Austin Meyers, the author of X-plane, reports that he released a new Beta Version of his program; X-plane 9.20 Beta 2. More information can be obtained here. According to Austin the ‘new’ stuff consists mostly of ‘boring bug-fixes’ and he’s provided a list below.
- slightly-improved manifold-pressure model, based on flight-test in 842x.
- certain plugins that did illegal things and now crash the sim, um, don’t.
- contrails properly lit at night.
- real-weather working at all times… not just 10Z to 23Z
- no more erroneous master cautions from turning on your de-ice systems
- multiplayers can fly in diff time zones with accurate zulu-time consistency!
- waypoint distance EFIS display working
- fms shows name of selected fix
- even fuel burn from both tanks in cessna 172
- fms lets you enter the enroute alt
- little red flag thingy comes up on the turn-coordinator when the power goes out
- Linux build won’t crash on startup due to missing resources.
- Benedikt’s x737 plugin won’t crash on startup.
- Cloud puffs are not bright at night.
- Linux won’t crash with complex forests (first attempt to fix this).
- Ghost lines around glass EFIS at large resolution are fixed.
- Sim works on case sensitive HFS file systems again.
- several instruments were not drawn properly when scaled in plane-
- maker.. should be ok now
- EFIS ‘pie’ instruments show now
- no more duplicate engine markings on the old-style panels
