Right now we released yet another public testversion (2.0 alpha 7) of vasFMC.

As many people were hoping, this release also contains the MS FS2004 gauge version plus customized versions of the Project Airbus A319 and A320 models including the vasFMC gauge integrated into the Ken Mitchel Airbus panel.

Additionally there is also a great new HTML documentation available for vasFMC 2.0. Its not fully complete yet but nevertheless a must for the new release.

For details about the the new release, surf to the forum

For info and download take a look here.

As many people were asking if there will be any new version of vasFMC, i am announcing today that there will indeed be a new version. I am currently doing a complete refactoring of the old code in order to ease the implementation of new features.

I am planning at least following key features for the new version:

• Navdisplay with surrounding airports display, ADF/VOR information and pointer needle display, runway and extended centerline display of the departure and arrival airports.
• Real MCDU GUI in A-Style.
• Enhanced and configurable FMC autopilot, letting the user finetune the autopilot for different types of airplanes.
• Enhanced FMC route processing.
• Nearly all of the former internally fixed configuration parameters will be user-editable.
• Network feature which will allow to connect more the one Navdisplay and MCDU to the FMC core.

I do not know any release date of the new version - it will be ready when it is ready - but i am aiming for a first release in the first quarter of 2008.

An X-Plane user sent me a suggestion how to patch vasFMC so it can be used with recent versions of X-Plane. I added the patch to our filebase today.

cheers, Alex

Update: The downloadlink was broken - now it works as designed.

Today’s release contains the following changes:

• Fixed route specific bugs (sometimes routes were not saved, etc.).
• Added generic LAT/LON waypoints.
• Added PBD waypoints.
• Change “chart type” to “chart name”
• Fixed many small bugs.
• Added some charts for the following airports:
  LOWG, LOWI, LOWW, LOWK, EDDB, EDDL, EDDM and EDDF.
• Changed nomenclature from “pre alpha” to “development”

• Every route is now selectable at each leg showing the route’s name.
• A moved label now triggers the save on exit dialog (=map change).
• Fixed route adding bug causing an assert.
• Added “New” and “Save as” options to the file menu.
• Added chart info edit dialog for changing the chart’s airport, magnetic variation, etc.

Fly.Simvol developed a plugin for the Fly! II, which makes vasFMC also available for this flight simulator. I added the plugin to our filebase today.

cheers, Alex

• Added “save” menu entry.
• Changed the route highlighting area to the middle of the first leg.
  (I will extend this to all legs of a route later.)
• Fixed bug causing the program to crash on exit.
• Fixed bug in route edit dialog causing a crash.
• Added rudimentary change detection for save on exit.
• Adapted help dialog content.
• Added “changelog” menu entry.
• Added movable label to aiport item.

I just released a new pre alpha version of vasCharts with a ton of new features. It is now possible to add/remove aiports, intersection, VORs and NDBs and to move their labels via the HMI. It is also possible to add new or edit existing routes via a route edit dialog. I also added a help dialog listing the available features and how to use them.
Go and get the new version and hunt for bugs!

regards, Alex

As many may have read in our forum, i virtually stopped (i am just implementing some small improvements) the development of vasFMC a while ago because of several reasons. One of those reasons was the start of another project called vasCharts, which will be an electronic aviation chart application for flight simulation usage.

I already made a pre alpha version, which can be downloaded from our filebase: http://files.vas-project.org/

I added some new vasCharts related forums so you may post your comments, thoughts, critics, etc…

regards, Alex

We thought about updating the navdata to 0606 but decided to keep 0513 due to several missing fixes. Of course you’re free to update any time using the downloadable F1-ATR-Airac from http://www.navdata.at.

Apart from that this are the changes to Beta 3:

• Fixed range bug when switching to map mode and back to normal mode.
• Added “parent” field to saved flightplans.
• Enhanced SID/STAR runway filtering.

As always you will find the file on one of our mirrors from the download-area: http://files.vas-project.org/

some of the changes are:

• Ported B-Style to OpenGL.
• Added fontsize to option dialog.
• The FMC now remebers the path of the last flightplan loading/saving operation.
• Enhanced takeoff detection and deletion of waypoints behind the airplane.
• The NAV1 frequency & course can now be set from the selected landing runway.
• Fixed OpenGL bug, causing the FMC to consume nearly all CPU time.
• Fixed FSUIPC access bug, causing WIDEFS to consume nearly all CPU time.

Find the Download in our Download Area

The most important changes since Beta 1 are:

• NavDisplay transfered to OpenGL
• Important: Only Mode A is currently working
• Important: No Map mode available in this version
• Some bugs regarding NavData and route intercept are fixed

As always please test as much as you can and report any issues through the forums.

EDIT: it would be highly appreciated if you could send us some screenshots from the OpenGL NavDisplay. We would like to see how it appears on different machines. Just send them to fmc {äd} vas-project.org. Thanks for your help!

BTW: To fit vasFMC to the new homepage we’ve already done some new icons:

The actual stable version is 1.9a and the beta version 1.10b. Get the from one of the mirrors in the filebase.
Another beta with the new OpenGL display will follow tonight.

So he’s now currently rewriting the display. In future it’ll be based on OpenGL. The first tests are running very well. Expect the next public beta version during the next days