Tacview-Pixhawk logs Compatibility

[Acrobatics]

Hi,

my first post here and I`d like to thank in advance for this great program called Tacview, and say hello to the community here as well.

I found out about tacview, after I start learning to handle a few airplane models on DCS and after that P3D followed and now real life aerobatic flights.
Yes i was lucky enough to be able and fly acrobatics real life.

I do fly RC models FPV etc as well and i decided to try and record my flights using Pixhawk(on board real aircraft).A flight controller that mainly i know from the RC world and can record complete attitude (roll, pitch and yaw) and much more.
Using a program called Mission Planner then you can analyze and convert Tlog files to KLM-CSV  etc but did not work(those files) with Tacview.

Tacview it will be more greater than already is of course, if can support Pixhawk-APM logs.

Is it possible?

Thank you in advance.

https://pixhawk.org/
http://ardupilot.org/planner/docs/mission-planner-overview.html

[Asid]

Hi Acrobatics

Welcome to the forum. I agree that Tacview is a great tool.

I to fly RC and have discussed with Vyrtuoz about Tacviews use in RC. He is very approachable.

Again welcome.

Regards

[Vyrtuoz]

Hi Acrobatics,

I wonder how RC flights replay will look like in Tacview

I will gladly add native support for tlog files in Tacview provided I have enough documentation and samples about this format.

Can you share me some of your tlog files and the corresponding kml/csv files?

The more data you can give me, the faster I will be able to understand the tlog file format.

[Acrobatics]

Thank you both for the worm welcome!

I will happily provide some tlog files.If is ok i prefer to send in private mode for obvious reasons. 

Your program once again is fantastic Vyrtuoz.Both me and my brother we have a paid licenses.

By the way tlog files will be a very nice touch to work with tacview, but bin files i think it will be more important.
You see, for tlog file to be created you need your flight controller (pixhawk,apm), to be connected to a pad or pc using Bluetooth,wifi,uhf tx-rx etc.

As an option by my opinion is not much convenient.To be able direct to download from your flight controller bin files is much more convenient and independent.
I know a bin file can be converted to KML or gpx using Mission planner.

It is your call of-course.I`m not a programmer but anything you need just let me know.

Thank you again.

[Vyrtuoz]

Thank you for the data.

Yes, I do plan to support binary tlog files. Because it seems to be the official documented format on Internet.

[Acrobatics]

Hello Vyrtuoz,

Sorry but i was out and about the last few days.

Great news, i cant wait to see my tlog files at Tacview!

I will check for more logs to send to you.

Thank you and take care.

[Vyrtuoz]

tlog files should be supported in either Tacview 1.6 or 1.6.1 depending on my workload.