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RELEASE NOTES 1.21.13.0If you are playing on PC, some packages in your community folder may not have been updated and, as a result, may have an unexpected impact on the title’s performance and behaviour.
Please move your community package(s) to another folder before relaunching the title if you suffer from stability issues or long loading times.

New Aircraft: We are adding 5 brand new aircraft to Microsoft Flight Simulator:
Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet: Our first military jet and a highly requested feature from the community. The Top Gun: Maverick expansion will release with the movie next Spring, but we wanted simmers to have the opportunity to be able to test their need for speed this holiday.

VoloCity: We partnered with well-known German company Volocopter, which is working on an eVTOL called “VoloCity”, a vision for an urban air taxi. We worked closely with the Volocopter engineering team to develop an authentic version of the aircraft for the simulator. This is our first aircraft that can perform pinpoint landings and is a teaser of what you can look forward to in 2022
when we intend to launch helicopters in the sim.

Pilatus PC-6 Porter: This legendary short takeoff and landing (STOL) utility aircraft is a highly versatile plane from Switzerland, and our close collaboration with the manufacturer and the development efforts by famed developers Hans Hartmann and Alexander Metzger resulted in a great and fun new aircraft with exception capabilities in the simulator.

CubCrafters NX Cub: Yakima-based CubCrafters recently introduced a nosewheel option for their flagship CC-19 XCub Aircraft, popularly called the NX Cub, which we are pleased to introduce to the flight sim audience to further enhance our bush flying and off airport options.

Aviat Pitts Special S1S: One of our most popular planes gets a single-seat option with the release of this aircraft.

New Airports
We are adding 8 handcrafted airports in Central Europe and the United States:

• Leipzig/Halle Airport (EDDP)
• Allgäu Airport Memmingen (EDJA)
• Kassel Airport (EDVK)
• Lugano Airport (LSZA)
• Zurich Airport (LSZH)
• Luzern-Beromunster Airport (LSZO)
• Patrick Space Force Base (KCOF)
• Marine Corps Air Station Miramar (KNKX)

The Game of the Year release is adding information about 545 previously missing airports in the United States

New Missions
Based on the popularity of the recently introduced Discovery Flights, we are adding an additional 6 locations (Helsinki, Freiburg im Breisgau, Mecca, Monument Valley, Singapore, and Mount Cook) to this popular series

New Tutorials (produced in partnership with FS Academy)
To further expand the onboarding experience, we are adding 14 new tutorials, introducing simmers to Bush flying (in an Icon A5) and IFR (in a Cessna 172)

New Features
We are also pleased to introduce several highly requested features by the community: an updated weather system, early access to DX12, and a dev mode replay system (more info below)

New Photogrammetry Cities
As part of our ongoing collaboration with Bing Maps, we are pleased to add a number of new photogrammetry cities: Helsinki (Finland), Freiburg in Germany (Germany), Brighton, Derby, Eastbourne, Newcastle, and Nottingham (UK), ), Vers-Pont-Du-Gard, Chambord and Port-Vendres (France) and Utrecht (Netherlands)

Stability

• Several crashes have been fixed across the title
• Fixed sim being stuck while loading the world data in rare cases
• Improved online multiplayer plane trajectory accuracy and stability
• A first implementation of DX12 can now be activated via the Option menu (requires a reboot of the title)

Navigation

• New Arinc424 Cycle 2111 is now available
• Flight plans that were externally loaded or manually edited on the world map will no longer be recomputed from scratch when changing the instrument procedures or the parking spots
• AI controls ATC will no longer automatically send the updated flight plan from the aircraft’s instrument whenever a change is made

Weather

• Improved METAR ingestion into live weather
• You can now consult real airport METARs during flight from the Weather panel (only when Live Weather is active)
• Updated .WPR file versionning for weather preset edition. Now handles both coverage and density for cloud layers (Formerly density became coverage). Backward compatibility has been handled
• It is now possible to put clouds below sea level (-400m) for regions such the Dead Sea
• Fixed AGL / MSL UI display in weather panel
• Setting wind with weather panel is more coherent with in-game wind near ground
• Fixed unit conversions in weather panel
• Minor ui improvements in weather panel

VRMicrosoft Flight Simulator is now compatible with VR controllers on PC !

