v1.2.1 - Added ability for the application to check for updates

v1.2.0 - Added the ability to know if your plane is on the ground or in the air. Changed yellow push-pins on Flight Path Data Points to green meaning plane is on the ground or blue meaning plane is the air. This way people can zoom in on when their plane landed or took off and look at detail easier.

Note that previous flights recorded in the database assume plane is in the air the entire flight. Only new flights recorded will distinguish whether the plane is on the ground or in the air.

v1.1.1 - Fixed issue with pushpins where user would have to turn on every pushpin individually to show in Google Web application

• Added First Person Flight View (fly your flight again in 1st person)
• Thickened flight line
• Added fight plan waypoints
• Turned off data points showing in Google Earth by default
• Turned on High DPI support for Windows 10.

v1.1.0

• Added First Person Flight View
• Thickened flight line
• Added fight plan waypoints
• turned off data points showing in Google Earth by default
• General code cleanup

v1.0.3 - Fixed all issues related to international use of the program

Record your flight path with key flight information archived during the trip. Then export that data to a KML file to use with Google Earth for 3 dimensional flight analysis, flight plan information and a chance to review your flight from the first person perspective.

This is a stand-alone application that must be run outside of Microsft Flight Simulator 2020. Once run, this application allows the user to set various settings to control the recording and exporting experience. A database is used to store your flights so feel free to fly during one session and export in another.

Note that the Flight Simluator should be up and running before launching Pilot Path Recorder. If not, then click Retry Sim Connection until you get the "SimConnect Connected" message. Next choose the write frequency of how often to write to the database when above the minimum altitude threshold. Adjust the minimum altitude threshold as well. For example if you want to write every 30 seconds when above ground by 5000 feet use the values 30 and 5000 respectfully.

Before start a logging session, start a flight in the simulator and click 'Start Logging' when you are ready to start the recording. You may pause at anytime using the pause function and continue logging when ready. 'Stop Logging' ends the recording for that flight.

When ready, choose a flight (newest are on the top) and if needed pick a directory to store the KML file. Click 'Create KML File' to export the data to a KML file in the location chosen. Be sure to choose whether you will be using Google Earth application or Google Earth Web to view your KML. There are a few differences between the applications that will hamper your experience if you use the application different than you chose when the KML file was exported.

You may also keep your database clean and tidy by deleting a flight from the database.

Once you have a KML file, you may either use Google Earth on the web (earth.google.com) or download and install Google Earth (https://www.google.com/earth/) for your computer.

If using Google Earth web do the follwing to load the KML file:

1. Click the Hamburger menu icon and pick projects
2. Click open and Import KML from computer.
3. Find KML file and select it.
   Note to look at another KML file, you may want to click the trash icon on the current Flight Data to make the map less confusing

If using Google Earth application:

1. Find the KML file on your computer and double-click or press enter to automatically start Google Earth and use this KML file

At this point you should see the path and flight plan if your flight involved one.. With either tool expand the 'Flight Data' line and either click the eye icon (web version) or checkbox (Google Earth computer version) to turn on or off any layer or particular pin from your flight. To see detailed information of the various flight paramters, click a pin to see what was going on at that particular moment of your flight. With version 1.2.0 and beyond, the yellow pins are replaced with green pins meaning the plane is on the ground and blue pins meaning the plane is in the air. Note only flights recorded with version 1.2.0 or newer can distinguish a plane on the ground or in the air. Earlier version recordings will always assume the plane is in the air.

Click on First Person View to review your flight from the first person perspective. You can use first person view with any of the other layers turned on or off.

1. Install .NET 4.7.2 - download can be found at https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet-framework/net472

2. Download Pilot Path Recorder zip file from the releases area of this project: https://github.com/SAHorowitz/MSFS2020-PilotPathRecorder/releases

3. Unzip contents of Pilot Path Recorder to a directory

4. Launch FS2020PlanePath.exe to start Pilot Path Recorder