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Fenix EFB-can I use my own sourced pdf airport charts?

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Hi all,

I haven't been able to ascertain whether Fenix devs allow us end users to import our own sourced airport charts (pdf's) directly into the EFB.

I don't need navigraph, as the tools I have at my disposal are more than sufficient.

Otherwise if not, that would be a shame as it would be tantamount to a "Captive Market".

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Steve Summers

It's currently not possible.

cheers,
NiIs U.

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1 hour ago, NovemberUniform said:

It's currently not possible.

That makes it a "Captive Market". then...............🙄

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Navigraph is definitely worth the subscription. 

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BAE146 EFB is the same, shame really...

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yeah cannot aggree more, dont want to pay monthly for a Navigraph Subscribtion. Just maybe pay one month get the latest Airac and then fly with it for the next 1-2 Years. No Problems so far even on Vatsim... so please give us the option for PDF import into the EFB, Fenix and Justflight 🙂

24 minutes ago, Bobsk8 said:

Navigraph is free and does everything. 

Simbrief is free, albeit they don't provide any charts, but one needs a paid subscription for Navigraph.

Kind regards,
Hans van WIjhe

 

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It's unfortunate that there is no choice for the customer.

If any of the Fenix devs are viewing this.......please give your customer base the ability to import their own charts into the EFB.

This can be done by dropping the charts into a specific folder in the Fenix program, and the EFB recognises the pdf format and title of the files and we can open them in the EFB documents section.

Programming time & testing of the feature would not be lengthy by any means, and you would be providing some choice for your customers. 

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Steve Summers

"It is not possible" is unbelievable to developers that achieved the impossible. But even if PDF is not "possible" to be shown in the EFB, it would be possible to show png or jpg files with our charts.
Maybe it is not a big deal with 2D screens but with VR it is mandatory to have that feature in the plane.

Edited by Japo32

Javier Rollon. Owner of JRollon Planes for Xplane

Just some background on the difficulty of this:

There is no PDF display support in the web framework used by MSFS. All graphics would have to be PNG, JPEG, etc. Secondly, there is no filesystem access, so you can't get a list of files in any particular folder. You _can_ access files on disk if you already know their name and they're in a package folder. So, this is not as easy as it sounds (we never offered ad-hoc charts support in the CJ4 mod for the same reasons).

For me is ok to have png and JPG files prepared in the folder to be read by the EFD

Javier Rollon. Owner of JRollon Planes for Xplane

17 minutes ago, MattNischan said:

Just some background on the difficulty of this:

There is no PDF display support in the web framework used by MSFS. All graphics would have to be PNG, JPEG, etc. Secondly, there is no filesystem access, so you can't get a list of files in any particular folder. You _can_ access files on disk if you already know their name and they're in a package folder. So, this is not as easy as it sounds (we never offered ad-hoc charts support in the CJ4 mod for the same reasons).

This is a fair point Matt, but we're talking Fenix here, where (I believe) all of the rendering, including the EFB, is done by the external application, so shouldn't suffer from these MSFS restrictions.

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