• Main menu: Use the raycast mode to navigate and interact with the menus
  Cockpit
• Instruments: Switch between the proximity mode (you interact with the instruments by grabbing them) and the raycast mode (you use a raycast to pinpoint the instrument you want to interact with). Beware of the autopilot as it overrides your inputs.
  Yoke/stick: In the VR options, you can choose between ‘Hold’ mode (hold the interaction button to grab the yoke) and ‘Toggle’ mode (press the interaction button once to grab the yoke and press the button again to release it) to interact with the yoke at your convenience.
  Toolbar: Use the raycast mode to interact with the toolbar and the in-game panels.
• Implementing support for VR controllers has required a few updates in each plane. If a plane has not been updated, a pop-up message informs you that it is not fully compatible with VR controllers.
  You cannot grab the yoke with the VR controllers and control it with hand gesture.
  You can control the yoke with the stick of the left VR controllers.
  You can interact properly with the instruments using the VR controllers.
• Lighting issues are fixed.
• VR is compatible with DX12. You might encounter a few issues as the implementation of Dx12 is still WIP.
  Known issues in VR:
• Only one controller is active at a time, so you cannot interact with two instruments at the same time. However, you can control the yoke and interact with an instrument simultaneously. -A few planes, such as the Volocopter, have a very specific configuration (throttle or other instruments on the yoke for example) which makes them currently more complicated to control with VR controllers. We will work on a way to make these planes fully compatible with VR controllers in the future.
• The HUD in Reno Races may appear in the center of the field of view. Switching out of and back to VR fixes the problem.
• A large white dot appears in the center of the screen during the loading after completing a landing challenge.
• You may experience a visual glitch when loading the main menu back from the cockpit.

Accessibility

• Audio Customization: Option to convert to Mono for people deaf in a single ear
• Option to Adjust Background Contrast in HUD has been added

Activity

• New Live event landing challenge is available. You can land the Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet at Miramar
• G-Effect and G-Suit preference assistances have been added in the option menu
• New assistance has been added to disable the automatic logbook at the end of a flight
• Fixed Bushtrip progression not saved when completing a bushtrip leg
• Fixed Germany bushtrip which could not be completed
• Fixed Take Off Airliner Flight tutorial that cannot be completed with the keyboard only
• Completing a landing challenge will no longer change Assistance settings

PlanesGENERAL

• Fixed a bug with water rudders at high speeds and with water rudders incorrectly affecting aerodynamics in air
• Made ITT simulation engine specific on multi engine turboprop aircraft
• Modular fuel system now supports CG based triggers
• The primed level of the piston engine does not reset anymore when no combustion happens
• Added a new parameter to use in the flt files for turbine engines : CorrectedFF
• Added TACAN related inputs
• Added a SimVar that shows the effective flaps handle position when some logic makes it different than the physical position
• Checklist’s highlights will now properly use the HIGHLIGHT_NODE_ID rather than the NODE_ID if specified (Previously only affected the hover highlight)
• Added a parameter to specify whether or not a plane’s autothrottle attempts to maintain the Vertical Speed when controlling the airspeed
• Title no longer crashes when trying to invert a one-waypoint flightplan
• Added SIMVARs for TACAN Navigation
• Improved accuracy of FLC speed hold system on aircraft with a calibration difference between IAS and CAS
• Corrected an issue which would cause the fuel capacity of planes using the modular fuel system to be displayed as 0gal
• AUDIO : added flaps drag sound effects
• AUDIO : added passenger ambiences cabin in airliners

Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental / Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner

• MCDU now support waypoint insertion in Leg Page

Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner

• Fixed HUD projection
• MCDU has all its buttons highlighted on hover
• ND flightplan display now has correct color
• REV indication on EICAS is now display when in reverse mode

Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental

• NavAids indicator on PFD now have adequate color
• NavAids indicator symbol are removed

Airbus A320neo

• Fixed a problem that prevented auto start (Ctrl+E) without external power unit
• Autopilot now updates its target Vertical Speed while in VS mode
• Autopilot now updates its target Altitude while in VS or Managed mode
• Corrected an issue which allowed setting the Autobrakes to the MAX position in flight, when it should be disabled

Cessna Citation Longitude

• Corrected an issue which caused push buttons for lights not to change state when toggled using a key
• Fixed ITT alarm is ringing and caution message is displayed on PFD while ITT graph and numbers are green on PFD
• Fixed aural warning related to parking brake cannot be silenced without disengaging the brake

