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Flight Logger 3.0.9 - Bugs and suggestions!

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EHM-2029 Sotiris:
Luciano,

you're very correct that fuel is important in the clalculations and should be included in the FLogger.
However, if the calculations results are the same ones that I get after PP flights, than they are occassionally wrong.
OK, I have also cheated with fuel before but there are times when even when the correct fuel is used I get a negative value for the cruise leg in the analysis you get after a PP flight.
Even the authors, acknowledge this and say that the graphs may be incorrect or sometimes not print at all.

Therefore, important as it may be to include fuel in the considerations, I think we need to make sure it measured correctly first.

(People get a false 'wrong altimeter setting' and cry about it, imagine what would happen if 10% of PP flights had a fuel miscalculation and unwarranted penalties.... It would be riots!!;D )

Now, I don't know how the fuel would be calculated but please make sure it's bullet proof. People take their 'false penalties' very seriously apparently :]

EHM-0654 Murray:
Just to chip in on the fuel "debate", perhaps in the first instance it would be possible to "lock the filler cap" for PP flights? By preventing in-flight refuelling, you'd per default force people to think a little bit about fuelling at least.

And the nice thing about this change is that it wouldn't overly penalise anyone. Those of us that do it by the book wouldn't be affected, we already use fuel planning to ensure we're not on fumes before we land, and beginners could just be advised to fill up before departure (tankage???). The only possible "victims" would be pilots learning about real-world fuel loads, and as we've all said many times over, don't use PP to learn about a plane...

EHM-2022 Simon:
Make it compatible with Vista please, at present I cannot use it.  I just get Runtime Error 70

EHM-0948 Bruno:
Does any more guys like you have that problem that Simon reported ?

Flight Logger doesn't work on Vista ? :o

EHM-0948 Bruno:
Ok, things that we will correct on this 3.0.9 version:

- No more "penalties after shutdown engines".
- The Great Circular distance has been added on the Timetable datagrid.
- The Transition Level has been also created on a textbox, with the default value of "18000" (in ft).

The rest of your improvements (re-fueling, fuel verification, penalty time delay, etc) need further analysis and are not as detailed as these 3 things.
I'm not saying that they don't make sense ok ? :) ... I am just saying that they will not cover all pilot's agreements or they still need to be more detailed.

We are developing them now. Please wait for more news.

Regards,

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