Freeware: Electronic Flight Bag Boeing Style for FS9, FSX and X-Plane

I'm working currently on a Freeware Stand-Alone Electronic Flight Bag on the Boeing 777 - style for Fs9, FSX and X-plane. The current state can be seen here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jvs1...ature=youtu.be

A first Downlod will be available in 8 to 10 days. At the moment I am working on the MovingMap and the TCAS - system.
The program can be used on the network or Single-PC and is optimized for touchscreens operations. It can be used also in the Homecockpit.

Suggestions and criticisms are welcome.

I'm looking for more details of the original EFB by Boeing. For the 757, I have found a manual for the 777 only some images and YouTube videos. Does anyone have info or links, vieleicht also a manual, training video or something similar?

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Originally Posted by skino

I'm working currently on a Freeware Stand-Alone Electronic Flight Bag on the Boeing 777 - style for Fs9, FSX and X-plane. The current state can be seen here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jvs1t1v-Ng&feature=youtu.be

A first Downlod will be available in 8 to 10 days. At the moment I am working on the MovingMap and the TCAS - system.
The program can be used on the network or Single-PC and is optimized for touchscreens operations. It can be used also in the Homecockpit.

Suggestions and criticisms are welcome.

I'm looking for more details of the original EFB by Boeing. For the 757, I have found a manual for the 777 only some images and YouTube videos. Does anyone have info or links, vieleicht also a manual, training video or something similar?

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Hi,
Looking very good, pity its not for the 737....
A few spelling mistakes, when you chose the airport you spelt unknown as unknow.
You also spelt length, frequencies and preview wrong on some screens.
Cheers,
Allan.

Hi,
It looks really good, even though im not a heavy metal flyer im sure i could put it to good use.
Maybe it could be adapted to be more of a general EFB. Keep up the good work, its really
has potential.
les

"...A few spelling mistakes,..."

Thank you. Have corrected it.:oops:


"...adapted to be more of a general EFB..."

The EFB is planned mainly for my 777 cockpit. Therefore it is based on the original Boeing EFB.


http://boeing.com/commercial/aeromag...icle_04_4.html

Wow, this looks very nice Peter. Have you thinking to make it work also with ipad? Is it possible to use via keys, if no touchscreen?
Keep on good work.

Ipad version isn't planned also no-one android.

Without touchscreen the program can be used with the mouse or a touch pad. There will be keyboard and joystick support to be able to use it with external hardware (Bodnar, OC cards and more).

Peter, this looks very promissing. Building a 737 myself and having acquired 2 10.4" TFT screens (800x600) I was planning to use one as an EFB screen (the other one will be lower EICAS).
At what resolutions are you thinking for this program? When you want to use a moving map all the (downloaded) pdf charts will have to be calibrated. Any ideas about that? A must have to find your way on large airports.
BTW, love the piano music (what is it?). Is this an extra option for long flights?

JWS

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Originally Posted by skino

There will be keyboard and joystick support to be able to use it with external hardware (Bodnar, OC cards and more).

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Great, am thinking to change my plan of using Ipad :D

Great and usefull idea.

When you have a pre-release ready, i'm looking forward to test it.

Regards,

KLM077

I have made a little web page for the EFB though in German. There is a first download also. A really more useable download can be found on this web page as of next Monday

http://boefb.webnode.com/

The program is in comparison with the above posted videos already considerably improves. The Relase is planned for the first week in May, I have vacation there.
There also will be a version in the Tablet PC style

http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/637/gaefb.jpg

Danke Peter, gut gemacht.

Cheers Norbert

Very nice!

As a b777 builder I sure am looking forward for the update on this.

Have tested the 0.6 version and it is looking real promising.
Placed in the proper place in my b777 cockpit it fills a big ugly gap :p

Keep us updated!

New Version: 0.7 , working with FSUIPC/XUIPC/WideFS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfVY5plE1Gk

Music: "L'amour" by Paolo Zanarella ;-)

Download: http://boefb.webnode.com/blog/

A manual in English comes in the next days. The Airbus/GA Version (iPad-style) is online as of tomorrow afternoon.