JMB VL-3

• Correction lights in the airframe

Cessna 208 B Grand Caravan EX

• Correction of some textures for airframe
• Condition lever has new keys to bind. Preexisting bindings to mixture keys can also be used to move the lever without any change in settings
• Fuel flow controller PID was tuned to avoid FF spikes when using the condition lever

Beechcraft King Air 350i

• Condition lever has new keys to bind. Preexisting bindings to mixture keys can also be used to move the lever without any change in settings
• Throttle levers animation gives incorrect lever position

Cessna 172 Skyhawk

• Pushback service was removed from the Floats version

Daher TBM 930

• Fixed aural warning related to parking braking could not be silenced without disengaging the brake

EXTRA 330LT

• Removed some electrical circuits from the E330 that were not used in the plane but could be enabled using the TOGGLE_ALL_LIGHTS key

World

• Fixed a crash that could occur when flying near cities with a lot of autgen buildings
• Various watermasks have been added around the world
• Improved night lighting by reducing the intensity of the distant sepia layer
• Fixed an issue with windturbines lights sometimes no display at the right altitude
• Fixed terminal missing at KSFB
• VGHS airport has been renamed
• Collision pass has been performed on most of the bespoke aiports
• Vegetation has been twicked around Christ the Redeemer
• Improved LODs on CYTZ Toronto

UI

• Fixed mouse click sometimes didn’t workon external windows
• Added a Minimized hud assistance under option
• Moved Ingame news and Release notes at the bottom of the main menu
• The Marketplace is now accessible directly from a dedicated widget in the main menu
• Allow inputs to be mapped on key/button release
• Community-made activities now have their own dedicated page. They are grouped by their mission type, which can now have any custom value

Peripherals

• Tobii eye tracker is now supported
• Added a new gamepad preset : Gamepad (Fighter Jet) to complement the F/A 18 release
• Added the Afterburner controls to the commands list
• Added the G Limiter controls to the commands list

SDKDevmode

• The Replay system can be activated via the devmode on PC only / Options / Experimental / Enable replay panel. More info here: NEW: Replay Feature 16
• ArtProj asset groups are now automatically converted to ModelLib upon loading a project
• Fixed various UI issues in Project Editor
• Expose the electrical system debug window (Windows > Behaviors > Systems > Electrical system)
• Remove arbitrary limits for electrical component definitions
• Added draw debug helipads
• Extra parameters linked to the selected material code can now be edited through the Material Editor
• Fixed corrupted node positions in graph when cloning an FX
• Improved teleport window
• The Output node of the Visual Effects Editor now exposes extra material parameters
• Added debug OSM point features
• Added top down camera
• Added the Aircraft Thumbnail Capture tool. Allows to customise and capture aircraft thumbnails (see SDK doc)
• “Advance Capture” button in Package Inspector has been replaced to a button which opens the Aircraft Thumbnail Capture tool
• Fixed random crash in Material Editor when building a package
• Fixed export to Community folder
• Fixed “Remove Package” and “Remove Asset Group” buttons in Package Editor / Inspector
• Fixed random textures flickering in Material Editor
• Old material files are now properly deleted upon renaming a material through the Material Editor”
• Added the selection of the default VR API used (Fake or OpenXR) in option menu
• Fixed conflict between drone camera and developer camera. Now the two options are incompatible
• Xbox Lod Selection mode will be replaced by the new model LOD limits system. Since they are exclusive, the UI now reflects this by disabling the Xbox Lod Selection Mode when the new model LOD limits are activated
• Improved the export window interface in the Project editor
• Add more data validation for invalid and out-of-bounds Color and UV data, to help avoid rendering issues such as black screen flickering during the Package tool
• Bugfix: A flight could be started even if wasm module and/or wasm gauge weren’t loaded (more visible if a flight is restarted) -Fixed fspackagetool,exe not displaying console FlightSimulator’s console output, Added two commands : -outputtoseparateconsole : allow users to have FlightSimulator output to a separate console, -nopause : Prevent FlightSimulator to pause at the end of the proccess

