-New in 0.7.11pre1
-* August 31, 2002
+New in 0.9.3
+* October 15, 2003
+
+* Added a flight "replay" system.
+* Many updates to the ATC and AI aircraft subsystem. (David Luff)
+* Add support for moving cloud layers.
+* New "symbolic" time of day dialog box for easily setting dawn, dusk,
+ noon, etc.
+* Aircaft are now each self contained in their own individual
+ subdirectories for easier end user addition and removal.
+* Many improvements to scene lighting throughout the day->night range
+ including more realistic sky and fog colors, more relistic scene
+ illumination, better dusk/dawn sky coloring, better specular
+ lighting support.
+* A nice new chase view has been added.
+* Added displaced thresholds on all runways that have them.
+* Updated default scenery for the KSFO area.
+* Many buildings and bridges added in the San Francisco area.
+* Updated airport and navaid database, many new taxiways, many
+ corrected runways, many new airports (especially outside the USA.)
+
+* Use the field elevation for GS when no specific altitude listed in
+ FAA/DAFIF data
+* Fix to translate DME and TACAN X/Y channels to paired VHF frequencies
+ correctly. Thanks to Jorge Van Hemelryck <ml@jvh.net> for the fix.
+* Fixes to runway search routines (didn't always work correctly under
+ some circumstances.)
+* Many fixes and updates to the autopilot. Autothrottle tracks speed
+ much better with much less jumping around.
+* Expose the tuned navid via the property system to support building
+ more advanced avionics.
+* Improvements to the environment manager and gui's, more control over
+ turbulence, ability to specify boundary condition layers as well as
+ aloft condition layers.
+* JSBSim updates including a new turbine engine model that supports
+ things like starting and stopping procedures and thrust reversing.
+* UIUCsim updates (compiler warning and namespace conflict fixes.)
+* YASim updates (fix drag from shutdown engine.)
+* Support for "clock" instruments that operate independently of
+ computer system time.
+* Annunciators shouldn't work if electrical system not serviceable.
+* A few updated splash screens.
+* Added various fields to net_ctrls and net_fdm to include various
+ failures, faults, control surface positions, and other interesting
+ things.
+* A few updated joystick definition files.
+* Various keyboard mapping tweaks and changes.
+* Many updates and tweaks to default material properties and random
+ land cover objects.
+* Updated aircraft: 747, A320, T-38, A-10, B-52, F-104, Fokker 50,
+ Fokker 100, Piper Cub, P-51, UFO, YF-23, Ornithopter, A-4, C172,
+ and F-16
+* New Aircraft: J-22, Paraglider, SGS-126 Sailplane, ASW 20, and AN-225.
+* Updated cloud textures.
+
+* Removed dependency on Metakit. The airport and runway databases are now
+ stored in a simple flat file ascii database.
+
+* FreeBSD, Solaris, MSVC, Irix, cygwin, and mingwin fixes.
+
+
+New in 0.9.2
+* June 4, 2003
+
+* New aircraft available: P51-D (w/ full 3d cockpit), Sea Hawk
+ (WV908), a research ornithopter (propelled by actual flapping
+ wings), A10, B-52, F-104, F-15, F-16, OV10, PA28-161, T-6A Texan II,
+ T-38, British TSR2, YF-23, 737,
+
+* Updated aircraft: airwave extreme hang glider, asw20 glider, A-4
+ Skyhawk, Beech-99, Cessna 172 w/ 3d cockpit, Cessna 310 w/ 3d
+ cockpit, DC3, Piper J3 Cub, 1903 Wright Flyer, Sopwith Camel, Space
+ Shuttle, Boeing 747-400
+
+* Overhauled menu/gui system and made it xml configurable rather than
+ hardwired. Include support for things like checkboxes, sliders, and
+ dials.
+
+* Added some early multiplayer features.
+
+* Added support for in-air presets relative to a VOR, NDB, or fix.
