Wednesday, July 4, 2012

vStars setup

If you are having issues making vStars usable.  Watch this video.

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Progress to date.

As the facility engineer for zfwartcc on vatsim, http://www.zfwartcc.com http://vatsim.net.   I have been hard at work.  Since vStars came out in the middle of January,  I have been trying create facilities for it.  So far we have created Regional(D10), Oklahoma City(OKC), Waco(ACT), Longview(GGG) and we are working on Lubbock(LBB).  Plans are to create Shreveport(SHV), Midland(MAF), Abilene(ABI),  Monroe(MLU) and San Angelo(SJU),  As I get more I will be updating. Hopefully i can use this blog to publish them.  I have been publishing them in Team Speak.  Two programs I have been working on are dattoxml.  A program to convert dat files from the FAA through freedom of information to XML (Video Files) and (sct) sector files.  Ryan Null, http://zjx.rnull.info/naco2vrc.php wrote a good one using PHP but it was limited to 5mb files.  Some of the VFR files were larger.  This should fix that problem.  Hopefully I will have that available today on this site.  The other is a new sweatbox program.  In testing the files I found tower trainer very good for many operations and ACSIM good for others.  What I am trying to do is combine the two and adding some features that I have used with Euroscope.   I am trying to get real world results from the commands given.  Example.  aircraft flying at 11000 doing 250 knots have a ground speed anywhere from 250 to 310 knots depending on wind conditions.  Euroscope shows that the other two programs don't.  Stay tuned as we create updates.