Project Progress
2026-10-21
Due to a large scale PHP security vulnerability that was leaked, many web
sites have been taken down out of precaution. Hoppie's ACARS followed this
and is temporarily offline until the PHP issue has been patched. I expect
not for too long.
14:50z -- The PHP fix is out and already made it to the distro, so I will
work on the installation of it. I have to do a few other things first (this
ACARS is hobby; other ACARS is work, and that has nothing to do with PHP but
with PBCS, and is "slightly more important" right now).
16:35z -- The server has been patched up with the official security fix and
all of ACARS is back online as of 16:33z.
2026-06-14
Today Hoppie's ACARS broke through the 25 million message achievement. Of
course it was not linear but a million messages per year the database
existed is a nice milestone.
2026-06-13
VATATIS information retrieval was inop for a while, fixed that. I added
caching (5 minutes) for both VATSIM and IVAO ATIS.
2026-05-24
On Sunday May 24 we will try to fix the main routers out of the data center.
It will most likely lead to a few interruptions.
2026-05-15
Also UTC evening of the 14th, there was a one-hour interruption of the
external IP link, which left about 50% of the users in the dark. I hope
these network outages will cease once the whole cage has been moved over and
network reconfigurations are no longer needed.
2026-05-13
In the UTC evening of Wednesday the 13th, a network misconfiguration outside
my reach temporarily interrupted about 50% of the IP links from the data
center to surrounding routers and exchanges. The ACARS server and all
immediate hardware around it was fine.
https://www.hoppie.nl/tmp/ip-link-down.png
2026-05-10
The server move was completed in just 15 hours, so the system came back
online around 2000z on May 9th. Kudos to the moving team. The only elements
of the system not yet available are some direct message send web pages,
which for the vast majority of users will not have any impact.
Thank you all for you patience!
2026-05-08
SIGNIFICANT DOWNTIME ANNOUNCEMENT
In the weekend of May 9 and 10, the server for Hoppie's ACARS will be
physically moved from datacenter euNetworks (Amsterdam) to IronMountain
(Haarlem). This is because euNetworks ceases operations.
This will cause significant downtime of Hoppie's ACARS and it is not even
assured the system will be back by the evening of the 10th.
Expect operations to halt around 0600z on May 9 and hopefully they will be
back sooner than late evening 10th.
Details will be available on the Discord channel that does not depend on the
ACARS server machine: https://discord.gg/PV9nbwQmt8
2026-02-06
On the 5th, the system was out between 12:10z and 14:50z because the RAID
controller didn't like getting two more NVMe disks. Don't ask. Solved.
2026-01-07
For users of the IVAO subnet: the INFOREQ IVAOATIS command (or equivalent
bypass code HC002) now can search for matching ATISes if you only give the
first four characters.
2026-01-01
Happy Holidays everybody!
The ACARS access issue has been isolated to some "on the internet" IPv6
blockage. The server itself is fine on IPv6 and many people can get at it
using IPv6 with no problems. But some cannot, and it is not consistent. So
for now I have simply removed the AAAA IPv6 record from the DNS server.
2025-11-23
Added a plugin for Euroscope to the href="https://www.hoppie.nl/acars/software.html">software reference
page.
2025-09-15
Hoppie's ACARS exceeded 20 million sent messages since it went live
somewhere near the year 2000. With over 29,000 active accounts and over
1,000 callsigns online daily, it remains your favourite ACARS relay. Thank
you for the support over all these years!
2025-08-10
In case you would like to ask other users and developers for assistance or
just to exchange thoughts, there is a href="https://discord.gg/PV9nbwQmt8">Discord text channel available.
2025-07-25
Please keep your logon code for Hoppie's ACARS private. If you accidentally
expose it to other people, they can abuse it to log on in your name and send
"funny" messages to others with you taking the blame. This happens more
often than you may believe, especially to good-willing people who show how
to set up things in a (streaming) video. Consider your logon code to be
the same as a password, and protect it from prying eyes.
2025-07-20
To get the system back to what it was designed to be, I removed the hack
that temporarily added callsigns using ping or peek messages to the online
list. If your client does not use poll, you won't appear online. However
ping and peek still work as designed. Some clients are known to never use
poll and only peek -- that is usually not the way to do it.
2025-05-16
After waiting about 20 years too long, I've finally started to work on a href="/acars/system/faq.html">Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page.