+
+* Support for Futaba, Airtronics, Hitec, JR, Multiplex and Tower R/C
+ transmitters using the RCJoy USB interface box (see
+ http://www.rcjoy.com).
+
+* Much improved sky and coloring as well as more realistic coloring of
+ the sunset and sunrise.
+
+* Clouds are drawn on a surface that better matches the underlying
+ curve of the earth.
+
+* A few updated terrain textures, better variety of random ground
+ cover objects.
+
+* Most weather options can now be set via the GUI. Added an option to
+ randomize the weather.
+
+* Various instruments and systems can now be failed/unfailed via the
+ GUI.
+
+* Developed scripts to build Navaid and ILS databases from DAFIFT,
+ FAA, and other data sources.
+* Update Navaid and ILS databases based on DAFIFT, FAA, and other data
+ sources.
+
+* Continued development of voice ATC, robot aircraft AI, logical
+ taxiway networks (continues to be a work in progess, but much
+ progress has been made.)
+* Separated out much of the low level model/material management code
+ and moved it over to SimGear where it can be potentially used by
+ other projects.
+* Separated out the low level sound effect playing/management code and
+ moved it over to SimGear.
+* Added functions to the "telnet" interface to allow remote management
+ of autopilot waypoints.
+* Support the parking brake in the "external" flight dynamics interface.
+* Added support for an audio panel (set of switches to set various
+ avionics audio sources on/off in the aircraft.)
+* Add support for speed brake and spoiler controls.
+* Many code updates to UIUCmodel including support for ornithopters
+ (flapping wing vehicles.)
+* Many JSBsim code updates include a new turbine engine model.
+* Added a "named pipe" external flight dynamics model interface.
+* YASim updates including support for manual-pitch control props,
+ support for wing washout, and adjusting aircraft masses as fuel is
+ consumed.
+* The property picker interface now shows the property values changing
+ dynamically.
+* Added support for a simple annunciator panel (fuel, oil, vacuum,
+ volts dummy warning lights.)
+* Added a "gyro" model. This can be driven electrically (turn
+ coordinator) or via vacuum (attitude indicator). If one of these
+ systems failes, the corresponding gyro will spin down realistically
+ an introduce realistic errors in the gauge reading.
+* Model attitude indicator tumbling at extreme attitudes.
+* Modeled the pitot system and use that drive the air speed indicator.
+* Added a very simplistic volts/amps model to the electrical
+ system...enough to make the gauges behave plausibly and drive the
+ annunciator panel correctly.
+* Updated the vacuum/suction model to behave more realistically.
+* Added Italian and Polish translation for the GUI.
+
+* Mac OS X fixes.
+* Better FreeBSD support.
+* Mingwin fixes.
+* Improved native sgi compiler support.
+* MSVC fixes.
+
+* Fixed problems in marker beacon audio.
+* Fixed several subtle problems in the modeling/positioning of glide
+ slope transmitters in FlightGear
+* Don't allow the dewpoint to go higher than the temperature.
+* Don't allow gust speed to be less than base wind speed.
+* Fix a couple problems in the external fdm interface that prevented
+ FlightGear from being driven properly by an external source (i.e. to
+ act as a image generator only.)
+* Fixes to camera parameters for external views (especially when rotating
+ the view around the different axes.)
+* Many miscellaneous code clean ups, many bug fixes, and much code
+ refactoring.
+
+
+New in 0.9.1
+* December 5, 2002
+
+* Fixes a problem with a missing file in the source distribution of 0.9.0
+* Updates to AI aircraft subsystem (this is a work in progress)
+* Added a canned ATC voice handling class (using prerecorded voice snippets.)
+* Added voice ATIS
+
+
+New in 0.9.0
+* December 3, 2002
+
+* Support for fully animated, fully clickable 3d instrument panels.
+* Support for runway, approach, and taxiway lighting. Lighting is
+ directional and intensity varies smoothly with relative view
+ direction.
+* Many new and updated aircraft.
+* Improved runway textures.
