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68 lines
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FG SimBrief Importer Add-On
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What Is This?
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This is an add-on for FlightGear that adds a SimBrief Import dialog.
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(See https://www.simbrief.com/).
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What It Does
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The SimBrief importer can import various aspects of a SimBrief flight plan into
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FlightGear. The import functionality attempts to support as many aircraft types
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as possible, but due to the nature of the beast, it does not work equally well
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with all of them.
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Ideally, the following functionality will be supported:
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- Flight Plan Route: This one imports the departure and destination airports,
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and all enroute waypoints, into the default flightplan. If "Activate
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immediately" is checked, it will also activate the flightplan.
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- Departure RWY, SID: This will attempt to select the planned departure runway,
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and the planned SID, from the flightplan. Note that this will only work if
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your FlightGear navdata matches the selections from SimBrief, which may not
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be the case, especially if you're using the default FG navdata and/or an
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outdated AIRAC cycle in SimBrief.
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- Arrival RWY, STAR: This will attempt to select the planned arrival runway and
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STAR. The same caveats apply as with the departure runway and SID.
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- Performance Init: This sets a handful of key performance parameters;
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currently: cruise altitude and callsign.
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- Payload: Imports passenger and cargo weights, and attempts to distribute them
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sensibly over available payload weight slots.
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- Fuel: Imports block fuel as per the flightplan, and attempts to distribute it
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sensibly over available fuel tanks. Because the importer has no idea where
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those tanks are located, or what their priorities are, it starts at the top,
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and uses a very crude logic to detect left/right pairs. (A more sophisticated
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fuel distribution system may be provided in the future).
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- Winds Aloft: Runs a background process that sets winds aloft according to the
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forecast winds in the flightplan. This will only work with Basic Weather,
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since the Advanced Weather engine runs its own wind simulation that will
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overwrite winds aloft regardless of what we set.
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Supported Aircraft Types (as per 09/2021)
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| FPL | Dep/SID | Arr/STAR | Perf Init | Payload | Fuel |
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+------------------------+-----+---------+----------+-----------+---------+------+
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| E-Jet-family-YV | E-Jet uses its own version of the simbrief importer |
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+------------------------+-----+---------+----------+-----------+---------+------+
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| A320-family | A320 uses its own simbrief importer |
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+------------------------+-----+---------+----------+-----------+---------+------+
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| 747-8i | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
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+------------------------+-----+---------+----------+-----------+---------+------+
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| 747-400 | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | yes |
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+------------------------+-----+---------+----------+-----------+---------+------+
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| 737-800YV | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | yes |
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+------------------------+-----+---------+----------+-----------+---------+------+
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| 777 | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | yes |
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+------------------------+-----+---------+----------+-----------+---------+------+
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| Citation-II | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
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+------------------------+-----+---------+----------+-----------+---------+------+
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| CRJ700-family | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
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+------------------------+-----+---------+----------+-----------+---------+------+
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| QSeries | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | yes |
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+------------------------+-----+---------+----------+-----------+---------+------+
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