X-Git-Url: https://git.mxchange.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=ceed949e29ff24617db969fda116ff27fc581cee;hb=fbee3d10f0aafd4178fc1313edb8593c156b2874;hp=de308505ffa78e05bdbd9ad3d6fffebd57ff7b3f;hpb=b8130ff2af428031f0a112906741067955f12830;p=flightgear.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index de308505f..ceed949e2 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,75 @@ +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 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