Latest Update: 2024/02/01

The below log shows all updates for this product since release:

Update 013024 (aka B8795)

- Applied alternate tropopause temperature handling to prevent out of range values causing crashing/issues with some aircraft including HotStart Challenger 650

- Fixed bug in previous turbulence changes causing excessive turbulence (translational forces) in some cases

Update 012624

- Adjusted snow coverage depiction to not display snow when surface temps are greater than 5C, to reduce snow depiction when lower snow depth data resolution/processes can indicate snow where it is not expected

- Added basic smoothing for snow depth (depth changes more slowly, over about 2 minutes minimum to maximum) – some instant terrain snow coverage shifts between certain levels are normal

Update 012524

- Attempted to fix problem with ground snow conditions persisting incorrectly, which caused snow where there should not be

- Adjusted conditions representation in all depiction modes for more intuitive weather conditions reporting

- Adjusted map to display proper variable weather instead of globalized current weather at infinite distances, regardless of depiction mode and XP12 connection status

- Adjusted turbulence effect based on feedback

- Reduced turbulence effects overall

- Fixed issue with excessive vertical force by up/downdraft, turbulence or thermals

Update 012324

- Changed ground snow control method, allowing proper runway friction depiction (per current conditions) regardless of snow depth – Also allows ground snow control during hybrid or passive weather control modes

- Added new Passive weather control mode, which uses XP12 live weather mode for weather depiction in the simulator, while all other AS features are enabled including weather reporting, planning, mapping, air effects, turbulence, ground snow control, etc. – Requires Live wx mode and overrides Hybrid wx mode when enabled

Update 012024

- Fixed issue with download failure detection and auto switchover to DataNet that would cause download failure if METARs failed from NOAA

- Added new experimental Control ground snow conditions feature/option, using GRIB snow depth data, forcing ground snow conditions (via runway_friction dataref) accordingly in XP12 when GRIB data indicates – This is defaulted ON – Use Map and hover over user aircraft, or the debug screen to see ground snow level information

- Tuned apparent visual snow depth based on snow depth level

- Updated documentation

Update 011024

- Fixed issue with temperatures forcing to 0C in some cases, causing invalid temperature simulation as well as potential flight stability issues

Update 010424

- Fixed issue related to historical downloads > 10 days on DataNet resulting in download failure

Update 010324

- Fixed issue with cumulus clouds creating precip always (related to SDK cloud types)

- Updated Navigraph data with AIRAC cycle 2210

- New hybrid HiFi DataNet and NOAA data download system that uses NOAA for current/live weather and within past 10 days of historical weather, and automatically switches source if previously attempted source fails

- Fixed issue with international sigmet parsing and recent Navigraph Data causing erroneous polygons for some FIR areas

- Improved data coverage and resolution (geographic and temporal aspects)

- Improved airmet/sigmet and storm processing accuracy

- Slightly reduced turbulence effect in general

- Reduced turbulence effect for light aircraft under 2000lbs

- Fixed issue with negative VV elements in METAR strings causing corrupt download issue

- UI Adjustments / fixes for toolbar background color in various pages/screens

- Added new user option (Sim Depiction Options): Disable XP12 temperature setting – This is useful for helicopters, as using the XP12 SDK is causing occasional crashing due to apparent bug with temp layer setting

- Updated documentation to reflect changes

Note: When using NOAA downloads, download process may take longer than HiFi DataNet especially using historical mode, which may take 2-3 minutes on average.  See the Activity status message in the Status section (top right) of the main application home page.

Update 070223

- Improved smoothing of turbulence effect when transitioning into or out of turbulence events

- Fixed duplicate/extra overlay drop down menu and label in Map screen

- Attempted fix for occasional unexpected baro/altimeter issues especially when flying over mountainous terrain

- Attempted elimination of negative aircraft performance during turbulence events

- Reduced sharpness and amplitude of translational turbulence elements

The product download in your account is updated as and when updates are released, so if purchasing after any of the given dates your product will include all updates prior to that date.

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For guidance on downloading this update, please visit this FAQ.