Release 0.14.0
For the Big Birds
Sky Dolly v0.14 (“Ethereal Embraer”) has just been released. This release focuses “on the big birds”, namely improved 3rd-party aircraft support.
Improvements
- Control surfaces such as flaps, ailerons, rudders, elevators and spoilers should work better with 3rd-party aircraft such as the PMDG 737 and IniBuilds A310
- Note that while there are also some improvements for the Fenix A320 the latest release 1.0.6 does not report some “simulation variables” as reliably as previous versions
- Improved support for thrust levers, tailhooks and wing folding
- Improved light switch support
- Improved replay code for AI aircraft (“formation flight”), including animated ailerons, elevators and rudders, wing folding and tailhooks
- New location categories, including improved CSV import & export with Little Navmap v2.8.8
- Addon, Cabin, Carrier, History, Obstacle, Oil Platform, Settlement
- When pausing recording the simulation is now also paused (“time to take a coffee, Capt’n!”)
- “Repeat flaps” replay option removed (due to improved replay code)
- Added new flight information simulation variables (dialog Flight → Conditions):
- Surface condition (normal, wet, icy, snow)
- On any runway
- On parking spot
- Increasing the replay speed now also increases the simulation rate (up to a maximum rate of 16x)
- The simulation rate is a power of 2: 0.25, 0.5, 1.0, 2.0, 4.0, 8.0, 16.0 - the nearest simulation rate is chosen, given the current replay speed
- Note: certain aircraft may reduce or even fix the simulation rate to 1.0 (for instance the Fenix A320)
Bug Fixes
Among some other small fixes a most annoying bug has finally been fixed:
- Rudders, ailerons and elevators don’t “counteract” anymore for aircraft with “PID controllers”: they now move into the expected direction
For all details please refer to the complete CHANGELOG on github.com.
Sky Dolly v0.14 binaries are available here:
Source and binaries are also available here: