RELEASE NOTES Sim Update 6 Beta - 1.8.11.0
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Stability & Performance
- Fixed softlock when crashing your aircrat after a belly landing
General Bug Fixes
- Enabled communication window during bush trips.
Aircraft
Boeing 737 MAX 8
- Fixed an issue that caused the CABIN_LIGHT keys to behave incorrectly when bound to a device and used.
Diamond DA62
- Fixed alternators and battery flickering and using a starter
Aircraft Core Systems
Electricity system
- Added the possibility to specifiy a minimum voltage required for a circuit to function called ‘MinVoltage’. Default MinVoltage is half of the nominal tension of the circuit.
EFB
- Added
cavokandflightCategoryto TAF condition change groups.
Airports
- Better draw distance for lights attached to instanced meshes, now based on the light intensity.
Traffic
Air Traffic
- Fixed live air-traffic planes desappearing instead of starting to pushback
Marine Traffic
- Improved marine traffic boats orientation.
DevMode
- Fixed and improved governor controls in the “Aircraft Debug Engines” window:
- Fixed an issue that prevented governor target RPM values from being entered independently for each engine on multi-engine helicopters.
- Added validation for the entered target RPM value (limited to the 0–200% range).
- Replaced the non-interactive governor status checkbox with a color-coded bullet and a text label distinguishing the “OFF”, “INACTIVE”, and “ACTIVE” states.
- Improved the tooltip displayed when hovering over the “INACTIVE” status.
- Made minor layout and punctuation improvements.
General
- Added a new asset group Profiling to profile packages
- Fixed rendering of “Channel display > clearcoat roughness”
Scenery Editor
- Fixed gizmo not able to change altitude (regression SU6)
- Fixed projected meshes not rendered sometimes
Biome Editor
- Fixed build error when using Rebuild option from File menu
SDK
SimConnect
- Fixed SimConnect_MapInputEventToClientEvent not working on consoles
WASM API
- Fixed rare random deadlocks when using the CommBus API or other APIs that depend on it