December 31, 2025Dec 31 New released: After over 2 years in development, I finally released my Advanced Forward-Looking Terrain Following Radar (TFR) and Autopilot. This is a add-on for MSFS2020 and MSFS2024. The TFR scans the terrain ahead of the aircraft up to a few miles, and commands the elevator to follow the terrain contours at low altitude, down to 200 ft. It works beautifully and it quite a ride in low-visibility. How does this work? MSFS2020/24 has no provisions for scanning the terrain ahead. Instead this add-on uses its own standalone terrain database. Normally this would be a 700 GB database. But very clever programming and data manipulation reduces this to below 1 GB. The autopilot is fully custom coded. It allows the default autopilot to remain active for heading/NAV and speed control. This runs as a stand-alone application. It requires the mobiflight events module be installed. This program is user-configurable to work with (almost) all aircraft. Configurations have been included for the IFE Tornado, JF Vulcan and Asobo F-18 (MSFS2024). A detailed manual is included. This add-on is freeware. Support is not provided, although I may respond to issues. Further development is optional. Get it on flightsim dot here - https://flightsim.to/file/102068/terrain-following-radar-autopilot-tfr-ap Edited December 31, 2025Dec 31 by CaptainSpeaking
December 31, 2025Dec 31 Sounds interesting. Couldn't you put a link in the post? Links to FS.TO are allowed here. Bill 😎FS2024 • Currently in 'GA mode' : A2A Comanche 2024 & Aerostar • Black Square C208, Bonanzas, Barons, TBM850, Dukes • COWS DA40 & DA42 • FSW Legacy, C24R Sierra & C414 • Echo Falco F8L • FFX HJET, Visionjet and P180 2024 • Got Friends A32 Vixxen • FSReborn Sirius TL3000, Sting S4 and Piper M500 • Flyboy Rans S6S • Skyward DA50RG • SWS Zenith CH701, RV-8, RV-10, RV-14, PC12 • Milviz C310R • Air Foil Labs Bristell B23 TrackIR • BeyondATC • PMS GTN Payware • RealTurb • Axis & Ohs • FS Realistic Pro9800X3D • RTX 3080 • 64GB DDR5-6000NPPL licence holder in the UK
December 31, 2025Dec 31 15 minutes ago, JYW said: Sounds interesting. Couldn't you put a link in the post? Links to FS.TO are allowed here. https://flightsim.to/file/102068/terrain-following-radar-autopilot-tfr-ap We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
January 1Jan 1 7 hours ago, HiFlyer said: https://flightsim.to/file/102068/terrain-following-radar-autopilot-tfr-ap Cheers sir! Bill 😎FS2024 • Currently in 'GA mode' : A2A Comanche 2024 & Aerostar • Black Square C208, Bonanzas, Barons, TBM850, Dukes • COWS DA40 & DA42 • FSW Legacy, C24R Sierra & C414 • Echo Falco F8L • FFX HJET, Visionjet and P180 2024 • Got Friends A32 Vixxen • FSReborn Sirius TL3000, Sting S4 and Piper M500 • Flyboy Rans S6S • Skyward DA50RG • SWS Zenith CH701, RV-8, RV-10, RV-14, PC12 • Milviz C310R • Air Foil Labs Bristell B23 TrackIR • BeyondATC • PMS GTN Payware • RealTurb • Axis & Ohs • FS Realistic Pro9800X3D • RTX 3080 • 64GB DDR5-6000NPPL licence holder in the UK
January 4Jan 4 Author Config files have been added for the IFE F-14 and the SC designs F16. Available on the Discord https://discord.com/invite/dyjqghbwVU
January 11Jan 11 On 12/31/2025 at 5:25 PM, CaptainSpeaking said: New released: After over 2 years in development, I finally released my Advanced Forward-Looking Terrain Following Radar (TFR) and Autopilot. This is a add-on for MSFS2020 and MSFS2024. The TFR scans the terrain ahead of the aircraft up to a few miles, and commands the elevator to follow the terrain contours at low altitude, down to 200 ft. It works beautifully and it quite a ride in low-visibility. How does this work? MSFS2020/24 has no provisions for scanning the terrain ahead. Instead this add-on uses its own standalone terrain database. Normally this would be a 700 GB database. But very clever programming and data manipulation reduces this to below 1 GB. The autopilot is fully custom coded. It allows the default autopilot to remain active for heading/NAV and speed control. This runs as a stand-alone application. It requires the mobiflight events module be installed. This program is user-configurable to work with (almost) all aircraft. Configurations have been included for the IFE Tornado, JF Vulcan and Asobo F-18 (MSFS2024). A detailed manual is included. This add-on is freeware. Support is not provided, although I may respond to issues. Further development is optional. Get it on flightsim dot here - https://flightsim.to/file/102068/terrain-following-radar-autopilot-tfr-ap You could do it without the external terrain database. Create a dummy SimbObject with onGround=true , move in in x/y, and then you get Z coordinate when you read the position.
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