Release 0.13
Happy 40th anniversary, Microsoft Flight Simulator!
Sky Dolly v0.13 (“Dapper Daher”) has just been released. This release introduces location import & export plugins.
Location Import & Export
Locations can now be imported and exported from/to comma-separated values (CSV) files, with the following flavours:
- Sky Dolly - application-specific CSV
- Little Navmap - user points from/to Little Navmap
In fact, the Little Navmap user points CSV import makes it possible to literally import all POIs, photogrammetric cities, airports and more released with all world updates, including World Update 11 (Canada) from free databases such as Little Navmap MSFS POI Database (hosted on flightsim.to).
Improvements
- Location module
- Locations can now be filtered by keywords, type (system, user, imported), category and country.
- User and imported locations can now be updated with the current location in MSFS
- The engine can now be started, stopped or kept “as is” when teleporting to a location, making it for instance possible to spawn on custom helipads „cold and dark“
- The selected location count is now shown
- The location table now automatically scrolls to the newly inserted location (even with custom column sorting enabled)
- The system locations that are automatically migrated into a newly created logbook are now optional and can be deleted: [Sky Dolly installation directory]/Resources/migr/Locations.csv
- Default aircraft types including the “40th anniversary update” aircraft have been added to the aircraft selector combobox (when importing a flight)
- Position data is now interpolated with an “infinite interpolation window”, improving replay when importing “sparse flight plans” (e.g. GPX flight plans from Little Navmap)
- The Flight Recorder CSV importer now also imports the “propeller lever position”
- Keyword search text fields now have a clear button
- Performance improvements and bug fixes
In addition now 100 system locations are provided: each position has been fine-tuned. Most locations come from flightspots.co, but unfortunatelly that website seems to be “terminating its radar service”. All GPS coordinates have been verified and the aircraft has a predefined heading and speed.
Together with the new engine state feature this makes it possible to spawn at beautiful locations such as this one - with the ease of a single mouse click!
For all details please refer to the complete CHANGELOG on github.com.
Sky Dolly v0.13 binaries are available here:
Source and binaries are also available here: