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RELEASE NOTES 1.31.19.0

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NEW CONTENT/FEATURES

• Added an input key to toggle Flight Assistant Panel

General Bug Fixes

• Fixed issues in the building generation that could cause crashes

• Various localization improvements

Menu

• Fixed airport considered as water if runways have undefined surface type

Weather

• General Live Weather improvements

• Fixed a rendering issue where clouds were ghosting into the sky at horizon

Activity

• In Bush Trips, the Description Box displays incorrect values for the Flight Length, Flight Duration, and Number of Legs

Aircraft

Cessna Citation CJ4

• Added automatic VOR tuning functionality

• Added the FLT LOG page to the FMC and flight tracking

• The FLT LOG page will show on the FMC after landing based on the setting in DEFAULTS

• Added ability to ident the transponder on the FMC ATC CONTROL page

• Fixed an issue where fuel used tracking on FUEL MGMT page 2 was not correct

• Reduced pitch instability and adjusted elevator authority, tweaked roll rates at various speeds to keep light control feel but reduce excess performance

• Adjusted flaps to achieve a better compromise between approach angle and flaps pitch/lift moments, reduced flaps drag at both flaps levels

• Slightly increased top end engine thrust to address a few reports of insufficient climb power

• Increased gear down drag

• Increased gyro stability to reduce excessive turbulence impact

• Adjusted load stations to be more in line with real loadout

• Added additional groundwheel friction to avoid skidding during moderate crosswind landings

• ILS data is now loaded from the approach FAF origin facility to allow for navtonav and autotune even when scenery runway data does not have the appropriate ILS reference information

• Fixed bugs related to visual approach loading and visual approach vnav guidance

• TOGA buttons on power lever are now interactable

DG-1001E

• Fixed an issue with the tow attach point which caused the glider to be uncontrollable when aerotowed

LS8

• Increased winch power

• Increased winch max spawn distance

World

Airport

• Fixed terraforming issues include the crack on runway 26 at ESSA

Peripherals

New supported devices

• Added presets for HORI Flightstick XBOX SERIES X|S Flight and PC modes

SDK

• Fixed version number shown in MSFS Localization Manager

• WebAssembly: Fixed buggy implementation of memcpy in GdiPlus, causing occasional crashes

• Fixed textures paths for SDK Xbox Samples (Cliffton Bridge and Tokyo Haneda)

• [HELICOPTER] Added a parameter to the config file to allow helicopter throttle(s) to be controlled directly by SimVars, bypassing all the builtin helicopter engine control algorithms. Please, see SDK for details

Devmode

• Fixed crash at validation stage upon exporting a project

SimVars

• Fixed CTD caused by trying to use a variable

• SIMVAR_WINDSHIELD_WIND_VELOCITY not for airplanes

Aircraft editor

• Fixed an issue that caused the FuelSystem to only read the first 7 params defined for a Trigger

Scenery editor

• Keep unsupported data in the xml
• Fixed airport disappearing when not editing airport data

 

Be sure to look for updates in content manager. 4.5 gigs associated with this update. Looks to be World Update(s) updates

-B

EDIT:  This update also fixed my broken (after SU12) Carenado PC12 which had lost all of its glass instruments. Now everything is back as before and I suspect the same will be true for other planes that are CTDing the sim. 

Edited February 27, 20233 yr by btacon

They finally got to ESSA .. ... 

 

Better late than never.  Looking forward to actually using that airport now.

Now if they can get that bees nest off the CN Tower (among other fixes) that would be great.

31 minutes ago, btacon said:

Be sure to look for updates in content manager. 4.5 gigs associated with this update. Looks to be World Update(s) updates

-B

I got the notification, but have nothing in the Update Available tab oddly

 

Edit:
ah
I had to hit the open package button so all world updates and such display their individual packages

Edited February 27, 20233 yr by Tuskin38

If "General Live Weather improvements" means that they use a higher res snow coverage dataset from meteoblue, I will be the most happy guy ever with SU12. But I guess not, otherwise they might have stated it more precise, no?

I’ll be curious to hear if this fixes the CTD with certain aircraft combos and the PMDG parking brake.  I didn’t read about the parking brake directly, but there was also a bunch of stuff I didn’t understand in the change notes 🙂

1 hour ago, AnkH said:

If "General Live Weather improvements" means that they use a higher res snow coverage dataset from meteoblue, I will be the most happy guy ever with SU12. But I guess not, otherwise they might have stated it more precise, no?

Most definately not. The snowcoverage is a dataset issue that can be solved serverside. There is no need for an update. They just need the better data and send it.

2 hours ago, AnkH said:

If "General Live Weather improvements" means that they use a higher res snow coverage dataset from meteoblue, I will be the most happy guy ever with SU12. But I guess not, otherwise they might have stated it more precise, no?

This is the change I’d be most interested in seeing explained as well.

Anyone have flickering text textures in the CJ4 cockpit? I didn't see a fix for it in this release, but I'm curious if anyone else was seeing that.

1 hour ago, Bdub22 said:

Anyone have flickering text textures in the CJ4 cockpit? I didn't see a fix for it in this release, but I'm curious if anyone else was seeing that.

Definitely had it after first beta release and upvoted it on the official MSFS forum.....will test again tonight when home for work....plus hoping CTD's caused by several of my aircraft in the community folder has been fixed.

Edited February 28, 20233 yr by YMMB

5 hours ago, regis9 said:

I’ll be curious to hear if this fixes the CTD with certain aircraft combos and the PMDG parking brake.  I didn’t read about the parking brake directly, but there was also a bunch of stuff I didn’t understand in the change notes 🙂

Not fixed. Even in the new version, The Beta version won't boot up past the New Activities screen for many users (including me). It had nothing to do with planes in Community, so it was caused by one or more planes in Official. My guess is the Carenado Waco, but haven't had the time to check that yet.

1 hour ago, YMMB said:

2 hours ago, Bdub22 said:

Anyone have flickering text textures in the CJ4 cockpit? I didn't see a fix for it in this release, but I'm curious if anyone else was seeing that.

Definitely had it after first beta release and upvoted it on the official MSFS forum.....will test again tonight when home for work....plus hoping CTD's caused by several of my aircraft in the community folder has been fixed.

Can confirm the flickering has been fixed.

26 minutes ago, Fielder said:

Not fixed. Even in the new version, The Beta version won't boot up past the New Activities screen for many users (including me). It had nothing to do with planes in Community, so it was caused by one or more planes in Official. My guess is the Carenado Waco, but haven't had the time to check that yet.

Mine hung there for a few minutes....  I did wait it out and the new beta took about 7 minutes total to load up.  Hope it's not that bad on subsequent loads.

6 hours ago, regis9 said:

I’ll be curious to hear if this fixes the CTD with certain aircraft combos and the PMDG parking brake.  I didn’t read about the parking brake directly, but there was also a bunch of stuff I didn’t understand in the change notes 🙂

Well I just confirmed it is the Carenado Waco and/ or the Carenado Business LIner (195 cessna) that was causing MSFS with beta 12 not to boot. I opted back out of beta, booted MSFS and deleted the Waco and the C195 in content manager. And opted back into the beta and bingo it now boots up just fine using the beta. 

Back in Sim update 11 a few months ago it was exactly the same for me: that pesky Carenado Business liner 195 prevented bootup. But messages from others kept mentioning the Waco so I took both of them out. 

So, on my system it's one of those two or maybe both that is the culprit.

(Hint: you can also remove the Waco and C195 by just moving their folders out of Official and then move them back later if you wish. You don't really need to use the Content Manager to do that).

So I reinstalled the Waco YMF5 Carenado: msfs booted up.

Then I reinstalled C195 Carenado: would not boot. Had to move that C195 folder out of official and then msfs booted right up. 

On my system the Carenado C195 prevents MSFS loading with update BETA 11 or update BETA 12. The full update SU11 (not the BETA) did not have this issue. The best way to avoid all problems may be to stay out the BETAs.