Question for FSACARS users

[Michael Blakely]

I have a question for all our pilots that use FSACARS. Does everyone see their FSACARS FREP submitted with the following day's date?

Several pilots, including myself, have seen this phenomina. It starts with having the next day shown below in the FSACARS Flight Plan form, and that date is used in the FREP, even if you change it in the FSACARS Flight Plan form. In the below example, it's June 4th in the simulator (both local and UTC), but the FSACARS Flight Plan form shows June 5th.

If this is happening to everyone, then I'll update the website to correct the error in the date being sent in by the FSACARS software.

[Harold Henderson]

Happening to me.

[Theodore Martin]

I too occasionally have the multiple reports sent as well. It usually happens when a previous flight being recorded ends abruptly (i.e. CTD, ending flight prematurely, etc.). My guess is the data file for the previous failed flight remains in the FSACARS buffer and is sent along with the good report. Recently FSACARS has been asking if I wish to quit when there is a simulator crash. By responding YES it seems to delete the pending incomplete report and therefore does not send multiple reports the next time it is used.

[Todd Meek]

It's been happening to me as well and pretty much all FREPS I have received have had the wrong dates. I've actually sent an email to all the pilots at KLAX asking them to double check the date on the FREP after submission to make sure it's correct.

[Michael Blakely]

smartCARS it great if it could be gotten?

I'm working on SIMACARS first since it's free, then I'll look at a LINUX/MacOS solutions. After those, I can look at some of the paid solutions like smartCARS and FSPassengers.