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READ ME - Fly! Candidate Patch 4 (1.01.85 02/03/2000)
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Notice
This PATCH README.DOC is part of a distribution of what is being considered the FINAL CANDIDATE patch for the 1.0 retail version of Fly!. This means that this release is considered functionally complete for all issues considered for the 1.01 patch, and a final release version will be shortly following based on successful feedback of this patch. We do not expect any additional changes before designating a final 1.01 patch.
This version of Fly! supports ROGER WILCO(tm) and acknowledges the use of the ROGER WILCO(tm) technology.
Installation - Full Patch
Very Important: You must apply this patch to a clean, factory 1.0 install of the Fly! application. If you have applied previous patches, or any third party add-on scenery or aircraft, it is strongly recommended that you back up the Fly! directory, uninstall the Fly! directory, delete all files, and re-install Fly! from the original factory disks. Once installation and application of the 1.01.85 patch is complete and you have verified that Fly! is working properly, then and only then should you begin introducing add-on products back into the Fly! directories.
The 1.01RC4 patch has three distinct files as described below:
RunMe1st.exe - This executable is run first to prepare the Fly! patch installation and remove outdated files. It must be run on the factory 1.0 install of Fly!.
FlyPatch101RC4.exe - This is the mandatory portion of the patch. This updates the FLY.EXE file, as well as program databases and aircraft. You must run this patch tool to successfully install the 1.01.85 patch.
FlyPatch101RC3Optional.exe - This is an optional patch. This updates the global elevation mesh, as well as roads and rivers. If you typically fly in areas outside the satellite scenery areas, this should improve elevation changes such as mountain ranges.
Please follow the steps below in exact sequence for proper installation:
Re-install Fly! 1.0 from your retail CD-ROM's. Make sure you have moved or deleted any third party-add on products until AFTER the 1.01 patch has been applied.
Double-click the RunMe1st.exe file. This will cleanup and remove any outdated files. This must be run first before applying the main patch.
(2.1) RunMe1st will need to know where Fly! has been installed on your system. Click the "Locate" button to browse to and locate the FLY.EXE file on your system. Double-click the FLY.EXE file to select the current directory. You should see the complete path for Fly! displayed in the dialog.
(2.2) Click the "Prepare" button to perform cleanup and preparation for the 1.01.84 patch.
(2.3) Click the "Done" button to exit.
Double-click the patch tool named FlyPatch101RC4.exe. This will automatically update each of your factory files and .EXE to the new 1.01.85 version.
If desired, download and double-click the FlyPatch101RC3Optional.exe. This will update your global elevation mesh, roads, and river databases.
Once you have run the RunMe1st.exe program, it is now time to apply the patch itself. Double-click the file FlyPatch101RC4.exe. This will apply all changes since 1.00.73 to update your application to 1.01.85. This includes all previous patch fixes since the 1.00.73 retail release.
After the FlyPatch101RC4 tool has completed, if you chose to download the optional scenery patch, you should run it now. Double-click the FlyPatch101RC3Optional.exe file, and the generic scenery elevation mesh data, as well as road and river data, will be patched. If you have previously downloaded and installed FlyPatch101RC3Optional.exe you do not have to do this again.
That's it! You can confirm you are running the patched version by choosing About Fly! from the Help menu. From there, you should see the version 1.01.85, instead of the retail 1.00.73.
Beginning with the 1.00.75 version of the patch, a \HowTo directory will be created in your Fly! directory which contains Adobe .PDF format files documenting various systems in the aircraft of Fly! The contents of this directory will be expanded with each future update from Terminal Reality. Please refer to these .PDF files for additional information not covered in your owner's manual. You must have the latest version of the Adobe Acrobat Reader installed to view these files. This reader can be freely downloaded from http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html.
Installation - Patching version .84 to version .85
Very Important: You must apply this patch to the .84 patched version of Fly! If you do not already have the .84 patched version of Fly!, you need to download and install FlyPatch101RC4.EXE as described in the Full Patch installation section.
The patch from version .84 to .85 patch has two distinct files as described below:
FlyPatch84to85.exe This is the mandatory portion of the patch. This updates the FLY.EXE file and the patch101.epd file as well as a few other files. You must have patched version .84 installed before trying to apply this patch or the patch will fail. You must run this patch tool to successfully install the 1.01.85 patch.
FlyPatch101RC3Optional.exe This is an optional patch. This updates the global elevation mesh, as well as roads and rivers. If you typically fly in areas outside the satellite scenery areas, this should improve elevation changes such as mountain ranges. You must have a factory fresh install of the global elevation data for this patch to work. You can not patch the previous patched version of the global elevation data. If you downloaded and installed the RC3 optional data in the past, you do not need to apply this patch again.
