RELEASE NOTES Sim Update 6 Beta - 1.8.11.0

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Stability & Performance

• Fixed softlock when crashing your aircrat after a belly landing

General Bug Fixes

• Enabled communication window during bush trips.

Aircraft

Boeing 737 MAX 8

• Fixed an issue that caused the CABIN_LIGHT keys to behave incorrectly when bound to a device and used.

Diamond DA62

• Fixed alternators and battery flickering and using a starter

Aircraft Core Systems

Electricity system

• Added the possibility to specifiy a minimum voltage required for a circuit to function called ‘MinVoltage’. Default MinVoltage is half of the nominal tension of the circuit.

EFB

• Added cavok and flightCategory to TAF condition change groups.

Airports

• Better draw distance for lights attached to instanced meshes, now based on the light intensity.

Traffic

Air Traffic

• Fixed live air-traffic planes desappearing instead of starting to pushback

Marine Traffic

• Improved marine traffic boats orientation.

DevMode

• Fixed and improved governor controls in the “Aircraft Debug Engines” window:

• Fixed an issue that prevented governor target RPM values from being entered independently for each engine on multi-engine helicopters.

• Added validation for the entered target RPM value (limited to the 0–200% range).

• Replaced the non-interactive governor status checkbox with a color-coded bullet and a text label distinguishing the “OFF”, “INACTIVE”, and “ACTIVE” states.

• Improved the tooltip displayed when hovering over the “INACTIVE” status.

• Made minor layout and punctuation improvements.

General

• Added a new asset group Profiling to profile packages

• Fixed rendering of “Channel display > clearcoat roughness”

Scenery Editor

• Fixed gizmo not able to change altitude (regression SU6)

• Fixed projected meshes not rendered sometimes

Biome Editor

• Fixed build error when using Rebuild option from File menu

SDK

SimConnect

• Fixed SimConnect_MapInputEventToClientEvent not working on consoles

WASM API

• Fixed rare random deadlocks when using the CommBus API or other APIs that depend on it

well, stuck at 0% authentification in progress...

+1

Downloaded and tested without any issue.

the AIRAC cycle has also been updated, server side update, as I have it in the old build (I started this flight before it came out)

Edited Wednesday at 10:28 PM2 days by Tuskin38

Stuck on activating packages with a bandwidth too low warning.

Comcast 1gigabit internet. (Already changed dns)

Back to server not serving issues...

EDIT

Gonna have to take that back… restarted the sim… all is well. Presently moving freight to ORD in the 77F. Smooth as silk..

Edited Thursday at 01:50 AM2 days by Maxis

2 hours ago, Maxis said:

Presently moving freight to ORD in the 77F. Smooth as silk..

heh, my first flight in this patch is also the 777F, though doing ICN to LHR

4 hours ago, Maxis said:

all is well.

Good to know. Hope I’ll see the same then in about an hour

UPDATE: worked, all fine

Edited Thursday at 08:07 AM2 days by DAD

this SU is pretty sparce on content...

I think that most of us would have preferred to see AIR TRAFFIC - fixed undercarriage disappearing on AI planes when more than 50 feet away.

44 minutes ago, Krakin said:

this SU is pretty sparce on content...

It's usual to have sparse release note length during the Beta updates. The full SU6 release note, when the public version will be available, should be more... consistent.

• Fixed softlock when crashing your aircraft after a belly landing.

  Has anyone ever suffered from this? I've not seen one report of this issue on the forums, yet it gets top billing in the stability and performance section.

  It's incredible that all of the reports of LOD issues, undercarriage disappearing, panning stutters get nothing?

1 hour ago, Bunchy said:

• Fixed softlock when crashing your aircraft after a belly landing.

  Has anyone ever suffered from this? I've not seen one report of this issue on the forums, yet it gets top billing in the stability and performance section.

  It's incredible that all of the reports of LOD issues, undercarriage disappearing, panning stutters get nothing?

They're is no method to their bug fixing, it appears to be decided by throwing a dart at a board blindfolded. Plenty of highly reported bugs still way down their list, but hey it's the Asobo way.

4 hours ago, vbazillio said:

It's usual to have sparse release note length during the Beta updates. The full SU6 release note, when the public version will be available, should be more... consistent.

Yeah, sometimes aircraft updates for ones not made by asobo/working title don't appear until late in the Beta or not until the public release.

4 hours ago, Bunchy said:

It's incredible that all of the reports of LOD issues, undercarriage disappearing, panning stutters get nothing?

Maybe they can't fix it.

Edited Thursday at 12:03 PM2 days by Tuskin38

7 hours ago, Christopher Low said:

I think that most of us would have preferred to see AIR TRAFFIC - fixed undercarriage disappearing on AI planes when more than 50 feet away.

What a joke. I don't know how yall enjoy this sim with so many visual bugs.