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  The Falcon BMS team congratulates to the 50th anniversary of the F-16.
  Long live the Falcon!

  Backstory:

  The first flight of the F-16 was not initially planned but resulted from a high-speed taxi test. Phil Oestricher, the test pilot, was conducting the taxi test when he decided to continue accelerating. Due to a combination of factors, including a slush-covered runway and a lack of braking action, the aircraft became airborne, and Oestricher decided to take it into the air. This unplanned event occurred on January 20, 1974, and marked the first flight of the F-16 Fighting Falcon.

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  @polewhoflies also bear in mind that one of the bms devs (seifer i think) has been investigating performance anomalies with AMD gpus. Cant remember which thread that was in, but will look for it for you. Edit - looking at the “U4 is coming in 2-3 weeks” thread:

  “Performance improvements (specially for AMD cards)”

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  @drtbkj said in [Release] LSOBot - A Carrier Landing Grading Tool:

  @Snake122 @Tomcattwo Please excuse the (probably) basic questions. But, just so I understand…

  The Bot only “sees” the .vhs format, at least for now ?

  No. The LSOBot can only read Text Telemetry Data files, in the format YourFileName.txt.acmi that have been converted (using Tacview) from .vhs format.

  BMS will produce AVTR files in either one of two formats:
  TapeXXX.vhs ( the older file format) or
  TapeXXX.zip.acmi (the newer file format)

  If you try to convert TapeXXX.zip.acmi to TapeXXX.txt.acmi, either by extracting from .zip.acmi or by using Tacview, LSOBot will not be able to read the file properly. This is what you were seeing in your first couple of tests when LSOBot told you it could not find any valid passes.

  So the only way I am aware of to get readable files for LSOBot is to have BMS provide AVTR in the older TapeXXX.vhs format, open that in Tacview, and save as YourFileName.txt.acmi When done this way, LSOBot can properly read the file.

  The User.cfg entries I provided told BMS to provide AVTR output in the older .vhs format. When you converted those using Tacview to .txt.acmi, LSOBot gave you valid passes and grades.

  By the way, if I am screwed up here, @oakdesign or @Tyrant or @Snake122 please let me know…

  If that is the case then we use , and in essence we only need ,TacView to convert to that? I’m speaking just in terms of the Bot. Nobody denies Tacview’s overall value.

  Not exactly. From what I gather, we need BMS to provide .vhs so we can properly convert to .txt.acmi using Tacview so LSOBot can read the files properly.

  Another solution (one which I gather @oakdesign was contemplating) would be to recode LSOBot to be able to read the necessary data using another format (either .zip.acmi or .txt.acmi extracted from a .zip.acmi AVTR output). That would not be an easy thing to do.

  If 2 is true, then can some other program be used covert it? I’ve looked at Cloud Concert and the NCH App (which I have used before). They don’t seem to list .vhs as a format they can convert. If we can convert whatever file format (.txt or .zip) to .vhs, would we be in business?

  Per the above, no matter what program is used to convert BMS AVTR file output, LSOBot currently only accepts as valid a .txt.acmi converted from a .vhs format.

  Hope that helps. Until LSOBot is reprogrammed to accept some other format, it seems that it will only function properly using a .vhs to .txt.acmi converted file.

  Regards,
  TC2