Problems Fixed
This patch addresses the following issues:
02/03/2000 (1.01.85)
- VASI lights would sometimes draw incorrectly, or be intelligible, from a distance; fixed.
- A "random" crash bug would occur when checking for navaids signal strength in mid-flight; fixed.
- Some taxiways would not appear because airport ID's have been corrected in the master database; fixed.
- Airport diagrams would appear incorrectly under Windows 2000; fixed.
- Edit field text was not being processed correctly under Windows 2000, which would render certain dialogs such as the Airport Directory unusable; fixed.
- New keyboard commands were not appearing for localized versions of Fly!, which are required to access the Checklist window and IFR panel toggle functions; fixed.
- Importing METAR files could sometimes cause frame rate stuttering when transitioning from overcast to non-overcast weather conditions; fixed.
01/10/2000 (1.01.84)
- Hawker: EFIS would not properly display or track a VOR signal; fixed.
- Glideslope position was being improperly calculated for low runway end; fixed.
- Glideslope position would have discrepancies from visual position and CDI track, causing runway overshoot or landing well short of airport; fixed.
- A significant memory leak situation involving airport beacons and the sectional map window has been fixed.
- Roger Wilco support has been added to Fly!. User must set useRogerWilco=1 in the FLY.INI file to activate. This action will override the built-in LiveMic functionality and replace by using Roger Wilco instead.
- VASI textures were apparent or caused lockups with some cards; fixed.
- VCF file for the GeForce card would still list the card as DirectX6 compatible AGP. This now correctly reports the GeForce card.
- VCF files for the Savage4 card has been added.
12/13/99 (1.01.83)
* Aircraft landing lights looked incorrect under Direct3D. Fixed to slowly blend and fade into the scene.
* Aircraft lights on generic aircraft would sometimes fail to operate; fixed.
* Aircraft nose-down tendencies on flap deployment have been adjusted.
* Airport beacons would sometimes be placed partially underground; fixed.
* Airports: Some glideslopes would be improperly placed on the opposite end of the runway, making the touchdown position invalid. Fixed.
* ATI Rage 128 video cards would not work in 1024x768 mode; fixed.
* Canadian ILS data has been added to the navaid databases, courtesy of the efforts of Are Barstad. Thanks, Are!
* Due to popular demand, the airspeed and RPM indications have been brought back, this time in the form of a one-line aircraft "status" bar. Press the Status key (Tab by default) once for frame rate information, twice for position, date/time, and debug information, and a third time for single-line flight information.
* Fly Now scenarios will set the flight date to the current date on your computer's system clock, but will keep the time set as specified in the Fly Now scenario.
* Global elevation model had alignment problems in the northern hemisphere; fixed.
* Hawker: RMI page of Multi-Nav Display was not functioning properly; fixed.
* Logbook would not correctly handle time values when user manually adjust time forward or backwards; fixed.
* Logbook now correctly logs additional events, including gear events, landing aborted, cabin pressure and airspeed events, altitude and icing events, and others.
* Massachusetts incorrectly abbreviated as "MS"; changed to "MA".
* Navajo: taxi lights would shine through the gear door; fixed.
* Scenery model texture usage has been adjusted to help minimize the potential for the occurrence of severe frame rate drop, particularly at or below 4 frames per second. You must have the scenery area installed to your hard disk at patch time for this fix to take effect. If you choose, you can re-run the patch installation at any time you install factory scenery to your hard disk to apply this fix.
* VASI boxes would not properly draw on some video cards; fixed.
* Voodoo Banshee cards would incorrectly draw runways at a distance, causing various colors to be drawn. Fixed.
* USB devices, particularly keyboards and UPS systems, would cause Fly! to crash on launch; fixed.
11/23/99 (1.01.82)
NOTE: Changes to all factory aircraft have invalidated any saved scenarios you have. We apologize for this inconvenience.
- AI: Fixed problems which caused gear to be up at inappropriate times.
- AI: Fixed a bug that would cause copilot to "forget" to lower flaps and gear when landing.
- AI: Computer controlled aircraft now do better job at avoiding ground during approach in hills and mountains.
- AI: Computer aircraft lights would sometime fail to light, or would light at inappropriate times; fixed.
- Aircraft: Reduced wing icing drag to prevent planes from dropping out of the sky with the onset of icing conditions.
