Features:
- Completely new 172sp FG1000 variant
- Add 2020.4 clustered shading lighting support
- Compositor compatibility and real time shadows
- Add support for aerotow to allow gliders to be towed by the C172P
- Add revised and improved KAP140
Fixes:
- VOR/NAV guages: add missing yellow ticks and OBS label
- VOR/NAV guages: fix localizer needle rotation center
- Correct typos in the 'Flying the Pattern' tutorial
- Fix parking brake binding on joysticks; improve the parking brake control
- Fix issue where the engine wouldn't quit after a plane crash
- Fix issue where external views would break after switching airports
- Re-add the default mouse action when in a viewfrom view mode.
- Fix NAV and COM radio electrical source
- Refactor c172p amp draw calculations
- Correct battery amp hours
- Power of two texture correction
- Improved aircraft variant set file isolation
Features:
- Add integral fuel tank option and refactor fuel system to allow for operation
- Fuel selector: improved textures
- Engine startup shaking effect (from c182s)
Fixes:
- Turn magnetos on when using ignition key
- FDM: Improve fuel tank locations, COG z location
- Tutorials: Repair aircraft at the start of each tutorial
- Instruments: AI offset knob limited and finer control
- Trim: fix rudder trim sound; adjust animations and sensitivity of trim wheels
- Fix iCCP Color Profile on textures
- Corrected a typo in the engine oil management system
- Add versioning to the propeller configuration files
- Point cones material texture to a valid texture
Features:
- New sounds for rolling and tire screeching on both paves and gravel surfaces
- Replaced the KX165 with the KX165A radio which supports 8.33 frequencies
- New mooring locations
fshortcut now toggles flashlight
Fixes:
- Fixed xy-plane and missing texture error messages
- Corrected a segfault caused when you lower and then raise the amphibious gear on land
- Turn coordinator gyros breaker was not hooked up
- Fix amphibious gear control breaker logic
- Amphibious gear switch now does not triger repair timer while pontoon damaged
- Initialization of new traversing property which is may prevent issues on some systems
- Fix strong pitch oscillations at rest with brakes on and with pure crosswind
- Fix Nasal error due to a typo in avionics.nas
- Changing xml version to 1.0 in xml file headers as this is the supported version
- Radio tutorial now requires the user to turn on the battery and avionics switches
- Fixed minor spelling mistake in preflight tutorial
Features:
- Persistent adjustable pilot seat/view position
- New seat frame modeling
- New fog and frost overlay showing heat and air vent effect
- Wheels sink based on ground cover density
- Tire size influences tire friction
- Wheels sink based on snow depth
- Snow depth influences tire friction
- Prop spray effect at high rpm in float variant
- New locked brake smoke effect
- Add rudder trim system to interior cabin panel
- Add brake influence to nose wheel steering and disable NWS when airborne
- Animate front caster wheels
- Extend support for CH Throttle Quadrant joystick
- Implement default renderer interior lighting
- Reshape and widen 26" and 36" bush tires to 12" and 15"
- Autostart function includes auto-mixture
Fixes:
- Exterior fuselage mesh cleanup
- Fix broken hydrodynamics
- Fix nasal errors and segfaults
- Skis now slide on ice and snow
- Added fallback model support
- Account for the volume of unusable fuel
- Fix cowl plugs issue in tutorials
- Fix invalid version issue
- Adjust damage effect spark size
- Adjust P-factor
- Correct rain animation over windshield
- Correct wheel spin rolling animation ratio
- Set mixture rich to 3000 ft
- Fix visor rotation issue
- Fix ADF to read khz and not mhz
- Fix default values of selected and standby radio frequencies
- Mixture set to 1 at sea level in autostart
- Fix flap click sound
- Fix animations of COMs, NAVs and ADF knobs
- Correct texture mapping of axles
- Correct texture mapping of interior hydro rudder mechanism
Features:
- Improved 3D models and textures of all levers, toggles, seats, magneto keys, EGT gauge and attitude indicator
- New recess casings to all panel instruments
- Improved labels of panel texture
- Added 3D models to cockpit:
- Alternate static source knob
- Glove pocket to panel (holds GPS device when not in use)
- Lighter hole
- Overhead panel light switches for red flood, gauge post, and white dome/courtesy lights
- Low Voltage LED
- Sunvisors
- PPT cables connected to the yokes
- New ammeter gauge matching the model used in the 172P
- Light maps for red flood, gauge post and white dome light
- ALS procedural lights (glare) for red flood, gauge post, white dome and wing courtesy light
- Light map illumination and procedural glare responds to available light and dims during daylight
- Re-positioned and improved 3D models and textures of all levers
- Added ambient occlusion map to all interior textures
- Added glass effect for gauges
- New sounds, including when clicking on the checklist, adding/removing control lock, mounting/dismounting GPS, opening/closing glove pocket, opening/closing the window latches, extending/retracting the water rudder cable
- Better sound for flaps lever and motor
- Interlocked master switch (BAT and ALT)
- GPS antenna is now up by default
- GPS night mode
- Amphibious gear advisor activated
- New amphibious gear lever
- Expanded help tool tips
- Add subtle glass reflection to panel instruments and radio stack
- Moved tutorials to Hilo Airport (PHTO)
- Improved tutorials and added two new ones: take off and landing for float variants
- Much improved propeller model
- Improved handle animation of doors and baggage door
- Doors should now be closed from the inside using the door strap
- Air resistance will force an open door or baggage door backwards
- Improved KMA20's marker sensitivity toggle animation
- Much improved vertical stabilizer model, including a retopologized beacon model
- Added external antennas for the ELT, transponder, ADF and marker beacons
- Removed wire connecting the wings to the tail as our ADF receiver uses a different type of antenna
- Animated water rudder cable
- New digital clock added
- New five slot Save and Resume feature
- QT launcher variant selection support
- QT launcher Location support including "On approach"
Fixes:
- Most of the cases of multiple objects mapped to a single texture have now been solved by assigning each their own texture
- 3D models of rotary knobs of VOR and NAV radios now turn 360 degrees
- Corrected the label of the OBS knob of the heading indicator
- Implemented a particle effect color and light manager for smoke and spray
- Adjusted P-factor effect
- Strobe lights are stronger now
- Fixed issue which caused the landing light to appear green under certain situations
- Removed shadow effect from radio stack readouts
- Autopilot readouts now match the rest of the radio stack in both colour and intensity
- Added a black panel behind the broken wing structure
Features:
- Major overhaul of the 3D model, including:
- Thicker wings with a more rounded leading edge
- Improved taxi and landing lights, VHF antennas and recessed fuel caps
- Model ribs to show through broken wing
- Improvements to tail and rudder, including animated rudder cables
- Cowling now protrudes around the nose
- Front windshield redesign to allow for proper vent fittings
- Tie-down connections on the wing look a little more realistic
- Added a vent line pipe to the left wing
- New landing gear strut steps and improved strut to fuselage connection
- Improved textures of air intake, cockpit bars, trim wheel, propeller, glare shield, tires
- Add two sided prop blur to livery system
- Moved panel upwards
- Improved flap model and animation
- New exterior door handles and relocated bottom door hinges
- Added GPS device with a new texture and added mount
- Added rudder pedal push rod model, sump port models, animated cabin air vent, engine compartment vent, wing vent holes, elevator trim tab
