Simfest Planning Portal

[J D ADAM]

Gentlemen
I have for some considerable time used the fine Simfest Planning Portal successfully .
Of late , and always, I am getting the message "No Data Available", when initiating a flight.
What am I doing wrong ?
Any advice will be appreciated.
Cheers,
Derek
NZAA

[dhmm]

Hi Derek,

I used to have the same issue, check the following:
You ACARS Code ( from the web site that it is active)
Your User name / email, I am using the same for ACARS and Simfest Planning portal.
Flight Code on BACARS
Flight Number that you entered in the ACARS, before submitting.

Of course, I was in the right location, eg. airport before imitating all the above.

Hope this helps,

:-D

[J D ADAM]

Thank you for your reply dhmm,

I am not understanding your comment "You ACARS Code ( from the web site that it is active".
I do use my email address for both sites but i have subsequently checked my account settings
on the planning portal and reentered my email address (which hasn't changed) and ticked the
verification email box but no verification was received . This may account for my problem
but not something I can rectify.
Perhaps Gary may have an answer.
Cheers
Derek

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

Stupid question: does BACARS sit on top of my ACARS relay station (www.hoppie.nl/acars )?

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[Gary Oliver]

Hoppie,

The only bit that goes over ACARS relay is the ACARS messaging and PDC Requests.  I think we also send the position report messages too.

The rest of the BACARS Communication is direct to the Simfest Planning Portal webserver.

I think BACARS isn't happy if it doesn't have a logon code and successfully 'authenticate' with Hoppie ACARS though... I never run it without one.

Cheers
Gary

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

Derek: if you have any doubt about the "ACARS logon code" then use this web page to refresh it:
https://www.hoppie.nl/acars/system/register.html

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[J D ADAM]

Thank you Gentlemen for your replies.

DUH   Discovered the problem myself.  When setting up a new flight  I would enter "ANZ" in the first box and in the second I would enter "ANZ0004".  Why I started to change just recently I have no idea and put it down to old age. (85). Now I am up and running again.
Thank you once again.
Derek

[Britjet]

'Schoolboy error", Derek. You're obviously not as old as you think...;-)
Just keep the "Blue side Up" and I look forward to your posts in 2036!
Peter