Flight Duration Discrepancies.

[tba]

Hello!

While using VAM and SIMACARS in our VA we found some discrepancies with the flight times are registered from SIMACARS and the actual flight time registered on the airplane clock. After doing some maths and "googleing" we found the clock on SIMACARS counts the seconds as 58...59...60...00...01. This means we are missing at least 2 seconds on each minute of the flight. If you consider a 10-12 hours flight you will lose around 24 minutes less than the original flight time which represents an average of 3% loss on the flight time.

So, I decided to step in and find how this information is sent to VAM, intercepted, fix the time, and return the correct time to the system, so the flight time is more accurate. I wrote a function in php and added to the receivevampirep.php script and it is working for us. I would like to know if there is any interest in adding this to a future version or bug fix on VAM.

Thank you!

[tba]

I'm trying to share the receivevampirep.php file I adjust to fix the flight time reported by SIMACARS but it looks like we can't even share files here. I will put it on my server and add the link here for who wants to use it. After downloading the file, make sure you backup your current receivevampirep.php just in case you decide to rollback and then copy the one you downloaded to the vam folder in your server.

Enjoy it!

Here you go: https://www.transbrasil.org/receivevampirep.php.zip

[vam100]

nice one ill use that.. ty

[vbx147]

Thanks alot

[drgullen]

I am trying to figure out where you came up with you are missing 2 seconds.  Aren't you only missing 1 second?  The only extra number that shouldn't be in that sequence is the 60.  The count should be 58...59...00...01 right?  So that's 1 second loss every 60 seconds equals 0.0167 so if your script multiplied the minutes by 1.0167 that would be more accurate, no?

[drgullen]

Actually now that I think about it some more, you aren't missing time, you have too much time.  If SIM ACARS is counting to 60 for each minute, that means you have one too many seconds every minute, not missing one.

So you should actually be multiplying by 0.9833 to shave off the extra second every minute, right?

[rafapiloto195]

Guys, is this one working fine?

Anyone tried and can share the experience?