X-Git-Url: https://git.mxchange.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=de308505ffa78e05bdbd9ad3d6fffebd57ff7b3f;hb=be863ee2408dcdecc9ba3f74669b73fde221046a;hp=32be4a496572cc8b79d0a5bd81bd96138d4a52b3;hpb=f0f1bc537f392682e91a19f70f6256d6cefcee47;p=flightgear.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 32be4a496..de308505f 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,114 @@ +New in 0.9.2 +* June 4, 2002 + +* 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