+New in 0.9.3
+* 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.
+* 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 realistic 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.)
+* 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
+* 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 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
+ 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, 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.
+* 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 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, Mac OSX, cygwin, and mingwin fixes.
+
+
New in 0.9.2
-* June 4, 2002
+* June 4, 2003
* New aircraft available: P51-D (w/ full 3d cockpit), Sea Hawk
(WV908), a research ornithopter (propelled by actual flapping
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