JonathanC

FFB-Bridge Free 1.6.4 is now available for Windows, macOS and Linux. - Available in your language. The app and website are localized, with illustrated documentation, screenshots and downloadable PDF manuals available in all 15 website languages. All images should now match your chosen language. - A cleaner interface. More consistent menus, tabs and typography, better compact layouts, and adjustable text sizes make the app easier to use. Everything should be cleaner and nicer looking, lots of little subtle changes to the layout and fonts. - New and updated aircraft profiles. 75 new profiles, all optional Airbus “Yoke feel” variants. That brings the catalog to 1,699 profiles. The 737 profiles were revised rather than added. The Airbus yoke profiles are NOT REALISTIC. They include various effects that the real plane does not send to the side stick.. but they are fun. You can always use the default stick profiles, which are far more true to life. - Better X-Plane handling. Improved autopilot following, manual trim feel and transitions back to manual control, including fixes for the MOZA AY210. - Separate pitch and roll adjustments. Fine-tune each axis’s spring strength independently to suit your setup. This was asked for by many users, and here you are. You can now set your Roll Strength up to 200%, which allows for finer control with a yoke. - More reliable PMDG connections. The 737 and 777 now provide their current aircraft state even when Bridge starts after the aircraft has loaded. - TorqueSim CitationJet improvements. Aircraft-specific corrections improve autopilot-to-manual handover in the CJ525 in X-Plane. - Optional startup at login. Choose whether FFB-Bridge launches when you sign in and whether it starts minimized. Update from within the app or from the website The full release notes -> https://ffb-bridge.com/releases#1.6.4 I'm looking forward to telling you more about Pro soon. It's shaping up very nicely. You can test it out by joining the Pro Beta here - https://ffb-bridge.com/pro Voice Control was a lot of fun to build. Fully local, responds super fast .. I’ll do a video tomorrow, but you can download and try it right now.

Hey, I'll toss my freeware into this as well, if you don't mind. https://ffb-bridge.com Free force-feedback for MSFS 20/24, XP 11/12 on Windows, Mac, Linux. The program is free, but of course you need a force feedback joystick for it to do anything. So only relevant to a smaller niche.. but inside that niche, people seem to really like it.

Also, anytime you have any questions or issues, feel free to email me ([email protected]) or use the Report an Issue button from the app, or you can post on the FFB-Bridge forums. I try my best to respond across all external forums, but it's easy to miss stuff. So if I haven't replied in a day, please email me. I'm usually quick to respond.

Hey, The BlackSquare planes need some more work on their custom AP; I'll get to that after I release 1.6.3 and the latest update on Pro. But it's a relatively straightforward fix (bind to the right variable, then test in the sim, then edit the magnitude of the force change, then test in the sim.. repeat), but it needs me to sit with each BlackSquare plane for an hour or so to get it just right. So yeah, it's not perfect with that developer right now, but it's on my list! Try AP follow in the default Cessna 172? Is that more like you'd expect?

The good news is that this should be out soon, and we can judge for ourselves. It does seem very good (almost TOO good). But then we are in a new era of programming (ask me, lol) and so I'm cautiously optimistic.. time will tell .

Not really, they still have to accept your request, and if they already have many people covering your area.. I live in Toronto and tried signing up for this some years ago, and they politely told me they have enough data from Toronto and thus I didn't qualify for the free data. This was 3-4 years ago, so this policy may have changed now. But that's what happened back then.

