Program Settings

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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-connection details

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. Click button "Logout" before changing the selected flight simulation. After changing it, click button "Login" to connect your local profile with your VA website profile.
  • Below the last ComboBox, the batch of your connected VA account is being shown. Use this indication as further proof to be selected with the specific online VA account.