@fboes/aerofly-patterns

Aerofly Landegerät

Create landing pattern lessons for Aerofly FS 4.

This nice little project generates custom_missions_user.tmc to use with Aerofly FS 4. These missions contain landing pattern lessons, which put your plane in a random location around an airport, sets time of day as well as weather, and let you figure out how to enter the landing pattern correctly.

What does it do?

1. It downloads data for an airport selected by you,
2. and places an aircraft selected by you in a random spot around this airport.
3. It downloads METAR weather data for the last few days,
4. and determines which will be the active runway,
5. considering if your aircraft is able to land on this runway.
6. From this data it will create multiple random missions,
7. and write these to a custom_missions_user.tmc which you then can use in Aerofly FS 4.

How to use it

This tool requires Node.js in at least version 20 to be installed on your local computer.

Use this CLI command to generate a new mission file in the current folder.

# npx @fboes/aerofly-patterns [ICAO_AIRPORT_CODE] [AEROFLY_AIRCRAFT_CODE] [RP_RUNWAY,..]
npx @fboes/aerofly-patterns KMVY c172 24,33

Parameter	Description	Example	Default
ICAO_AIRPORT_CODE	ICAO airport code which needs to be available in Aerofly FS 4	KMVY	KMVY
AEROFLY_AIRCRAFT_CODE	Internal aircraft code in Aerofly FS 4	c172	c172
RP_RUNWAY	Comma-separated list of runway names with right-turn pattern	24,33
FOLDER_MODE	If set to 1 will create files in a subdirectory instead of current directory.	1

If you need to skip a parameter, supply - and it will use the default value.

The complete list of available internal aircraft codes in Aerofly FS 4 is available in …\Aerofly FS 4 Flight Simulator\aircraft. Examples of codes:

AEROFLY_AIRCRAFT_CODE	Type
a320	Airbus A320
asg29	Schleicher ASG 29
b58	Beechcraft Baron 58
b737	Boeing 737
b737_900	Boeing 737-900
b777_300er	Boeing 777
c172	Cessna 172
c90gtx	Beechcraft King Air C90
camel	Sopwith Camel
concorde	Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde
dr1	Fokker Dr.I
ec135	Eurocopter EC135
f15e	McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle
f4u	Vought F4U Corsair
jungmeister	Bücker Bü 133 Jungmeister
lj45	Learjet 45
mb339	Aermacchi MB-339
p38	Lockheed P-38
pitts	Pitts Special S-2
q400	De Havilland DHC-8
r22	Robinson R22
swift	Aériane Swift

Download the missions

There are already multiple mission files generated in /data. They are stored in directories with the pattern data/[ICAO_AIRPORT_CODE]-[AEROFLY_AIRCRAFT_CODE]/. These files are in each directory:

• custom_missions_user.tmc: Mission file with multiple emissions
• [ICAO_AIRPORT_CODE]-[AEROFLY_AIRCRAFT_CODE].geojson: A GeoJSON file containing the airport properties and the plane in mission #1
• README.md: Quick summary of all missions

See the installation instructions on how to import the missions into Aerofly FS 4.

Technical stuff

This projects uses the public APIs of the Aviation Weather Center. The usage of these APIs may be restricted or blocked on your local computer. The data may also be incoherent with your local state of Aerofly FS 4.

Status

Legal stuff

Author: Frank Boës 2024

Copyright & license: See LICENSE.txt

Changelog

1.1.0

• Added CLI help via --help
• Added folder mode, which creates all files in a subdirectory
• Added some missions
• Added functionality to generate flight plans for unknown aircraft