2025-05-11
The joker is back. :-( Yesterday he played around for a while and has been
harassing many different people. He also upped his game by starting to
apologize in the name of VATSIM and myself for what he just did, adding to
the confusion.
2025-05-10
Hoppie's ACARS now also supports IVAO ATIS. Either issue an inforeq for
IVAOATIS CALL_SIGN or send a telex with HC002 CALL-SIGN. You can use a
hyphen instead of an underscore.
https://www.hoppie.nl/acars/system/tech.html
2025-03-15
Due to a joker, the following procedure for ATC stations is recommended.
When you get online, send some ACARS message to somewhere. It does not
matter what and to whom, to yourself is fine. This locks your ACARS callsign
for you, for as long as you remain online.
2025-03-10
Please guard your logon code for Hoppie's ACARS just as carefully as your
passwords. In particular do not show it to anybody on an open streaming
session. It is totally possible to just copy it and then play bad on the
network in your name.
2025-03-06
Unfortunately I had to lock out some ACARS accounts in an attempt to stop
users disturbing others. Please don't abuse the system. Whether you do it as
a well-meant joke that went too far or wasn't understood properly, or you
made an honest programming mistake and flooded the zone with garbage, you
did disrupt the space. Hoppie's ACARS is a wide open system for a reason,
and I don't want to play operator and ban people all the time. I invited the
account owners to discuss the matter with me personally and hope they will
learn a lesson.
2025-03-02
Exactly since the new iniBuilds A350 software was released, the system load
has doubled. The new software apparently fetches a lot of METAR and
(VAT)ATIS on FMC init, and automatically brings the user online even while
there is no ACARS traffic after the initial fetch. It is not currently a
problem but this behaviour is not sustainable.
2025-01-01
If your ACARS station (either ground or airplane) receives a message BOAS
FESTAS PARA TODOS, it means that the system has not seen you online for the
last five minutes and assumes you just logged on. If you receive more than
one such message on the same callsign, your software does not maintain
online presence.
2024-12-14
Hoppie's ACARS is back online after not even 3 hours. Thanks to the great
people at Soleus.nu for the painless move!
2024-12-13
Due to less than expected quality of service in the current co-location
center, we will move a few rack units of equipment to another center, also
near Amsterdam. The move will start 1300Z and hopefully the system won't be
down for more than a few hours.
2024-12-12
The hosting facility of Hoppie's ACARS had a major power outage, but it
seems to be all okay again now. The server was down for nearly two hours.
2024-12-12
New function: ACARS system status in JSON. May still change a bit.
https://www.hoppie.nl/acars/system/status.html
2024-12-08
Due to load balancing issues on the host machine that Hoppie's ACARS runs
on, there are periods of time when the load of the whole machine slows down
the ACARS service. Usually this is not an issue, but there is older client
software out there that in such a situation may err and then basically
releases a DoS attack on the server. It shows up as one callsign requesting
for example a METAR a few hundred times in two seconds. This bogs down the
server for a few minutes but it will solve itself.
2024-12-01
A different presentation of this same "project progress" message list is now
available as a NOTAMS page, suitable to be embedded in any other system's
dashboard. Get it at: http://www.hoppie.nl/acars/system/notam.html
It's a flat text file that is at most 80 characters wide and may contain
URLs but from now on no HTML. For now, the messages are displayed only if
their date lies between 2 days in the past and 7 days in the future.
2024-11-21
On Thursday November 21, there may be service interruptions due to works on
the power supplies of the datacenter where Hoppie's ACARS is hosted. The
effect, if it happens, will be simple complete absence of any response on
the usual web API or the web sites on www.hoppie.nl. Apologies for any
disturbance, hopefully it will be brief.
2024-11-13
The datacenter where Hoppie's ACARS is hosted announces possible power
interruptions between 17 and 23 November. When more details become available
they will be mentioned here.
2024-10-27 18:00z
While not taking the system down, I inserted a cache to cover the most used
database queries. This has brought the system load down to a few percent
while pulling 1500 users. So at least this solves the performance issues.
What now remains is to fix a lot of clients out there, including ATC
clients, that use the available API in ways that are not sustainable. I
invite all ATC developers to contact me if they need a feature and they
think the current API cannot do it while there really is no other way to
build their ATC software. For example, asking for a list of all callsigns
online every six seconds is NOT the way to do it. And there are a lot more
of these, such as airplanes that use PEEK instead of POLL. These things
really need to be cleaned up.
