

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Mark Doyle
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Start euroscope as usual. Launch X-Plane and X-Pilot, once you've loaded into the sim type .towerview into xpilot. You should now be connected as an OBS.

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Todd Blanchette
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For anyone wondering, only the latest beta release of Euroscope supports the .towerview function in xPilot. I busted my head on this for a while until someone pointed it out to me. The hard part is that it looks like it connects just fine, traffic just doesn't show up, and no warnings are given. I didn't want to update to the newest Euroscope in case it messed up access to my FIR's sector files, so I downloaded Swift instead. It works for me, but it can be a pain to set up.

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Kyle McKenzie
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I'm wondering about towerview not working. I think it's because velocity was released, and towerview can't yet accommodate it. When I connect up, the planes don't move, they just stay where they were when I first connect. Does anyone know why it does this, when it will be fixed/how to fix it? thanks.

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Jonas Kuster
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As of now, FSD should provide data for pre-Velocity and Velocity capable clients. ES just can't handle Velocity data packages yet. I don't know how this works exactly on a technical level, but I assume the pilot client used for tower view needs to request and forward this "old" data packages, so that ES can display things properly. Until ES is updated, it's maybe a question whether a pilot client will switch to the "old" way when a tower view connection is initiated.

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Andreas Fuchs
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1 hour ago, Jonas Kuster said:

I assume the pilot client used for tower view needs to request and forward this "old" data packages, so that ES can display things properly.

I think that's how swift pilot handles it when users choose the option FSD (private), it will receive and distribute pre-Velocity data packages:

 

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Ross Carlson
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2 hours ago, Jonas Kuster said:

I assume the pilot client used for tower view needs to request and forward this "old" data packages, so that ES can display things properly.

It's sort of the reverse of that ... ES needs to request velocity data from the server, so that it can pass it on to the connected pilot client, so that the pilot client can display things properly.

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