Program Settings

From ACVacars Manual

ACVacars program settings

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click menu entry "Profiles / Settings" to enter program settings

Profiles / Settings

  • To create or to modify a profile, click the menu entry "Main->Profiles / Settings".
  • The same for reaching the section "Settings" of ACVacars.

Section Profile

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section "Profile" to create/modify a profile

Required steps to create a profile

  • Enter your profile-name into the top-left textbox.
  • Click button [Create local Profile] to create the profile with the given name.

How to delete an existing profile

  • To delete a profile, select the specific profile on the context menu.
  • After the selection, press the button [Delete local Profile] to delete it.
  • The default profile "Profile_Default" cannot be deleted. If you delete it, a new "Profile_Default" will be created with default settings.

Section Tabs

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Program settings differentiated in tab-sections

The following sub-sections exist:

  • Pilot, for creating/modifying account-profiles to connect with the VA website.
  • General, to set/change the most common settings of ACVacars.
  • PIREP, to set/change the content-settings of the log-text, created during an ACV flight.
  • Weather, to set/change the weather source.
  • FSim Paths, to set/change the folder paths to the connected flight simulations.
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tab "Pilot" showing the profile settings

Tab "Pilot"

  • Textbox "URL" contains the not changeable URL to the VA website.
  • Use textbox "Pilot-ID" to enter your profile number.
  • Enter your password of your VA website account into the textbox "Password".
  • Enter the "VA-Code" into the textbox with similar naming.
  • Choose the matching flight simulation which shall be connected with ACVacars by selecting it in the ComboBox "Flight-Sim". Change this selection each time you use ACVacars with another flight simulation.