Very cool, Peter
Gouing to be a 'must to have' in any simcockpit

Yoss

Hi Peter,
My eyes lit up when i saw GA. Had a lok at the video and noticed the Checklist
for the Baron58. You have just made my day. The EFB is amazing, have a spare
touch screen waiting for a task, its just been found . Look forward to the Airbus/GA release.
Thanks
Les

The GA and Airbus Version of the EFB 0.7 is online

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clkFaXyGHAI

The Download is here http://boefb.webnode.com/

This is an update. BoEFB must be available. The two files hPad.Exe and Pad.Exe simply copy in the BoEFB folder and then starting BoEFB, hPad or Pad alternatively.

BoEFB is the BoeingStyle EFB, hPad ist the Program in the Video above.

For running on Ipad or Android Pad (with "Air Display") is the Pad.Exe (frameless, maybe for Laptop to)

http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/8718/padn.jpg

Made EFB Checklists:
preparing a new folder in the data/ECL folder who is called like the check list (PMDG 737 or WILCO A340 or ...or...). Making simple .TXT files in this folder.

For every checklist (Befor Starting, Starting . . . ) making a TXT of one's own and typing in the data or c&p from the original HTML Aircraft Checklist. The first line starts normally. All other lines must start with @ . At most 16 entries per check list are possible; only 16 buttons are available in the EFB. Please split longer checklists (Starting 1, Starting 2 ...).
Writes the names of all the checklists into a Main.TXT-File without the .TXT but with comma between the names and without Enter. All name must be in a single line. like: Bevor Starting,Starting 1,Starting 2,Taxi,

Have a look at the sample checklist for the FS2004 default B58 in the \Data\ECL Folder.

I am not able to see the documents in \ DATA \ DOCS or see the integrated file browser in the system.

Is the above suppose too be working and ready in the beta v.0.7?

I get the following message when clicking the “Documents” button:
Attachment 6572

Have you installed the Adobe reader? Where exactly does your BoEFB folder stand and which Windows do you have?
I cannot cause the fault. I get an empty screen but no error message even if no files are into DATA/DOCS. I suspect this your Adobe reader is faulty or too old.

I had written it on the web page but only in German:
For the PDF shows the Acrobat Reader is necessary. However, he doesn't have to be the standard PDF reader, installed only.

Have unfortunately forgotten to write this also here. Excuse me

You have nothing to excuse as I’m more than happy that someone is taking time to make this application that I have been missing in my B777 sim-cockpit.
I’m the one to be sorry as I guess there to be some problem on my part, but I really do like what I see so far and love to have it working properly :-D
Everything else are working properly.
Finding the fault might be of use for you and others, if one can determine what is wrong on my side.
The BoEFB is on the root of my C drive: C:\BoEFB\....
I use the Acrobat Reader version 9 (and have run a “repair” on it, just in case) on a 32bit Windows7 (newly updated) on a laptop.
The entire fault dialog as follows:
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See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.
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System.InvalidOperationException: An error occurred creating the form. See Exception.InnerException for details. The error is: Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component. ---> System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80004005): Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component.
at System.Windows.Forms.UnsafeNativeMethods.CoCreateInstance(Guid& clsid, Object punkOuter, Int32 context, Guid& iid)
at System.Windows.Forms.AxHost.CreateWithoutLicense(Guid clsid)
at System.Windows.Forms.AxHost.CreateWithLicense(String license, Guid clsid)
at System.Windows.Forms.AxHost.CreateInstanceCore(Guid clsid)
at System.Windows.Forms.AxHost.CreateInstance()
at System.Windows.Forms.AxHost.GetOcxCreate()
at System.Windows.Forms.AxHost.TransitionUpTo(Int32 state)
at System.Windows.Forms.AxHost.CreateHandle()
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl(Boolean fIgnoreVisible)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl(Boolean fIgnoreVisible)
at System.Windows.Forms.AxHost.EndInit()
at WindowsApplication1.Documents.InitializeComponent()
at WindowsApplication1.Documents..ctor()
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at WindowsApplication1.My.MyProject.MyForms.Create__Instance__[T](T Instance)
at WindowsApplication1.My.MyProject.MyForms.get_Documents()
at WindowsApplication1.BoEFB.Button6_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)
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For example:
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<system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" />
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When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer rather than be handled by this dialog box.

In the hope of someone to be able to "translate" / desiffer the above :???:

Regards
Per

Hi,
I am going to be picky again with spelling ;)
You have spelt "Descent Planner" as "Descent Planer", also "Hide delete button" as "Hidde delete button".
If I had a hat I would take it off and doff it to you for coming up with a fine piece of software.....
Allan.

I will remove the Adobe Reader X (10.1.3) and install the version 9. I can possibly reproduce the fault with that.

