1 hour ago, Franz007 said:

At the same time of course, they cannot please everyone and I am fully aware of tha

They are the ones you hear the most from on Forums. Wheter you like it or not ATC has bing a thorn in there side for years. as is multiplayer. This wont happen untill they get there networking improved which they now have someone dedicated to addressing. This would work well if you could have user ATC like we did in FSX. dont want perfection, dont need it. wont happen anyway.

8 hours ago, jcomm said:

Ok Murmur, you've done it !  I'm giving XP12 a new try...

Another thing you should appreciate, improvements in magnetic variation and modeling of magnetic dip:

https://www.x-plane.com/kb/x-plane-12-08-release-notes/#Magnetic_Compass_and_Friends

7 hours ago, Murmur said:

Another thing you should appreciate, improvements in magnetic variation and modeling of magnetic dip:

https://www.x-plane.com/kb/x-plane-12-08-release-notes/#Magnetic_Compass_and_Friends

Indeed interesting.

Some moons ago I tried to motivate Austin to it, as you probably remember... I was unsuccessful back then. Glad things changed and XP12 is now even more detailed in aspects that are surely NOT SECONDARY to FLIGHT SIMULATION.

I downloaded the 12.08 beta, picked my preferred Boeing airliner for XP12 ( FF 757 ), an helicopter ( VSkyLabs R66 ) and the VSkyLabs DC-3. Took the 3 for short hops around LPPT, Real World Weather (XP12 default), but so far I wasn't able to properly test the new wheel physics.

Now stuff like the new turbine modelling, as well as the "Magnetic Compass and Friends" added features and details, really requires a careful test, and I will try to find the time for it !

 

Nice watching the NDB and VOR needles hunting around as they come into range. Love these refinements.

On 11/9/2023 at 9:22 PM, Murmur said:

In theory, I think the new feature should be 100% retrocompatible. It is only of interest for supersonic aircraft, in any case.

If anything, this new feature would allow greater accuracy throughout the flight envelope, for those who want to modify old aircraft to take advantage of it. If not, they should just fly in 12.0.8 as they already did before.

Well, yes. I assume that X-Plane uses semi-sane defaults if nothing is set in the ACF and PlaneMaker reminds you to set the parameter when opening a pre-12.0.8 ACF file. And if one is totally lost, there now is a "Huh??" button that links to Austin's corresponding educational Youtube video. Still, changes that affect a substantial part of the flight envelope always make me anxious as testing their effect in X-Plane is a royal PITA, especially if one finds that some tweaking is indeed in order. And there is always the point of finding a source with usable real-world reference data...

(Regardless, thanks anyway. Since you now have a hot wire to Austin, can you ask for a performance calculator in PlaneMaker that computes overall lift, thrust and drag with speed, altitude and throttle as input?)

48 minutes ago, Bjoern said:

performance calculator in PlaneMaker

The most frustrating thing about this is that it's now buried in the sim as of this beta. For internal use. You're not the first to want this. I'm surprised he hasn't opened something like this up to devs a long time ago. My bet is that he's probably thinking "let them make plugins..."