FLEX

FLEX Bot is a discord command bot that takes in data from various APIs to provide the community with information regarding their flight. FLEX is built around VATSIM network and X-Plane flight simulator.

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Slash Commands

• /test
  Ping or Test the bot

• /scenery <Airport ID in X-Plane>
  Check the X-Plane Scenery Gateway for the specified airport

• /atc
  Give a list of online VATSIM ATC

• /track <VATSIM CID> <X-Plane .FMS file>
  Actively track the flight in VATSIM and send a discord message when a controller is online within the planned route

• /remove <VATSIM CID>
  Stop tracking the specified CID flight

• /metar <Airport ICAO codes>
  Get the latest METAR report for the specified airfield

API Used

• X-Plane Scenery Gateway
  https://gateway.x-plane.com/apiv1/

• VATSIM Core
  https://api.vatsim.net/v2/

• VATSIM Slurper
  https://slurper.vatsim.net/

• VATSIM AIP
  https://my.vatsim.net/api/v2/aip/

• VATSIM METAR
  https://metar.vatsim.net/

• Firestore
  https://firestore.googleapis.com/v1/projects/flex/databases/

• Aviation Weather Center
  https://aviationweather.gov/data/api/

Webhooks Used

• Discord Messages Webhook

Services & Tools Used

• Cloudflare Worker
• Cloudflare Key-Value Pair
• Cloudflare CRON Trigger
• Firebase Firestore

Data Sources Used

• VATSPY Data Project
  https://github.com/vatsimnetwork/vatspy-data-project