SkyDemon & connection to MSFS 2020

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SkyDemon & connection to MSFS 2020

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milansmid	milansmid posted 8/28/2020 11:21:04 AM HOT Topic Details Share Topic
Group: Forum Members Posts: 68, Visits: 565	Hi Tim, I am a long-term and a happy user of SkyDemon both for real-life as well as simulated flying. This request relates to the sim flying. In the past, I had no issues to connect P3D and X Plane to SkyDemon in order to learn and train all the SD features. Recently I acquired MSFS 2020 for which the connection to SD does not work out of the box (though there is a way via a 3rd party app; however I do not fancy an idea of buying the app and then using just a fraction of it). Therefore: Would it be please possible to implement a feature that would allow SD to connect to MSFS 2020? When googling yesterday, I actually found that one of your competitors (ForeFlight) is achieving this via a free 3rd party app called FlightEventsClient which is broadcasting the flight data on the wifi network. The above mentioned moving map software is then able to catch these data and use them as GPS input. Link with description: https://ipadpilotnews.com/2020/08/foreflight-flight-sim-2020/ I tried the FlightEventsClient out. It connects to the MSFS 2020 and broadcast just fine, but the X Plane option in SD does not catch the broadcasted data. Hopefully you will give this suggestion a thought. Thank you! Regards, Milan
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GAJ52	G GAJ52 posted 9/9/2020 5:55:04 PM Post Details Share Post
G Group: Forum Members Posts: 7, Visits: 66	I have tried this with Xmapsy, it connects to Skydemon with no problems whatsoever and is very smooth. Admittedly it is payware but only the equivalent price of a round of drinks. The only problem I have encountered, is Microsoft in its wisdom has only enabled *.pln files to be imported as MSFS flight plans. As Skydemon does not 'yet' allow flight plans to be saved in this format, we are unable to create a flight plan within Skydemon and use it with MSFS. I feel in the future a great many MSFS users will be using this Microsoft Flight Simulator as a step into real world flying or practicing RW flying trips they intend to take. Admittedly the current Garmin GPS software within MSFS is at a very elementary level, but hopefully things will change within the not to distant future and it would be great if Skydemon could benefit in sales from this new enterprise. Glen
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Spladoosh	S Spladoosh posted 1/10/2021 8:00:49 AM Post Details Share Post
S Group: Forum Members Posts: 1, Visits: 0	+x GAJ52 - 9/9/2020 5:55:04 PM I have tried this with Xmapsy, it connects to Skydemon with no problems whatsoever and is very smooth. Admittedly it is payware but only the equivalent price of a round of drinks. The only problem I have encountered, is Microsoft in its wisdom has only enabled *.pln files to be imported as MSFS flight plans. As Skydemon does not 'yet' allow flight plans to be saved in this format, we are unable to create a flight plan within Skydemon and use it with MSFS. I feel in the future a great many MSFS users will be using this Microsoft Flight Simulator as a step into real world flying or practicing RW flying trips they intend to take. Admittedly the current Garmin GPS software within MSFS is at a very elementary level, but hopefully things will change within the not to distant future and it would be great if Skydemon could benefit in sales from this new enterprise. Glen SkyDemon can export a .fpl file via the "Share" option and an email to yourself. You can open the .fpl in Little Navmap and export from there to .pln and into msfs David
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SkyDemon & connection to MSFS 2020

milansmid - 8/28/2020 11:21:04 AM

Just a heads-up: Today's MSFS 2020 update to version 1.7.14.0 fixed...

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trettum - 9/7/2020 11:40:28 AM

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Tailwinds - 9/3/2020 8:44:44 AM

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aarvidsson - 9/6/2020 8:17:06 AM

Hi,..yes it is.

Tailwinds - 9/6/2020 9:57:45 PM

I have tried this with Xmapsy, it connects to Skydemon with no...

GAJ52 - 9/9/2020 5:55:04 PM

+ x [quote] [b] GAJ52 - 9/9/2020 5:55:04 PM [/b] I have...

Spladoosh - 1/10/2021 8:00:49 AM

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cecile - 10/4/2020 8:11:39 AM

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evilstiefel - 10/12/2020 5:32:56 PM

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evilstiefel - 10/19/2020 8:35:33 AM

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Steffiskruff - 10/24/2020 2:52:27 PM

Ohh don’t bother. I did fix it now. Thanks :)

Steffiskruff - 10/24/2020 7:05:33 PM

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col-lucy - 4/20/2021 2:22:59 PM

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Chris_FK9 - 4/29/2021 7:51:50 PM

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md-15 - 8/31/2023 1:30:35 PM

I triedFS20ToGDL90 as suggested and that worked.

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