- Aircraft: Fixed error in ground effect routines which caused excessive aircraft "bouncing" when landing.
- Aircraft: Added verbose icing messages to give visual feedback to surface icing.
- Aircraft: Adjusted cargo/passenger locations to compensate for load sensitivities.
- Aircraft: History files (.HST) no longer propogate for computer controlled aircraft.
- Aircraft: Cockpit seat positions have been modified in all aircraft for accuracy.
- Aircraft: Added gear warning horn sound effects to Hawker and King Air.
- Aircraft: Added support for tail dragger aircraft, if any should be developed by 3rd parties.
- Aircraft: Increased acceptable mixture ratios in Skyhawk, Navajo, and Malibu to allow flying at higher altitudes with full rich mixture.
- Aircraft: Added DME mode state information to popup indication text (NAV1, NAV2, HOLD).
- Aircraft: Copilot ('Z' key) will follow the altitude and speed specified in the flight plan.
- Aircraft: DME systems now support Localizer-DME configurations (LOC/DME).
- Aircraft: Added altitude preselect and decision height warning sound effects.
- Aircraft: Added filter to Bank autopilot to reduce commanded roll acceleration.
- Aircraft: Fixed slant range rate and time calculation in DME equipment.
- Aircraft: Added filter to Speed autopilot command to calm the pitch reaction to a change in commanded speed in Hawker and King Air.
- Aircraft: Added gear and flap damage entries to the logbook.
- Runway and taxiway lights would disappear when taxi arrows were drawn on the ground; fixed.
* Aircraft: A checklist window ('K' key) has been added to allow the user to view and manually check the factory aircraft checklists if desired. These checklists do NOT auto-check if you use the 'E' key to start engines, but are simply offered to allow for procedural checklist support.
* Aircraft: Pressing the NAV button on the GPS would cause a hard crash; fixed.
- ATC: If cleared to land at an airport, but you then land at a different airport, the application would crash to the desktop; fixed.
- ATC: Popup window layout has been cleaned up; close box removed.
- ATIS: Will not report "wind gust to" when wind gust is 0 knots.
* ATIS: Wind heading now rounded to nearest 10 degrees.
* ATIS: European reports would not report in millibars when designated; fixed.
- Database: All airport, runway, navaid, and waypoint databases have been updated with published data as of October 1999.
- Database: New worldwide altitudes and ground type database, with higher density of sample points (optional download.)
- Hawker: Autopilot now correctly tracks speed bug when in Speed mode.
- Hawker: Fire test switches now correctly connected to fire annunciators and warning bell.
- Hawker: Speed and Climb modes in autopilot will now capture IAS or Mach.
- Hawker: out -of-sync thrust reversers when tires are bouncing on ground has been fixed.
- Hawker: Added numeric display to popup indications for all engine instruments.
- Hawker: AC voltage display has been fixed.
- Hawker: Overhead wiring and AC panel fixed and functional.
- Hawker: Slowed down landing speeds for auto-land/copilot.
- Hawker: Engine fire test buttons now work.
- Hawker: Added pitch moment due to flap to lower the nose during landings.
- Hawker: Cargo loads adjusted to correct right turn weight imbalance.
- Hawker: Anti-icing systems have been fixed, including wing drip system.
- Hawker: Ext. 1 and Ext. 2 Fire lights now light when extinguisher is used.
- Hawker: AC power annunciators added for AC and Inverter annunciator panel.
- Hawker: Some of the momentary autopilot switches would fail to trigger command; fixed.
- Hawker: Engines would sometimes fail to start because electrical system was not ready; a slight delay has been added which fixes this problem.
* Hawker: Added fire warning bell sound effects.
* Hawker: Anti-ice timer was not functioning properly; fixed.
- King Air: Tempature control modes relabeled from "Main" to "Manual"
- King Air: Added numeric display to popup indications for all engine instruments.
- King Air: Auxilary fuel tanks are used first (if fueled), then main tanks.
- King Air: RMI gauge now correctly uses NAV2 for second arrow. ADF1 can also now be set on second arrow, allowing NAV1/ADF1 usage simultaneously.
- King Air: Changed the idle position for the power conditioners to agree with the visuals.
- King Air: Added inverter switches to checklists.
- King Air: Weather radar mode knob and gyro slaving gauge were not properly lit at night; fixed.
- King Air: Digital chronometer added to primary cockpit panel.
- King Air: Fuel cutoff covered switches now function as expected.
* King Air: Added autopilot mode "buttons" to autopilot annunciator panel, allowing an alternative way of activating autopilot modes without having to switch to the cockpit view containing the autopilot console.
