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AEROLOG the gauge for Microsoft Flight Simulator X and Flight Simulator 2004
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This gauge display and write into file a lot of flight parameters. 
Writing frequency can be arbitrarily assigned. Flight data can be analyzed 
in a spreadsheet application or can be viewed with help of data-plots. 
The gauge is useful for simulator observation, flight analysis, aircraft model 
development, investigation of aerodynamics. It works both in FSX and FS2004. 
Full set of variables are displayed in the presence of FSIUPC not even registered. 
However the gauge can work without FSUIPC. Installing the gauge at aircraft panel 
is not different from installing any another gauge. This program is freeware. 
Source code of the gauge may be interested for developers. Especially it is 
interesting to look at functions for access to AIR-file. The list of all variables 
displayed by this gauge is given in variables.pdf file. Some examples of data 
plotting and flight analyze are given.

For the author all your responses and wishes about this program 
are important. To make a suggestion or report a bug or another 
feature of this product, write to the alexshag@mail.ru. 

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16 February 2013

How to use "Debug" and "Release" targets for the project.

Be careful !!!

Linker output set to $(OutDir)\$(ProjectName).dll for both "Release" and 
"Debug" target. Besides, linker "Post Build Event" set to execute 
"postbuild.bat" file for both "Release" and "Debug" target. Therefore, 
the destination when output gauge will be placed is defined in 
"postbuild.bat" file. In this file you must set correct path to simulator 
"Gauges folder for coping build result to the folder. For "Debug" target 
"Debugging Working Directory" must be set to appropriate simulator root path.
In this case when attached to simulator module the debugger will be display 
active breakpoints into the source code.


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31 January 2013 

Version 0.4 was released.

Complete documentation in HTML and Latex formats was added.
See folder Latex and HTMLs.

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18 January 2013 

Version 0.1 was released.

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14 January 2013 

BETA version completed. With AEROLOG gauge you can view and analyze many flight 
parameters for any aircraft.  The gauge displays a lot of aerodynamic and other 
variables from simulator and writes these variables in a tab-delimited text file. 
All spreadsheet applications are able to read and to output their data in the form 
of a tab-delimited text file. This is a file that contains a snapshot of the grid 
or spreadsheet surface. This text file can be analyses with help of Microsoft Excel 
or similar software. Especially, the simplest way to plot data charts is to use gnuplot 
freeware application. Gnuplot can read tab-delimited text file and convert it to 
a fully annotated chart using the row and column headers to produce legend keys, 
x-axis labels, and the title of the chart. Gnuplot supports output to many file formats 
(eps, emf, fig, jpeg, LaTeX, pdf, png, postscript and other). The canonical gnuplot 
web page can be found at http://www.gnuplot.info 

Feature Orthodromic distance calculator allow to get distance between starting point 
when button Start was pressed and the point where your aircraft located at this moment.
Total length of aircraft path is equal to the value when your aircraft moved with 
constant orthodromic course. Orthodromic course is equal magnetic course at small 
distances (approximately 100 NM or about it).


