




						VISOR
					     VERSION 2.0

		INDEX


		INTRODUCTION (WATHS NEW)

		A. INSTALLATION
		B. REQUIREMENTS
		C. HOW TO..
		D. CURSOR
		E. TOOL BAR
		F. FINAL APPROACH - ILS - SIDE AND BOTTOM VIEW
		G. VISOR.FIX FORMAT
		H. WARNING.TXT FILE
		I. HOW UNINSTALL VISOR
		J. COPYRIGHT
		K. WARRANTY

	
						VISOR
					      VERSION 2.0


INTRODUCTION

(Sorry for my bad english, maybe it will be enough to learn how to use VISOR 2.0)

This freeware version was possible to the people who registered the first version, to the
real pilots Ricardo Tunjano, Jim Kisses and Juan E. Bustamante, Captain of the Virtual
airline AEROCOL, who test this tool and the virtual pilots who stimulated me to make this
new version. I hope it will be useful to analice your flights and you can improve the way
you fly using the Microsoft FS98 and FSW95.

VISOR is graphic tool to show the behavior of the principal flight variables. It reads a
binary file produced by the Adam Azofran Fltrec(*) utility.

The new functionalities were suggested by Jim Kisses, Real Pilot. They are the
following:


	. Read the sceneries automatically to extract the navaids, runways and airports.
	. Read the enclosed file Visor.fix, which contains the Fixes or Waypoints.
	. Present in the track flight chart the navaids, runways, airports and fixes or
	  waypoints. This chart includes the following characteristics:
		-ID and frequency of the navaids.
		-Fixes or waypoints.
		-Distance to the flight track.
		-Runway ID and Airports name.
		-Magnetic deviation indication of the VORs.
	. Chart of the final approach (side and bottom view), including ILS templates.
	. Improve the zoom functionality.
	. Cursor movement using the mouse.

After you finish your flight you will use VISOR to know y analice the following flight
variables:

. Time when gear landing goes up and goes down..
. Takeoff and Landing time.Flight real minutes.
. Fuel Level.
. Separate graph of Altitude, Indicated Air Speed, True Air Speed, Pitch, Bank,
  Vertical Speed, Flight Course.
. Simulator pause minutes.
. On the graph and using a cursor you can know the value of the flight variables.
. On the course graph you can reproduce the movement of the aircraft, and you can 
  identify how was the taxing and to know the place where were the pauses of the 
  simulator in your flight.
. Graph zoom.
. Generates a summary of the data flight a file in the screen and a file in the disc.
  Shows the maximum flight variables.
. Converts a binary fltrec in a text file.


Dont forget to visit the official web site of VISOR where you can find the last versions.
The URL is http://alpha.telecom-co.net/~gpardo/


VISOR is graphic tool to show the behavior of the principal flight variables. It reads a
binary file produced by the Adam Azofran Fltrec(*) utility.
The Fltrec tool must be configured in this way:

Enable recorder: Selected
0.2 compatibility: NOT selected
Recording Interval: 1 Sec.
Output Format: Binary
Output File Name: (The name that you select. Remember the extension must be *.dat)

If you have questions about how configure the fltrec module please send me a mail or visit
http://www.cybercol.com/fs/grabar.htm which is a tutorial of my virtual airline AEROCOL.

(*)Fltrec is a utility that records the principal variables of your flights. You can
find it at ftp://ftp.halcyon.com/pub/users/zof/FltRec.6.1.0.18.zip or
http://www.cybercol.com/fs/fltrec.zip

A. INSTALLATION

Visor20e.zip consists of the following files:

VISOR20.EXE	Application.
README20.TXT	This file.
VISOR.FIX 	Text file where you can define the fixes or waypoints. (This file contains
		the fixes or waypoints of my country, Colombia. This information was
		adapted from a bgl file prepared by Juan E. Bustamante. You can edit
		this file and write the waypoints which are interesting for you; the
		format of this file is explained in G.).

You can extract the files in the directory of your preference. I recommend the directory where
you put your fltrec files normally.

It is all!!!

(I suppose that you have installed the fltrec correctly.)


B. REQUIREMENTS

1. Windows95 (VISOR is a 32bits application)
2. FS98 o FS6.0
3. Fltrec installed correctly.
4. Screen resolution: 800x600 y 256 colors or higher.
5. msvcrt.dll y mfc42.dll dllss. they have to be installed in /windows/system/ subdirectory.
It is possible that you have this files in your PC. But if you dont have them, you can find
them in Internet or you send me a mail, and I will send you this files.


C. HOW TO..

Runs the application. When it is open you can find the following menus:


MENU					FUNCTION

File
	New				-
	Exit				Exits the application


Fltrec and Navaids
	Define group of bgl files	This functionality permits to tell Visor 2.0 where
					are the sceneries. This information is read later
					by Visor 2.0 to do the graphic tasks. Visor will
					create a name.lis file, with the path and names
					of the bgl files. This file will be read by Visor
					when it reads the sceneries. I suggest you create
					medium and small group of bgl files; in this way
					Visor will load the navaids quickly. Although
					Visor can read all the original esceneries of the
					FS98 or FSW95, it will take some minutes. For
					example you can define only europe, or a part of
					the USA. It depends where you flight.
					The user has to indicate the file name to identify
					a bgl group, the subdirectory where the scenery is.
					When the Recursive Directory option is selected,
					Visor will find in the subdirectories within the
					path you give.