* King Air: Avionics now dependent on inverters.
- Macintosh: Fixed audio recording in digital clock gauge in Malibu.
- Macintosh: Fixed keyboard lockout bug.
- Macintosh: Fixed erractic mouse.
- Malibu: Increased the prop governing range, decreased the keyboard sensitivity when adjusting prop controls (1% per keypress).
- Malibu: Digital engine monitor system now can display outside air temperature (OAT) by pressing "Pwr" button. OAT will continue to display until any other engine monitor button is pressed.
- Malibu: Digital engine monitor system can now be blanked by pressing "Blk" button. Blanking will continue until any other engine monitor button is pressed.
- Malibu: Gyro sound effects volume lowered.
- Malibu: Missing overhead panel switches now functional.
- Multiplayer: LiveMic is now functional within multiplayer.
* Multiplayer: Aircraft lights would fail to display on remote machines when activated; fixed.
* Multiplayer: Packet processing bug made it appear that packets were lost in transmission; fixed.
- Navajo: Fuel crossfeed has been corrected when a tank is put in the "off" position.
- Navajo: Increased the prop governing range, decreased the keyboard sensitivity when adjusting prop controls (1% per keypress).
- Navajo: Call plate sign added to cockpit panel artwork.
- Navajo: Added an AOA limit to the vertical speed autopilot mode to prevent stall oscillation at high altitudes.
- Navajo: Prop De-Ice switch now functions properly.
- Scenery: Scenery models would not correctly load for areas between 9 degrees south latitude to 9 degrees north lattitude; fixed.
- Scenery: Ground and building night lights would not always draw; fixed.
* Scenery: If visible unique ground textures exceeded available texture slots on 3D accellerator, frame rates would crater to 4fps. This has been fixed by temporarily not allowing 5m detailed tiles to draw until the number of total unique textures in the scene goes below the number of slots available.
* Scenery: Large elevation drop at the south end of DFW Airport has been fixed.
- Scenery: Detailed ground tiles (5m) no longer draw out to the horizon, which was causing stuttering and texture cache problems.
- Scenery: Building night lights were incorrect shape; now perfect circles.
* Scenery: Generic radio tower and pole models have been replaced with better looking models, now with working lights! NO MORE OIL DERRICKS!!!
* Scenery: Airport beacons now added for all airports in generic scenery areas by default.
- Scenery: New sun and lens flare artwork.
- Simulation: Fixed bug which could cause instantaneous relocation of the user aircraft mid-flight. This mostly affected Macintosh users, but could occur with PC users at a much lower frequency.
- Skyhawk: Parking brake would not "remember" it's position when switching between cockpit panel views; fixed.
* Skyhawk: Added fuel pump sound effects.
- UI: Restoring a user defined camera position in cockpit view would place the eye at ground level; fixed.
- UI: Flight Planner now correctly calculates effective speed and altitude.
- UI: Airport Info dialogs now correctly use effective speed and altitude.
- UI: Fixed a save/restore bug when saving crossfeed fuel valve setting.
- UI: In Vector Map, if statute miles was selected as measurement units, data still displayed in nautical miles; fixed.
* UI: Airport Information window will no longer display frequencies that are not tuneable by the installed aircraft equipment.
* UI: Flight plan would fail to print on some printers, particularly under Windows 95. Fixed.
- Advanced Users: Fly! will now attempt to auto-mount .EPD files from a directory named "Taxiways"; scenery designers should request users to place .EPD files in this location.
* Advanced Users: Added "loadDefaultSceneryModels" variable in [Simulation] section of .INI file to control if radio antenna's and airport beacons are automatically inserted into the generic scenery. Set =0 to disable, =1 to enable radio towers only, =2 to enable airport beacons only, or =3 to enable both radio towers and airport beacons.
* Advanced Users: Fog color can be manually set by setting the following values in the [Graphics] section of the .INI file: fogConstantR, fogConstantG, fogConstantB. Default values are R=192, G=218, B=234.
10/07/99 (1.00.78)
NOTE: New keys have been added to the product. Any customizations you have made to the DEFAULT.KEY file will be lost.
- 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee and Voodoo 3 series cards displayed multi-colored runways. Fixed.
- Abort Autoland Key (Shift+Z) was not terminating all autoland assistance; fixed.
- Access Violations which occurred when exiting and re-entering the simulation (either through Flight Planner or loading new Fly Now scenarios) have been fixed.
- Access Violations which occurred when viewing an overhead cockpit panel, then attempting to access ATC or Auto-Tune menu (~ key) have been fixed.
