What SkyDemon device was you using?

Do you know if it is possible to run the Windows version of the navigation SD app and connect it to X-Plane running on the same PC?

Thanks

Graham

Hi all,

any news about a future feature in skydemon which will take advantage of GPS data out from Xplane and then allow simulated training VFR flights before getting in the real thing.

Thks

Hi All,

It works.

Hi,

Any ideas if this will work with skydemon app on ipad

My best,

Just to confirm that the output has been fixed in x-plane 10.04 beta 1, now the simulator and SkyDemon work together out of the box!

Well it probably does make sense to keep SD this way (safety perhaps?).



I've reported the issue to the main X-Plane developer and after a couple of emails discussing the situation we identified the problem.

X-Plane was already sending the command containing the DOP but it wasn't encoded correctly, the fix should be in the next update in a few days.



We might be very close to an out-of-the-box working solution!

Thanks for the great feedback. I'm afraid we don't currently have any plans to have an option to ignore poor (or lack of) vertical DoP information from the GPS.

Ok, got it, the vertical dilution of precision is given in the GPGSA sentence, if I fake best dilution (1.0) regularly adding a sentence like this one to the X-Plane output, SkyDemon does indeed show altitude and all the other goodies:

$GPGSA,A,3,,,,,,,,,,,,,1.0,1.0,1.0*33

Do you think it makes sense to add an option to SkyDemon to show altitude information even if the dilution of precision is not good enough or not given at all?

This would make SkyPlane compatible out of the box with X-Plane and again, give you new potential customers right away!



In any case it's a pleasure to use your software: it shows attention to detail everywhere, for most of the programs I use it usually takes a minute to come up with yet another "how could they implement *that* in *this* way???!?!?!?", in SkyDemon it's a pleasure to move around.

Probably you hear it all the time, but I'm a Senior Software Engineer in Testing (or QA Head Monkey if you prefer) and my poor Devs never heard this sentence in the last 8 years or so

I don't have a GPS log handy, but that's what you're after. The sentences output by any standard GPS device with a fix will show exactly what SkyDemon is expecting.