Updated Reply: As stated previously, Location Manager does not break the core sim Activities. This is not a Location Manager issue, it's an addon conflict. There is no "censorship" at all, I have this conflict and solution publicly listed at the top of my Location Manager Known Issues at https://sonicviz.com/project/location-manager/#title-knownissues You can read the "Known Issues" related to Aircraft Manager anytime @ https://sonicviz.com/project/location-manager/#title-knownissues Both kept up to date as new information comes in. Hardly "censorship" when you publicly list Known Issues. I even tell people upfront to read the Known Issues before buying. Here's what happened: - Comments here have the replies hidden by default, and most people are unlikely to read the hidden replies correcting any information that is wrong unless they click on "replies". Most won't. All they see is a comment stating with 100% confidence that Location Manager breaks MSFS core Activites function and is the cause, leading to the conclusion the product is crap. I have no ability to moderate this or correct that impression in the comment, and then have to jump through many hoops and waste a lot of time waiting for the poster to bother to reply to me. - Posting a sim breaking accusation (without doing proper research or following requested bug reporting process), then not replying for days, leaves the impression it's a deliberate reputational attack. This happens a lot on the internet, most if not all developers experience this more than once, as I have I on this page before which is why I have Zero tolerance for it anymore. As I was under the impression this was such a reputational attack I blocked the user, which apparently also blocks their replies to you. No matter, I'm always contactable via the channels I tell users to, but never received any contact at all. - Not answering any of my questions (where bought etc) in a timely manner after posting such a comment, and not submitting a bug report via the requested channels - All this could have been avoided by following the process I ask all users to do if they have an issue - use the support form on the product website to contact me and we'll sort it out. Support form is always open and not affected by user blocking on this site at all. I have no problem receiving bug or issue reports but I can't abide being falsly accused of breaking core sim functionality with no ability to effectively moderate comments that do that. Moderation is not censoring, it's an editing function that is used to keep things focused. I have now deleted this free product from flightsim.to as a result. Please respect developers time and effort, and be aware the impact your comments may have before you make them. The products may be free to you, but developers spend a lot of time/resources making them. Report bugs or issues you are having via official bug report and product support channels. That's what they're for. Happy flying. ----Original Reply This is not true. I've tested this previously, and I just retested with a discovery, training, and bushflight and they all work prefectly fine, the FLY button is active and the activity loads and starts just fine. I've also confirmed the Activities work perfectly fine with Free version available here. Additionally, I've received no bug reports on this from any user of either version you reference via the official bug report channels as users are told to do via the web project pages: https://sonicviz.com/project/location-manager/ This is likely a conflict you are having on your install. Please make sure you read the Known Issues on the project pages in addition to all other info to make sure nothing applies. If you do have an issue, you should also be submitting it via the official bug report form with the requested info that is at the bottom of the page @ https://sonicviz.com/project/location-manager/ Why have you not done that? Why are you posting a false statement here instead of reporting you have an issue through the appropriate channel, along with evidence of your purchase? You did purchase it, correct? I'd ask you to please remove this comment in that case, or I will have it flagged and reported.

4 months ago

Awesome, glad it's working for you.

6 months ago

Please make sure you read the Known Issues section on https://sonicviz.com/project/aircraft-manager/ as well as the Installation instructions.

It's possible you are using the Modern UI addon, which is a known conflict.

Modern UI has not been updated for some time and does not appear to be supported any longer, as noted by the MU developer themselves on https://flightsim.to/file/22352/ms-fs-2020-modern-ui-2-0 (Scroll to just above the comments)

 " The author does currently not recommend downloading this file and has unlisted it. This may be due to several reasons, for example, the file may need to be updated."

6 months ago

Thanks for the feedback.

It's not always possible to implement features due to sim and/or sdk limitations, so it's best not to assume that's it's possible to implement things that you might personally want. Not sure why that warrants downrating a free addon that helps you solve other issues now.

6 months ago

You're welcome and thanks!

6 months ago

I've looked into that and so far can't find a way to emulate what they are doing in developer mode to do that. I suspect it's custom code they have hooked into the developer mode, but will keep poking at it and maybe I'll have a lightbulb moment.

In the meantime, just use developer mode to switch planes.

Not ideal, but at least it's an option.

8 months ago

Thanks for your feedback (and rating), they're all great ideas.

>>Liveries

We're limited as to what can be implemented by the underlying MSFS UI framework, as we're building on top of that. I've looked into the livery system previously, and it's not possible to change how it currently works ie: you only have access to the liveries of the selected plane. So they currently can't be added into the main aircraft manager grid. It may be able to revamp the livery interface similar to the grid interface though, so I'll add that to the list to see what's possible in future.

>>Favorites

Favorites are a included in the pro versions already. Favourites are a simple on/off binary choice, it's a different use case from a rating system, more granular.

I hadn't considered a more fine grained star type personal rating system, but I'll add that into the list to look into sometime as well.

Mar 2023: Favorites are now part of the free version.

However, you have access to 1 character tags in the free version, which is (in english) 26 alphabet characters + 10 digits. You can easily devise a personal system using these to favourite and or rate your aircraft with these, and use sorting on them organise. eg: use 1 to 5 tags to rank your planes, with 1 being the most favorite, and down from there.

Thanks for your input!

Happy flying.

9 months ago

Not currently, maybe downstream. As a primarily STOL pilot (and low level racer) myself I understand what you mean, but it's actually not that simple to implement, which is why you don't see it.

My current approach is to start in the air anywhere, land anywhere, and go from there. This is why the current location manager teleport is set to teleport you to 1000' AGL at a saved location, so you can land quickly, if you wish. Landing practice is always good, especially STOL😜

Then you can reset to cold & dark, touch n' go, or whatever you wish to do.

I'll copy.pasta my FAQ Q&A that addresses this from https://sonicviz.com/project/location-manager/

Q: Can I save specific airport gates or ground points as cold & dark start locations?

A: Short answer: not currently. Long answer: Location Manager is intended to be a generalised location manager for storage and retrieval of locations, to act as a starting point for your next flight. The intent is to zoom back to the saved location, THEN you manually select what you want to do for the flight by another click as per normal map use: start in the air in the general area, select a specific parking spot for a cold and dark, select a runway, select a water runway (in the case of a location with both land & water runways), or select the airport and let the sim decide the runway. In fly mode, you can teleport to saved locations at 1000' AGL, then decide what to do. 

While there’s a use case for doing fine grained location saves like the latter examples, similar to the start of a flight plan depature setup, LM is not intended to do that. I’m also offsetting that custom location “Go” marker from the original lat/long so the new zoomed “Go” custom marker doesn’t obscure the original maker in the case of it being a POI/Airport/City etc. 

All that said, LM is a work in progress and R&D to cover use cases like the Q above is ongoing. Stay tuned. 

10 months ago

You're welcome. Enjoy!

10 months ago