- Added Icing message announcement in-flight when icing is occuring. Message can be disabled by setting the enableIcingMessage=0 in the FLY.INI file ([SIM] section).
- AI: Computer controlled aircraft can now correctly follow (and repeat) a flight plan.
- AI: Computer planes landing VFR were missing the handoff from Ground Control; fixed.
- AI: Taxiing to parking was not working when no taxiway data available; fixed.
- AI: Touchdown points at many airports were incorrect; fixed.
- All Aircraft: Flap sounds could be heard even if flaps did not have power; fixed.
- All Aircraft: Default cockpit panel positions have been updated.
- ATC: Fixed bug where some ATC service types were not correctly identified. A symptom was that Phoenix didn't have Approach Control because it was a shared frequency with another ATC service.
- ATC: New worldwide Center database now available. This corrects serious gaps and missing coverage in most parts of the world, including major areas of the United States. This fix should address most ATC handoff issues.
- ATC: Sound checkbox in Sound dialog was not being detected; fixed.
- ATC: "Descend and Maintain zero feet" bug has been fixed.
- ATIS: Previous patch broke the number 9 in ATIS reports (i.e. "29.92" would be reported as "2.2".) Fixed.
- Autopilot Sync Button now supported (assign in Controls; unassigned by default). Press and hold to activiate; it will reset in 0.31 seconds after release. When Sync is activated, it disables the elevator AP modes as well as the auto-trim function. This enables the pilot to have full control of elevator without fighting the AP (if lateral modes are engaged, they remain engaged.) After releasing the Sync key (if preceded by pitch hold mode), then the current pitch attitude becomes the AP pitch command. After releasing the Sync key (if preceded by vertical rate hold mode), then the current vertical rate becomes the AP vertical rate command.
- Autopilots: Added Roll Rate FB to Bank AP Mode to damp out roll oscillations.
- Auto-takeoff: If further than 5nm from a runway, activating auto-takeoff would place the plane 2000 ft above it's current altitude. Now, if you select Auto-takeoff and are further away than 5nm from the nearest runway, the message "Too far from any known runway" will appear, and the aircraft will remain on the ground.
- COM and NAV radios would incorrectly "roll" the whole portion of the digits when changing the fractional frequency. This allowed the radio to attempt to tune outside of it's operating range. Fixed.
- GPS: GPS is now capable of tracking all waypoint types set in Flight Planner.
- GPS: Reduced the number of possible unidentified waypoints ('???') that appear in the GPS flight planner pages.
- GPS: The GPS will now calculate a proper course between unidentified waypoints (shown as '???' in GPS).
- GPS: HOWTO-KLN89GPS.PDF document to the \HowTo directory. This can be viewed and printed with the Adobe Acrobat viewer 3.0 or higher.
- Ground type of taxiways is now concrete instead of dirt.
- Hawker: Air Dump Valve was backwards; fixed.
- Hawker: Autopilot would not always engage when selected under valid conditions; fixed.
- Hawker: Fast/Slow (FOS) meter was extremely sensitive and had much too narrow of a speed range to be useable; fixed.
- Hawker: Flaps setting switch now remembers it's position when switching between cockpit views.
- Hawker: FMS NAV page now clips long waypoint names to the screen.
- Hawker: FMS state is now saved and restored.
- Hawker: IAS bug can now be set by using the V-speed setting knob. To set the IAS bug, turn the V-speed setting know without first selecting a V-speed. The knob, by default, changes the IAS knob unless a V-speed bug is selected.
- Hawker: Right Navigation Source Selector is used to select NAV or FMS as the source. This was incorrectly the left selector; fixed.
- Hawker: The IAS Bug is updated when in CLIMB Mode or SPEED Mode.
- Hawker: The Lateral Modes (NAV,APR) with either (WPT|LOC) selected have a Heading Hold Submode. (dial AP Hdg Bug to intercept course)
- Hawker: The Radial Indicator is slaved to the Segment (FMS Mode) or Approach Heading (LOC Mode) otherwise it can be selected (VOR mode)
- Hawker: V-speed bugs can now be set correctly; fixed.
- Hawker: Thrust reversers could be deployed without weight on wheels; fixed.
- Hawker: Autopilot lateral modes now displayed on PFD. Announcements are:
+ ROLL - roll mode aka wing leveler.
+ HDG - heading hold, follows the AP Heading Bug.
+ FHDG - FMS Heading Submode; same as HDG but the nav source is the FMS.
+ VOR1 - when the Tuned Navaid is a VOR. Performs radial steering.
