vPilot flight planning form no longer available

[877308 (Piotr Stecki)]

In v. 3.8 vPilot flight planning form is no longer available. For me, a real world VFR pilot, who prepares flights plan in SkyDemon, this is very inconvenient as I can’t export the flight plan from SkyDemon in ICAO text format and I must enter the entire flight plan on the VATSIM form manually.
The pre 3.8 version of vPilot, allowed using the internal form on which most of aircraft data was prefilled. On the VATSIM form I must enter the entire flight plan from scratch.
Is there any way to:

• export-import flight plan between SkyDemon and VATSIM form?
• save some data of the aircraft on the VATSIM form for the future use?
• download pre 3.8 version of vPilot to be still able to use the built-in filght plan form?

[1707241 (Justus McConkey)]

Go to the website and download the old version…. It may work to do that

[877308 (Piotr Stecki)]

Where are the older versions available for download?

[1487670 (David Bromage)]

Do not download an old version. Old versions will soon be prevented from connecting to the network.

vPilot flight plan window disappearing from march 1st

Please consider the fact that you don’t know all of the reasoning behind the decision. VATSIM is moving away from the FAA-style flight plan and over to ICAO-style flight plans, not just in the web form, but also at the server and network protocol level. It makes perfect sense to have all flight plans flow through the web form, so that all pilot clients don’t have to update their forms and network protocol to ICAO style and maintain them as the flight plan system evolves over time. You say this …

[877308 (Piotr Stecki)]

I managed to restore v 3.7 from backup and I will use it as long as the flight plans sent from vPilot will be accepted.
I can only hope that before vPilot-based plans will stop being accepted the current rudimentary functionality of the web form will be indeed improved (reduction of the numbers of required fields, and most important - aircraft profiles). For a VFR pilot filling all the fields in the form manually over and over again, it’s definitely not convenient.

[1569056 (William McKinnerney)]

We have some improvements going through testing right now that will allow for saving flight plans in myVATSIM for reuse later, plus clarification on what fields are actually required.
We’re hoping to have this released to everyone soon.