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Version 0.9.10 of the open-source flight simulator FlightGear has been released.
Some of the more important items from the ChangeLog are:

• Many improvements to the multi-player mode. Other airplanes are now updated smoothly. There is a really nifty google maps based moving map that anyone can use to track all online activity.
• Include the ability to send ATC and AI aircraft communication to a local festival server to be converted to spoken speech output.
• Added a detailed model of the Honeywell MK VIII EGPWS ground proximity warning system.
• Updated/improved rain cone rendering.
• Complete overhaul/redo of terrain textures based on USGS satellite imagery.
• Updated airport and navaid data.
• Updated manual.
• Upgraded to JSBSim v2.0
• Much work and progress with carrier interaction and launch/recovery modeling.
• Add a feature that allows the end user to click any where on the terrain. The system will compute a ground intersection and report back the lon, lat, and elevation of the click point. The click point is reported in the property system so it can be read by just about anything including external programs. Later we added the ability to place an object at the click point as well.
• Add a feature to play one-off wav files. These are qeued and played sequentially. This was then leveraged to build an ATC background chatter module in nasal that can be turned on/off at run time. This could also be leveraged for tutorials or other interactive type scripts to play prerecorded messages at specific times or under specific conditions.
• Allow clock to report local time as well as universal.
• Allow enabling/disabling of menu entries.
• Add a save-on-exit option to save user preferences.
• Added a new Nasal/XML based tutorial system.
• Various bugfixes.
• Added a detailed model of the Honeywell MK VIII EGPWS ground proximity warning system.
• Add a model of a KLN89 GPS.
• Allow nav radios to be slaved to the gps.
• Updated aircraft: A4/A3F (cleanups and updates, functional drag chute), A-10 (3d cockpit, fdm tuning, munitions, drop tanks), AN-225 (fdm tuning), B1900D, BO105 Eurocopter (new livry/logo options.), B-29, B-52F (major overhaul), Boeing 314 (3d cockpit, fdm updates), 747 (modeling fixes), Cirrus SR20 (improve interior a bit), C172 (added KLN89 gps), C310 (many modeling updates), Citation Bravo (many modeling updates, Primus 1000 PFD), Concorde (updated to v2.1, new views, sounds autopilot, fdm updates, new systems), DHC2 Beaver, F-16 (modeling and munitions updates), Hurricane, Hunter, MiG-15bis (adds some 3d cockpit instruments), PC7 (various cleanups), Seafire/Spitfire, Seahawk (general tidy up, cannon, heat haze, catapault launch strop), T37 (geometry, sound, fdm updates), YF-23 (misc model updates)
• New aircraft available: Boeing 707, 737-300 (Brand new version), Canberra BI8, English Electric Lightning (F.1A), Lockheed 1049 Constellation, Lockheed F-80C Shooting Star, Messerschmitt Bf 109, Ogel (a for-fun fantasy airplane.), New OV-10 with Clickable 3D cockpit, Piper PA24-250 Comanche 250 (N7764P), Piper Aerostar 700

Screenshots: [ View ] Download: [ FlightGear 0.9.10 ]

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