+ LOC1 - when the Tuned Navaid is a LOC. Performs radial steering.
+ FWPT - when Nav source is the FMS. Performs segment (leg) steering.
- Hawker: Autopilot vertical modes now displayed on PFD. Announcements are:
+ GS - Glideslope captured (green) armed (white) cancels all other vertical modes
+ VS - Vertical Speed Hold
+ LCLM - Low Climb Profile. Select CLIMB Mode and toggle profiles using the Perform Select Moding Button
+ MCLM - Medium Climb Profile.
+ HCLM - High Climb Profile.
+ ALT - Altitude Hold. When activated, captures the current Indicated Altitude.
+ ALTS - Altitude Select Armed. Activated when dialing the Selected Altitude.
+ ALTS CAP - Altitude Select Capture. Auto-activates then transitions to ALT mode and hold Selected Altitude.
+ VNAV - Vertical Navigation. Once captured (use any other vertical mode to set vertical intercept) it follows the Flight Planned Altitude Profile.
+ DES 1000 - Descends at 1000 fpm.
+ IAS - when activated by pressing SPEED button, it sets the AP Speed Bug on the PFD and pitches the aircraft to maintain the indicated airspeed. You must adjust throttle to acheive the speed.
+ MACH - second SPEED mode, press the Perform Select button to toggle from IAS to MACH.
- HSI course setting could not be correctly set when switching from NAV to GPS slaving; fixed (affected Skyhawk, Navajo, Malibu).
- If attempting to start or fly in the area of any airport with the identifier of COM, CON, LPT, or PRN, Fly! would crash. This is due to a legacy DOS bug in Windows; fixed.
- Inclinometer ball has been tweaked.
- INI: Added percentOfWindOnGround setting. Set =0 to get default values. Set =1 to get 1% of weather reported windspeed. Set =100 to get 100% of weather reported windspeed.
- INI: You can set the variable limitTaxiwayPavementDistance=1 in the FLY.INI file ([Graphics] section) to limit taxiway drawing to areas immediately around the eye. This can improve frame rate, particularly at large airports with complex taxiways.
- Joystick: USB joysticks with a throttle axis were not being correctly identified under DirectX 6.1a or DirectX 7. Fixed.
- King Air: Props come to a stop more quickly when engines powered off.
- King Air: Starting sequence now displays proper N1 and Fuelflow.
- King Air: Voltmeters now correctly reflect the generator status.
- King Air: Frequency meter is now dependent on Inverter Switch and available power.
- King Air: More Primary panel switches and knobs now show state information in popup help.
- Macintosh: Fixed Flight Party bug which prevented connections to server.
- Malibu: Co-pilot airspeed did not match pilot airspeed; fixed.
- Malibu: ELT switch did not function properly; fixed.
- Malibu: Engine cutoff value removed from startup checklist animations.
- Malibu: Fuel now pumped from the correct tanks.
- Malibu: Popup help and status text added to numerous switches.
- Malibu: Slave/Free gyro controls were backwards; fixed.
- Malibu: Trim indicator and wheel now operate in the correct direction. Up/Down labels were reversed; fixed.
- Memory leaks were occuring when using ATC and/or dynamic scenery; fixed.
- NAV radios: Eliminate false signal lock when tuning a radio. This bug made it appear that you had a valid VOR or ILS signal, when none was present; fixed.
- NAV radios: Tuning ranges for Terminal, Low, and high VOR's, NDB's, and localizer/GS have been tweaked.
- Navajo: Fuel Pressure gauge was being displayed as Fuel Flow gauge. Output now correct, and displayed in psi instead of gph. Fixed.
- Navajo: Left and right alternator switches (pilot console) now function properly.
- Navajo: Manifold Pressure and RPM gauges now use new needles to identify left and right needles.
- Navajo: NAV lights switch could not be turned off; fixed.
- Navajo: Radar altimeter now displays altitude bug setting in popup help.
- Navajo: Some overhead switches were missing sound effects and help text; fixed.
- Navajo: Sound effects added for manual air and alternate static air knob.
- Reference arrow added to attitude indicator overlay (Navajo, Malibu, and King Air affected).
- Right jet engine would not audibly spool up correctly at startup; fixed (Hawker and King Air affected).
- S3 Savage4: Fixed ground "whiteout" drawing problems.
- Skyhawk: Sound effects added for cabin air, cabin heat,and alternate static air knob.
- Skyhawk: Trim indicator and wheel now operate in correct direction.
- Sound: New morse code identifiers sounds, which playback at a slower pace.