+* Some improved terrain textures.
+* Added a util called terrasync to runtime fetch just the scenery you
+ need from the master scenery server as you fly. No need to
+ pre-download large chunks of data.
+* Add a vacuum system and support for it's failure.
+* Add a pitot system and support for it's failure.
+* Model gyro spin for various instruments.
+* Added support for modeling complex aircraft electrical system. Sample
+ implimentation for a C172, simplistic electrical model provided for
+ other aircraft until their specific system is modeled.
+* Added a "presets" section to the GUI.
+* Localization support for GUI and for command line option help, including
+ the ability to specify a custom per language font.
+* Support for specifying an initial startup runway.
+* Splash screen now slowly fades out revealing the ready to run sim.
+* Support additional joysticks: Logitech WingMan Force,
+ Logitech WingMan Extreme Digital 3D (USB), and Saitek Cyborg Gold 3D USB,
+ CH Virtual Pilot USB/USB CH Pedals,
+
+* Many updates to External/Network FDM interface.
+* Many updates to the JSBSim FDM model code.
+* Many updates from the UIUC folk to their FDM package.
+* Many updates to the YASim FDM model code (fuel usage, tunable
+ induced drag parameter, better gear tuning, fix a ground effect bug,
+ and a standalone config file compiler.
+* Make rotational rate FDM values available in the property tree.
+* Fix a subtle bug in the ssg partial tree deleter code.
+* Started a new XML configurable GUI subsystem.
+* Some preliminary support for AI driven aircraft.
+* Fix ILS back course needle deflection.
+* Fix for ATI driver "issue" causing instrument panels to be all gray.
+* Support for toggling 3d instrument hotspot visibility (debugging/learning
+ tool.)
+* Tweaks to instrument panel night lighting.
+* Added a per engine fuel pump switch.
+
+* NOMINMAX fix for cygwin/gcc-3.2
+* Renamed External FDM to NullFDM
+* New module/submodule system.
+* IRIX build fixes
+* Restructured some of the initialization code to facilitate reseting the sim
+ to alternate presets (airport, runway, offset distance, altitude, speed, etc.)
+* Fixed DG heading bug hold to work with new instrumentation updates.
+* Updates to autopilot to let it work with perfect values as a compile time
+ option.
+* Split Nav/Com units, and DME out into their own source files.
+* Fixes to support newer versions of plib/cvs
+
+
+New in 0.8.0
+* September 7, 2002
* The world is now populated with random ground objects with
appropriate type and density for the local ground cover type
* MSVC fixes.
* IA-64 w/ Intel compiler fixes.
+* automake/conf script enhancemnts and fixes.
+* Updated the UIUCModel code.
+* Removed some dos line endings that crept in.
+* Spelling fixes.
+* Removed some depricated code related to the old view management system.
+* Fix a problem with VOR station lookups where we wouldn't always find
+ the closest station of a given frequency.
+* Changed the default Nav radio frequencies to be more appropriate for SFO.
+* Retrimmed the C172
+* Added seats and other interior stuff to the J3 Cub, and retrimmed. Also
+ fixed wing incidence in the 3d visual model.
+* Fixed C310u3a-3d. 3d cockpit instruments can now be seen.
+* Fixes to the DC-3 such as tank location; other surface and wheel position
+ adjustments. Increase effectiveness of rudder, vstab, and hstab.
+* Updated some of the preconfigured joystick files.
+* Updated man pages
+* Fixed problem with pressure/altitude getting botched up after a reset
+* Use a nicer helvetica font for the menus.
+* Various fixes to the internal pui property browser.
+* Fixed a typo in the scenery file loader that could cause a crash on
+ some platforms.
+* More joystick configuration defaults. (Saitek Cyborg Gold 3D USB,
+ non FF sidewinder precision 2 usb)
+* More texture tweaks.
+* Additional fixes and panel work for the J3 Cub.
+
New in 0.7.10
* April 20, 2002
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