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CVA7769
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 2:59 pm |
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Joined: Thu Sep 16, 2004 6:14 am Posts: 1646 Location: Brockville, ON
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Hello All,
By now many of you will have noticed that the new website is now online and the old site is no longer available. This also means that in order for you to have your flight hours tracked you will need to update your FSAcars! Please do the following as per Chuck's previous email / my modifications:
Once logged in to the website ensure you are at the "Pilot Center". Form here you will need to download the new configurations files for FSAcars. Scroll to the bottom of this page and you will see the section called "ACARS CONFIG".
Download the CVA.ini file and find your way to your Program Files/fsacars folder (note for Vista users this may be Program Files X86). Inside of that folder you should see a file called CVA.ini, that same name as the one you downloaded. Put the new file in that folder. It should ask you if you wish to overwrite the existing file. Select OK.
Second, also download the CVA Planes.txt file an install this also to the same FSAcars directory (overwrite the existing file if you already have one. If not, simply put the file in the FSAcars folder).
Next, choose a flight. Go to the site, select the "View Flight Schedules" option from your Pilot Center. What I do here is choose an option which will give me the fewest choices. Say if you are flying out of Toronto to say Windsor, I would select the option to search by Arrival since Windsor would have fewer flights listed.
When you find the flight you want, select the "Add to Bid" on the right side of the page.
You can now close your web browser and start FS. When you load FSAcars, there will be a new button on the right side called Flight from VA. If you click on that, it will get your flight bid and fill in some of the fields for you.
Feel free to add your flight level, change your aircraft type or your route. Leave all other fields alone. From there use fsacars as you normally would.
When finished, leave all references to pilot number alone and just click your way through the submit procedure. I repeat, do not change your pilot number anywhere.
Once this has been done your flights / hours will start to record on the new website. If you have not done this then you will not see your flights show up - so - GET IT DONE!
Cheers! :thumbsup:
Edited By CVA7769 on 1245769297
_________________ Darryl Brambilla CVA Big Dog / Head Cheese a.k.a. - President & CEO CVA7769
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Bill Haystead
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 9:27 pm |
Joined: Thu Dec 28, 2000 3:36 am Posts: 633 Location: Capreol, ON
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Well, I was one if the first to install fscars and had asolutely to problems at all. Now I come out of the bush to find that I have to frig with it again. Guess what? Apparently there is no pilot for me. What the heck is going on?
No Cheers Bill
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CVA7769
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 9:35 pm |
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Joined: Thu Sep 16, 2004 6:14 am Posts: 1646 Location: Brockville, ON
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Bill Haystead wrote: Well, I was one if the first to install fscars and had asolutely to problems at all. Now I come out of the bush to find that I have to frig with it again. Guess what? Apparently there is no pilot for me. What the heck is going on?
No Cheers Bill
Hey Bill,
Not sure what you are talking about? I see you on the new site and your hours are there....??? Not to much to change - just 2 little files to download and install to your computer if you had not already done that from the new site previously.
Drop me a direct email to discuss.
darryl.brambilla@gmail.com
Cheers!
_________________ Darryl Brambilla CVA Big Dog / Head Cheese a.k.a. - President & CEO CVA7769
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Bill Haystead
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 12:16 am |
Joined: Thu Dec 28, 2000 3:36 am Posts: 633 Location: Capreol, ON
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I think that I have things settled - not sure. I'll check tomorro and see if my pirep is logged? This new site is pretty high tech for us "old grumps".
Cheers Bill
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CVA7769
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 12:34 am |
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Joined: Thu Sep 16, 2004 6:14 am Posts: 1646 Location: Brockville, ON
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Bill Haystead wrote: I think that I have things settled - not sure. I'll check tomorro and see if my pirep is logged? This new site is pretty high tech for us "old grumps".
Cheers Bill
Hi Bill,
I received you Pirep. Everything looked fine except it did not record the correct aircraft type. I noticed it logged a 737...
Did you download and install the CVA Planes.txt file to your computer as well? It's in a .zip file and you may have to double click that file first and then copy and paste it to the FSAcars directory that Marty mentioned previously.
Marty - A picture is worth a thousand words....
Cheers! :thumbsup:
_________________ Darryl Brambilla CVA Big Dog / Head Cheese a.k.a. - President & CEO CVA7769
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Bill Haystead
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 12:38 am |
Joined: Thu Dec 28, 2000 3:36 am Posts: 633 Location: Capreol, ON
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Ok, thanks Marty, have it working now.
Cheers Bill
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Bill Haystead
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 12:40 am |
Joined: Thu Dec 28, 2000 3:36 am Posts: 633 Location: Capreol, ON
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I used the 737-500 that Chuck painted up in CVA colours. I use pretty much use payware aircraft exclusively. Have about $400 invested in them. Is that a problem?
Cheers Bill
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CVA7769
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 1:54 am |
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Joined: Thu Sep 16, 2004 6:14 am Posts: 1646 Location: Brockville, ON
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Bill Haystead wrote: I used the 737-500 that Chuck painted up in CVA colours. I use pretty much use payware aircraft exclusively. Have about $400 invested in them. Is that a problem?
Cheers Bill
No problem at all.
Just in terms of the FSAcars setup choose a plane of "like type" for the choice then so it will properly record the Pireps. If not....we can manually change it for you, just 1 extra step.
Cheers!
_________________ Darryl Brambilla CVA Big Dog / Head Cheese a.k.a. - President & CEO CVA7769
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CarlosGarcia
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 8:12 pm |
Joined: Fri Sep 27, 2002 7:48 pm Posts: 127 Location: Colombia
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JEJEJE, i probably should have read this before asking questions.........this is fsacars for dummies.....and me
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