When did you start developing for flight simulators and what
got you interested in it?
I started developing for flight simulation back around 1995 with a
small MSFS based project. I found an online weather map site that
had current surface conditions for the USA, so I wrote a program that
would decode the graphical map symbology and convert it back to text
form. I then spent the next few months researching and decoding the
relevant portions of the MSFS situation files so I could
automatically inject the current weather conditions into your saved
situation file. This allowed MSFS to automatically launch with
current real weather conditions.
Through this experience I began thinking how wonderful it would
have been if I could have concentrated 90% of my effort on my new
development ideas and maybe only 10% of that effort figuring out how
to plug into the software. Instead I had spent maybe 10% of that
effort on the fun parts,
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