The SimConnect and ForeFlight link have autostart checkboxes next to the connect buttons. Currently they do nothing and are disabled. Implement the auto start feature for both connections and the preferences that saves/loads the state of both buttons.

Acceptance Criteria.

• Auto-start checkboxes are enabled
• Auto-start state is saved on toggle
• Auto-start state is loaded on application start.
• SimConnect connection is automatically started when auto-start is enabled
• ForeFlight connection is automatically started when auto-start is enabled
• Tests are added as appropriate.

Right now the name that shows up in ForeFlight is hardcoded to MSFS 2020. Make this conifgurable

When trying to establish a SimConnect connection, the application hangs. This is most noticeable when in a reconnection loop.

Steps to Repro:
With the Flight Sim Closed, try to establish a SimConnect connection. Notice the repeated fraction of a second hanging that occurs when the connection is attempted.

Unit tests need to be added to the SimConnect link. class.

Installer is a legacy MSI builder and recommended workflows aren't letting updates be installed without uninstalling first. Make the installer more windows 10 and update friendly.

Acceptance Criteria:

• installer remains one file
• installer can update an existing installation without extra steps.

The most common way to have data show up in foreflight is for the sender to send to the network broadcast address. We want the foreflight dropdown to populate with all valid network broadcast addresses (ipv4 + ipv6 link local) that can be used. When one of them is selected, it should grey out the manual host text box. The last used settings should be remembered between app restarts. If the previously used

Acceptance Criteria:

• The Foreflight connection drop down should show "Broadcast: ###.###.###.XXX" for each IPv4 network to use (it should ignore localhost).
• The Foreflight connection drop down should show "IPv6 Link Local" for a link local connection as the second to last item.
• The Foreflight connection drop down should show "Direct IP" as the last item.
• The text box to enter the IP address should be pre-populated with "127.0.0.1" if no valid IP address has been entered before.
• The text box to enter the IP address should validate the value is a valid IP on focus lost and connection button. If the address is not valid, the status txt should show an error in red and prevent the "connect' button from changing status (should still be clickable). If it is empty and it loses focus/connect button clicked, it should default to "127.0.0.1".
• If the network broadcast option that was last used no longer exist, it should still show up in the dropdown box along the currently valid ones. It should remain in there until app shutdown with a different network option selected at which point it should forget the network until it shows up again.
• The network list should refresh on app app start and every time the dropdown is expanded. If there is too large a performance hit, it should refresh every 5 seconds instead while the foreflight link is disconnected and not at all if the foreflight link is active.

Foreflight supports traffic being added from the remote source. Determine the best way to retrieve traffic from SimConnect, keep track of local traffic and sending them to ForeFlight.

Acceptance Criteria:

1. All planes in Flight Simulator that are within 50NM (set as property so we can configure in future) are shown in foreflight.

Create and add an icon to use for the application.

Currently the app does not send to ForeFlight if all flight data is not populated. It does not, however, have any visible indication as such other than the data boxes showing dashes. Add a warning to the window if ForeFlight sending is paused.

Hi- just tested this, and it works great!

One problem I noticed- when displaying the Attitude screen on foreflight, the bank shown/drawn is opposite of the actual bank angle of the plane. Other than this, it worked great!

Add a mechanism when an update is available. Optionally: self-update

Acceptance Criteria:

• if an update is available, notify the user.
• Optional: self-update.