Sky Dolly v0.14 (“Ethereal Embraer”) has just been released. This release focuses “on the big birds”, namely improved 3rd-party aircraft support.
Improvements
Control surfaces such as flaps, ailerons, rudders, elevators and spoilers should work better with 3rd-party aircraft such as the PMDG 737 and IniBuilds A310
Note that while there are also some improvements for the Fenix A320 the latest release 1.0.6 does not report some “simulation variables” as reliably as previous versions
Improved support for thrust levers, tailhooks and wing folding
Improved light switch support
Improved replay code for AI aircraft (“formation flight”), including animated ailerons, elevators and rudders, wing folding and tailhooks
New location categories, including improved CSV import & export with Little Navmap v2.8.8
Addon, Cabin, Carrier, History, Obstacle, Oil Platform, Settlement
When pausing recording the simulation is now also paused (“time to take a coffee, Capt’n!”)
“Repeat flaps” replay option removed (due to improved replay code)
Added new flight information simulation variables (dialog Flight → Conditions):
Surface condition (normal, wet, icy, snow)
On any runway
On parking spot
Increasing the replay speed now also increases the simulation rate (up to a maximum rate of 16x)
The simulation rate is a power of 2: 0.25, 0.5, 1.0, 2.0, 4.0, 8.0, 16.0 - the nearest simulation rate is chosen, given the current replay speed
Note: certain aircraft may reduce or even fix the simulation rate to 1.0 (for instance the Fenix A320)
Bug Fixes
Among some other small fixes a most annoying bug has finally been fixed:
Rudders, ailerons and elevators don’t “counteract” anymore for aircraft with “PID controllers”: they now move into the expected direction
For all details please refer to the complete CHANGELOG on github.com.
Sky Dolly is open source. The latest binaries are available at: