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Version 0.9.6 of FlightGear, an open-source flight simulator (screenshots), has been released. Changes:

• Added some initial support for “submodels” which can be used to impliment things like contrails, flares, tracers, etc.
• Make real world weather fetching a bit more robust and network friendly.
• Ensure the entire world is initially loaded before initializing the flight dynamics (avoids wildly varying frame rates at a time when the FDM might be trying to do various initialization steps that might benefit from consistent and fast frame rates.)
• Other various (and minor) code cleanups, tweaks, and fixes.
• Fixed ATIS voice file.
• Updated aircraft: A320, Bo-105, Comper Swift, Concorde, F16, Fokker-50, Fokker-100, Hunter, MD11, PC7, Spitfire, adjust C172 cockpit sound levels, and Sgs-233.
• Updated joystick configs: CH pro yoke usb, Cyborg Evo, Thrustmaster FCS.
• Fix a bug in the nasal fuel tank management code.
• Return Canadian ILS’s to nav data.
• Cleaned up some of the 3d models around the bay area.
• Add support for display list based rendering which yields substantial performance gains for many systems.
• Synced with latest JSBSim code.
• Fixed a reference point bug in YASim.
• Revived the hi-res (tiled) screen shot code so you can again produce insanely and arbitrarily large resolution screen shots.
• Beefed up the tile pager so it can more sensibly handle insanely rapid motion.

FlightGear 0.9.6 Download: [ flightgear.org ]

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