Visual Effects Editor

• Added a constraint on the name when creating or renaming a visual effect
• New GroundDirection node, return directions relative to the plane orientation projected on the ground. See documentation here [SU6] Changes you must make on your FXs – MSFS DevSupport
• Fixed node graph display issues after creating a new effect
• Fixed new effect creation when there are unsaved modifications on the currently opened document. Will now display the usual confirmation popup
• Fixed particle emission flow to get a more stable emission and particle count with high rates and velocities
• In the Bezier Curve Editor, use Shift+Click to add a point
• -Node graph inspector shows more user friendly names when possible for properties that can be added and removed in blocks
• Fixed bugs & made major UX/UI improvements to the Bezier Curve
• Allow spawning Visual Effects with no node and no contact point seup. The effect will spawn attached to the root node of the object
• Fixed obsolete properties shown in node graph inspector
• New primitive type GroundRibbon will create a fixed orientation ribbon that follows the orientation of the ground
• Added a StaticMesh node
• Fixed the deformation shader
• Fixed a crash when closing the editor for an effect after moving a node then deleting it

Scenery editor

• Added road, street light and power lines exlusion to polygons. -Added power line debug
• Disable gizmo while editing heightmap
• Fixed apron resume edition when there is a spline
• Fixed light update when moving taxipoint
• Fixed floating object that take too much time to be snapped
• Fix DEM update when updating terraforming
• Added airport checks
• Added taxiways connectivity checks. Show hold-short orientation
• More color for taxiparkings and taxipaths
• Making the Hide and lock by type window a subwindow instead of a popup to be able to dock it
• Fixed floating taxipoint
• Fixed and improved color extractor
• Fixed gltf textures not updated automatically

Aircraft editor

• Cylinder displacement now correctly converted to cubic inches in the AircraftEditor

3DS max exporter

• Fixed typo in ui of 3dsmax material
• Pearl parameters are now restricted to only Standard Material

Model behaviors

• Improvements to the usability of the Behaviors Window
• Addition of ParametersFn feature to model behaviors
• Addition of Process=”“String”” to process a parameter as a string using RPN

Known issuesGeneral:

• TrackIR may sometimes stop working properly during a flight. Press F12 to reset the position.
• Glass cockpit remains off when starting from cold & dark with the Volocity
• Save custom weather presets is not operational
• High temperature spikes happen above 44000ft

Audio

• Added SONIC_BOOM Trigger Event in MiscellaneousSounds
• Added mach cone zone & degree RTPC in the WwiseSampleProject

VR:

• Only one controller is active at a time, so you cannot interact with two instruments at the same time. However, you can control the yoke and interact with an instrument simultaneously. A few planes, such as the Volocopter, have a very specific configuration (throttle or other instruments on the yoke for example) which makes them currently more complicated to control with VR controllers. We will work on a way to make these planes fully compatible with VR controllers in the future.
• The HUD in Reno Races may appear in the center of the field of view. Switching out of and back to VR fixes the problem.
• A large white dot appears in the center of the screen during the loading after completing a landing challenge
• You may experience a visual glitch when loading the main menu back from the cockpit
• Clicking on the Toolbar does not work (mouse, VR controller)
• There may be some issues with the VR controllers when setting the interaction model to Legacy

Devmode:

• Aircraft can no longer compiles because of glTF errors

Launching Microsoft Flight Simulator on PC last year was only the beginning of our journey to make the best simulation possible. As we continue adding to the experience with free World Updates (Japan, US, France, Benelux, UK & Ireland and the Nordics so far with many more to come), themed DLC bundles, and true-to-life aircraft, Xbox Series X|S simmers will enjoy these updates on console as well.

The latest Microsoft Flight Simulator update comes with a variety of features to make the experience more accessible for new simmers, including Discovery Flights, location labels to aid with orientation, Anti-stall & Auto-trim assists, a Flight Assistant toolbar panel during flight allowing to quickly setup a flight plan to reach nearby airports and POIs, an updated cockpit interaction model supported by more informative tooltips, additional landing gear types to land anywhere, enhanced training flights, and cross-play/cross-save between PC and console.

Performance
This update includes significant performance improvements to make the experience more seamless -Improved multi core support for cpu -Better memory and gpu usage -Faster loading times -Stutters have been significantly reduced

Discovery Flights
Discovery Flights were originally inspired by those who wanted to fly in one of our trailers! Discovery Flights place you in the most scenic locations on the planet, including awesome locations like the Great Pyramids or Mount Everest, or vibrant cities like Naples or Rio de Janeiro, in optimal weather conditions for you to fly and sightsee at your leisure. You can quickly switch between locations using the Activity tab available from the pause menu. Two additional Discovery Flights are featured with all World Updates available for free within the in-game Marketplace.