Hi all, Dev update from FFB-Bridge: the first Pro preview video is available, and signups are open for the upcoming public beta. If you’ve already registered, you remain on the list. There’s no priority queue or advantage to signing up early. When the beta opens in a few days, everyone on the list will have access at the same time. Pro Beta signup -> https://ffb-bridge.com/pro/beta Watch the first-look video -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKUIeQWWOP0 The preview shows local voice control, a phone/tablet cockpit interface, advanced force curves, flight recording and review, integrated community profiles with version history, and additional complex MOZA configuration. Voice processing runs locally on your computer, and the cockpit interface works over your local network. Pro will be a one-time purchase, with no subscription. The features and interface are still subject to change during development. What this means for Free FFB-Bridge Free stays free, keeps all its existing features and will continue to receive significant updates. Pro will not turn Free into a reduced version of what you already have. If the Free app meets your needs, there’s no need whatsoever to buy Pro. As long as you're having fun, it's all good with me :) Free 1.6.2 is available now This release includes: - Improved MOZA recovery and an AB9 default-force recovery option for supported firmware. - Electric helicopter cyclic trim and independent beep trim. - Quieter simulator detection. - Corrected propwash feel and restored MSFS brake shudder. - Fixes for aircraft-variant profile assignments, startup, shutdown and issue reporting. The documentation has also been updated with new screenshots and localized guides. The release notes cover the remaining fixes in more detail. Release notes -> https://ffb-bridge.com/releases#1.6.2 Free download -> https://ffb-bridge.com/download Thanks for the continued feedback and testing.

Double post.

If he can share that data from the Level D sim with me, i can replicate it. But of course I understand if he’d rather not. Perhaps you can ask him?

Sure, you should continue using that extremely custom profile with Moza then. Makes sense if you want a perfect prebuilt profile and don’t want to tune it.

Hey the Airbus profiles had a bug, which has been fixed in 1.6.1. Update your program and try again, please. Let me know how close this is to the real thing. You can make it stronger on Moza bases by increasing the strength under Hardware -> Moza.

Hit the report an issue button and I’ll take a look. have you tried any other planes and profiles? Do those work?

FFB-Bridge 1.6.0 is ready. https://ffb-bridge.com Read the full release notes at https://ffb-bridge.com/releases#1.6.0 and the updated manual at https://ffb-bridge.com/docs/manual. I've been working on this for a while now, trying to bring a few new ideas to life. The app now includes 1395 pre-built profiles that automatically work with the vast majority of planes we fly in MSFS 2024. I cover 135 developers in this release, and many of the bigger devs have received extra attention and care to make the planes "just work". PMDG, A2A, BlackSquare, iFly, Flight Factor, iniBuilds, and many many more have been manually tuned and tweaked. It's not perfect, of course, but it's a good place to start, and we'll improve things together. Tuning is very different and I hope much easier to use. I also translated the app/docs/manuals into 16 languages. I hope that helps those of you who aren't native English speakers. There's so much in this release that I can't put it all in this post, and neither can I put it all in the release notes! I will probably do a blog post or video at some point explaining the thinking behind this release. Here are some of the highlights - More aircraft, better matching. The app now includes 1,395 aircraft starting profiles for MSFS 2020, MSFS 2024 and X-Plane 12. Aircraft recognition handles more add-ons and variants, and saved defaults stay with the aircraft edition you chose. - New ways to tune the feel. Set centre-cam strength and width for a fixed-wing profile, shape pitch and roll spring curves independently, adjust trim-dependent pitch stiffness, and choose where Mach buffet begins. - More hardware and helicopter support. Brunner FFB-H and FFB-G support is available on Windows and Linux. Guided cyclic balance helps compensate for a grip or extension that pulls the stick off centre. Helicopter trim reversal is also corrected for native spring devices, including the Logitech G940. - Closer aircraft integration. This release expands telemetry and autopilot handling for aircraft including the PMDG 737 and 777, iFly 737 MAX, Fenix, FlightFactor 777 v2 and Hot Start Challenger 650. It also improves MOZA AY210 handling and AB9 force sensing and recovery. - More languages. Choose from sixteen app interface languages without restarting. The revised illustrated manual is available in fifteen languages. If you spot an awkward translation, use Report translation in the app to suggest a correction. - Easier support and important fixes. Report an Issue can send a diagnostic bundle from inside the app, with a local ZIP export available. This release also improves device restoration and reconnect behavior and fixes a Windows in-app update error. If an in-app Windows update from 1.5.3 reports “The system cannot find the path specified,” use the Windows download button below to install 1.6.0. The update error is fixed in this version. I hope you all enjoy this release. It is nice to see it getting closer to what I have in mind.. we aren't quite there yet, but we are headed in the right direction. Please let me know if you see bugs or want new features.