X-Plane 9 Beta-18 here!

http://www.x- plane.com/ beta.html

Whew! We are STILL finding some problems with buggy ATI drivers
(NVIDIA video cards seem more reliable!) but other than that we are
really fine-tuning it!

CH Pro Pedals brakes fixed!

New feature in the Internet screen for multiplayers: Set the number of transmissions per second to the other players.
If you are NOT playing on a LAN, then you can lower this number to keep from overflowing a slower net connection when doing multiplayer games online.

Plane-Maker: keys to zoom and pan fuselage and other body cross-sections restored... click on the part description box to enter descriptions, or away from it to pan and zoom.

Support reintroduced for many older-versioned planes.

Situation-Load should be more reliable.

GPS should be able to find 3-letter airport ID's now.

Framerate should be faster on GeForce FX hardware in 3-d panel views (or any views that show the 3-d panel, like circling view for the C172).

Scenery load time is a lot faster when using overlay forest add-ons like Andras and Albert's European forest package. See here for more info on this really cool add-on: http://www.alpilotx.de/mambo/index.php

X-Plane does not quit when a plane has a DDS panel. NOTE: DDS panels are NOT supported - they are ignored! Panels must be BMPs or PNGs. More info here: http://xplanescenery.blogspot.com/ [...] e-dds.html

X-Plane 9.00 beta 20 is here.
grab it at the usual place.
let me know how it goes!
austin
 
MULTI-MACHINE SETUPS:
 
For multi-machine setups, the external visuals now track location in
the cockpit if you move around with the arrow and page up/down keys
in control-o mode. This is kind of nice because you can move around
the cockpit while surrounded by many screens all giving you a wide
field of view!
 
IOS is now funtional without having to cycle the map window on and off.
 
Profile view in the map is a hair smarter on plotting, and can show
time or distance-based profile. As well, the aircraft icon now
appears on the glideslope on the map window as well.
 
Replay mode is now perfectly-controlla ble from instructor console.
 
For networked setups, set the rendering options in the IOS, and they
go out to the master and external visuals to keep everything in sync!
 
FLIGHT-MODEL REFINEMENTS:
 
Yet more tuning of the propeller/rotor model to rack real helos ever-
more-perfectly! A military helo pilot (Brett Sumpter) is flying every
X-Plane beta and feeding back info to get the rotor effects just
perfect!
 
Rotor turbulence when passing through effective translational lift
(around 5 knots).
 
New parameter in Plane-Maker: Additonal gear flatplate area. Tune it
to get your gear drag just right, so the plane comes down at just the
right rate when the gear is deployed.
 
Custom landing gear constants operative, BUT YOU MUST OPEN AND RESAVE
ANY PLANE IN PLANE-MAKER that you have custom gear constants for.
 
More accurate hail, precip, and snow selection model. Hail is, in
actuality, formed by balls of ice forming at cold altitudes, falling
down into warmer altitudes, getting coated in rain, then being pushed
back UP into the cold altitudes by updrafts!!! At the colder
altitudes, the water on each ball of ice freezes... the ball of ie is
now bigger!!! The extra weight causes the ball of ice to fall down to
lower altitudes. At the lower altitudes, the rain from the
thunderstorm coats the ball of ice with more water, and the updrafts
push it right back up into the freezing levels again! This water
freezes and now the hailstone is bigger yet again! This process can
go on and on... the greater the updrafts, the greater the rain, and
the greater the temperatue differential, the bigger the hailstones! X-
Plane now understands all of this, and the hail model has been
updated as a result to consider all of this.
 
Bodies on the plane that move with gear, control surfaces, etc,
interact with the ground and water as they move.
 
GENERAL TWEAKS:
 
The logbook should not record time when paused.
 
Altitude is more carefully defined for the 3 mile and 10 mile
approaches to put you at a 3 degree glideslope on short final, below
that on long final to give you time to configure for glideslope
intercept.
 
Landing gear warning now activates if the gear is not PHYSICALLY
down... whether the HANDLE is down or not! In other words, if you
lower the HANDLE, but the gear has failed UP, then you ARE going to
get a warning. This is as in reality for most planes that I know of.
 
Quicktime movie now records movies in SIMULATED time rather than REAL
time, so even if things get a bit slow during the Quicktime RECORD,
they still play back in proper simulated speed.
 
New commands for all the various de-icing sub-systems. Nice if you
are building a big sim with plenty of buttons and switches in it to
control de-icing states!
 
Other planes fly at a much nicer speed for formation flying.
 
New option in the SYSTEMS window in Plane-Maker. .. 'TOGA disconnects
autopilot servos'... hit this and if you hit the TOGA autopilot
joystick button then the servos will disconnect and you will fly
manually. Some planes are like this in reality, some not.
 
Turboprops now have redline come down with Mach limit on the EFIS tapes.
 
Chute visible in replay regardless of how many times you deployed and
ejected it.
 
Plane-Maker panel import: Will only import the 2-D panel in the 2-D
panel window, and ditto in the 3-D panel.
 
Glideslopes still works after situation load.
 
