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I started flight training at FWS (Fort Worth Spinks) when it was towered Class G and...

About 15 hours in to my training my instructor and I enter a right downwind for 17R when the tower controller, in a very terse voice, comes on and says, "Cessna NXXXXX taxing via echo, Spinks tower. respond ...

I just posted a new release (v1.6.0). The output window now includes your PilotEdge aircraft type and N-number when connected to PE.

The project repo (includes pics): https://github.com/jpoirier/xplane-commviewer-plugin
The release page for downloads: https://github.com/jpoirier/xplane-commviewer ...

Keith Smith wrote:limbo66, you should be able to pick up the ATIS on the 2nd radio using the key bindings, that's something I've tested before without any problem.

Yup, key bindings, which I always seem to overlook, will work.

The PE plugin provides the ATC comms and it's single channel only, as Keith mentioned.

Note that some planes have audio panels that allow you to enable both a primary and secondary comm channel simultaneously, and some don't. Enabling a second comm channel just gets you the ATIS info at this point.

I'm a bit late...

I wrote a small plugin that allows one to enable a second comm channel, for aircraft with an audio panel that doesn't allow it.

Project page: https://github.com/jpoirier/xplane-commviewer-plugin
Plugin releases: https://github.com/jpoirier/xplane-comm ... n/releases

Hey Keith,

Great info! Thanks! It's the first plugin I've done that checks for the existence of
another plugin. And I only caught the continuous calls to XPLMFindDataRef because
I'm playing around with Rust and Nim language ports of the plugin.

Added a PilotEdge Plugin registration check, so calls to XPLMFindDataRef happen
once for each reference item (tx/rx/connected) at start-up rather than every flight
loop callback.

Plugin binaries for Linux, Windows, and Mac included.

#### CommViewer
At start-up, a small, mouse clickable, text ...

Joe, also what distro/arch and xplane10 version you're using? I am using it on Kubuntu 14.04 64bit and have used it flawlessly for numerous hours now.

The kernel version is 3.13.0-37-generic 64-bit and the distro is Elementary OS Freya, which is Ubuntu based. X-Plane runs fine with the PilotEdge ...

It looks like your GCC compiler (v 4.8.2) is a version behind the latest 4.8.3 release. There's also a 4.9.1 release as well.

$ readelf -p .comment lin.xpl

String dump of section '.comment':
[ 0] GCC: (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1) 4.8.2

[edit]
You can install GCC 4.9.1 on Ubuntu via:
$ sudo add-apt ...

Joe, also what distro/arch and xplane10 version you're using? I am using it on Kubuntu 14.04 64bit and have used it flawlessly for numerous hours now.

The kernel version is 3.13.0-37-generic 64-bit and the distro is Elementary OS Freya, which is Ubuntu based. X-Plane runs fine with the PilotEdge ...