World Exploration Improvements
The world map now also features satellite imagery, map labels, and main Point of Interest names to make exploring the world (and even finding your house) as easy as possible. We extended this capability into the flight experience itself and you can now activate the POI labels during a flight, meaning you can suddenly understand the spatial relationships between cities, mountains, and other landmarks. A new section is available in the Assistances menu, to display labels on all on-screen POIs or only the one you are pointing toward with the camera.

Activities updates
Landing Challenges are now graded. Remember to download World Updates in the marketplace, which contain additional landing challenges and bush trips.

Training flights
We overhauled our training flights to make them more digestible. Each of the 22 flights focuses on a specific notion, starting with basic handling, to landing & take off, VFR navigation, all the way to learning how to fly an airliner like the Airbus 320neo. Training flights feature contextual voiceovers, a score, and a grade to provide feedback and advice to progress through your learning journey.

Flight assistant / new assistances
The Flight Assistant is a new UI panel available via the toolbar in Free Flight and Discovery Flights. It allows you to quickly get AI help during flight:

• You can select nearby POIs or airports and set them as your destination to get direction
• You can also give control to the AI to fly you to your chosen destination.
• If using an Xbox controller, you can choose to temporarily enable AI flight control whenever you toggle the on-screen “cursor mode” (see below) to interact with menus or cockpit instruments
• You can delegate radio communications to the AI to let them interact with Air Traffic Control
• You can quickly activate auto-trimming and anti-stall assists

Gamepad Navigation / Cursor
If using an Xbox controller, you can use the left stick to control an on-screen cursor to navigate menus, world map and cockpits. To access the cursor controls during flight, click the left stick button on the controller to switch from flight controls to “Cursor Mode”. An extended zone around the cursor is used to select interactive element closest to the cursor center dot, making it more permissive and easier to use. Right stick is used to scroll pages and quickly change options. Cursor parameters are available in the Options / General Options / Accessibility menu.

Cockpit interactions
Added the new “Lock” interaction system:

• Set active by default but can be reverted to “Legacy” in Options / General Options / Accessibility.
• Tooltips are now displaying the instrument name, instrument values, and controls (dynamic depending of the device in use)
• Using the cursor or the camera center pointer, you can highlight any interactive cockpit instrument.
• Once highlighted, you can interact with the instrument:
  If the instrument is simple (buttons, 2 positions switches), tapping Xbox Controller A or Mouse left button will interact with it.
  If the instrument is complex (knobs, levers…), tapping Xbox Controller A or holding Mouse left button will lock on it.
• Once locked on an instrument, you can:
  Use primary (Xbox Controller A/ Mouse left button), secondary (Xbox Controller X/ Mouse right button) or tertiary (Xbox Controller Y/ Mouse middle button) interactions.
  Increase/ decrease the instrument (Xbox Controller LT/ RT or Mouse wheel)
  Use gestures (Xbox Controller left stick or Mouse movements)
  Unlock the instrument (Xbox Controller B or release Mouse left button)

Land anywhere / VFX
The following planes are now provided with skis and floats variants:

• Cessna C172 classic
• Cessna C172 G1000
• CubCrafters XCub
• Zlin Aviation Shock Ultra

These aircraft’s checklists have been adapted accordingly. Appropriated VFX are displayed depending on the surface type you are landing on.

Accessibility / Screen reader
We have added a text-to-speech narration feature to the Flight Simulator menus (English language only at first). This can be accessed during Onboarding for new users or enabled via Options / General Options / Accessibility for existing users.
This feature is work-in-progress and does not yet cover every screen or option but should allow users to navigate to the most vital menu screens needed to begin a flight. We are actively working on making the narrator more comprehensive and aim to add more functionality in future updates.

