Fsacars roster data incorrect

Rob Vanderkam · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 1:32 am

My roster for the last couple of flights show flight durations of -00:00:09 and -00:00:08. any idea why that would be?Seemed to work for all previous flights.

Cal Jordan (CVA371) · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 1:57 am

Seems that you landed before you took off...... Time change. Try a flight to Australia. The date line really screws it up. Try turning off time sync. that helped for me, but not the dateline.

CVA9214 · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 2:00 am

The reason your time is messed up is because you had a jump in time. FSACARS can not accept time changes during the logging of your flight. This is a line in your log

Jump: removed 1 Hour from Log

Just before you started letting down your flaps for your arrival into Quebec.

Your first flight to Kelowna had this in your log

20:04 UTC Jump: removed 1 Hour from Log

CVA9214 · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 2:04 am

Cal Jordan (CVA371) wrote:

Try turning off time sync.

You can use time sync but you must make sure this is done before starting your log. Such as start FSINN and get this set up before staring the FSACARS.

Cal Jordan (CVA371) · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 6:35 am

So how can we do a flight to YSSY Australia? The time jumps a whole day back. I have 2 flights that need to be changed. I can watch the log as I go over the dateline and see it jump back, but I don't know how to stop it.

Rob Vanderkam · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 12:19 pm

But speaking non-dateline time zone jumps only, how does one fix this? I looked at a bunch of CVAers logs and very few people jump time zones. But Frank did fly from YHZ to BOS and his time was correct. I was flying the YHZ to YQB yesterday as I'll miss the Multi again and wanted to try it, so it'll be interesting to see what people get on Saturday night.

cva3906 · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 8:32 pm

Just to let you know Rob and Cal, I am not ignoring your issues. I am working midnight shift and am pretty much useless outside of work. I don't work midnights so much as just try to survive them. Once I get out of Vampire mode :angry: , I want to do some testing and try to reproduce the effect. I am looking at doing some testing next week.

Rob Vanderkam · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 10:52 pm

No sweat, Chuck. I did fly last night from Quebec to Ottawa and it worked fine. I suggest you just keep an eye on the results from this weekend's multi. With everyone going from ADT to EDT, it will be interesting to see if anyone has problems like I did.

CVA9214 · Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 1:19 am

I have been looking at this problem trying to reproduce the error. I took a flight across the dateline and no problems to be had.
Cal in you first flight from Hawaii it took about an hour and a half into your flight before there was a jump I time. The second flight it was about two and a half hour before the first time jump on the exact same route. So the Dateline does not seem to create the error.
Questions I have for Rob and Cal are

1) Are you using real date and time?
2) Do you use a time sync utility?
3) Have you adjusted time during your flight?
4) Is your system (Computer) date and time set properly?
5) In your flight sim general settings, are you set to system time rather than flight time?

I believe I will need some more information here.

Rob Vanderkam · Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 1:31 am

1) no
2) no
3) no
4) yes
5) system time

Frank - I'm quite happy to withdraw my problem until I try the Halifax to Quebec flight again. I assume no-one had any problems on the Multi of that flight.

Rob Vanderkam · Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 2:58 am

I tried it and realised the problem was I had flown using daylight - so the time on my system was wrong compared to real life. Same with the Kelowna flight.

So we got to fly in the dark all winter! :-(

Cal Jordan (CVA371) · Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 6:34 am

First flight
yes
yes
no
yes
system time

Second flight
yes
no
no
yes
system time

the third flight flight I was watching and I could see when it jumped 24 hrs or the next day and turned and I could see it jump back as I went over the line on FSNav, I could go back and forth and it would jump back and forth. I'm using FS2004 Squawkbox realweather. I didn't save the log. but I can do another and get the lat and long of a line to fly for you.

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