RDV Data Export to Volanta

This CLI utility converts the Royal Dutch Virtual Data exports to a format that Volanta can import.

Limitations

All flights treated as IFR
All flights treated as Scheduled
All flights treated as flown Offline
Aircraft Registrations are all set to PH-RDV
Block Fuel and Flight Fuel will be the same value
Non-landing events are not imported

Installing

Download the appropriate executable from the Releases section of this repository.

Usage

1. Setup The Filesystem

Create a new working folder where you plan to perform this conversion. You need to create two folders: ./source and ./output.

Place the reports.json and reservations.json files into the ./source directory.

You will also place the folder of flight data in the ./source directory unmodified.

Your working directory should look something like this:

/
├─ output/
├─ source/
│  ├─ 12345/
│  │  ├─ fipo.json
│  │  ├─ flightwinds.json
│  │  ├─ rawdata.json
│  │  ├─ rawdata.zip
│  ├─ 67890/
│  │  ├─ fipo.json
│  │  ├─ flightwinds.json
│  │  ├─ rawdata.json
│  │  ├─ rawdata.zip
│  ├─ reports.json
│  ├─ reservations.json

2. Generate Aircraft Mapping Template

Before you can run the converter, you will need to generate an aircraft mapping template that will map the detected aircraft strings from your simulator to the ICAO codes that Volanta expects.

To do this, from your working directory, run the executable program: ./rdv2volanta mappings. This should generate a mappings.json in your working directory that looks something like this:

{
  "Boeing 737-8K2NG  KLM 'New Livery' PH-BXZ Goldstar Textures": "",
  "PMDG MD-11 HD KLM PH-KCB": ""
}

You will need to manually update this file and add the ICAO code for each aircraft in the blank space. An example of a completed mapping file looks like this:

{
  "Boeing 737-8K2NG  KLM 'New Livery' PH-BXZ Goldstar Textures": "B738",
  "PMDG MD-11 HD KLM PH-KCB": "MD11"
}

3. Run Converter

Now you run the convert itself by running: ./rdv2volanta convert.

This may take a few minutes to run depending on how many flights need to be converted. The converted flight flights will be saved in the ./output folder and can be directly imported into Volanta.

Troubleshooting

Error parsing aircraft

If you have very early flights from the first few months of RDV, there may be missing aircraft information on those flight reports. This is to be expected, but can be corrected manually after importing to Volanta.

Error loading rawdata file

Make sure you placed the flight data in the correct directory structure as described in step 1.

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