Extract text from Flight Simulator recordings (FRC)
To convert FRC recordings to another format, you need FS Recorder or other Game software.
To convert other file formats to the "Flight Simulation Data" file type, you need software like FS Recorder or a similar tool.
A .FRC file is a proprietary flight recording created by FS Recorder, a popular add-on module for Microsoft Flight Simulator (specifically FSX and FS2004). Unlike standard video files, an FRC file does not contain pixel data; instead, it stores raw telemetry - such as aircraft coordinates, altitude, bank angle, and control inputs - used to reconstruct a flight replay within the game engine.
Users often attempt to open these files in video players like VLC Media Player or editors like Adobe Premiere Pro, only to find they are unrecognized or fail to load. Because the file depends on the game's assets (terrain, aircraft models, weather) to generate visuals, you cannot convert it directly to video using a standard online converter. To "convert" an FRC file to a shareable format like MP4 or AVI, you must load the recording back into Flight Simulator using FS Recorder and use the module's built-in "Render" function. This process captures the replay frame-by-frame and exports it as a standard video file, which can then be compressed for the web.
Convert.Guru analyzes your FRC file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted PDF, GAU, JFR and DEMO files.
If you want to convert FRC file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use FS Recorder or similar software from the "Flight Simulator Recording" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to FRC, try FS Recorder or another comparable tool in the "Flight Simulator Recording" category.
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our FRC converter.