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Fairly new to FSX. I'm looking to build a warning system that would notify incoming aircraft of potential runway incursions.

This would look at the landing runway, and determine if other aircraft were on it. Maybe have runway lights blink which would be triggered by the incoming aircrafts position.

Any thoughts on how this could be accomplished using FSX
(Simconnect)?

Thanks
 
You can request a list of simobjects within a certain range and you can request their AI Traffic State, which I think does include among others 'landing' and 'takeoff' and you can obtain the assigned runway.

So maybe you can draw some conclusion about the current runway use, though it will be a guess at best I think.

Then to flash lights... I guess you have to create a simobject so that you can add the lights using simconnect and use some kind of trigger to make them flash. To place the lights you would need to find out the coordinates of the runway, which is not possible using simconnect. So you'll have to create a cfg with coordinates for each runway at each airport.

If you do have runway coordinates, you could also use them to see if any of the simobjects returned by simconnect are actually on the runway.

Daniel
 
Thanks Denial,

Should get me going in the right direction.

Are there any good tutorials, blogs, etc out there on creating Sim Objects. I'm guessing I have to use something like gmax and export my object in a format which FS will like....
 
It's possible. I have programmed a RWSL tool with simconnect in C#.
Listen for "takeoff 2" and "landing" state include runway number. The tool runs for the CYHZ Halifax airport.

In case of a event the tool place/remove objects in the scenery. (red lights on taxiway or runway - toggle)

RWSL = Runway Safety/Stop Lights
 

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ralph said:
It's possible. I have programmed a RWSL tool with simconnect in C#.
Listen for "takeoff 2" and "landing" state include runway number. The tool runs for the CYHZ Halifax airport.

In case of a event the tool place/remove objects in the scenery. (red lights on taxiway or runway - toggle)

RWSL = Runway Safety/Stop Lights
Click to expand...

VERY COOL

Is the tool available to others .. Freeware / shareware / payware.

If it is a small, stand alone tool, specifically for one airport, would you consider releasing it with C# project, as a starting point for others interested in experimenting with this function ?
 
Stand alone. This because the red lights are attached effects in four Gmax files.
I have a pair for rwy 05/23 and a pair for rwy 14/32.
One for runways, one for taxiways.

With simconnect I look for "takeoff 2/landing" and "runway".
Radius is 5km, so the lights toggle like real.
In case of "landing 05" I place one of the four .mdl
The .mdl is a "GroundVehicle" SimObject.
 
Hey Ralph,

Do you have an example of how you toggle your runway lighting using SimConnect. Do you load the lights as NonAircraft Objects and simply add/remove? Or can you actually pass in vars. to toggle?

Thanks
 
Simply toggle with

simconnect.AICreateNonATCAircraft("RWSL1", "R0001", Init, DATA_REQUESTS.REQUEST_RWSL1);

I will upload a sample in the next days, so you can to try it out.
 
OK. I have upload a version as runtime and with the source code in C#.
Works only in CYHZ.

Link: http://www.simaddons.com/download/RWSL.zip

This version use simconnect.AICreateSimulatedObject, but the
center of the .mdl is outside any runway/taxiway. The object
is a groundVehicle. It's possible to change this.
For simconnect.AICreateNonATCAircraft the object must be a aircraft.

Source code. Not the best but it works. Perhaps a C crack can input some better lines....
 
Here two pictures to see how it works:

RWSL close runway 05/23, all taxi open

rwsl2.jpg


RWSL open runway 05/23 (start of a plane) and close all others

rwsl1.jpg
 
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