X-Git-Url: https://git.mxchange.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=3e9448470389516dcc7d5e047d43eed1b4a48ad3;hb=818a462a02be1b5301502aa803dd7e3c6edcec26;hp=883060cc25a0d4d43d73a50ffdaa34879fba3cbc;hpb=b23d8f993844d243a2ba70557bbacc0b03a2df13;p=flightgear.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 883060cc2..3e9448470 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,54 @@ +New in 0.7.3 +* May 18, 2000 +* Added a radio stack 2 VOR/ILS and an ADF to the instrument panel. + You can change the frequencies by clicking on the knobs on the + instrument panels. You can now navigate with VOR/ADF/DME and fly + ILS approaches. +* Added a chronometer to the instrument panel. +* Added a "wet" compass to the top of the instrument panel. +* Compass, vsi, and altitute instruments and vacuum system are more + accurately modeled. +* Added a magnetic variation model. +* Added navaid database management and query code. +* Added magvar offset to VOR radials. +* Heading bug now display magnetic heading rather than true heading. +* Autopilot now has modes to track a VOR and GS. +* Added custom joystick client support so sim can be flown from a + remote joystick connected to another machine. This is in support of + some custom hardware located in the human factors research lab of the + university of minnesota. +* HUD controls are a bit different "h" toggles through day/night/off + modes and "H" cycles through brightness levels. +* Norman Vine contributed code to optionally do antialiased hud lines + on hardware that supports this. Norman also contributed additional + hud cleanups and updates. +* Updates to JSBsim flight dynamics code that includes a generic + reconfigurable flight control system, a initial state trimming routine, + support for wind and weather, support for flaps, independent trim control, + config files changes +* Updates to LaRCsim flight dynamcis code contributed by UIUC that + allows loading aircraft specifications at runtime from config files. + UIUC is using flightgear as a platform to do icing research. The UIUC + aircraft use the c172 gear model for now which causes some weirdness + on the ground for some of the larger aircraft. +* Flight model no longer has to be chosen at compile time. +* Separated ephemeris code from the actual sky rendering code and gave + this whole section a big overhaul. The moon should now consistantly + have the correct phase. +* Rebuilt the sky dome using ssg. +* Removed dependencies on mat3.h and friends (old srgp support lib) +* Airport lookups now done through gdbm (a light weight embedded database.) +* Converted ssgVTable's to ssgVtxTables which do proper memory + management and should facilitate use of compiled vertex arrays once + ssg add support for these. +* Overhauled autopilot internals, separated out the gui controls from + the actual autopilot code. +* Cygwin32 build fixes +* MSVC++ build fixes +* Mac build fixes + New in 0.7.2 +* February 17, 2000 * Lots of code reorganizations * Build requires plib-1.1.x * Build requires SimGear-0.0.x