2024-10-26 08:30z
I found and removed a few stone age features (literally 20 years old) that
are no longer useful, this seems to help a lot. Let's see what this weekend
brings.
2024-10-25
The system has performance problems that I don't yet understand. It feels
like either the network or the underlying disk turned a lot slower since
this morning about 10:00z. While I try to figure this out, I added some
emergency brakes to the system, in the form of error notices. The list of
notice types will grow; they can be seen href="/acars/system/notice.html">on the new ACARS Notices Page.
I apologize for the inconvenience; I try to get this back in working order
as soon as I can.
2024-10-23
The issue with PMDG clients has been solved. It was due to a
misunderstanding from my side -- apologies to everybody affected.
One client is known now that cause issues. IVAO's AURORA ATC station uses
a method to get information that is too heavy on the system but works
correctly as long as the load is low. I contacted IVAO about it and have not
yet received a response.
2024-10-21
I believe some software got released yesterday that does not talk to the
ACARS system in the correct way. I will start e-mailing the accounts causing
the issue to see whether I can get confirmation they all run the same
software and if so, hopefully the software developer will correct the
problems. Please DO NOT POLL for no reason and not more than ONCE PER
MINUTE.
2024-10-20
At about 16:00z something external started putting a significant load on the
ACARS server. It had easily survived higher loads in the past so something
changed out there. The result is that even a smaller number of ACARS users
online now leads to unacceptable response times. The load fluctuates s lot
and despite me switching off some "expensive" features such as external
METAR and ATIS lookups, the system remains in a state of regular overload.
2024-09-18
The server swap went smoothly. Hoppie's ACARS was unavailable for about 18
minutes. Thank you for your patience.
If you notice anything not yet working properly, please notify me.
2024-09-14
UTC morning of September 18, between 0500z and 1100z, the ACARS service will
move to a new host, for maintainability and performance reasons, and also to
save on expenses.
2024-05-04
For the client developers out there: please consider to implement the
new suggestion
about not starting to poll unless the aircraft has sent anything.
2024-04-21
Those changes seem to have worked wonders. The system now pulls over 1000
parallel users without blinking. I've also extended the maximum length of
names and e-mail addresses.
2024-04-20
I'm disabling various noncritical interfaces to reduce the system load.
There are software clients out there that respond in a bad way to increased
waiting times for connections. Any client should be able to cope with 20-30
seconds of waiting time without doing something silly, like firing dozens of
similar requests per second. This makes the matter only worse!
Please, if you program an ACARS client and you detect a long latency or
other problem that probably is a performance issue, back off and reduce your
polling rate. Go from once per minute down to once per two minutes. No it
ain't great, but that keeps the system working properly.
2024-04-01
Lately we have seen a large (I mean LARGE) increase in system load due to
many more clients appearing that are heavily using CPDLC. I am not entirely
sure but I think there are a few robot servers doing airport clearances and
such. This is not an issue in itself, but the speed with which these bots
seem to work invites rapid-fire message exchange which isn't what CPDLC is
about.
If at all possible, I would like to see a bit more delay between receiving a
request and responding. Especially if the client software detects a long
waiting time for a connection (five seconds, ten seconds) which indicates
that there are a lot of other clients battling for connection time. The vast
majority of clients is just checking for messages. So what about this:
If you detect a long waiting time for a connection, please drop your
polling rate. This "should" make the system self-stabilizing.
2023-11-20
Somewhere in November 2023, Hoppie's ACARS quietly passed the 10 million
message milestone! Since its inception in the very early 2000s, tens of
thousands of users have together exchanged over ten million messages. Quite
something to celebrate.
2023-11-04
A more specific gap detector is now operational. Users that poll more than
once per 20 seconds simply get "no new messages for you" returned for 20
seconds. This does not impact anybody really but reduces the system load as
no further database searches or traffic is required.
If your software still has issues with this server fix, please contact me
and we will attempt to find a workaround.
Many clients have set their poll rate at 5 seconds and this is simply
never needed, please SET IT TO A MINUTE.
more info
2023-11-03
I temporarily switched off the connect gap detection as some clients have
been programmed with several connections in rapid succession. This is
unfortunate because it means the system will again slow down today. As soon
as I can, I will make a more complex gap detector that should only block
truly harmful client connect bursts. It may lead to brief service
interruptions over the coming days.
For client developers: please be considerate when firing off multiple
connect() requests in a burst, for example to retrieve several METARs or
ATISes. Please insert a bit of delay between them, like a second. The system
was never designed to handle multiple clients all using bursts. It easily
leads to the well-known "just over the edge" phenomenon where the
performance collapses as suddenly everybody starts to pile up.