	Select a Fltrec File		Selects the fltrec file.  This file will the work file
					to rest of the application.

	Load Navaids			Load in memory the navaids and waypoints defined
					the Define group of bgl Files functionality. It will
					read the scenery files. You have to indicate the
					name of the *.lis file. In the state bar (below)
					you can see the progress of this functionality.
					When Visor has finished the load of the navaids,
					it will load the fixes or waypoints from Visor.fix
					file. The format of this file is explained in G.
	Show Navaids			
		Vor			Shows or hides the VORs.
		NDB			Shows or hides the NDBs.
		Runways			Shows or hides the Runways.
		Airport			Shows or hides the name of airports.
		Fix			Shows or hides the Fixes or waypoints.
		Markers			Shows or hides the Markers.
		ID and Frequency 	Shows or hides the the ID and frequency of the
					navaid enabled.
		Distance from Track	Shows or hides the on the screen, the minimum
					distance from the navaids to the flight track.
					It is measured in nautics miles (nm).
		Select All		Select or deselect all the graphic objects (VORs,
					NDB, Runways etc.) to be presented on the screen.



Convert
	Generate flight.txt		Generates a text file called flight.txt from the fltrec
					binary file. Besides, it generates a file called
					warning.txt (you can see an example of this file in G.)
					where you can find general data of your flight.
					VISOR generates this files in the directory where you have
					the fltrec file.

	General Data			Shows in the screen the general data of your flight.
					
Graph
	Altitude			Graphs the altitude
	Indicated Air Speed IAS		Graphs the Indicated Air Speed IAS
	True Air Speed TAS		Graphs the True Air Speed TAS
	Bank				Graphs the Bank
	Pitch				Graphs the Pitch
	Vertical Speed			Graphs the Vertical Speed
	Course				Graphs the flight course
	Altitude,IAS,Bank...		Graphs following variables: ALTITUDE, IAS, BANK and
					VERTICAL SPEED.
	Side View Approximation		Shows on the screen a side view of the flight
					final approach. If the runway has ILS, Visor
					will show the ILS template (cone). Please see
					more details in F.
	Bottom View Approximation	Shows on the screen a bottom view of the flight
					final approach. If the runway has ILS, Visor
					will show the ILS template (cone). Please see
					more details in F.

VIEW
	Tool Bar			Shows or hides the Tool Bar.
	State Bar			Shows or hides the State Bar.


D. CURSOR

You have in each graph (except in the SideView Approximation graph) a cursor (red dot line).
You can move it in the screen to indicate the value of the flight variables at the moment.
These variables are above in the screen.

You can move the cursor giving click with the mouse on the part of the graph that you like
or using the icons on the tool bar (arrow icons).


Or you can move the cursor in this way (using the keyboard):

Right Arrow:		Moves the cursor to the right slowly.
Left Arrow:		Moves the cursor to the left slowly.
+ (Numeric Keyboard):	Moves the cursor to the right quickly.
- (Numeric Keyboard):	Moves the cursor to the left quickly.
Begin			Moves the cursor to the initial time of flight.
End			Moves the cursor to the end of flight.

You can move the icons which are on the tool bar -> and <- .

->			Moves the cursor forward slowly.			
-<			Moves the cursor backward slowly.

On the course graph and Approximation Bottom View, you can reproduce the movement of the
aircraft, and you can identify how was the taxing and to know the place where were the
pauses of the simulator in your flight.

E. TOOL BAR

The principal functions can be acceded quickly by mean of the tool bar icons. You can read
the function of the each icon, below in the state bar.  There is other functionalities in the
tool bar, which are not present in the menu, these are the following:

Zoom:

In any graph (except in SideView Approximation), you can zoom it to know more details of your
flight. You can zooms (in or out) using the keyboard in this way:

magnifying glass with plus sign		Zooms in the active graph
magnifying glass with minus sign	Zooms out the active graph

Before you use the zoom, you have to put the cursor in the part of the graph where you want to
see the graph in detailed form.

Cursor Movement:

You can move the cursor using -> and <- icons, which are in the tool bar.

->			Moves the cursor forward slowly.			
-<			Moves the cursor backward slowly.


F. FINAL APPROACH - ILS - SIDE AND BOTTOM VIEW

Visor has to identify where you have landed, and the ILS of the runway. When Visor can not
identify a runway near to the touch point, it lets you know this. In this case, it is 
possible that you dont have loaded the navaids or you have landed out of the runway.

Visor extracts from the sceneries the information of the runways and ILS. The information of
the ILS is the following: geographic position, Glide Slope and the Approach. The information of
the runway is the following: geographic position, altitude, length and course.

On the SideView Approximation Visor presents a textual results above; the meaning is 
the following:

GS DEV is the relative deviation of the flight track related with the Glide Slope of the ILS.
This measure indicates if the flight was up or down of the ILS, during the final approximantion.
It is measured in feet (ft.).

