CaptainSpaulding

Infact it doesn't work at all. It's just a crazy thing in the real world. In dieselpunk terms, it's just a crossover between train and plane. Which is, somehow, cool to see. From my point of view, it's just a speculative curiosity... I don't really have any intention of making a plane of that kind. It's just for fun.

Yes, this is definitively a way to go... But what about asymmetrical fuselage? I don't think that there is a way to do that... Infact, a part some artistic painting, I don't even think that a planes with asymmetrical fuselage really exists... Thanks for you suggestion.

Is it possible to do an asymmetric plane in XP? By asymmetric I mean the fuselage, as in this Dieselpunk painting: Or asymmetric wings, as in the Rutan Boomerang: ..or the Blohm & Voss BV-141: ...or BV-111:

This can be a solution:

SmartFlying, an extension to make formation flight using ​SmartCopilot​. View File SmartFlying an extension to make formation flight using SmartCopilot. SmartFlying is a Lua script for FlyWithLua that allows formation flight on X-Plane over the internet, without the need of a dedicated server (like IVAO, VATSIM, ect.). It uses SmartCopilot to establish a connection between two remote users and share the data while it handles X-Plane's AI-Aircraft to show the position of the remotely connected aircraft. Currenty it has been tested on Linux (primary development platform) and Windows, but it should work without problem on MacOsX. SmartFlying uses AMS, an advanced package library for Lua included in the distribution archive, and it has been developed around FlyWithLua because unfortunately Gizmo is not currently available for Linux. Current version: 0.84a (21 Jan 2021) DOWNLOAD the lastest version of SmartFlying here: SmartFlying-LatestRelease.zip DOWNLOAD SmartCopilot from the home page: https://sky4crew.com/smartcopilot/ DOWNLOAD FlyWithLuaNG here: FlyWithLua NG Download page Please read "SmartFlying-Readme.pdf" for installation instructions. GET INVOLVED Do you have experience in programming languages and a basic knowledge of Lua? Do you want to get involved in the development of SmartFlying, AMS and tools for X-Plane? Please contact me (CaptainSpaulding) here on X-Pilot.com Forum LICENSE SmartFlying, an extension to make formation flight using SmartCopilot. AMS, an Advanced Library Package for FlyWithLua. Copyright (C) 2020 Pasquale Croce. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY ; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/ . Submitter CaptainSpaulding Submitted 01/21/2021 Category Plugins and Utilities  

What about peer-to-peer connections? In your knowledge, are there any plugin for X-Plane that allows to share data between to X-Planes over the internet? Basically the same thing that XP already does for LAN, but over Internet...

Thanks @fehrster for the suggestion. It looks interesting but, unfortunately, it appears to work natively only on Windows, through wine on Linux and not available for Mac. I am on Linux and I must say that I have no idea what to do with the '.msi' file that I've downloaded there. I haven't found where to download the usual '.xpl' plugin for X-Plane.

Formation Flying with other people that are not on your LAN is quite a challenge on X-Plane. To achieve that, in the past I've used many time IVAO and VATSIM servers. If you spawn in areas far from the big airports, like the web of inlet in British Columbia, you can use those server just to see your buddies. BUT... there are couple of problems. A part that it's quite a nightmare to setup, especially if you want to see the right plane, the major problem is that it has become nearly impossible to create an account on those sites. I've had many friend that were not able to sign-up on either. Different problems, starting with "the account already exists" (not true) and ending with a series of complex questions you MUST answer if you want your login on their server. Lukily I didn't had to go trought all of this when I signed up quite a decade ago. I've tired to contact them, even via Twitter, nobody replied. So, I can say that IVAO and VATSIM are not an option for free formation flying. At least not at present, not until they fix their sign-up procedures. Is here any other option out there that can be used for this purpose? Any suggestion? Thanks in advance... Cap.S.

I guess is quite difficult to run Windows on a proprietary ARM Chip even if Win does run on ARM7 and ARM64 Machines... I can understand the excitement, but I remember the adventures that Apple had when decided to switch to an unknown RISC chip called Power. It'a risky business...

My fault. It works as expected indeed. It was just a mistake on my side.

Thanks pal. Of course, I'm coding the other side of the question which is having the plane being able to refuel only in close proximity to the "Refuelling Points". So, if don't carefully plan your flight, you risk to run out of refuelling options. I will soon make a distinction between 100LL and JetA fuel points, so you'll have to find also the right kind of gas for your plane. What you see in the pictures is obtained by scanning the installed Sceneries, so it's always up-to-date with your (sim)world. It doesn't rely on any custom data file.

Hello, I'm using this function with SDK300: XPLM_API void XPLMDrawMapLabel( XPLMMapLayerID layer, const char * inText, float mapX, float mapY, XPLMMapOrientation orientation, float rotationDegrees); ...where XPLMMapOrientation is can have the following values: Name Value Description ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- xplm_MapOrientation_Map "0" Orient such that a 0 degree rotation matches the map's north xplm_MapOrientation_UI "1" Orient such that a 0 degree rotation is "up" relative to the user interface I expect that with 'xplm_MapOrientation_Map' my labels follows the north, meaning that they rotate with the map, while 'xplm_MapOrientation_UI' it does not changes orientation if the map underneath does. The problem is that whatever value I put, the result is always matching the map's north and never the user interface. Of course, if set any value to 'rotationDegrees' the label get rotate correcty. The same applies to the Icons, for the function: XPLM_API void XPLMDrawMapIconFromSheet( XPLMMapLayerID layer, const char * inPngPath, int s, int t, int ds, int dt, float mapX, float mapY, XPLMMapOrientation orientation, float rotationDegrees, float mapWidth); Any idea, suggestion or known bug? Thanks in advance, Cap.S.