Description
What is "Virtual Flight Online Transmitter" ?
It is a small Windows application that transmits your position in Microsoft Flight Simulator to an online database. Anybody running Transmitter can then be plotted live in LittleNavMap, and on a map at https://virtualflight.online/who.
Why?
If you and your friends want to see each other on mapping software such as LittleNavMap to run your own air traffic control sessions for group flights, you will no doubt have discovered that Microsoft Flight Simulator only communicates AI aircraft to external mapping applications such as LittleNavMap - not users. The VirtualFlight.Online Transmitter application addresses that.
How It Works
The desktop application connects to a running copy of Microsoft Flight Simulator via the SimConnect interface, and reads your aircraft's type, latitude, longitude, altitude, and airspeed. It combines the data with your keyed callsign and name, and sends it to a server on the internet.
The server then provides access to data that has updated in the last 5 minutes in "whazzup" format - a data format commonly used with the likes of VATSIM and IVAO - and crucially LittleNavMap. The URL of the server can be used to configure LittleNavMap to show you and your friends aircraft on the map.
Running the Program
- Launch Microsoft Flight Simulator.
- Run "VirtualFlight.Online Transmitter".
- Fill out the text boxes for your callsign, aircraft type, name, group name, and server URL.
- Click Connect
After clicking connect, the application will broadcast your location within the simulator to the internet once a second.
My Antivirus says Transmitter is unsafe!
Your antivirus is wrong. It's a "false positive". Depending on your antivirus solution, you might need to white-list Transmitter. In Windows defender you can do this by:
1. Visiting "Virus and Threat Protection" in Windows
2. Click on "Protection History"
3. Look in "Recent Threats", and allow Transmitter (or the installer) to run.
Configuring LittleNavMap
If you would like to see everybody broadcasting their position with Virtual Flight Online Transmitter, follow these steps in LittleNavMap:
- Click on the Tools menu
- Click on Options
- Select the Online Flying section within the Options panel
- Choose the radio button for "Custom" within the Online Flying section
- Fill the URL https://virtualflight.online/whazzup_ivao into the URL field (and make sure you have no spaces in the URL)
- Set the update rate to something sensible (e.g. 5 seconds)
- Make sure IVAO is chosen in the format drop-down
- Click Apply, and OK
Who is online?
You can find out who is online at any time by visiting the following URL:
Help Support Transmitter
If you are able to assist with the operating costs and continued development of Transmitter, please consider joining the patreon - for the price of a cup of coffee each month, you'll be helping the entire community.
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Log Inover 2 years ago
Thanks Jonathan!
over 2 years ago
almost 3 years ago
almost 3 years ago
The settings appear to be stored in transmitter.exe.config, perhaps have a "local" config file separate to the other system settings (e.g. SQLite stuff) would make this easier as it wouldn't be replaced each time an upgrade happens.
almost 3 years ago
over 2 years ago
about 3 years ago
Just installed this and love it! One very minor suggestion: As-is, you either have to disable LittleNavMap's user aircraft overlay or you get a ghost of your own plane and its variables on the map, and you also have to reduce your plane's update rate to the same as that used for other aircraft.
It would be really nice if you could disable display of your own plane's position in the map while retaining everyone else so that you could have the best of both worlds: Your own aircraft update quickly by LittleNavMap, and everyone else's online aircraft at a reduced rate using VirtualFlight Online Transmitter.
I get that the whazzup_ivao map is shared between everyone and there's no possibility to filter out a specific user from it in LittleNavMap. A suggestion, though: Could you please consider adding an environment variable option to the URL and allow users to pass their own ID to it, eg: https://virtualflight.online/whazzup_ivao?mycallsignhere and then do the filtering of that user on the server side instead?
Many thanks both for the extremely useful addon and for taking the time to read and consider this request!
almost 3 years ago
almost 3 years ago
Group Filters with LittleNavMap
To only pull back aircraft broadcasting a given group name in LittleNavMap, modify the URL in the Online Flying dialog within LittleNavMap to have ?group=xyz (use your group name) on the end of it - which implements the filter.
e.g. https://virtualflight.online/whazzup_ivao?group=xyz
about 3 years ago
Just installed the latest version and can't see anybody nor my own red plane on Navmap ?
almost 3 years ago
almost 3 years ago
about 3 years ago
If your antivirus software says Transmitter is a virus, it is wrong. It's a "false positive". Depending on your antivirus solution, you might need to white-list Transmitter.
In Windows defender you can do this by:
1. Visiting "Virus and Threat Protection" in Windows
2. Click on "Protection History"
3. Look in "Recent Threats", and allow Transmitter (or the installer) to run.
about 3 years ago
Sorry I didn't see coments below
about 3 years ago
about 3 years ago
Same
about 3 years ago
Understand that AV's and flight simulators are not compatible,just disable it or make a exclusion.
VirtualFlight.Online Transmitter
VirtualFlight.Online Transmitter displays multiplayer aircraft from Microsoft Flight Simulator live in LittleNavMap and on a live map in the VirtualFlight.Online website to assist those taking part in group flights and to simulate air traffic control for groups wishing to provice ATC services.
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