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Sky Dolly

The Black Sheep for Your Flight Recordings

About

Sky Dolly is an open source application which records and replays your flights in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 (MSFS).

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Logbook

The flights are stored in a logbook (an sqlite database). The logbook lets you filter your recorded flights by aircraft, date of flight, engine category, departure or arrival and more. Simply double-clicking the log entry will load the flight. That easy.

Advanced users may even browse the data with a database browser such as SQLite Browser and do their own statistics with SQL.

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Formation Flight

Sky Dolly also provides a Formation module which lets you record and replay formation flights. You select your relative position to the previously recorded aircraft (distance, bearing and altitude offset) and simply click the record button while in the Formation module.

The trick here is that you see your previously recorded aircraft being replayed while you are recording your current flight, so you know exactly where you fly in relation to the other aircraft in the formation. And all this with a single user interface instance and with the ease of a single record button click.

Replay

The official SimConnect API is used to communicate with MSFS, which exposes the state of the simulation as so-called “simulation variables”. A selected set of variables - for example position, altitude, heading and pitch - is then stored and during replay sent back to MSFS.

Sky Dolly uses “event-based sampling” (values are only recorded when they actually change) with a selectable sample frequency. The recorded values are smoothly interpolated, in case of position and attitude related variables with Cubic Hermite spline curves. But don’t worry: the math is all under the cover :wink:

At any time during replay you can:

  • Pause
  • Rewind and fast-forward (with the timeline or the corresponding buttons)
  • Stop the replay and resume your flight

All operations are implemented with usability in mind. For example you do not need to click first the pause or stop button to be able to fast-forward or rewind: you just fast-forward or rewind at any time you want during replay. Also with keyboard shortcuts and variable time intervals.

Import & Export

Sky Dolly provides a plugin architecture. Currently the following import & export plugins are available:

Import

Export

  • CSV (Sky Dolly)
  • KML (Sky Dolly)

Availability

Sky Dolly is available free of charge:

Source code and binary releases are also available here:

Support

I develop Sky Dolly in my free time and as such can provide only limited support. But please feel free and post your questions, bug issues and feature requests here:

I’ll do my best to give you at least a reply :wink:

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Release 0.9

Sky Dolly v0.9 has just been released, but before we go into the new features…

:birthday: :birthday: :birthday: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SKY DOLLY :birthday: :birthday: :birthday:

To the day - on February 28 2021 - Sky Dolly was released on flightsim.to.

New Features

  • A new IGC (International Gliding Commission) export plugin
    • Export of GNSS (“plane altitude”) and pressure altitude (“indicated airspeed”)
    • Export of environmental noise level (ENL)
    • Waypoints are exported as “C records”
  • A new GPX import plugin
    • Option to map GPX waypoints, routes and tracks onto waypoints and path in MSFS
    • In case the optional elevation and timestamp elements are missing
      • the default altitude can be specified
      • the timestamps are calcuated based on the desired velocity
  • KML import
  • CSV import

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Improvements

  • IGC import
    • the timestamp of the imported waypoints (“C records”) are now updated according to the actual flown path (“nearest point”)
    • The “initial significant movement” is now determined (internal: new “flight analytics module” - still in an early development stage), reducing “random heading changes” (due to GPS signal noise) while the glider is still on the ground
    • The environmental noise level (ENL) - if present - now turns off/on the engine, based on some selectable noise threshold
  • Import
    • The aircraft selection is now edtiable, with autocompletion
    • The last selected aircraft is now also stored in the settings
  • Logbook
    • The default “Delete” key now deletes selected flights
    • Logbook columns are only resized (“fit to content”) upon first loading of the flight data (after that manual adjustments are kept)
  • The replay can now be “looped”

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Further usability and minor bug fixes, please refer to the complete CHANGELOG on github.com.

Sky Dolly v0.9 binaries are available here:

Source and binaries are also available here:

On a personal note: this release is dedicated to peace everywhere. I was really put off flying any military jet in MSFS for the last couple of days, and for a moment I was very glad that MSFS doesn’t offer anything related to war and destruction.

As a major new feature is turning around glider (IGC) support it is not quite a coincidence that the new “title image” now shows a glider [1] - what can be more peaceful? So this was an easy choice this time for the “title image” (on flightsim.to).

Here is the original screenshot:

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You will also notice that the app icon has slightly changed:

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(This is some last-minute work, so please be gentle when judging my artwork skills here - it is more about what I want to convey here anyway).

