During the winter (and summer ??!!!!) where the weather is too bad to fly, I like to keep up my IMC skills by flying various routes and instrument approaches using FSX.

I can, currently, plug in my back-up Garmin 496 into FSX and the route and moving map comes up on the 496 whilst in sumulator mode.

Wouldn't it be a great tool if we could use the iPad SkyDemon plugged into FSX and allow hands on simulation via FSX?

Has anyone managed to achieve this FSX link?

Don't know weather to post here on in the sugesstins forum.

P.S - I am the worlds most un-educated person with respect to software, cables, patches and plug-ins (although I know the language), so a really easy fix (aka the garmin solution) would be great.

Thanks

Hugh

Regards



Hugh

G-OIBM

Commander 114

I also had it hang at Waiting for Location Data. In fact Skydemon had crashed already. 

To everybody having problems with this, after spending some time diagnosing the problem and thinking about it I could troubleshoot mine, hope it also helps you! 

My guess is you are from a country where the decimal separator is a coma (,) and not a dot (.) as in 10 Euros, 50 cents is 10,50.

This wrong decimal separator is also used when the coordinates are sent to the iPad which causes SkyDemon to crash. (It seems). 

So how do you fix it:

You can change this setting in windows for this open the Control Panel (Systemsteuerung in Deutsch):

Open it and change the view to small icons (1) then open the Region settings (2).
Look for the icon and not the text if your Windows Version is localized to a different language. 


In the Region Settings open the [Additonal Settings]


Change the "Decimal symbol" to . instead of , 


To the developer: You should be able to fix it by supplying the default US Locale explicitly in the constructor for your Number Format (or whatever that is called in .Net, I am doing mostly Java these days) or use that instead of a simple ToString. And thanks for the great tool! Very helpful and works a charm, after figuring this out.

Happy new year and kind regards
Fabian

I had exactly the described problem and could solve it with the hint of fabian :-))

I would be delighted if the author could bring in a further setting in FSX2Skydemon in which the user can choose the decimal point / decimal komma setting in order to arrange the GPS Data to be sent in the region's needed setting.

If i set the region setting manually correctly - the program runs very well !!
Kind regards

Wolfram (Aviator 55)