You'll find my pdf notes as an attachment in the following topic: I hope you take this as a good suggestion and see that it will be good for your business in the long run.Ī while ago I wrote some scribbled notes on the structure of the aircraft template. It would be nice to future customers to have a warning on the TOPCAT website that shows what aircraft types are available so that they know BEFORE THEY PURCHASE, if their prefered airplane is covered by the software. On a side note: I was very disappointed to learn TOPCAT has a closed format for adding aircraft. We all know that if you are happy with the results of your sales you will continue to further develop PFPX and add new functions. So please, bear with us and give your customers real, good, solid information so we can contribute to OUR hobby mainly, but with your business as well as a positive side effect. We all know that the data format is not classified information or you'd never have designed the software to base its calculations on an easy-to-open txt file, right?

I fly mostly Embraer ERJ-135/140/145 on my free time and would be willing to take the time and gather all data if I just knew what to write and where :-) Please, think about it for a while: the more aircraft template files your community is able to generate, the more people will be attracted to your software and the more units you will sell in the long run. So I would like to ask you, PFPX designers, as a satisfied customer of this great software, for one piece of document with the complete format guides for the aircraft templates.Ī simple PDF file explaining what each and every data number there means would expedite the creative process and allow for many users to contribute to your software. We have small bits of information scattered through many different topics and, still, lots of fields on the aircraft templates are still unkown to most people. However, searching the forum extensively, I have found that a lot of people have tryed to find the specifications of the aircraft template formats and have received very little input from the designers of PFPX, relying mostly on other customers to get information. so it would be unfair (to say the least) to expect any software to cover them all.įortunately, the flight simming community is extremely open to cooperation and we can see that lots of new aircraft templates, flight plan formats and other stuff have been made available through the users' efforts.ĭon't get me wrong, the developers of PFPX have done a tremendous job and I am a happy customer :-) We all know there are hundreds of aircraft types out there with thousands of variations in models, configurations, engines. I believe most (if not all) of your customers would agree you have developed a very comprehensive tool for flight planning and I have become very pleased with the results.

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