I would like to conclude my thoughts by saying that despite all the sanctions and all that terrible stuff - which remember: they harm ordinary people like you and me everywhere, on all sides, in the end - and the implicit attempt to “divide people” (that do not mean any harm to each other under normal circumstances) Sky Dolly is for everyone in the flight sim community, and for everyone that wishes for peace.

Sorry for the rambling, but I just had to write it down somehow…

[1] the Discus 2c is available on flightsim.to and also discussed here in the forum - there are other free and paid gliders available for MSFS, go check them out!

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Release 0.10

Sky Dolly v0.10 has just been released, putting again the focus on the import/export plugin architecture and providing support for additional file formats, notably GPX and GeoJSON.

New Features

  • JSON export plugin
    • Export in GeoJSON format
    • Including style properties, interpreted e.g by https://geojson.io
  • GPX export plugin
    • Timestamps are based on either simulation or recording time; the later being useful for GPS-tagging screenshots taken during flight recording

Improvements

  • All import plugins
    • An entire directory can now be imported at once:
      • All imported files are imported as distinct flights or
      • All imported aircraft are added to the same newly created flight (“formation flight”)
  • All export plugins
    • File existence is checked before overwriting existing files
    • An export option for formation flights:
      • Only export the current user aircraft
      • All aircraft are exported into a single file (if supported by the file format, e.g. KML, GPX and GeoJSON)
      • All aircraft are exported into separate files
    • Resampling (“original sample rate”, “1 Hz”, “2 Hz”, “5 Hz”, …) is now supported by all export plugins
  • CSV export plugin
  • IGC export plugin
    • The true heading (HDT) and indicated airspeed (IAS, in km/h) are now exported (in K records)
  • KML export plugin
    • The LineStrings are now exported as connected multi-geometry lines (no point limit anymore)
    • Reduced the number of fractional digits to 6, reducing file size while still providing a practical precision in the range of centimeters (also refer to the mandatory XKCD)
  • Miscellaneous
    • Add shortcuts to dialog buttons
    • The recording time is now shown in the Flight dialog
    • Use title-case for all push buttons
    • Add additional aircraft types (F/A 18, PC-6, Pitts Special, NX Cub, Volocity) from sim update 7 for the import aircraft selection
      • Note: third-party aircraft types are automatically made available in the aircraft selection once recorded at least once
    • The new Help menu contains a link to a “work in progress” online manual

Further usability and minor bug fixes, please refer to the complete CHANGELOG on github.com.

Sky Dolly v0.10 binaries are available here:

The background of the title image shows the DG Flugzeugbau DG-800 glider, available from DG Flugzeugbau DG-808S » Microsoft Flight Simulator

Source and binaries are also available here:

The ZIP archive from both locations - flightsim.to and github.com - is identical. You can newly verify the ZIP archive integrity by computing it’s checksum (digest) and compare it against the published SHA-256 checksums on github.com. Instructions for how to compute the SHA-256 checksum for a given file are given there as well.

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Release 0.11

Sky Dolly v0.11 has just been released. While superficialy not much new functionality is to be seen this is one of the biggest - if not the biggest - update in the history of Sky Dolly, with 505 changed files with 9,564 additions and 6,963 deletions.

Many changes have hence been made “under the hood”, such as:

  • Less RAM usage
  • Refactored notification system (“Qt signals and slots”)
  • Refactored plugin managers
  • Generated code (“C++ templates”)
  • Modernised build system (CMake)

However there are also some user-visible new features and improvements, as follows.

New Features

  • A truly minimal user interface mode, which - by default - only shows the very essential buttons (configurable in the settings)
  • A new Set relative position option in the Formation module allows to let the aircraft start from its current location when recording
    • So if you want to record “play chicken” with two aircraft starting from the opposite ends of a runway… this is now possible :wink:
  • With the help of the new GeographicLib (open source, third-party) the undulation values are now correctly calculated, converting between WGS84 reference ellipsoid and EGM2008 geoid altitudes
    • The conversion is applied in the GPS and IGC import/export plugins

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Note that even this minimalistic user interface is fully functional, including formation flight recording and automatic storage of the recorded flights in the logbook. It does not get simpler than that!

Improvements

  • Improved AI object management, causing less aircraft flickering when changing e.g. the user aircraft in the Formation module
  • Table columns are now movable, alternating row colours
  • Confirmation dialogs before and after logbook optimisation, including before and after disk usage (file size)
  • Additional tooltips
  • Consistent dialog titles
  • Small user interface layout tweaks and pixel-perfected icons

Further usability and minor bug fixes, please refer to the complete CHANGELOG on github.com.