2023-10-29
It looks like there is a new ACARS client out there that is ultra-agressive,
both in polling rate and in retries. The number of messages per 24 hours
exploded from about 7000 to over 30000 and many are simple duplicates.
Usually I see about 30 duplicates in a few seconds coming from the same
callsign. All of these are treated as individual messages so this is tough
on the system. If you experience slow response, this is probably the
reason.
To sort of stop this, I've implemented a mandatory waiting time between
polls of 10 seconds. If your ACARS software polls faster, it will get error
returns until it slows down. It's crude but it already seems to help.
Please reduce the polling to about
once per minute!
2023-07-30
New information request: "peatis" for Pilot Edge ATIS messages.
New telex workaround: "HC001" to ask for a Pilot Edge ATIS if your ACARS
client does not have the "inforeq peatis" implemented (yet).
More info.
2023-07-29
It remains remarkable that this hobby system, which I started around the
year 2000 as part of the (long defunct) Squawkbox for PS1, now has led to a
large number of real wide body aircraft to routinely cross the oceans
under ICAO PBCS rules. In 2011 I made a career switch to start developing
real avionics for real aircraft and over a hundred wide bodies now fly my
software. No it is not the same ACARS software that runs on "my" Iridium
SATCOM gear aboard these planes, but it surely is the same concept, the same
thinking, and the same design principles. Sometimes, a hobby really teaches
you how to do things properly.
2023-07-07
It seems that IVAO fixed the bug. Lately I see no more binary garbage
messages at all. Good!
2023-02-19
I'm tracing a probable bug in an ATC program used by IVAO (only). It seems
to attach random binary garbage to CPDLC messages, which often but not
always leads to the ACARS server simply discarding the message. It is not
just accented letters or so, it really is a couple of dozen binary bytes
that look like random memory, previously used to contain various other
things such as HTML. As in, a few random stack frames until there was a
zero.
If anybody can suggest which program this may be and who is its developer
then we may be on our way to fix it.
2023-01-28
As most airplane or controller software for Hoppie's ACARS is provided by
third parties, I started a list of client
software. Please help me out by submitting known client programs to my
e-mail address.
2023-01-13
He's back. Fun.
2022-11-12
After 20 years, the funny people of the internet have found that bothering
others during their hobby is a wonderful way to pass the time. I had to shut
down various parts of the ACARS system to dim their enthusiasm a bit.
Hopefully they will grow up and we can restore the system to what it can be
as long as everybody behaves like an adult.
I am not considering blue or gray or purple check marks yet.
2022-07-02
Thanks to the cooperation of many people, the ACARS system has stabilized
nicely. With over 15,000 registered active users and regularly over 700
users online at the same time, the small server doing all the work rarely
exceeds 50% load. Not bad for a design that is over 20 years old.
2022-06-06
A bug in the ping command prevented network filtering for stations online.
Thanks to Jonas Kuster for pointing it out.
The dispatch file stores still need to get the same modification and I hope
to get this done this week.
2022-06-05
As ACARS popularity keeps increasing, a few new guidelines have been written
to better keep the server load in check. This is mostly relevant for the
developers that write ACARS client software. See href="/acars/system/tech.html">the technical documentation for details.
2021-07-10
Work has started to include the network affiliation of the ACARS
users into the system logic. For a while, multiple virtual airspace
organisations have been using this ACARS system at the same time, which of
course causes clashes for airport names if they are staffed on more than one
network. Adding one network affiliation per user should go a long way in
solving this.
If you want to discuss this technically, please join at this Forum:
Aerowinx 744
Forum.
2020-07-05
A repeat of an older message to get it back on top of the list:
If your ACARS claims "PLEASE UPDATE YOUR ACARS URL SEE
WWW.HOPPIE.NL/ACARS", then your old ACARS client software still refers to a
network connect URL with 'flightline' in the string. Please replace this by the
correct URL:
http://www.hoppie.nl/acars/system/connect.html
Since most of the ACARS client software in use today is not written
by me, I will usually not be able to help you with the URL update. Please
consult your software supplier for the instructions.
2019-06-23
Today I looked at the counter of active accounts, which shows the number of
accounts that have seen activity in the last 90 days. ACARS currently has
over 3000 active users! There are over 800 users registered that have never
logged on yet, most of these probably never will and these passive accounts
will expire automatically after 90 days of passiveness.
