RELEASE NOTES Sim Update 4 - 1.6.11.0
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Stability & Performance
- Fixed a crash in the cabin service system.
- Fixed career loading screen fading out before HQ models finish loading
- Improved material loading to reduce poping during transitions
- Fixed a crash in the aircaft simulation.
- Fixed a crash in the aircraft loading when the flight model cfg file was incomplete or contained incorrect data.
- Modified DisplayFPS debug to have clearer memory statistics.
General Bug Fixes
- Fixed CTD when launching flight with plane containing XMLGauge
- Fixed 3rd party custom panels not available outside Freeflight
- Fixed wrong HUD color
- Fixed an issue where the world photographer collection page had a missing button
- Fixed a regression where the photos couldn’t be properly scrolled in the photo album
- Fixed an issue where clicking on a tab in the character creator using the mouse would break the navigation using arrow keys or the gamepad
- Fixed an issue where wind layers were not affected by the wind effect setting
- Fixed an issue where the ATC communications could be cropped when replies were displayed
- Fixed an issue where the selected livery was not immediately displayed in the freeflight page
- Fixed an issue where a player could be stuck on the conversation in the communication panel
- Fixed randomly incorrect registration number size
Install, Performance & Graphics
- Fixed a culling issue on the edge of the screen that could cause terrain to disappear.
Backwards Compatibility Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue that caused the HUD to sometimes pick up values from the sim despite being updated each frame in the ModelBehaviors.
Aircraft
- Fixed issue with excessive turbulence & thermals introduced with the SU4 beta.
- Added structural_electrical_deice_rate cfg param to control the deice rate.
Boeing 737 MAX 8
- Applied performance optimizations to the rendering of the PFD, MFD, and HUD.
Glass Cockpits
- Fixed wasm gauge not loading properly after a restart
G1000 NXI
- Fixed an issue where VPTH would not show when armed in certain scenarios.
Garmin G3000 / G5000
- Fixed an issue where the GTC arrival selection page would display a message saying the selected arrival airport was different from the approach airport when the two airports were the same.
Garmin G3X Touch
- Applied performance optimizations to the rendering of various elements.
GNS 430/GNS 530
- Fixed an issue where the 530 arc map and 430 CDI page would not display waypoint data or CI deviation for an off route direct-to (applies to both 2020 back-compat and 2024 versions)
- Fixed an issue where waypoint text input could cause some pages to become unresponsive and unable to enter a waypoint any longer (applies to both 2020 back-compat and 2024 versions)
Primus Epic 2.0 Integrated Avionics System
- Improved PFD performance on the ground.
Pro Line 21 Integrated Avionics System
- Applied performance optimizations to the rendering of the PFD and MFD.
Physics
- Fixed missing effect of payload station weight changes on aircraft mass properties (weight, CG position, and moments of inertia) when using the “empty_inertia_tensor” parameter.
EFB
- Fixed an issue where the map scale bar could sometimes report an incorrect range.
- Changed the pathing of the VFR pattern approach downwind entry to be consistent with the simulator.
- Fixed an issue where the calculated length of altitude-terminated legs could sometimes be inappropriately long.
- Increased the maximum zoom level of the map.
- Increased available space for long leg names. Names that are still too long will also now scroll when they are hovered.
- Reworked styles to reduce visual noise.
- Changing the departure or arrival runway will now only auto-select a departure, arrival and/or approach if none were previously selected.
- Improved formatting of some leg data columns.
- Leg ETE (estimated time enroute) is now more accurate.
- Reduced stutters and performance impact when modifications to the flight plan are made.
- Reworked styles to be more uniform with both the rest of the EFB and the online flight planner.
- Reduced the memory footprint of the map.
- Added support for advanced performance planning for turbojet/turbofan aircraft. Note that individual aircraft must be specifically configured to support this feature, and as such this feature will initially not be available for all turbojet/turbofan aircraft.
- Added the ability to configure additional parameters for flight planning calculations: whether to use RVSM rules when automatically selecting cruise altitudes, cruise step size, cost index, and fuel bias.
Aircraft Gameplay
External HUD
- Added hud_show_radar_alt to add a small Radar Altitude gauge to the external HUD.
Career
- Improved automatic pushback to ensure the aircraft is being pushed into the direction of the intended taxi path and closer to the centerline.
General Bug Fixes
- Fixed landing validating when being close to the ground before reaching the helipad
- Added a fall back if aircraft collides with a building during the pushback. We trigger the skip to taxi.
Missions
Agricultural Aviation
- Fixed an issue causing reduced performance after spraying for a while.
Certifications
- Fixed taxi infringed when crossing the runway
World
- Fixed building exclusion from taxiways.
Airports
- Modified several aspects of airports live traffic with ongoing reworks and improvements: Taxi AI, Landing AI, Landing conditions, AI spawning and takeoff when data is missing, Blocked taxiway.
- I45 - Adjusted parking positions
- KBEO - Deleted as the airport doesn’t exist in real life
- SBJH - Added missing airport
- SBLE / SDV7 / SSZM - Fixed airports with incorrect coordinates
- 3FD1 - Deleted airport as no exist anymore IRL
- LYKS - Moved the airport to the current location
- LZSE - Fixed parking spots clipping into building
- MYBO - Deleted airport as it’s a helipad
- YBWW - Reworked of the airport
- Fixed unconnected jetways
Marketplace
- Filters are now saved between tow sessions when searching in Categories or Full Catalog
Controls
- Fixed INCREASE THROTTLE and DECREASE THROTTLE actions not triggering when looking at avionics display
- Fixed the blinking frame when first entering the controls settings menu
- Fixed the inputs that were prevented by self-deactivation of a device
DevMode
General
- Fixed Sim Prop Container icon sometimes not rendering properly in package creation wizard.
Scenery Editor
- Support random meshes in vector placements.
SimObject Editor
- Fixed editable_color from livery.cfg not correctly read if not entirely lowercase
- Fixed fuel system engine index limited to 1 - 4
SDK
SimConnect
- Fixed calculation of AI aircraft starting position when spawned enroute (fixes aircraft randomly not spawning when using SimConnect_AICreateEnrouteATCAircraft)
- Fixed SimConnect C# enum name
WASM API
- Fixed sharing violation when reading a directory where a file is opened for writing
- Fixed key event handler not called (could alter interactions in various aircraft or modules)