Airshow Assistant - feedback and discussion

This is now showing as per the below in MSFS 2024, I cannot see any mention on the Touching cloud site about it or anything in here.

is anyone else getting the same ?

EDIT: see there is a Free upgrade in the market place and that it why it’s as above.

found the conflicting addon that was the issue : FS2CREW ! after uninstall of the FS2CREW addon hose drum basket are all oke now !!

I’m so excited for this update! AA is an amazing utility and easily one of my favorite add-ons, but it’s always disappointing when I think “oooh, it would be cool to do a formation screenshot of every plane I have with Blue Angels liveries,” only to discover a couple of them aren’t there after the scan.

Really appreciate your continued development, and looking forward to the scanning update.

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And mind you, even with the scanning quirks, you can still do some awesome stuff in the current release!

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100% agree

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Was setting up a Grumman family flight. Got some fun results…

However, had to leave the F6F, F4F, and Avenger out due to them appearing with their wings folded:

Not sure that “state” issue could be addressed in a future update. If you look closely at the AA-5 Cheetah (the civilian plane) in my shots, you’ll notice it’s showing the chocks.

(And the G-44 Widgeon and Grumman Goose didn’t show up as options to choose due to the current scanning peculiarities.)

Not complaining, just flagging for future enhancements!

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Yea that’s a weird thing. I didn’t fool around with it much. The several times I tried to pull up Wildcats they worked fine. Never gave it a thought. Then I tried pulling up a Hellcat at some point later, and it’s wings were folded. Then the Wildcats were folded. Then the Hellcat was fine. It seems random.

A thought has occurred to me in this moment though. I wonder if they are fine if you are flying an aircraft with folding wings that are OUT when you spawn them.

Tried flying the Hellcat with the wings unfolded, and the Wildcat and Avenger still had folded wings though my Hellcat wingman did indeed have his wings spread.

(Also my engine quit after starting in-flight in FS2024, but that’s a different topic. Just explaining the location of the screenshot. :slight_smile: )

Realized how many Grummans I have for the family shot once the scanning gets worked out, especially if the wing fold issue can be addressed too. F3F, F4F, F6F, F7F, F9F, F-14, HU-16/G111, F-14, AA-5…

One could also do a flying boat show :slight_smile: We’ve got quite a few of those! Might be easier than getting an F14 to fly at 140 kts lol

@thealx2901 Hi! Just curious if you had a rough idea when we might see the scan script updated for FS2024. Absolutely love Airshow Assistant, but it’s oddly random in which planes and liveries it picks up and I’m looking forward to hopefully being able to bring in any aircraft I have enabled in the sim for a formation shot.

Also, I’m guessing the lack of a pilot in some formation aircraft is an FS2024 issue and not Airshow Assistant?

Thanks!

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Currently we are focused on the finishing aerial refueling capabilities and fixing major issue with FS24/Xbox compatibility (because there are no debug tools available for 3rd party devs it takes huge amount of time for trial and errors). You can expect updated liveries scan feature until end of the year, along with better helicopters support.

Missing pilots indeed is an issue of the sim itself, but I can try to use other ways of the AI aircraft insertion in case it will give different result.

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Thanks for the update and the continued enhancement of Airshow Assistant! I (and many others) really appreciate and enjoy the utility.

Once the new scan is in place, I’ll be “advertising” for AA in a lot of places as I have some really fun ideas for formation screenshotws.

Important notice for FS24 users - due to technical issue with FS24/Xbox specifically (WASM script crashes on game load) latest Airshow update will be delayed. It supposed to add new Aerial Refuellers Pack update support (new tankers models and liveries) so you will not have them available yet, if such purchased.
Next week update is posted for the pre-release test and result will be known in 3-4 days - if issue fixed, it will be published next Thursday.

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