FLY RADIO

Welcome to Fly Radio, a virtual radio receiver for your Flight Simulator 2020 experience. Listen to local streaming radio anywhere in the world, talk, music, sports, and more! Listed stations are based on your location and altitude and will update realtime as you fly.

This app has the MOST local radio stations, WORLDWIDE, of any app for Flight Simulator 2020! Explore the local flavor while you look down on it from above!

FEATURES

• RADIO DATABASE: Uses Radio.Garden's massive worldwide and regularly updated streaming radio database to provide worldwide radio access.
• LOCATION AND ALTITUDE INTEGRATED: Available stations are based upon the line of site from your current location, including altitude above ground. As you climb you will see further from your location, as you descend you will see less. Maximum line of site is currently hard-coded at 300 miles (plans in place to make this adjustable in a settings page in a future version). See the range and direction to the station you are streaming in realtime. Minimum range is hard-coded to 30 miles when on the ground (plans in place to make this adjustable in a settings page in a future version). Realtime distace and direction to the radio station are displayed.
• STATION WEBSITE INTEGRATION: Want to learn more about the station you're listening to? Click on the station title in the stream section and load up the station's website!

HOW TO INSTALL AND RUN

• Extract the MSI and EXE file from the zip.
• Run setup.exe.
• Shortcut will be installed on your desktop and in will be in your start menu (look for "Fly Radio").
• Launch the application. If the connection status indicator is green, you're good to go. Clicking the status indicator will attempt to reconnect (or it will disconnect from the sim if currently connected).
• Click the pin icon to pin this to the top of the screen so it won't disappear behind anything.
• You can resize the app to your needs.
• Click the station you want to listen to and it will start playing.
• Slide the volume control for volume, or hit the speaker icon to mute/unmute.
• Click the name of the station to load the station's website and learn more about it (if one exists).

FUTURE PLANS (AS I GET TIME TO DEVELOP THIS MORE)

• USER INTERFACE IMPROVEMENTS: This is a first-run on the UI and was a project to see if it was possible to pull off more than anything. I think I can clean up the UI and make it a bit "prettier".
• BETTER INTEGRATION: Will look to add more ways to integrate this directly into FS2020.
• STATION FILTERING/FAVORITES/HIDING: In some locations the number of available stations can be in the hundreds when at altitude. Plans are to add filtering options to give you options to shrink the list as desired, add a favorites options for stations you love, and a hiding option to hide stations you don't like from the list so you don't see them.
• SETTINGS OPTIONS: Wanting to add settings options such as minimum line of site when on the ground, maximum line of site range, maximum number of stations to display (it can get overwhelmingly large sometimes).
• RADIO EFFECTS: These will take a lot of work so will be down the road a ways!
  • AM modulation mode where static, station fade, and drop to static as it goes out of range. 
  • FM modulation mode where station will start experincing "capture effect" as it falls out of range and another station starts to come into range.
  • Integration with VPilot to reduce volume when receiving transmissions on air band frequencies (not sure if this is possible, but hoping it is)
• YOUR IDEAS: Would love to hear other ideas on what other enhancements would be neat!

SUPPORT

• Please join our Discord for support and feedback!
• I've spent a lot of time debugging and testing this app, but as with any application I'm sure it isn't perfect. Please let me know of any bugs.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

• This couldn't be possible without the amazing work of RADIO.GARDEN. Their database is amazing!
• Got to give an acknowledgement to the Jumpseat Radio app as well. Not trying to copy their work, but wanted to try something similar with more stations and a few different features as a fun side project to enhance my Flight Sim experience.