Gees

In game landing analysis for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020.

Update

Bouncing after landing is now detected + G's a bit higher + Hide button + A bug fix.

For changelogs, please check the releases.

How to Install/Use?

Download the latest release from here (Assets -> File-that-is-not-source-code.zip). Unzip to your favorite location for MSFS2020 landing monitors, and start Gees.exe. You'll see a window like this in the bottom right.

The app itself runs in the background, and you can find this status window in the status tray, as this icon:

That's it. When you start the sim the app will automatically connect and when you land, you'll get a window similar to this slide out top-left:

You can start it before, or after the MSFS, it doesn't matter.

How to Uninstall?

Delete the folder where the Gees.exe resides.

What is measured?

Descent rate at the landing in feet per minute

Self explanatory.

G force at the touchdown

Maximum G force impact at the moment of touchdown. Should be in theory related to the descent rate, undercarriage dampers and how much the passengers are nervous.

Airspeed and ground speed at the touchdown

Self explanatory.

Wind speed and direction at the touchdown

There's a nice arrow, showing where the wind is blowing from

Sideslip at the touchdown

Did you do the proper de-crab maneuver, or the plane is going sideways on touchdown in the crosswind? The higher, the worse. Keep it close to 0 degrees or you might break the gear, or pop the tire (well, probably not in the sim).

How to compile it

It's a c# WPF application. You'll need a Visual Studio with .NET 4.7 and the following nuget libraries:

CTrue.FsConnect
Octokit
PrettyBin
CsvHelper

Contact

Use the reddit page, or here, the Issues page to report bugs and suggestions. Please do.

License

Distributed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 License. See LICENSE for more information. (Whatever you do with this, keep it open source)

Recent Changelog for 1.1.0

New Features
Bouncing the plane on landing is counted now as a bounce, and not as a new landing.
If you are landing like this, you won't get 5 average landings anymore, you'll get one with 4 bounces. This required some changes in the interface:

You have bounce field now in the display
Auto-close timer is now also the "bounce" timer, meaning that you have this amount of time to have the plane rolling before the app will start to check for a new landing.
There is also a bounce parameter in the log.
The log is updated to v3, to have the bounces: you still have the old landings accessible in Documents\MyMSFS2020Landings-Gees\landings.v2.csv, but they are not shown in the app
Landing detection much more sensitive
To accommodate this new bounces, and to try to fix the bug where the app did not detect landings sometimes, I made the landing detection to be much more sensitive - previously, you needed to have the wheels firmly on the ground for 100ms to be "landed". Now, you need to just touch the ground.

G's a bit higher
All for this bouncing - G's are now not average G force over time, but maximum impact (by sim frame). The values will be higher.

Hide button
There's a button you can use to hide the app without quitting. You know if you needed it.

Sidebar color
For all of ye that once you see something you cannot unsee it, the bar is thinner and more sky coloured. I can't remove it completely and still have it accessible by mouse click, so I think this is better than having a floating button somewhere.

Bugs
I think the bug where when you start the app before the MSFS, it does not detect the landing, so you have to re-start etc... is fixed. Not sure though since this thing works pretty well when I try it, and then later it doesn't. And I need like 5 mins to start the freaking game for each of these "tests"...