Liveries
Two new livery sets are available Aviator club Xbox and Livery 01

Known issues

• Sim input from PC-customized controller profile won’t work on Xbox (requires Mouse and keyboard to reset the controller profile to Default) -User can get stuck in the Freelook view and be unable to bring the cursor back up -Plane altitude is different than expected in some cases -Incorrect duplicate waypoints in flight plans (Click on the destination and press “insert before” to enter your waypoints in the correct order to prevent this problem) -Sim may crash after connecting / disconnect peripheral in game (avoid adding/removing devices while the title is running) -On VFR flight plan, aircraft automatically under Flight Following without having requested it
• COM radio unexpectedly goes off frequency shortly after departure on IFR flight plan (you can tune back to the previous frequency)
• Pilot informs ATC they are descending to their assigned altitude even though they’re still below it
• Sim may crash when flying with AI traffic
• The new gamepad controls are not yet available in the cockpit in VR mode
• The VR compatibility for the new tutorials is work in progress

You can leave feedback on various topics here – https://forums.flightsimulator.com

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Запуск Microsoft Flight Simulator для PC в прошлом году был лишь началом нашего пути по созданию лучшего симулятора. По мере того, как мы продолжаем выпускать обновления мирового контента (Япония, США, Франция, Бенилюкс, Великобритания, Ирландия и северные страны), тематические наборы DLC и реалистичные самолеты, пользователи Xbox Series X | S теперь так же будут наслаждаться этими обновлениями на консоли.

Последнее обновление Microsoft Flight Simulator выпускается с множеством функций, которые делают опыт полетов более доступным для новичков, среди них Discovery Flight, навигационные маркеры для помощи с ориентацией в пространстве, помощь в предотвращении сваливания, панель инструментов Flight Assistant, которая позволяет быстро настраивать план полета для достижения ближайших аэропортов и точек интереса, обновленная модель взаимодействия с органами управления в кабине, более информативная система всплывающих подсказок, дополнительные типы шасси для приземления в любом месте, улучшения тренировочных полетов и сетевая кроссплатформенная игра между ПК и консолью.

Для пользователей ПК: переместите свою папку Community в другую папку или на другой диск на время обновления. Номер новой версии 1.18.13.0.

Для пользователей Xbox: необходимо установить дополнительное обновление 27,6 ГБ.

ПРОИЗВОДИТЕЛЬНОСТЬ

Это обновление включает в себя значительные улучшения производительности симулятора.

• Улучшенная поддержка многоядерных процессоров
• Лучшее использование памяти и графического процессора
• Better memory and GPU usage
• Более быстрое время загрузки
• «Заикания» в полете были значительно уменьшены

DISCOVERY FLIGHTS (ПОЛЕТЫ ДЛЯ ОТКРЫТИЙ)

Изначально Discovery Flight были вдохновлены теми, кто хотел летал водном из наших трейлеров! Discovery Flight перенесет вас в самые живописные места на планете, в том числе такие удивительные, как Великие пирамиды или гора Эверест, или оживленные города, такие как Неаполь или Рио-де-Жанейро, в оптимальных погодных условиях, чтобы вы могли летать и осматривать достопримечательности на досуге. Вы можете быстро переключаться между локациями, используя вкладку «Активность», доступную в меню паузы. Два дополнительных рейса Discovery доступны вместе со всеми обновлениями World Updates бесплатно во внутриигровом магазине.

УЛУЧШЕНИЯ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ МИРА

На карте мира теперь есть спутниковые изображения, надписи на карте и метки с названиями основных достопримечательностей, чтобы исследовать мир (и даже найти свой дом) было как можно проще. Мы расширили эту возможность до самого полета, и теперь вы можете активировать метки POI во время полета, что означает, что вы можете внезапно понять пространственные отношения между городами, горами и другими достопримечательностями. В меню «Помощь» доступен новый раздел, в котором отображаются метки для всех экранных точек интереса или только той, на которую вы указываете камерой.

ОБНОВЛЕНИЕ АКТИВНОСТЕЙ

Соревновательные посадки (Landing Challenges) улучшены. Не забудьте загрузить обновления World Updates в магазине симулятора, которые содержат дополнительные задачи по посадкам в сложных условиях.

ТРЕНИРОВОЧНЫЕ ПОЛЕТЫ

Мы переработали наши тренировочные полеты, чтобы сделать их более удобоваримыми. Каждый из 22 полетов фокусируется на определенном понятии, начиная с базового управления, заканчивая посадкой и взлетом, навигацией по ПВП и заканчивая обучением управлению авиалайнером на примере Airbus 320neo. Учебные полеты включают контекстное озвучивание и оценку, чтобы предоставить обратную связь и советы по продвижению в вашем учебном путешествии.

