Es war schon lange angekündigt und hatte von zahlreichen Beta-Testern noch einen Feinschliff bekommen. Heute ist es soweit, das Team von Asobo Studio hat das Sim Update 9 veröffentlicht.

Abgesehen von den zahlreichen Fehlerkorrekturen wartet eine neue Landing Challenge auf die Simpiloten. Diese wird mit der Cessna 172 Skyhawk am Kingston Airport in Nevada geflogen.

Ausserdem hat die F-18E Super Hornet ein paar neue visuelle Effekte spendiert bekommen. Bei hohen G-Lasten bilden sich an den Flügeln Wirbelschleppen und beim Durchbrechen der Schallmauer ist die Druckwelle sichtbar.

Die Liste der Änderungen der Version 1.25.7.0 ist lang:

GENERAL BUGFIX

• Fixed a silent crash when launching the title directly from the shortcut without having the Steam client open
• Fixed missing legs in the bush trip briefing screen when the user had a save from a previous update
• Fixed missing text for “Delete from Xbox Cloud storage”
• Accessing the EXIT POS X/Y/Z simvars should no longer crash the title
• Fixed Short Stuff achievement unlocking
• Improved compilation time for WASM modules at first boot
• Fixed font issues in the in game panels
• The same Azure Text-To-Speech voice should no longer be used by both ATC and AI traffic
• Fixed mouse cursor that remained in resize mode in specific states (pausing the game for example)
• Fixed extremity Dead Zone and Reactivity Settings not saving on Xbox
• Fixed cursor issues in cockpit and in devmode
• Fixed VR controllers not working when using Legacy interaction system
• Fixed the RTC for the Robin DR400 and the Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental
• Fixed the Autopilot behavior
• Fixed Heading select

Stability

• Several crashes have been fixed across the title
• Ongoing performance optimization work
• Fixed parsing of XML gauges on Xbox that prevented the correct loading of some files

Navigation/Traffic

• AI aircraft will no longer get expedite requests
• ILS can now be received when the aircraft is slightly below the antenna
• Changed the way we handle several ILS on the same frequency (better handling of opposite runways having the same ILS frequency)

Weather

• Fixed popcorn clouds are present over a clear sky in Live Weather
• Reduction of clouds banding that appear at close range
• Properly save and load cloud density from WPR files
• Corrected error in ISA pressure formula application to weather atmosphere that was causing errors in the QNH to pressure altitude relationship, especially at high field elevations
• Fixed issue where altitudes below sea level could report incorrect ambient pressures

Audio

• Switched to Azure Neural Text-To-Speech technology
• Fixed attenuation distance in cockpit for AI SimObjects using legacy wavedata pipeline

Activity

• It’s now possible to delete flight files from the cloud storage
• Fixed extra flight saved after landing at an airport after ‘continue’
• Fixed “Look Ma, no hands!” achievement

PLANES

GENERAL

• DoubleHorizontalGauge and DoubFixed values shown in the Fuel in-sim panel when setting one of the sliders to 0%
• leVerticalGauge can now receive valuePrecision tag from panel.xml
• Fixed ice continues to accumulate on aircraft’s windshield after Icing Effect is set to Off
• Fixed an issue that caused text to render incorrectly with certain fonts
• Added an optional settings to camera.cfg files allowing to change the distance between the external camera and the plane
• Added capability to send multiple arguments to JS views (with H events) from the xml
• Added Subtract keyword support (typo) in panel.xml parsing
• Rename cameras NodeToHide parameter with better naming : VarToggle
• On a turbine engine, you can now adjust the maximum rate at which N2 progress (below low_idle_n2)
• Fixed empty CG Position does not reset to default when reset button is pressed in the weight and balance menu
• Corrected an issue that prevented a tooltip from showing on the light controls of floaters plane
• Corrected an issue that caused the windshield icing to be unaffected by the icing options
• Changed FuelSystem Tank level SimVars to be settable
• Corrected an issue which would sometimes cause the fuel & payload page to incorrectly calculate the fuel load of some tanks
• Added missing inputs for NAV3 & NAV4 to match their NAV1 & NAV2 counterparts
• Added new parameters for better control of the new propeller simulation
• Improved the debug information for the new propeller simulation
• New debug feature for easier debug & adjustment of aircraft stall behaviors
• Improved debug information for debug & adjustment of aircraft moment of inertia
• Fixed problem with FLCH and planes that are using the new propeller system
• Improved aircraft force debug visualization to visualize soft body fuselage rigidity simulation
• Added new simulation of fuselage rigidity impact on aerodynamics (soft body simulation)
• Improved information on Debug Aircraft Engines debug window and fixed an issue with some data on fixed beta aircraft
• Change overspeed limit based on the reference speed above mach2.5 : max speed is considered as EAS and not IAS (only above M2.5)
• Corrected QNH formula application to align with atmosphere ISA fixes

