New in 0.9.3
-* October 15, 2003
+* October 24, 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
+* Aircraft 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
+ including more realistic sky and fog colors, more realistic scene
illumination, better dusk/dawn sky coloring, better specular
lighting support.
* A nice new chase view has been added.
* 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.)
+* Updates to the man page.
+* Better Win32 packaging (more standardized installer, plus a launcher
+ which allows selection of starting location and starting aircraft.)
+* Added an initial cut at modeling helicopters.
+* Support multiple inside the cockpit views.
+* Updated FlightGear Flight School tutorial.
* Use the field elevation for GS when no specific altitude listed in
FAA/DAFIF data
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
+* Expose the tuned navaid 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
* 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.)
+* YASim updates (fix drag from shutdown engine, helicopter support,
+ better in air startup support.)
* Support for "clock" instruments that operate independently of
computer system time.
* Annunciators shouldn't work if electrical system not serviceable.
* 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.
+* New Aircraft: J-22, Paraglider, SGS-126 Sailplane, ASW 20, and
+ AN-225 aircraft; Bell 206 JetRanger, CH-47 Chinook, and Ecureuil
+ AS-350 helicoptors.
* 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.
+* FreeBSD, Solaris, MSVC, Irix, Mac OSX, cygwin, and mingwin fixes.
New in 0.9.2