- Sound: Tire screech sounds and crash sound volumes slightly reduced.
- Transponder would not accept digit inputs if not allowed to "time out", such as entering digits and switching unit to ON or ALT quickly. This caused ATC to not recognize that the transponder code had been correctly set. Fixed.
- UI: Added progressive delay for search fields and menus.
- UI: Airport Dialog would not always match airports by name; fixed.
- Vector Map: Aircraft identifiers now highlight when an aircraft is selected.
- Vector Map: Runway numbers now come into view sooner.
- Vector Map: You can disable the compass plate fading by setting vectorWindowCompassPlateFadeState=0 in the FLY.INI file ([VectorWindow] section).
- Voltmeter and Ammeter now shows proper values when running on battery (King Air and Navajo affected).
- Weather Radar: Navaid overlay now rotates relative to the aircraft heading.
9/08/99 (1.00.77)
NOTE: Changes to the Hawker and King Air will invalidate any saved scenarios you have for these two aircraft.
- After restoring a scenario, if the plane was switched before entering the simulation, the aircraft could "leap" into the sky; fixed.
- All aircraft: magnetic compass display reversed in cockpit artwork; fixed.
- Skyhawk, Navajo, Malibu: Kollsman knob in mini-panel not functioning; fixed.
- Skyhawk: Pitch sensitivity has been re-tuned for better control and response.
- Skyhawk: Tachometer was showing Hobbs meter reading, not tach timer; fixed.
- Malibu: High altitude/low speed autopilot induced oscillation in pitch and roll; fixed.
- Malibu: 135 and 180 degree interior views had incorrect perspective; fixed.
- Malibu: Cabin pressurization normal/dump switch was reversed; fixed.
- Malibu: Overhead switch tool tips now show current switch state.
- Navajo: 270 degree interior view had poor wing perspective; fixed.
- King Air: Cabin pressurization system not functioning; fixed.
- King Air: Magnetic compass not functioning in overhead or mini-panel displays; fixed.
- Hawker: Autopilot can now be engaged to track flight plan in FMS via waypoint mode in EFIS. Place EFIS in WPT mode (left hand pilot EFIS selection knob), then select NAV from Autopilot system.
- Hawker: FMS course indications were inverted, and true instead of magnetic heading. Changed to magnetic heading and course corrected.
- Hawker: FMS NAV Page 1 now functional.
- Hawker: Transponder radios showed incorrect status display, and reacted incorrectly to ATC Standby button; fixed.
- Hawker: V-speed bugs could be set to out of range values; fixed.
- All aircraft: adjusted time constants for inputs on elevator, ailerons, and rudder. This should allow for smoother control input from keyboard and joystick.
- Trim keys have been added for elevator and ailerons; they are not assigned by default, but can be set in the Control option dialog.
- Joystick control exponential/keyboard trim sensitivity found under Options-Aircraft dialog now saves and restores settings on a per aircraft basis.
- Flight planner: Aircraft cruise speed populated into segment speed if no speed is specified by user.
- Flight planner: Copy user defined waypoint names when cloning a waypoint.
- Flight planner: Added default names for user defined waypoints.
- Flight planner: Layover times incorrectly added to airports not scheduled for landing; fixed.
- Flight planner: when using Large Fonts in Windows, text would not display in speed/altitude entry fields; fixed.
- Environment: Corrected handling of wind speed units. Winds now shown in knots.
- Airport Info/Flight Plan: Frequency listings now consistent with in-sim airport information dialogs.
- UI: Added 8-bit video depth warning dialog.
- Flight Party: User could inadvertantly attempt to join a session when already connected to another, causing connection problems. Fixed.
- Vector map: border not displayed unless mouse in window and window is active.
- Vector map: you can now click on an airplane in the window to switch your camera view to that airplane.
- Vector map: Runway end identifiers come into view sooner.
- Activation of pilot controlled lighting through Backspace key was sporadic; fixed.
- Added a new .VCF file to support new video cards based on the nVidia TNT2 chipset.
- TRIDX6.DLL: solid polygon opacity bug; fixed.
8/19/99 (1.00.76)
- Airports could "disappear" when entering or restarting flight scenarios; fixed.
- METAR data would not immediately be updated or interpolated correctly; fixed.
- Bendix/King KX155 would not allow direct input of the digital OBS value; fixed.
8/18/99 (1.00.76)
- Mixture and throttle keys/buttons would sometimes stop responding, requiring a restart; fixed.
- Camera and cockpit keys would sometimes stop responding, requiring cycling of the camera with the 'C' key; fixed.
