Regarding the track file, it is not really intended as a full diagnostic tool.
We are adding lots of telemetry data in the next release to help do that across the board.
It may not be the intention, but if you did then it would be a very powerful diagnostic tool and I can't see any downside at all.
Support mostly, our resources are scarce, and we must be very careful where we spend them
How else is one to assess what's going on other than by staring at the screen during the flight?
Automation of data collection and processing, followed by data representation.
it is not viable to have anybody trawl through megabytes of text logfiles trying to understand the meaning.
Will your new telemetry be available in detail to each user for their own aircraft or will it be for internal use for overall statistical purposes?
initially internally, but the goal is to use the data in order to provide feedback to users of installations where we can clearly see something is not representative. This includes all sorts of things such as the S/W version being run to the quality of the bidirectional datalink
If not then that would of course still be very interesting from a system point of view, but really serves a different purpose and is presumably dependant on the downlink. It seems quite a fraught way to achieve something that would be directly available in the log file for each user.
For the beta released currently being trialed it is working very well across the entire network, we are gathering very valuable information.
There are a few dedicated individuals (such as yourself) who are prepared to invest time and effort into the detailed technicalities of what is going on by trying to analyse the data from the perspective of the individual installation, that is the exception, and not the rule. We need to be able to carry out these tasks using a system level approach, requiring no intervention from the end user.
This is exactly what is happening now, for those individuals flying with the beta release, and will be extended when this goes live.
thx
Lee