Sky Dolly v0.11 binaries are available here:

Source and binaries are also available here:

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Release 0.12

Sky Dolly v0.12 has just been released. This release brings the software architecture a huge step towards “the final picture”: namely the modules have been implemented as plugins as well.

As the module plugins are unloaded immediately after use this reduces the memory (RAM) usage of Sky Dolly even further.

New Location Module

A new Location module is introduced, with the following functionality:

  • Capture, manage and teleport to locations
  • Location attributes such as type, country, identifier and description
  • Copy latitude/longitude coordinates from this forum, Google Maps or any other website and paste them directly into the Location module (with CTRL + V)
  • Various latitude/longitude formats are accepted: decimal values (comma-separated or not) and various DMS notation flavours
  • A set of default (“system”) locations is provided (*)
  • Including a challenging visual approach to Santos Dumont (SBRJ) in Rio de Janeiro, based on the real-world flight AZU4205 from SBGO on July 25 2022

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Improvements

  • The tables are updated in a more efficient manner “by row”
  • The code now compiles with Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 C++ compiler and is now constantly scanned for “code smells” with Microsoft C++ Code Analysis Action (“continuous integration”)

Further usability and minor bug fixes, please refer to the complete CHANGELOG on github.com.

Sky Dolly v0.12 binaries are available here:

Source and binaries are also available here:

(*) I am sorry for the somewhat Swiss-centric selection of locations :wink: The current location list can be seen on github.com.

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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).

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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!

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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:

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Release 0.13.1

Happy New Year 2023

Sky Dolly v0.13.1 (“Dapper Daher”) is a bug fix release:

  • The mixture lever position is now properly initialised from “percent” (instead of “position”) values:
    • during “flight augmentation” (“flight augmentation” is applied when importing flights from e.g. flightradar24 or flightaware)
    • during IGC import (when detecting “engine noise” in the IGC data)
  • In the Simulation Variables dialog (and elsewhere) ensure that at least one recorded data sample exist before accessing the “last” entry
  • Prevent access to invalidated data upon application termination when either the Flight, Simulation Variables or Statistics dialog was open before quitting the application (rare race condition)
  • Properly spell “airport” in the location CSV export in Little Navmap format (fix typo)

For all details please refer to the complete CHANGELOG on github.com.

Sky Dolly v0.13 binaries are available here:

https://flightsim.to/file/9067/sky-dolly

Source and binaries are also available here:

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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:

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Release 0.15.0

Paint It Black!

Sky Dolly “Flamboyant Fokker” (v0.15) has just been released. This is a no-new-features release. Instead several 3rd-party libraries are upgraded, most importantly the Qt 6 framework.

Improvements

  • The new Qt 6 framework provides improved Windows 11 support and initial “dark mode” support
    • Dark mode is still not enabled by default, however can be enabled via the command line with:
      • SkyDolly.exe -platform windows:darkmode=2 or
      • SkyDolly.exe -platform windows:darkmode=2 -style=fusion (the “Fusion” style currently looks arguably better)
    • In both cases dark mode needs to be enabled in the Windows user settings
  • Improved event state handling, specifically for “asynchronous events” like flaps (e.g with the PMDG 737)

Bug Fixes

  • Improved AI object lifetime management, especially in the case of failed aircraft imports
  • When importing flights without waypoint data (e.g. in CSV format) the generated start- and end waypoints have now unique timestamps specifically in the case when only one position sample (“parked aircraft”) has been imported, preventing a “unique key violation” (= the imported flight can be properly stored)
  • The “Show replay speed” option (defining the default behaviour when switching to minimal UI mode) is now properly restored from the application settings

For all details please refer to the complete CHANGELOG on github.com.

Sky Dolly v0.15 binaries are available here:

Source and binaries are also available here:

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:warning::warning::warning: IMPORTANT PATCH RELEASE: 0.15.1 :warning::warning::warning:

Previous patch releases (< 0.15.1) like the 0.13.1 and the previous 0.15.0 would generate a logbook backup each time the application was started (and if the logbook option “Before migration of an older logbook” is enabled, which is the case by default).

This has been fixed with the 0.15.1 patch relase.

How to reclaim storage space:

  • In Sky Dolly: File | Logbook Settings… | Show
  • In File Explorer: Open the Backups folder
  • Delete any logbook backups that are not required anymore (the file names contain the backup date)

I am terribly sorry for this inconvenience :disappointed:

Updated binaries are available here:

Source and binaries are also available here:

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Release 0.16.0

Kia ora!

