FLEX Discord Bot

A Discord Bot aimed to help the flight sim community by providing various information for flight simulation.
This project mainly focuses on VATSIM and X-Plane pilot community. Hence, the functions provided are mainly targeted to VATSIM and X-Plane users.

FLEX Bot is built to run in Cloudflare Worker and Firebase Firestore platform, running the free license. As of right now, the bot are only meant to track up to 50 people in parallel, limited by the Cloudflare Worker free license.

For more information visit https://realxeng.github.io/FLEX/

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

Implemented Commands

• /test
  Ping the bot

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

• /atc
  Check all VATSIM ATC that is currently online

• /track <VATSIM CID> <X-Plane .FMS file>
  Actively track the flight in VATSIM and send a dynamic notification on online ATC in route

• /remove <VATSIM CID>
  Remove the specified CID from the tracking

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