Average GS DEV is the total average deviation per second about flight track. It is related with
Glide Slope of the ILS. In general, it is an average of the deviation per second. It is measured
in feet (ft.)

GS DEV and Average GS DEC are parameters which indicate the quality of the approximation related
with ILS. If you get a zero result in these parameters, it indicates that your approach was
perfect. When these parameters move away from zero, it indicates that your approach was not very
good.

Visor presents on the screen information about the runway, airport, ILS where Visor has identified that
your have landed. Visor presents the runway ID which is read from sceneries. Sometime, this
runway ID is not the side of the runway where you are landed, but the tool knows where you have
landed, to show the graphic information.

G. VISOR.FIX FORMAT

The file VISOR.FIX is a text file which must be in the same subdirectory of VISOR. In this
file you can define the fixes or waypoints which are the aeronautical charts, but they are
not in the sceneries. For that reason and because the waypoint are important when you do
a flight analysis, I considered that Visor have to read this information from an extra file.

This file contains the fixes or waypoints of my country, Colombia. This information was
adapted from a bgl file prepared by Juan E. Bustamante. You can edit this file and write
the waypoints which are interesting for you. A typical line in this file is the following:

 AIRES,  -3.4050041, -70.2233434

This register defines the name of the fix, latitud of fix, longitud of the fix; the information
is separated by commas. At the end of the line you have to include carrier return.

The format is the following:

NameFix		String (6)
latfix		float (12)
lonfix		float (12)

The latitude and Longitude are in decimal format. Remember that, you have to include the signs.
(W longitudes are negatives, S longitudes too).

H. WARNING.TXT and FLIGT.TXT files

Warning.txt file is produced by VISOR where you can find a summary of flight general data. A typical
file is presented next:



    FLIGHT MAXIMUM C:\chequeo.dat
    Date of this analysis: Sat Apr 18 14:19:22 1998

Initial time of the record: 5:49:54

1. GEAR POSITION

  Time    Gear No.1     Gear No.2     Gear No.3
  ----    ---------     ---------     ---------
05:49:54     DOWN         DOWN           DOWN
05:58:26       UP           UP             UP
07:03:16     DOWN         DOWN           DOWN

2. MAXIMUM VARIABLES AND FLIGHT CONDITIONS

Variable             Time     Altitude   Latitude  Longitude  Pitch  Bank   TAS    IAS
--------             ----     --------   --------  ---------  -----  ----   ---    ---
Altitude           06:16:40    11026     +06.859   -73.103   +01.7  -00.7  0137   0116
Negative Pitch     06:57:26    02458     +06.631   -74.306   -02.1  -01.0  0146   0143
Positive Pitch     05:57:25    03907     +07.149   -73.222   +16.0  +00.0  0060   0051
Negative Bank      06:16:29    10995     +06.857   -73.096   +03.3  -34.3  0139   0118
Positive Bank      06:36:29    05450     +06.967   -73.852   -01.0  +40.0  0141   0132
TAS                06:57:44    02249     +06.623   -74.316   -01.9  -00.5  0151   0150
IAS                06:57:44    02249     +06.623   -74.316   -01.9  -00.5  0151   0150

3. GENERAL DATA

Variable              Initial       Final      Duration
                       Time         Time      (min:sec)
-------------------  ---------   ------------  ----------
Record Time           05:49:54     07:08:46      78:52
Pause Time               --           --          2:20
Flight Time           05:57:24     07:05:20      67:56

4. FUEL DATA (percentage)

Time             Left         Left Aux.         Right        Right Aux.
                 Tank         Tank              Tank         Tank
------           ---------    --------------   -------      ------------
05:49:54           99.9           00.0           99.9           00.0
07:08:46           84.4           00.0           84.4           00.0



Note(1): You can see the takeoff and landing time in Flight Time Variable.
Note(2): The Pause Time is when the simulator is in pause or in a simulation rate less than 1.
Note(3): The Fuel Data can be affected when you leave or arrive an airport where there is an
refuel system.

Flight.txt is a text file, where you can find in ASCII format the binary information produced
by fltrec.

Warning.txt and Fligt.txt are generated by Visor in the same directory where Visor is located.

I. HOW UNINSTALL VISOR

Delete the following files: Visor20.exe, readme20.txt and visor.fix from the directory where
you have installed the application.

J. COPYRIGHT

Fltrec: Copyright (C) 1995-1997 by Adam Szofran.
Microsoft is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
FS98 and FS6.0 is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
 
VISOR 1.0 : Copyright (c) by GERMAN PARDO H. (APRIL 18/1998)
VISOR 2.0 : Copyright (c) by GERMAN PARDO H. (OCTOBER 22/1998)

You can not include VISOR20.exe in a commercial DCROM without my print authorization. This
tool is freeware, don`t make money with VISOR.

If you have any comments please send me a email to gpardo@alpha.telecom-co.net
or gpardo@aviacion.com 

K. WARRANTY

VISOR comes with no warranty or claim of fitness or reliability. 
VISOR is distributed AS IS, USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