@Allan: Again thanks for your corrections. This helps me very much. Will correct it. I am grateful for every reference to spelling mistakes.

I have a week of vacation as of tomorrow, I will deal with the problems there. The EFB is losing the connection to the simulator at the moment certainly after some minutes. However, I think to have recognized the problem. The project has got considerably more complex than planned. Men and her play instinct . . .:mrgreen::oops:

Have a nice week, just returned from Germany for a short visit to Trier. Hope you'll have better weather than we had.

JWS

My problem is solved!

DE installed the Acrobat Reader 9

Installed Acrobat Reader X

Per

@ JWS: The weather shall get correctly good. Have a barbecue in the garden :mrgreen:

@ Per: Thanks for the quick reply. Will increase the system requirements to Adobe Reader X. This gives more time for barbecue . .. i mean programming ;-)

A smaller update (mainly error correction) and the checklists for the PMDG 747 and PMDG 737 NG are online. Download at http://www.2download.de/download-793...%2013Mai12.zip

Copying the file BoEFB.Exe into the BoEFB folder and overwriting the previous version. The 2 folders PMDG 737 and PMDG 747 paste in the Folder /data/ECL

http://img804.imageshack.us/img804/563/folderntu.jpg

Selecting and saving the desired checklist on the System-Page.

http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/4359/chsel.jpg

Fly

http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/2930/chck.jpg

The Project Website http://boefb.webnode.com/

Unfortunately, there was a fault in the update. Please download again and replace the BoEFB.Exe. :oops:
http://www.2download.de/download-3a2...php.Update.zip

The right update can be downloaded by the web page as of now
http://boefb.webnode.com/blog/

New Version 0.8 Alpha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0huxAIlTQ4

Download Update (BoEFB.Exe only):
http://www.2download.de/download-b69....php.BoEFB.exe

Dowload Full Package:
http://www.2download.de/download-861...Alpha%2008.rar

Project BoEFB still lives. ;)
Some small progress as well as newly revised code.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyIVdPRoFI8

Download of the version 0.9 beginning of September 2012.

The next step with a survey of all available functions. Download of the version 0. 9 will be available at the weekend.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOpOvWtm5sg

Form the V1.0 the BoEFB is designed for hardware use. This means every BoEFB button can be assigned to a joystick button. The BoEFB frame will be disconnectably, for cockpitbuilder want to build a hardware frame (like me ;) ).

Next Step, the download comes later since I can see no more VB at the moment. :shock: The Project has got so complex by now. I hadn't expected this. Therefore only small progress, sorry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed7ULBd0V2Q

More on Bo EFB

Skino,
Progress however small im sure is appreciated by all. Sounds good that one will be able to assign hardware buttons.
Keep up the great work.
Thanks
Les

Again one (very) small progress, a system monitor on the Status side and progress in the hardware assignment.

http://imageshack.us/a/img829/3973/statusneu.jpg

I also have translated important notes into (Google)-English ;) on the Project-Page BoEFB

Overview of the built-in chart database with approximately 500 airport charts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NED7ZZqI57I

Ad new Chart: The EFB produces the basic structure from ICAO code. The PDF must be inserted by hand.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QE1CvI9DGQ

Hello Skino,

An amazing contribution to the Flight Simming community. Thank you so much for your efforts. I can see myself using this tool for a long time to come.

Very cool and needed soft

I wont alsow to thank you for sharing your work with us

Joseph

Hi
I just downloaded this magnificent software, planning on running it on a 768 x 1024 touchmonitor, portrait mode. I have two more monitors on this computer, without touch.
My problem is, it opens across two monitors, half of the EFB on each monitor, and I cant drag it or in any way place it on the correct monitor.
What can I do?

Regards

Rune

Attachment 7510
Click on the green "BoEFB Freeware..." show/hide the Windows Border.

Peter, i was thinking to use one client computer with two normal 10,4" 800x600 lcd screens.Can i use two EFB addons in same computer and have separate key commands to each, or only one EFB per computer?

You need Screens with 768x1024 at least for the EFB. The EFB works with Touchscreen or Joystick or Bodnar or other Joystickcontroler but no Keyboardinput. You can run two or more EFB on the same PC. But each uses its own database. I have build a Copilotversion thats have a common database with the Captn.-EFB.
This weekend I upload a version, which is still unstable in many areas. Only for the try. The Copilot version is part of it.