- Keyboard rudder keys would not respond if no joystick was connected, preventing independent rudder use by keyboard only users; fixed.
- If tuned to a localizer/glideslope, and then the aircraft is flown to high or low along the glideslope, or too wide for the localizer beam, the localizer would be dropped, forcing a retune to re-establish a signal; fixed.
- Hobbs and Tach Timer are now saved and restored properly for each aircraft.
- Obstructions in generic scenery areas are now not placed on airport property, preventing possible taxiway or runway blockage.
- Bendix/King KX155 now has correct functionality for OBS, TO, FROM, and Timer modes.
- Bendix/King KX155 now has correct functionality for COM channel programming modes.
- Bendix/King KX155 flight timer now begins counting only have power is available.
- COM radio maximum tuning range corrected from 135.95MHz to 136.975MHz.
- When attempting to tune a navaid that is outside of the radio tuneable range, the aircraft would only re-check for a valid signal after many miles of flight. This re-check distance has been reduced to 1 nautical mile to allow earlier pick-up of the signal.
- METAR: Dewpoint must be less than the temperature to be considered valid when creating ATIS reports.
- METAR: Wind speed and wind gust speed now interpolated correctly.
- METAR: International METAR files now parse visibility values correctly.
- METAR: Rain now appears visually where expected; i.e. you must be directly under a scattered cloud, and rain now disappears under structures (bridges)
- METAR: Rain sound no longer occurs when there is no rain visible.
- METAR: Memory requirements for parsing large METAR files reduced significantly.
- ATC: Traffic reports now contain the correct altitude.
- ATC: [Note: advanced users only!] Users can now specify which of the pilot speakers they want to be by modifying the speakers.txt file. Replace the word "pilot" with "user" for a speaker to select that speaker. Computer pilots will not use the voice selected.
- ATC: [Note: advanced users only!] Users can enable or disable the scrolling text ATC/ATIS messages by editing the [ATC] section of the FLY.INI file. Set the value of showATCScrollingText=0 for no scrolling text windows, or showATCScrollingText=1 to enable scrolling text messages.
- Logbook: Bug where non-log book events were being recorded; fixed.
- Logbook: Bug where resume events would not display the start time; fixed.
- Logbook: Duration calculation was not saved to logbook; fixed.
- UI: Fixed possible crash bug Fly! is launched while another instance is still active.
- Cessna 172: Wing tank locations were reversed; fixed.
- Hawker 800XP: Wing tank locations were reversed; fixed.
- Hawker 800XP: Co-pilot course and bearing EFIS knobs now functional.
- Flight Planner: Printout sheet used incorrect magnetic variation correction; fixed.
- Flight Planner: Allow speed and altitude entry in waypoint details dialog
- Flight Planner: Allow double-click to edit a waypoint
- Flight Planner: Airport information windows and flight plan printouts failed to list airport comm frequencies; fixed.
- When using a dual-throttle input device with a single engine aircraft, throttles would not respond; fixed.
- Battery drain times have been extended on all aircraft.
- Decreased the gyro drift rate on all aircraft.
- Directional gyro now defaults to the present aircraft heading upon entering the sim when starting a new flight.
- Inclinometer has been adjusted to be less sensitive, and move in the proper direction.
8/11/99 (1.00.75)
- Reversed CDI needles in the Cessna 172R.
- Reversed HSI localizer and glideslope needles in the Navajo, Malibu, and KingAir.
- Reversed localizer and glideslope needles in the Hawker EFIS systems.
- Missing deviation needle in the LOC modes of the Hawker multi nav display (MND)
- Cloud layer information now correctly parsed from METAR files.
- Handoff frequency to Center was actually Depature; fixed.
- Multicom name was not shown from ATC selection menu;fixed;
- Clearance delivery no longer enforces ATIS when ATIS does not exist.
- Green/purple cloud color overtones greatly improved for 16-bit video cards.
- Transponder mode knob correctly lit in night modes.
Support
For product technical support, you can first check the official Fly! website at
http://www.iflytri.com for the latest updates, hints, tips, and discussion groups. You can also send questions by e-mail to
support@godgames.com.
If you prefer to speak to someone in person, you can reach our tech support staff at (214) 303-1202. Hours of operation are seven days a week from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Central Time.
If you prefer to send U.S. mail correspondence, please mail to:
Gathering Of Developers
P.O. Box 565032
Dallas, TX 75356
Attn: Technical Support
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Fly! 1.01 Candidate Patch 4
1.01.85
02/03/2000
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