F/A-18E/F Super Hornet

• Course steering arrow has now the correct shape
• Connect Auto Sequential Steering to Autopilot
• Added Auto Sequential Steering feature
• Added display Tacan information and bearing on external HUD
• Changed external HUD Angle Of Attack Indicator to support Navy Indicator
• CRS and HDG/TRK switch will accelerate when hold
• Fixed clicks triggered when right click on mouse with pad plugged
• Fixed Waypoints and sequences management system
• Added Course Selection
• Display Nose Wheel Steering modes on HUD
• Lower max HUD brightness to avoid blurred fonts
• Improved the Aural Warnings
• Improved to allow you to insert a waypoint in a sequence without entering its LatLong
• Improved external HUD by displaying the airspeed in Mach
• Improved by ensuring that it does not have access to the Radio Altitude at high bank angles
• Adjusted Mach and drag coefficient to match real max speed at sea level
• Corrected an issue with the afterburner not properly getting disabled when the throttle is set below it’s range through its InputEvent
• Corrected the behavior of the flaps while on the ground
• Corrected an AP conflict when attempting to hold an altitude with the autothrottle active on some plane
• Corrected an issue that would sometimes cause the plane to spawn with invalid throttle position
• Added an Axis key to control the Nosewheel steering
• Added the NAV3/NAV4 version of the keys that were missing them
• Corrected an issue that would cause the Magneto’s Tooltip to always show the values of Engine 1
• Corrected an issue that inverted the bank of the F18’s Standby Attitude Indicator
• Corrected an issue that caused the AOA Indicator of the F18 to stay enabled with gears raised
• Prevented a fixed view to clip through the plane
• Fixed folded wings aerodynamics
• Afterburner power ratio improved to match acceleration time at all altitudes
• Corrected an issue that would cause the F18’s Autothrottle to disable when pressing the flaps up key while already at the up position
• Fixed issue with HUD pitch ladder moving when rudder is applied
• Fixed the wheels contact points
• Fixed decals on the left and right panel who had bad naming
• Fixed the HMD color glass
• Update seatbelt texture
• Fixed a fuel system issue
• Tweaked wingtip vortices
• Vapor cone effect should now trigger when reaching mach 1, below 30°C and below 15000 ft

BOEING 787-10 DREAMLINER

• Corrected an issue with the STD button which has a behavior inconsistant with the mins button
• Fixed minor display issue with CDU Approach REF page highlight
• Fixed error in CDU FlightPlanning flow which prevented user from choosing a STAR

BOEING 747-8 INTERCONTINENTAL

• Corrected an issue that caused the aircraft to spawn with the AP disabled when spawning in flight
• Corrected an issue that prevented the steering wheel from being moveable while the plane is not moving
• Fixed FMA initial state
• Fixed TO/GA button effect on A/T
• Fixed wrong flaps position animation

AIRBUS A320NEO

• Corrected an issue that caused the Alpha Protection to be unable to trigger the TOGA
• Corrected an issue that caused the AP maximum altitude to be too high