ПОЛЁТНЫЙ АССИСТЕНТ (FLIGHT ASSISTANT)

Flight Assistant – это новая панель пользовательского интерфейса, доступная через панель инструментов в Free Flight и Discovery Flight. Это позволяет быстро получить помощь ИИ во время полета:

• Вы можете выбрать ближайшие POI или аэропорты и установить их в качестве пункта назначения, чтобы получить нужное направление к ним
• Вы также можете передать управление ИИ, чтобы он доставил вас к выбранному вами месту назначения.
• При использовании контроллера Xbox вы можете временно включить управление полетом AI всякий раз, когда вы переключаете экранный «режим курсора» (см. Ниже) для взаимодействия с меню или приборами в кабине.
• Вы можете делегировать радиосвязь ИИ, чтобы он мог взаимодействовать с управлением воздушным движением.
• Вы можете быстро активировать автоматическое триммирование и автоматическое противодействие сваливанию.

НАВИГАЦИЯ ГЕЙМПАДОМ / КУРСОР

При использовании контроллера Xbox вы можете использовать левый джойстик для управления курсором на экране для навигации по меню, карте мира и кабинам. Чтобы получить доступ к элементам управления курсором во время полета, нажмите кнопку левого джойстика на контроллере, чтобы переключиться с управления полетом в «Режим курсора». Расширенная зона вокруг курсора используется для выбора интерактивного элемента, ближайшего к центральной точке курсора, что делает его более доступным и простым в использовании. Правый джойстик используется для прокрутки страниц и быстрого изменения параметров. Параметры курсора доступны в меню Параметры / Общие параметры / Специальные возможности.

ВЗАИМОДЕЙСТВИЕ С КОКПИТОМ

Добавлена новая система взаимодействия “Lock”:

• Установлен режим по умолчанию, но можно вернуть в «Legacy» в «Параметры» / «Общие параметры» / «Специальные возможности».
• Всплывающие подсказки теперь отображают имя органа управления, значения изменяемого параметра и элементы управления (динамически в зависимости от используемого устройства).
• С помощью курсора или указателя в центре камеры вы можете выделить любой интерактивный прибор в кабине.
• После выделения вы можете взаимодействовать с органом управления: если орган простой (кнопки, двухпозиционные переключатели), нажатие на контроллер Xbox A или левую кнопку мыши будет взаимодействовать с ним. Если инструмент сложный (ручки, рычаги итд), нажатие на контроллер Xbox A или удерживание левой кнопки мыши заблокирует его. После блокировки инструмента вы можете: использовать основной (контроллер Xbox A / левая кнопка мыши), дополнительный (Xbox Контроллер X / правая кнопка мыши) или третичное (контроллер Xbox Y / средняя кнопка мыши). Увеличение / уменьшение инструмента (контроллер Xbox LT / RT или колесо мыши) Использование жестов (левый джойстик контроллера Xbox или движения мыши) Разблокировка инструмента ( Xbox Controller B или отпустите левую кнопку мыши)

ПОСАДКА ГДЕ УГОДНО / ВИЗУАЛЬНЫЕ ЭФФЕКТЫ

Указанные летательный аппараты из дефолтного набора теперь имеют поплавки и лыжи для посадки на воду и снег

• Cessna C172 classic
• Cessna C172 G1000
• CubCrafters XCub
• Zlin Aviation Shock Ultra

Встроенные чеклисты самолетов адаптированы. Соответствующие визуальные эффекты отображаются в зависимости от типа поверхности, на которую вы приземляетесь.

ДОСТУПНОСТЬ / ЧТЕНИЕ С ЭКРАНА

Мы добавили функцию озвучивания текста в меню Flight Simulator (пока только английский язык). Доступ к нему можно получить во время базовой настройки для новых пользователей или включить через Параметры / Общие параметры / Доступность. Эта функция находится в стадии разработки и временно не охватывает каждый экран или параметр, но должна позволить пользователям переходить к наиболее важным экранам меню, необходимым для начала полета. Мы активно работаем над тем, чтобы сделать рассказчика более понятным и стремимся добавить больше функций в будущих обновлениях. Узнайте больше о наших усилиях по данному направлению тут.

ЛИВРЕИ

Две новые ливреи добавлены для дефолтных самолетов — Aviator club Xbox и Livery 01.

ИЗВЕСТНЫЕ ПРОБЕЛМЫ

Полный список известных проблем приведен тут.