Swift
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| Started in | 10/2018 |
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| Description | Connection module to swift pilot client which allows connections to FSD servers like VATSIM |
| Maintainer(s) | Lars Toenning |
| Contributor(s) | Lars Toenning |
| Status | Released (FG 2020.1) and actively developed |
| Folders | [GitLab]/flightgear/flightgear/next/src/Network/Swift/ |
This module allows FlightGear to connect to an externally running swift client.
Swift is an open-source pilot client for multiple flight simulators (FG, FSX, P3D, FS9, XPlane) and operating systems (Windows, MacOS, Linux). It allows connections to FSD servers like VATSIM. Further information about swift can be found here. The repository is swift-project/pilotclient.
Features
The key features include:
- aircraft interpolation
- voice communication with ATC, support for new VATSIM codec planned
- model matching
- Database support for model mappings, users can contribute
- TCAS support
Install/Setup
For an setup guide for FG see: https://swift-project.org/home/install/configure_fg/
Alot of good videos for the swift gui are on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLREsotdYQdGmeasv1x8vsNhiZGhankLoP
Linux specifics
Hotkeys support
See also https://swift-project.org/troubleshooting/linux_hotkeys/ .
On Linux, the swift client needs read access to the device nodes /dev/input/event*. In case your linux user does not have read access to this nodes, the swift client cannot grab keyboard events, and thus the PTT assigned keybind will not work.
To fix it, you just need to add a udev rule from the link above and reboot.
Aircraft mapping (swift mapping tool)
For correct aircraft loading and parsing into swift you need to add FG's model directories. The supported folders are:
- $FG_ROOT/AI/Aircraft
- Any other folder which contains user-flyable airplanes (in separate folders, one per plane). Note, that you need to add the folder containing the actual .ac/xml model, not the one with the -set.xml, as the latter won't work.
Note for Windows users
Starting with swift 0.9.1, swift automatically adds the sim and model paths if FlightGear was installed through the installer.