2019-05-01
Netcraft has officially withdrawn their complaint and determined that their
warning nr. 6025501 was a false positive.
2019-04-29
There are suddenly warnings floating around that the ACARS-for-MSFS single
installer, available from https://www.hoppie.nl/acars/prg/acars-msfs/,
is a malware distributor:
https://incident.netcraft.com/3bf/3bf4169074b5
As far as I can track it, it was last restored from backup in February 2018
when I moved my server and it still is the same as when I originally
compiled it in August 2010. Even the Wayback Machine has exactly the same
file dated 2016.
2019-04-14
The inevitable happened: some funny guy (statistically it must be a guy) has
used the ACARS system to spread offensive stuff among unsuspecting pilots.
As the system was not designed to weed out jokers with surgical precision
and ban them for good from the planet (there was no Facebook or Twitter or
Google with omnipotent identity cancelation powers 20 years ago), I am
currently contemplating how to stop the comics.
So please beware the jokers and give me some time to come up with
a workable solution that fits in with our hobby.
What do pilots do when there is a joker on the frequency? (hint)
2019-02-09
I added TLS (HTTPS) to the web server. However, many client software
packages do not work yet with HTTPS, so you may try but the URL below is
what is guaranteed to work.
http://www.hoppie.nl/acars/system/connect.html
2018-02-25
Nothing changed, except the hardware, operating system, database, programming
language revision, country of the server location, IP address, and some
other details of the system.
IMPORTANT: older (>10 years) ACARS client software still refers to a
network connect URL with 'flightline' in the string. Please replace this by the
correct URL:
http://www.hoppie.nl/acars/system/connect.html
2013-11-01
It is that time of the year again. ACARS and a lot of other systems are
being set up to support WorldFlight 2013 as usual.
Please take a moment to look into this major online event and fly along if
you can!
2012-11-03
ACARS has been switched into Worldflight Mode. This means that some lists
and most maps are now only showing aircraft known to participate in
Worldflight. If you
participate and do not get listed, just mail me (address at the bottom of
the page).
2012-11-01
Due to an unexpectedly loud default sound level, the ATC (CPDLC) application
turned out to be rather jumpy. I added a volume control slider to the Setup
dialog. Version 1.5.1, here.
2012-09-22
It is that time of the year again ... while the teams prepare for
their epic journey around the globe, the ACARS system undergoes
maintenance to make it ready for 24/7 support of the logistics.
2011-11-11
V1.9 of the aircraft client fixes up a few snags in the formatting of
position report times and the inflight ETA. It also offers a convenient
shortcut if you manually update the ETA and want to send the OOOI report
ahead of automatic time.
2011-10-24
V1.8 of the aircraft client integrates VATSIM ATIS requests. This feature is
still being fine-tuned at the server site, it will improve over the next
days.
2011-10-03
This date marks the moment in time that I officially crossed over from doing
hobby ACARS in Europe, to doing professional (Iridium SATCOM) ACARS in the
USA. In hindsight from 2023, who would have dared to predict the results?
2011-05-07
V1.4.1 of the ATC client offers a poll interval setting in milliseconds.
2010-11-09
ACARS just reached the 400 active accounts mile stone. Thanks to this rather
large user base for such a niche system, I am still committed to keep it
running!
2010-11-07
ACARS has been switched back to normal operation after a brilliant
World Flight 2010. Hope to see you all next year!
2010-10-31
Worldflight 2010 has been made active on ACARS. Some features, such as some
maps, are dedicated to just Worldflight aircraft until Sunday November 7. If
you want to join Worldflight, just send your aircraft callsign to
hoppie@hoppie.nl. More info at my Worldflight blog.
2010-10-23
In preparation for Worldflight 2010, I've added (guarded) Twitter bridging
to certain ACARS message types linked to certain accounts (logon codes). To
follow Worldflight, use for example href="http://twitter.com/Worldflight">http://twitter.com/Worldflight.
2010-09-11
A new documentation page was added to
explain how to enable the ADS-C transmissions from an aircraft, so that it
appears on the global aircraft position map.
2010-09-05
The ATC client has been updated with various usability features. The most
noteworthy ones are: 1. transparent secondary windows, 2. options to make
the secondary windows less intrusice, 3. Reply-via-CPDLC button in Telex
(ACARS).
