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Version 0.7.6 of the FlightGearFlight Simulator has been released. Changes include:

• Added night ground cover lights with user controllable densities on a per texture basis. Lights have a bit of a “fog punch through” effect.
• Support added for “shaped” instrument panels.
• Added support for virtual panels that are larger than the screen space which can scroll.
• Added waypoint and route flying support to the autopilot and HUD.
• New highly detailed runway textures with accurate markings.
• Added a basic piston engine model, with support for rpm, egt, cht, mp, and mixture.
• Many tweaks and improvements to the c172 instrument panel.
• Corrections and additions to the airport and navaid database.
• Added an external interface to the property manager so you can “telnet” into a running copy of FlightGear, cd through the property tree and examine and even change values, all from a remote computer.
• Improvements to flight model initialization.
• Added a load/save dialog box for saving/restoring your current flight.
• Added a visibility= command line option for setting intial visibility distance.
• Rewrote the tile caching scheme so it is now more flexible, more dynamic, simpler, and more robust.

FlightGear 0.7.6 source and downloads: www.flightgear.org/Downloads/

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