- New disc brakes, cowling handhold, animated oil door and cap, animated fuel caps
- Improved ground equipment
- The f key can be used to toggle the flash light
- Changes to the FDM:
- Allow aerodynamic interaction between the aircraft and AI traffic models
- Make the pitch axis less sensitive to control. Increase the adverse yaw, also results in a better slip-skid-ball behaviour
- Added a new HD livery: N73429
- Improved sounds:
- Better engine sound based on a real recording
- New idle engine sound which is cross-faded with the regular engine sound so that it is only perceived at low RPMs. It has that characteristic "rumbling" of low RPM
- New crank and engine start sounds, much improved from the default ones. In particular, the engine now starts with a large "thump" just like a real engine does
- New sound for when the engine is cut, also based on a real 172 recording
- New sounds for the primer lever, a low volume squeak sound based on reference videos of startup procedures
- Added registrations to the bottom wing of all liveries
- Implemented engine damage when flying at a RPM higher than the red mark
- More advanced oil management and consumption calculation
- Improved hydrodynamic modeling
- Support mooring (including rope and buoy animation) and spawning at a seaport
Fixes:
- Animation of primer and carburettor heat levers so that they don't just flip between their binary positions
- Autopilot buttons are now animated
- Applied shadow effect to more objects in the cabin
- Fixed a bug with the control lock being added to a hidden yoke
- Fix some switches in the KMA 20 instrument changing the dials in the two radio's below it
- Improved DME clickspots
- Nose wheel is no longer buried in the ground
- Fix collision of beacon lights with beacon lamp model
- New images for the new splash screen and thumbnails system
- FDM improvements:
- Fixed deflection angles of ailerons and roll moment due to ailerons
- Added spiraling propwash effect (requiring right rudder at full throttle, low airspeed)
- Made the elevator action at high AoA asymmetric in order to take into account the screening effect of the horizontal stabilizer in such stall conditions
- Increasing the side force due to rudder, to make it consistent with the exerted moment
- Decreasing the adverse yaw (the aileron trim gave too much slip-skid-ball deviation at cruise)
- Increased maximum rotation of yoke from 70 to 90 degrees
- Use shift + q to reset view
- Added avionics sound
- Fixed bug with oil temperature and pressure gauges (they were not working when complex engine procedures was toggled off)
- Fixed bug with lighting of pontoon wake effect
- Eliminated wingtip and tail sparks when over water
- Eliminated sparks of broken gear while aircrafts sits on the flight deck of a moving carrier
- Fixed some bugs with the walker
- Control surfaces can be checked for free movement during preflight inspection
- The opening of the baggage dialog was delayed as to wait for the animation of the baggage door
- Cleaning up the Aircraft Options dialog
- Improvements to the Ground Equipment dialog
- Callsigns of new users are automatically randomized to avoid them blocking other new users on multiplayer
- New About This Aircraft dialog, with information about the project as well as relevant links
- The pilot's yoke can now be locked with a control lock (lock can be found in the bag on the left of the pilot's seat)
- Fix bug with ADF timer in the radio stack
- Added view for IFR training
- Improvements to the carburetor system (icing, carb heat)
- Improvements to the engine coughs (due to fuel contamination or carb ice)
- Lowered limit of critical oil level according to Lycoming's manual
- Critical oil will not cause the engine to cough, it will simply quit when oil reaches the critical value of 2 quarts
- Improved fuel contamination system (fixed some bugs)
- More realistic bush wheels and tires
- Fuselage shows fresnel effect
- Improvements to the oil management (better function, oil now changes CG and weight of the plane, etc.)