Various frame-rate improvements, and robustness improvements to keep
various odd inputs from crashing the sim. ATI fixed their drivers for
Linux, so you can use ATI cards on Linux now. (Though latest NVIDIA
on Windows is still the highest-performance choice, I think)

X-Plane 9.00 beta 21 is here!
The usual URL!
Have at it!
 
austin
 
 
 
 
 
New For X-Plane 9.00 Beta-21 since Beta-20:
 
In Plane-Maker, I have now labelled the 'invisible parts' screen  
wheel fairings to include the wheels themselves as well. This lets  
you build custom landing gear properly: By hiding the gear here and  
making a custom OBJ, not by making the tire out of a clear texture  
that messes up the rendering a bit, as authors have been doing.
 
Default texture coordinates for the misc wings and bodis are now set  
to not overlap... they overlapped a tiny bit for the last 10 years,  
and this was only noticed for the first time last week.
 
Proper avionics fan back in there... the gyro sound we had in beta-19  
was too loud and annoying.
 
Engine power round gages with digital tapes built in now use 4  
digits, not 3. Engine power digital limits section in Pane-Maker now  
allows 4 digits of entry, not 3.
 
New instruments: Autopilot pitch and roll over-ride. Hit these trim-  
like buttons, and the autopilot will drop OUT of whatever mode it is  
in, and into PITCH and ROLL modes, whith your dragging these buttons  
scrolling the pitch and roll targets around.
 
Variable dihedral, incidence, and wing-retraction now stored in  
replay-mode... let me know if they do not work for you properly.
 
QuickTime movie recording operational.
 
Avionics fan that does not sound like a swarm of bees in the cockpit  
crawling into your sinus cavity and up into the space behind your  
eyeballs, like the one for beta-20 did. (Sorry. It was an experiment.  
The old turn coordinators really did sound that way, but just not so  
loud).
 
TONS of joystick buttons and devices and axis now available, I  
believe. TONS.

De :  
Javier Cortés <xxxxx@gmail.com>
Date :  
Aujourd'hui 01:01:49
 
:
:
Hello,
 
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Many Many Hours of development and Test with the most populars Airliners.
 
Please Visit my Web site to Download the User Manual.
 
Before Installing and using, MOVE any FJCC plugin from the Flugin folder and PLEASE READ CAREFULLY THE USER MANUAL.
 
As Usual, I will support any of your questions as soon as possible
 
Thank you very much

X-Plane 9 beta 22 here mac, windows, and linux.

http://www.x-plane.com/beta.html

New stuff is all about the FAA-certified flight-training market for
PFC (www.flypfc. com)

austin

New For X-Plane 9.00 Beta-22 since Beta-21:

Complete new electrical system model.
In Plane-Maker: You can now set the bus and amperage of many
electrical systems, to get your plane's electrical system just right!
As well, set the actual watt-hours of the battery in the SYSTEMS
window in Plane-Maker. So now you can now get every amp of every
system set just right for your plane, and each system on the right
bus, so you draw just the right power from the generators or buses,
and lose just the right systems when buses go down, after electrical
failures. It's in the SYSTEMS window in the DEFAULT menu in Plane-Maker.

Ton of new failures, including new category: Circuit breakers.
If anyone wonders why I am still adding so many new features in what
is SUPPOSED to be a BETA program, I am doing a lot of work with FAA-
Certified full-simulator- installation companies now (especially PFC,
but also others) and I am loading them up with serious flight-
training features to meet their demanding time-lines.. . whether I am
in the middle of a beta-program or not.

No more erroneous oil temperature annunciators, as used to come up in
some of the jets if they idled on the ground for a long time.

GA DME-all now shows distance when in remote mode.

Arrows and joystick-button movement in the 3-D cockpit work a bit
better... they always move you around in the way expected, no matter
what direction you are looking.

New joystick/keyboard commands: Prop sync on, off, toggle. Avionics
off/on as well.

With the external visuals, now you can zoom way in and the lateral
offsets are automatically scaled with the zoom so that the image is
still coherent across all the visuals no matter the zoom! This is
especially noticeable in maybe a 3 or 5-screen external-visual system
when you hint control-o to look around the cockpit, then look all
around with the mouse after hitting the + key a few times to zoom in.

Turbulence effects tuned down quite a bit.

Signifigantly- improved terrain-following radar autopilot mode.

X-Plane 9.00 beta 23 is here!
 
http://www.x- plane.com/ beta.html
 
Pulling the engine fire extinguisher should shut down the engine.
Visibility not automatically pulled down when you command thunderstorms.
Side views should not scroll to default when q/e 'ing to different
views.
Shutting down HUD shuts down ONLY the HUD, not everything. ;-)
Rotor ground effect and wind and turbulence effects all tuned down a
good bit.
No annunciator lights if no electrical system available to power the
airplane.
Terrain-following radar now follows the altitude entered into the
decision-hight of the radio altimeter, if you have one. (It shoots
for 200 feet, otherwise).
Refined Garmin 296, 396, 496, f30, and g1000 driving.
Floatplane dynamics improved a hair: You may have noticed that the
floatplanes floated sort of nose-high in the last few betas, but they
should be back to their prop attitude in the water now.