Question recreating flights SimToolkitPro and Flightlog Analyser and Sky Dolly

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Dear All,

A while back, I lost some of my flights from SimtoolkitPro (STKP) during a migration to another system.

Now I am trying to use Flightlog Analyser (FLA) for recreating these flights in STKP. I am trying to do this by exporting a route file from FLA in Sky Dolly and then fly the flights again in MSFS with Sky Dolly. And then I can record these flights again in STKP.

The only problem is that, sometimes the logbook in MSFS gives only part of a route flown by me, or it is corrupted in some other way.

Therefore, does somebody know a way, or program, where I could edit the route from FLA? So perhaps first export it from FLA, and then into an editor program, so that I can alter these routes and make them complete. And then I can import them in Sky Dolly, and record them in STKP. There are multiple file formats exportable by FLA.

So do you have an idea for such an editing program and what type of file that would be, that can then be imported into Sky Dolly again?

Issues with this also are - i presume - that the new waypoints have to also be specified by time and speed? Otherwise the route can not be flown right in MSFS and Sky Dolly?

Does anybody have ideas how to edit these routes, so that they are executable by Sky Dolly and I can record these flights again in STKP?

Greetings,

Boudewijn Nijssen

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You need to contact SimToolkit Pro for assistance. 3rd Party Support/Bug Reporting should be sent to the designated support funnels of each 3rd Party Developer, and should not be conducted in these forums. I hope you get your issue sorted out.

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According to the website of FlightLog Analyzer that application can indeed export the flight data in a format readable by Sky Dolly.

I don’t know exactly which format that would be, but an educated guess would be one of the comma-separated values (CSV) formats.

If that is the case then you can easily edit those text-based formats with any spreadsheet or even text editor of your choice, such as Excel, LibreOffice Calc or Visual Studio Code (the later two freely available).

Sky Dolly can read the following CSV flavours:

FlightRadar24:

Example:

Timestamp,UTC,Callsign,Position,Altitude,Speed,Direction
1717520175,2024-06-04T16:56:15Z,29,"-77.000000,-9.634276",43757,0,228
...

Note: the Timestamp is a Unix timestamp, that is the seconds since 1.1.1970 (if I remember correctly); absolute time, in other words.

Sky Dolly “Position and Attitude”:

Timestamp,UTC,Latitude,Longitude,Altitude,Speed,Pitch,Bank,Heading
0,2024-06-04T16:56:15Z,-77.000000,-9.634276,43757,0,75,38,228
...

Note: here the Timestamp simply starts at 0 (relative time) and is milliseconds.

Both CSV flavours are fully self-descriptive :wink:

The price-winning question is of course: how do you intend to complete the lost flight path fragments that FlightLog Analyzer is not able to recover from the MSFS logbook?

But once you figure that out it is pretty easy and straightforward to extend the exported CSV files (either FlightRadar24 or the Sky Dolly „Position and Attitude“ flavour, depending on what you have) with any text editor or spreadsheet app of your choice.

By the way: while Sky Dolly records your (actually flown) waypoints they are „for your information only“: not relevant for replay.

Hope that helps to recover your logs :slight_smile:

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Dear Steeler, that is a lot of information. I will have a look at it. Thanks your very much for your input. Greetings.

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Beechc23, hello thanks, already did that. Greetings, Boudewijn

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Well, there is more:

That is, you can alter or extend any flight - or even create flights from scratch, like the shown „camera pan“ flight - in the Sky Dolly logbook. In fact, the Sky Dolly logbook is an SQLite database.

Here is a tutorial about SQL and the SQLite database:

But if editing simple CSV text files is already „a lot of information“ then I suggest to stick to that first. Because from there complexity with SQL escalates quickly :wink:

Happy flying!