Sky Dolly “Gregarious Gee Bee” (v0.16) has just been released. This release introduces new Sky Dolly logbook export & import plugins, incuding automated time synchronisation for formation flights based on real-world timestamps.

New Features

  • Sky Dolly logbook import & export plugins

Improvements

  • Automatic time offset synchronisation for formats that support real-world timestamps (such as the Sky Dolly logbooks)
  • New “import mode” parameter for import plugins
  • A new recent logbooks menu allows to quickly re-open previous logbooks
  • Logbooks can now be opened via drag and drop (e.g. from Windows File Explorer)
  • The Logbook and Location module now persist their settings (todo: Formation module) and provide a “reset” button to quickly reset the search filters
  • Kia ora! Five new locations in New Zealand
  • Various bug fixes & improvements

For all details please refer to the complete CHANGELOG on github.com.

Updated binaries are available here:

Source and binaries are also available here:

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Release 0.16.1

Sky Dolly v0.16.1 (“Gregarious Gee Bee”) is a bug fix release:

  • Properly store the newly selected logbook file path in the application settings in case an attempt is made to open a logbook that has been written by a newer Sky Dolly version and the user chooses an alternate logbook

For all details please refer to the complete CHANGELOG on github.com.

Updated binaries are available here:

Source and binaries are also available here:

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Release 0.16.2

Sky Dolly v0.16.2 (“Gregarious Gee Bee”) is a bug fix release:

  • Location import: Properly import Little Navmap userpoint CSV files having no header

For all details please refer to the complete CHANGELOG on github.com.

Updated binaries are available here:

Source and binaries are also available here:

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Release 0.16.3

Sky Dolly v0.16.3 (“Gregarious Gee Bee”) is a bug fix release:

  • Properly import Flight Recorder and Sky Dolly CSV files again (regression from v0.16.2)

This release also introduces a “crash report” dialog that will reveal information about the nature of the programming error. I have some reports that Sky Dolly won’t launch on Windows 11, without any apparent error message. While I do have some idea about what might go wrong this “crash report” will help me confirm and track down the root cause.

Here is an example crash report, with a deliberately created “exception”:

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The dialog also offers the following functionality:

  • Create and copy (to clipbard) a “crash report”
  • Create a new issue on Issues · till213/SkyDolly · GitHub (free github account required)
  • “Gracefully” close the application

For all details please refer to the complete CHANGELOG on github.com.

Updated binaries are available here:

Source and binaries are also available here:

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Release 0.17.0

Sky Dolly “Humble Hawker” (v0.17) has just been released. This release introduces keyboard shortcut support for MSFS, for basic recording and replay control.

New features

  • Keyboard shortcut support in the flight simulator
    • For record (CTRL + R), replay (CTRL + P) and other basic replay functions
    • The keyboard shortcuts can be re-assigned in the Sky Dolly application settings (no restart required)
    • In case of recording start/stop a desktop notification message will inform the user
  • SimConnect network support
    • Sky Dolly comes with a SimConnect.cfg configuration that works “out of the box” on the same machine (“localhost”) with the automatically generated SimConnect.xml server configuration (located in the MSFS data folder)
    • For an actual network configuration edit this SimConnect.cfg with a text editor and adjust the server address and port numbers as needed
    • Conveniently select between the three provided configurations (pipe, IPv4, IPv6) in the Sky Dolly application settings (no restart required)
  • Dark theme support via selectable styles
    • Windows 10 users can select the “Fusion” style for dark theme support
    • Windows 11 users have a new “Windows 11” style that natively supports dark theme
    • In either case the dark theme has to be enabled in the Windows system settings

Improvements

  • The default logbook name is now Sky Dolly Logbook
    • This should make the actual data folder more distinguishable from the application folder (and hopefully prevent data loss due to the accidental deletion of the wrong folder)
  • The flight number is now also shown in the Logbook table
  • The Formation module settings (relative position, replay mode) are now persisted
  • A flight recording in progress is now automatically stopped and the flight stored to the logbook in case the flight simulator is terminated (e.g. also due to a crash)
  • The full range of flight simulator simulation rates 0.0625 up to 128.0 is now supported
    • The maximum simulation rate can be set in the Sky Dolly application settings, as higher simulation rates can take up quite a lot of CPU power
    • Note that the actual replay speed can still be set to higher values (up to 200)