CESSNA 172 SKYHAWK G1000

• Ported to new propeller system
• CFD simulation now used for this aircraft
• Adjusted engine wash on roll to have the left turn tendancy experienced in real flight
• Corrected flaps section on the ski version
• Added assymetric trim tab values to match real aircraft trim deflection
• Updated flight model to match real recorded data behavior
• Added fuselage rigidity soft body simulation
• Propeller windmilling stop and start airspeed adjusted
• Max throttle propeller rpm on ground adjusted
• Max climb speed vertical speed adjusted
• Reduced propeller MOI to adjust propeller rpm change speed
• Adjusted aircraft MOI to adjust engine and propeller effects
• Adjusted take off elevator trim to adjust auto rotation speed
• Adjusted soft body simulation body rigidity to adjust aircraft responsiveness
• Adjusted aircraft drag to adjust for engine and propeller changes and match POH speeds
• Adjusted engine orientation to adjust engine effects
• Adjusted neutral rudder angle for compensation of P-Factor at cruise speed which increases the effects of P-Factor at climb
• New CFD parameters added to cfg file for CFD tweaking and finetuning
• New wing_virtualdihedral parameter allows to adjust the virtual dihedral
• Reduced virtual dihedral from 5° to 1° to improve stall symmetry and reduce the dihedral countering the p-factor • Adjusted roll PID of the autopilot to better deal with turbulences

CESSNA 208 B GRAND CARAVAN EX

• Corrected the behavior of the 208B’s DeIce system

BEECHCRAFT KING AIR 350I

• Corrected an issue that prevented the YD/AP button from properly disconnecting the Yaw Damper

CESSNA CITATION CJ4

• Plugged in Standby Attitude Display Switch
• Corrected a number of small bugs on the behavior of the switches
• Zoom button below the left MFD rotates on the right axis upon interaction

DAHER TBM 930

• Improvement on TBM throttle feather animation

VOLOCITY

• Corrected an issue with the behavior of the Volocity’s Attitude Hold button

DIAMOND DA40NG

• Navigation lights added
• Camera no longer crosses the seats in cockpit view
• No more textures or flickering when Frost is activated (inside and outside)
• Holes in the cockpit around the doors and windows have been fixed

CIRRUS SR22

• Navigation lights has been added on the wings
• Flickering on the screens of instruments when camera is far from the plane has been fixed

WORLD

• New vegetation debug tool for trees & vegetation with drawing distances
• Added new Asobo office in Bordeaux, France
• Improved some tiling / cut issues in existing manually edited watermasks
• Fixed the transistion for the water on the coastlines on specific edge cases
• Fixed various elevation data issues across the world

UI

• Various minor UI fixes
• Ingame Panels will no longer be distorded when changing screen ratio
• Wishlist items are now sorted based on the date they were added in the marketplace
• The marketplace wasn’t showing generic purchase and download pipelines error anymore
• See all rating filter added to the rating filters
• On the marketplace, an item’s required space is now displayed before downloading it

PERIPHERALS

• Tobii Head Tracking Sensitivity: Pitch/Yaw, Head Tracking Sensitivity: Roll, Head Tracking Sensitivity: Position not saved properly
• Eye tracking reset is remappable
• Extremity Dead zone and reactivity settings are now properly saved
• Corrected an issue which prevented the “Toggle Freelook” button from working while in freelook
• Cursor inputs can now be remapped
• Inverted Flaps & Spoiler axis for the Thrustmaster TCA Boeing Throttle default profile
• Added a new axis type input for nose wheel steering

MULTIPLAYER

• Xbox Live invitations for private reno lobby are now working
• Fixed a rare bug when player could be stuck in a group without the possibility to leave it

SDK

Devmode

• Making all devmode windows resizable from all edges with mouse
• Devmode: add more console information for the screenshot tool
• SDK: enable model merging and model attaching feature
• Deactivate all lights on Resync to avoid inconsistent light behaviour
• Teleport window: add the ability to look for an airport name
• Aircraft Capture Tool: Fix aircraft moving when using “SimState” option
• SDK: Added a new aircraft sample to show how to create and use custom RTC animations
• Aircraft Capture Tool & SDK Screenshot buttons: Added console logs when screenshots fail
• Aircraft Capture Tool: Fix wrong size & extension for aircraft thumbnail when using marketplace editor “Capture aircraft thumbnail” button
• Fixed output path for SimObjects when creating a new package
• The Error/Warning/Message buttons in the console now remain functional even when the console is spammed
• The Aircraft Selector now shows invalid aircraft as greyed out
• Fixed the Delete button in the Material Inspector
• Fixed ClientID/SendID issues in SimConnect server (clients won’t receive exceptions triggered for other clients anymore)
• The FX Templates/Instances Debugger now shows more meaningful information
• The Aircraft Editor now includes the “Debug CFD” and “Debug Stall” options
• Renamed some Visual Effects for easier debugging (GUIDs unchanged)
• Added colors to error messages in CMD console output
• Fixed console message search clear making the message disappear, now will auto scroll to the selected message after search clear
• Fixed messages not appearing in console if they were the same but at different timestamps
• Visual Effects Editor
• Fixed GravityVectorNode not taking input scale into account
• Fixed node creation menu accessible with no document opened
• Node creation menu is divided into categories, has a search filter and alphabetical ordering
• New SetScale node
• New ParticleVelocityRotationAxis & ParticleVelocityRotationRate attributes
• moved color1 and color2 of static mesh to set/ childproperty
• exposed colors used with the material code “Afterburner” into the static mesh block of the VFX graph
• Fixed calculation of effects bounding box to avoid incorrect culling
• Fixed scenery cache refresh when building a package from the DevMode
• Fixed misleading warnings upon building MarketplaceData for a package
• Fixed crash upon closing the game while a WASM module is being compiled
• Fixed potential crashes when a package contains illegal files in its AirportServices folder

