FlightGear 0.9.6 Released

A new version of the open source flight simulator, FlightGear 0.9.6, is now available. FlightGear being open source means that the am of the project is to create a sophisticated flight simulator framework for use in research or academic environments, for the development and pursuit of other interesting flight simulation ideas, and as an end-user application. We are developing a sophisticated, open simulation framework that can be expanded and improved upon by anyone interested in contributing. Interested? Visit the site and try it for yourself here. and find a list of the newest features by clicking on Read More.

• Added some initial support for "submodels" which can be used to impliment things like contrails, flares, tracers, etc.
• Make real world weather fetching a bit more robust and network friendly.
• Ensure the entire world is initially loaded before initializing the flight dynamics (avoids wildly varying frame rates at a time when the FDM might be trying to do various initialization steps that might benefit from consistent and fast frame rates.)
• Other various (and minor) code cleanups, tweaks, and fixes.
• Fixed ATIS voice file.
• Updated aircraft: A320, Bo-105, Comper Swift, Concorde, F16, Fokker-50, Fokker-100, Hunter, MD11, PC7, Spitfire, adjust C172 cockpit sound levels, and Sgs-233.
• Updated joystick configs: CH pro yoke usb, Cyborg Evo, Thrustmaster FCS.
• Fix a bug in the nasal fuel tank management code.
• Return Canadian ILS's to nav data.
• Cleaned up some of the 3d models around the bay area.
• Add support for display list based rendering which yields substantial performance gains for many systems.
• Synced with latest JSBSim code.
• Fixed a reference point bug in YASim.
• Revived the hi-res (tiled) screen shot code so you can again produce insanely and arbitrarily large resolution screen shots.
• Beefed up the tile pager so it can more sensibly handle insanely rapid motion.

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