Bug fixes

  • KML export: the first position point is now properly exported as well
  • Flight condition is not overwritten anymore when recording additional formation aircraft
  • Toggling the “active pause” in MSFS while recording now properly resumes/pauses recording and the flight itself
  • Prevent a crash that would occur when a flight is loaded and the replay mode in the Formation module is changed to “Fly with formation”, but no connection with MSFS exists yet
  • Remove last recorded flight or aircraft in case persistence fails (improved error handling)
  • In the Formation module the reference aircraft icon is properly initialised
  • During replay the replay speed is now properly set to the last “custom speed” (e.g. 0.1) when checking the “Custom” radio button (previously the actual replay speed was always wrongly set to 1.0, mismatching with the displayed custom speed value, e.g. 0.1)
  • Seeking on the timeline now correctly re-establishes the current flap (and other control element) settings

For all details please refer to the complete CHANGELOG on github.com.

Updated binaries are available here:

Source and binaries are also available here:

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Release 0.17.1

This release provides a few improvements and fixes the following issues:

Improvements:

  • Add new aircraft types from simulation update 15 (for flight import)
  • Platform styles that are not really selectable on a given platform (e.g. “Windows 11” style on Windows 10) are not shown anymore
  • The platform style selection list is now sorted

Bug Fixes:

  • The “native styles” (“Windows Vista” on Windows 10 respectively “Windows 11” on Windows 11) are now properly loaded when explicitly set in the application settings
  • The aircraft type is properly set again when importing a flight (regression from v0.17)
  • On Windows 11 the default style is set to “Fusion”, as a temporary workaround for several visual glitches
  • Properly validate persisted enumeration values when restoring plugin settings (technical issue)

Updated binaries are available here:

Source and binaries are also available here:

The SHA-256 checksums of the provided ZIP archive for this and all previous releases are published here: SHASUM256.md.

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Release 0.17.2

This release provides a few improvements and fixes the following issues:

Improvements

  • Seeking backward and forward via flight simulator keyboard shortcuts (CTRL+, respectively CTRL+.) now repeats the action while keeping the shortcut combination pressed
  • Application settings: the flight simulator connection plugin and connection type (pipe, IPv4, IPv6) combo boxes are disabled while the connection is active (replay or recording in progress)
  • When the SimConnect.cfg client configuration that comes with Sky Dolly is removed from the application directory then a local connection is used (just like in previous Sky Dolly versions)

Bug Fixes

  • Fix the example Flight-Analysis.sql script (documentation) [Issue #150]

Under the Hood

  • Upgrade Qt to 6.7.1 (from 6.7.0)

Updated binaries are available here:

Source and binaries are also available here:

The SHA-256 checksums of the provided ZIP archive for this and all previous releases are published here: SHASUM256.md.

What’s Love Got to Do with It

Sky Dolly just received its 500th “Like” - whooo! Thank you so much all!

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Release 0.17.3

This release provides fixes the following issues:

Bug Fixes

  • Do not create a logbook backup when importing a logbook (flight) from a previous Sky Dolly release (that needs to be migrated)
  • When opening a logbook: retry with a backup directory relative to the logbook path (that is, “./Backups”) in case a backup directory given with an absolute path cannot be created (e.g. because it refers to some non-existing drive letter, or otherwise is not writeable anymore)
  • Do not create the non-existing backup directory when the periodic “Backup” dialog is shown
  • When resetting the Logbook filter (pressing the “X” button) then also the search text field is now cleared

Updated binaries are available here:

Source and binaries are also available here:

The SHA-256 checksums of the provided ZIP archive for this and all previous releases are published here: SHASUM256.md.

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Release 0.17.4

This is a pure maintenance release without any Sky Dolly specific fixes: it provides the most recent Qt framework release with several Windows 11 user interface style related fixes.

Under the Hood

  • Upgrade Qt to 6.7.2 (from 6.7.1)

Updated binaries are available here:

Source and binaries are also available here:

The SHA-256 checksums of the provided ZIP archive for this and all previous releases are published here: SHASUM256.md.

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Release 0.17.5

This bug fix release provides an important correction for a regression that would prevent recording (and possibly replay as well), due to wrongly creating an IPv4 network connection instead of a local (“pipe”) connection.

Bug Fixes

  • Ensure that the connection is local again (“pipe”)
    • Fix the persisted connection type value
    • Migrate existing application settings (fix the “off by one” value)
    • This is a regression introduced with Sky Dolly v0.17.1

Updated binaries are available here:

Source and binaries are also available here:

The SHA-256 checksums of the provided ZIP archive for this and all previous releases are published here: SHASUM256.md.