SimVars

• Added GPS GSI SCALING and GPS CDI SCALING writable vars to control the full- scale deflection of HSI CDI NEEDLE and HSI GSI NEEDLE when in GPS mode
• Added write ability for GPS VERTICAL ANGLE, GPS VERTICAL ANGLE ERROR, and GPS VERTICAL ERROR, which can be used while in GPS OVERRIDDEN to control HSI GSI NEEDLE
• Added GPS HAS GLIDEPATH writable var which can be used while in GPS OVERRIDDEN to control HSI GSI NEEDLE VALID when in GPS mode
• Fixed issue where writing GPS WP PREV ID and GPS WP NEXT ID would truncate last character
• AUTOPILOT VERTICAL HOLD VAR will no longer automatically change signs when the selected altitude moves from above the plane to below while in AUTOPILOT AVIONICS MANAGED
• Set FUEL TANK QUANTITY now converts unit to gallons
• RequestFacilitiesList now returns the entire list of facilities
• ModelBehaviors
• Added RNAV_ENABLED option to CDI template, which allows the CDI template to instead source from HSI CDI NEEDLE, HSI CDI NEEDLE VALID, HSI GSI NEEDLE, and HSI GSI NEEDLE VALID
• JS API
• Added second parameter (bool) to SET_NEAREST_INTERSECTION_FILTER which controls whether or not terminal intersections should be returned by the nearest search session

Scenery editor

• The “Object type” selection box from the Object window is now sorted alphabetically
• Fixed camera resetting its position when adding a new object to the scene
• Fixed one- click placing preview for projected meshes and control towers
• Removed profile editor in Light support properties. Replaced it by two drag float values for start and end points altitudes
• Fix Polygons not saving their hierarchy information properly
• Fixed incorrect hierarchy when loading a project with the “load this QMID scenery” button
• New keyboard shortcuts for the scenery editor
• Fixed runway n°36 having wrong display name “Runway 0”
• Now the buttons under the Scenery list (“duplicate”, “delete”, etc) are always visible and only greyed out when not usable
• Added “Target group” as an option of the “Move to” submenu of the right- click menu
• Fixed crash when trying to import an airport using the importer from APX
• Fixed Hide/Unhide not working for projected meshes
• Fixed light support not working when there is no runway
• Better display for runway marking option. Display invalid field in red in airport properties
• Fixed orientation of the debug arrow for hold shorts
• Fixed freeze when setting a big length for runways
• Fixed “apply flatten” that doesn’t update the ground geometry
• Fixed jetways linking
• Fixed crash when placing an ortho painted line
• Fixed crash when removing point during polygon creation
• Fixed bug when clearing material field
• Added “use low resolution altitude”
• Added VectorPlacement: allow to generate line of objects
• Fixed crash when one click placing parking gate

Aircraft editor

• Fixed min/max_design_mp expressed in the wrong unit
• Fixed typo and removed Pos Apex Long as it is not used in the Sim

Project editor

• Fixed empty package name when failing to clean a project while it’s being used
• Simulation now stays on pause after loading a project
• Fixed cpu hang when building aircraft package

WASM

• Create Wasm Debug Window which displays information about wasm module, gauges
• Custom Key Events are now well received by event_handler function