2010-08-28
I am busy adding interface sugar to the ATC program (the CPDLC client) to
facilitate the integration with any radar scope out there. Controllers are
invited to participate in the development by downloading the client and
giving feedback on the VATSIM forums (Controller Talk, preferably).
2010-08-22
By popular demand: the ACARS all-in-one href="/acars/prg/acars-msfs/">installer for MSFS. Now you just download
one package and do next-next-finish to get it all running. Ok, you still
need your logon code.
2010-08-22
ACARS is getting more popular. After several years of putting myself in
between the logon code requests and the ACARS system, I took the plunge to
open up the self-service registration.
Hopefully the trolls stay away.
2009-10-17
World Flight 2009 is coming up
fast. As always, ACARS plays an important role in this event. Operationally
it is used to coordinate many issues, and the maps it generates are very
nice for event dissemination. There is more information
online about how to use ACARS during WF2009.
2009-06-07
To facilitate nice maps for web sites of Virtual Airlines, I added a feature
to the world map. You can now filter for
all airplanes that share the prefix of a callsign, such as "BAW".
2009-06-07
A research project at George Mason University (DC) required a shorter
polling cycle than 60 seconds. The new acars.pollintv
configuration setting of the ACARS Airborne Client, which is not available
in the Setup dialog for safety, allows you to adjust this cycle time in
milliseconds. 60000 is the default. Don't use this on the ACARS network
unless you make sure you don't overload the server. V1.7.1 of the Airborne
Client (only).
2009-02-15
One of the long-standing ToDo items was to enable the ATC position report.
It is now an exact copy of the FANS-1 variant, which is shared between FMC
PROG, FMC COMM, and ATC modes (and therefore cannot return to anything, just
as in reality). V1.7.
2008-10-12
In preparation for World Flight, I added a VisualPS1
offset detector to the ACARS Airborne Client V1.6. This is only of use for
people who use VisualPS1 with IPC 2.8, probably just two on the Earth. All
the others may leave this selection in Setup undefined.
2008-09-13
ACARS Mini Server full "ping" implementation, which
enables the ATC client to not time out planes that are quiet but remain
online. Release 0.4.
2008-09-07
The CPDLC system got a significant extension: ATC stations
may now relay route files to planes via CPDLC. Of course not all sims know
how to handle route files, but this is "not my problem" :-). Both a new ATC
station and a new Airborne Station required.
Also significant improvements in terms of ADS-C in the Airborne Client. This
stuff now goes only to the network server but may eventually also appear in
the ATC client.
2008-08-22
V0.3 of the ACARS mini server fixes an irritating bug that
blocked all CPDLC message exchanges. A case of trying to be too clean in
data sanitising...
2008-08-13
Dispatch has a new release, with the option to change the
sound file now in Setup, and also the option to change ACARS servers.
Typically you want "localhost" if you run the mini ACARS server
yourself.
The CPDLC (ATC) client also got released with a few things, mostly the
configurable ACARS server setting. Same for Airborne.
And of course the ACARS mini server itself, currently at 0.2.
2008-08-11
In preparation of the new ACARS mini server, the Airborne
Station got the option to select a different ACARS server URL. Also added a
switch to select pure UTC time on the clock, instead of listening to a
connected simulator. The program is now called differently and installs in a
different location, which will be my new installation pattern.
2007-10-28
New Dispatch Client, updated with recent developments
around TOPCAT and such, sound, and now packaged with a Windows installer.
Also new Airborne Client, with manually editable OOOI fields in case you
don't have working data feed.
2007-10-26
Airborne 1.2 has integration with href="http://topcat.ofplan.net/">TOPCAT and also allows
downloading FMC route files for other sims than PS1.
2007-10-21
Better internal structure leading to bugs fixed in the
airborne client.
2007-10-20
Bugs fixed in the CPDLC client (ATC) that mixed up the
effects when a CPDLC message came in with those for telex.
2007-10-12
Pre-Departure Clearance added, printing logic restored to
a sane state, and a few minor cosmetical fixes. V1.0 with Windows
installer. Armable reports still absent, which probably nobody will notice
anyway.
2007-09-30
Emergencies and When-Can-We added, ATC keystroke logic
improved (the MCDU cannot detect holding the ATC key down, but it can detect
pushing it twice within two seconds -- this will get you to the Emergency
page straight away). Many smaller things fixed up. It now gets somewhere.
Major thing lacking: armable (automatically sent) reports. 0.7.5.
2007-09-29
Reports added and Verify totally rewritten in the airborne
client 0.7.4.
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