- New ALS external view navigation, taxi and landing lights
- Added fire extinguisher and ELT models
- Bug fix for flashlight effect not illuminating the baggages
- Bug fix for interaction with external items in one of the tutorials
- Improvements to the autostart function
- Radio stack has been reworked (textures, 3D model)
- Radio stack illumination has been vastly improved and includes a daylight mode now (via RADIO LT at 0%)
- Fix bug with airspeed indicator
- Fix bug with the 3D model of the key in the ignition
- Fix bug which allowed to click on external hotspots while inside the cockpit
- Better autostart function, should work under more situations and warns the user if the engine fails to start
- The tooltip of the primer lever now shows the number of strokes
- Clock now displays local time
- Fix bug with battery: voltage now drains normally
- Add battery options and recharge button to aircraft menu
- Improved yoke model
- New splash screen no. 1
- Add ground equipment like safety pylons, ladder, fuel tank trailer, and ground power unit
- Decreased rudder authority
- Added propwash effect for 180 HP version
- Improvements to the irradiance effect
- Better oil dialog
- Flap lever is now dragable and scrollable
- Added normal map to wheels and other objects
- Improvements to the heading indicator
- Correct rudder pedal animation
- Updated tutorial to Barcelona
- Changed "Autostart" menu item to actually start the engine as well
- Split instrument light knob into a knob that two knobs: one that controls the instruments, and one that controls the radio's
- Ski's
- Amphibious plane improvements:
- Added two metal reinforcement bars in the cockpit
- Added panel for gear deploy and retract
- Added water rudders retraction mechanism
- Saving state of switches is now optional
- Zooming with mouse scroll wheel in Helicopter View, Model View, and Walker Orbit View
- Additional views for co-pilot and passengers
- New sounds:
- Rain (ambient and windshield) and thunderstorms
- Wing damage
- Wheel damage
- Windshield rain overhaul
- Opening the baggage door displays a window which allows weight to be added. Baggage will be displayed if the weight is high enough
- ASI now shows the IAS instead of the CAS
- Adjusted stall horn volume to sound to about 5-10 knots above stall speed
- Carburetor heat toggle now drops RPM as expected
- Oil consumption and management have been implemented
- Refactored fog/frost system: air flow now depends on airspeed and engine RPM. Supports overhead air vents, windows, and doors. Humans add extra heat and humidity.
- Preflight inspection improvements:
- Added "Preflight Inspection" checklists and tutorial
- Pitot tube can be clicked to add/remove a red "remove before flight" label
- Nose wheel can be clicked to add/remove chocks
- You can tie down the wings and tail to the ground. It will hold the aircraft even with full engine power.
- Each fuel tank can randomly get contaminated with water. Samples from the fuel can be taken to test for contamination.
- Added GPS 196 device
- Fixed glass reflection in external views
- Improved lighting, including better looking navigation lights (and depending on viewing angle) in ALS
- Improved textures of instruments, primer, cabin air/heat levers in cockpit, and flap lever
- Smooth instead of instant animation of yoke, pedals, and parking brake
- Added menu item to open a web panel in your browser, showing most instruments
- Improved interior shadow and reflection cubes
- Various ALS effects: flash light, 3D shadow, interior shadow, fog and frost, rain splashes, landing light
- Damage system:
- Gear can be damaged upon rough landings
- Wings can be damaged or break if g load limits or airspeed are exceeded
- Smoke and sparks
- New HD liveries, panels and interior textures
- Improvements to the exterior 3D model: ADF antenna, back of the fuselage and rudder
- Cockpit panel improved:
- Added primer, master switches, avionics switch, circuit breakers, cabin heat sliders
- Better magneto's/starter switch
- Improved textures of several instruments (AI, altimeter, CDI, HI, Hobbs meter, TC, VAC gauge, fuel selector)
- New sound effects (doors, parking brakes, knobs, trim wheel)
- Added (positioned) sounds to all buttons and switches
- Added flight recorder to record state of aircraft, including switches, damage, and effects
- Bush kits: 26" and 36" tires
- Sea plane variants: pontoons and amphibious. Amphibious variant has retractable gear. Both sea plane variants have water rudders
- Effects, lighting, damage, and human models visible over multiplayer
- 160 HP and 180 HP engine choice
- FDM improvements:
- Better stall and spin behaviour
- Float chamber
- Hydrodynamics for the sea plane variants
- Improved sound and behaviour of stall horn
- Improved and new checklists
- Small improvements to instruments in radio stack
- Random splash screen while loading FlightGear
- Human models visible