A-10 Mission Planner

[Flamin_Squirrel]

I've produced a mission planner for the A-10.

 

It can be used to calculate take off speeds, weights, fuel burn etc.

 

I hope others may find useful.

 

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b1.01 available, fixes a bug with ingress/egress distance:

 

A-10 Mission Planner b1.01.zip

 

 

Alternate link:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8868QEM0

Edited June 17, 2011 by 159th_Viper

[skouras]

thanks mate very useful for me

[Steel Jaw]

Thanx bud, good initiative!

[Greb]

Thanks!

[26-J39]

Cool, nice work!

[StrongHarm]

Outstanding! Thank you very much for sharing this useful tool.

[Flamin_Squirrel]

Glad you guys are finding it useful. I hope to add some more features such as more landing data, and I've got some ideas to make it a little more user friendly so watch this space.

[VTJS17_Fire]

Awesome - very useful - great job! :thumbup:

Thanks.

 

+1

 

 

How do you get the fuel consumption?

 

 

kind regards,

fire

[Succellus]

Awesome job +1

[Kaiza]

This is frickin awesome, if I could give +2 I would.

 

At the mo I get a crash when I try and adjust distance for ingress though.

 

Amazing tool though, nice one.

 

EDIT: I have to ask- how are the loiter speed/alt numbers based on AoB derived?

 

 

 

 

 

See the end of this message for details on invoking

just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.

************** Exception Text **************

System.OverflowException: Arithmetic operation resulted in an overflow.

at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Conversions.ToInteger(Object Value)

at a10.Form1.ingressrefresh() in C:\Users\Jordan\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\a10\a10\Form1.vb:line 1197

at a10.Form1.IngRangeBox_TextChanged(Object sender, EventArgs e) in C:\Users\Jordan\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\a10\a10\Form1.vb:line 747

at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnTextChanged(EventArgs e)

at System.Windows.Forms.TextBoxBase.WmReflectCommand(Message& m)

at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)

at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

 

************** Loaded Assemblies **************

mscorlib

Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0

Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.4206 (VistaSP2GDR.050727-4200)

CodeBase: http://file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework64/v2.0.50727/mscorlib.dll

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a10

Assembly Version: 1.0.0.0

Win32 Version: 1.0.0.0

CodeBase: file:///C:/Users/Administrator/Cam/a-10%20crap/A-10/a10.exe

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Microsoft.VisualBasic

Assembly Version: 8.0.0.0

Win32 Version: 8.0.50727.4016 (NetFxQFE.050727-4000)

CodeBase: http://file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/Microsoft.VisualBasic/8.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll

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System

Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0

Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.4205 (VistaSP2GDR.050727-4200)

CodeBase: http://file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll

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System.Windows.Forms

Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0

Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.4016 (NetFxQFE.050727-4000)

CodeBase: http://file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Windows.Forms/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Windows.Forms.dll

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System.Drawing

Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0

Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.4016 (NetFxQFE.050727-4000)

CodeBase: http://file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Drawing/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Drawing.dll

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System.Runtime.Remoting

Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0

Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.4016 (NetFxQFE.050727-4000)

CodeBase: http://file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Runtime.Remoting/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Runtime.Remoting.dll

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System.Xml

Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0

Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.4016 (NetFxQFE.050727-4000)

CodeBase: http://file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Xml/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Xml.dll

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************** JIT Debugging **************

To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this

application or computer (machine.config) must have the

jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.

The application must also be compiled with debugging

enabled.

For example:

<configuration>

<system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" />

</configuration>

When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception

will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer

rather than be handled by this dialog box.

Edited November 2, 2010 by Kaiza

[jocko417]

Very nice!

[GGTharos]

A good tool, though it has some bugs (try typing in 100nm for ingress). It might be related to .net versions and all that fun stuff, too.

 

Keep plugging away at it, add a print (to PDF too if possible!) function, and you're practically golden. :D

[Flamin_Squirrel]

I will look into that bug when I get home from work this evening!

 

All the figures are basically derived from the A-10A manual. There are fuel flow graphs for climb, cruise, loiter, combat etc, just work out the time for each multiplied by the flow.

 

A print feature, or at least something you can copy/paste from is something I plan to add shortly.

Edited November 2, 2010 by Flamin_Squirrel

[xjiks]

This tool sounds absolutely great, but at the start it says "cannot find xml data file" and the payload are all empty (no choice available).

I just unzipped the file and I see the Data.xml is here in the same directory as the A10.exe

Any advice ?

 

(running winXP 32bits)

[Flamin_Squirrel]

b1.01 available, which fixes the ingress bug

 

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8868QEM0

 

xjiks, you unziped the whole lot into a single folder? The code is fairly simple, it just looks at where the exe is and expects data.xml to be in the same place. You've not put it on a network drive or something have you?

[xjiks]

Well everything's inside the same folder, all the 5 files.

I downloaded version b101 and it's the same. Maybe something wrong in windows xp that can't handle. Will try later on Windows7 to see if it's better.

 

 

EDIT: So as you can see on the screenshot, it's the same on windows7 -64bits

Edited November 2, 2010 by xjiks

[Flamin_Squirrel]

Hmmm, very odd indeed.

 

Unfortunately I'm not a professional programmer, so my knowledge of what might be causing the problem is limited, especially when it's only one person experiencing the problem!

 

I'll send you a PM to see if I can supply a solution.

[xjiks]

I just replied to your MP, could you please also tell me what software you used to archive the package (winrar, winzip, 7zip....) ? Maybe the extract of the package causes corruption of the files ?

[xjiks]

Got it working today on a French computer where I changed windows' regional settings to english (UK)

 

So it's an OS problem, your program is OK

[july865]

after entering in wind direction and or r/w direction.. it crashes.

[Flamin_Squirrel]

after entering in wind direction and or r/w direction.. it crashes.

 

Which version?

 

Let me know and I'll look into it. I'm hoping to release an updated version with a few extra features around the holidays. At any rate :pilotfly:

[july865]

b1. 01

[Flamin_Squirrel]

b1. 01

 

Sure? No problem when I run it on my PC.

[skypirate]

This is f**n'tastic!! Thanks a for the efforts mate!..

[VTJS17_Fire]

Keep plugging away at it, add a print (to PDF too if possible!) function, and you're practically golden. :D

 

:thumbup: Would like to see such a function.

 

 

kind regards,

Fire