JavaScript Pilot in Microsoft Flight Simulator
May 5th, 2024Via: Pomax:
…we’re writing a web page that can control an autopilot running in JS that, in turn, controls a little virtual aeroplane. And by “little” I actually mean “most aeroplanes in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020” because as it turns out, MSFS comes with an API that can be used to both query *and set* values ranging from anything as simple as cockpit lights to something as complex as spawning a fleet of aircraft and making them fly in formation while making their smoke pattern spell out the works of Chaucer in its original middle English.
