SU15 Flighting information & release notes

[MSFS 2020] Questions & Community Discussions
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Hello everyone.

The SU15 flighting version of the game is now available.

The SDK 0.24.0 and online flighting documentation are available.
https://docs.flightsimulator.com/flighting/html/Introduction/Release_Notes.htm

You can post in the Questions & Community Discussions section to discuss this new version and ask for more information, using the the new flighting_su15 tag.

A dedicated section has been created to report bugs:
Latest Flighting SU15 - Bug Reports topics - MSFS DevSupport (flightsimulator.com)

1.37.2.0 Game version release notes:
See information here

And now the preliminary SDK/DevMode release notes:

Developer mode changes

Aircraft Editor / CFG

[Fixed]

  • Several parameter configurations to avoid data corruption.

[Improved]

  • Renamed “Pause Lighting System” to “Disable Lighting System” for clarity in the user lights

Visual Effects Editor

[Fixed]

  • Crash when deleting a VisualEffect block then undoing it. The spawner tab of the Templates/Instances Debugger window now has a dropdown menu to select which effect to spawn if multipe are defined in a single file

SDK changes

WebAssembly

[Fixed]

  • Crash when moving a vfx spawned in world far from the player
  • Register and register issue on CommBus Extension
  • Issue with non ascii characters on path when building packages containing WASM
  • fsMapViewSetWeatherRadarRainColors always returns false even if it succeed
  • fsMapViewSet2DViewLatLong set lat/lat instead of lat/long

SimConnect

[Fixed]

  • Crash when updating a DataDefinition while requesting it
  • SimConnect Inspector’s DataDefinition is now updated if a DataDefintion is destroyed

[Improved]

  • DoneIo popup has been removed
  • AircraftLoaded system event is triggered later once the aircraft is loaded

Documentation

[Fixed]

  • Footer links to the DevSupport forum have been fixed.

[Added]

  • Initial World Hub​​​​​​​ documentation.

[Updated]

  • Environment variable documentation has now been relocated to the Programming APIs page.
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Hello @FlyingRaccoon,

Thanks for this, any chance to get an explanation about these configuration variables now available with SU15 and being used by the C172?

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I tried searching in the flighting documentation but there is nothing about them… we been waiting very keen on improving ground handling for our airplanes, so any help you guys can provide on these would be really appreciated.

I found about these thanks to the tip of another dev and the MSFS forums SU15 changelog:

  • Ground Contact Resolution Improvements
    • More accurate ground contact model.
    • Optional soft ground collision model for tires / flexible gears.
    • Enabled new soft gears on C172 and Cabri.
    • New high accuracy physics system to enable vibrations and micro movements.

But it is missing from the SDK release notes.

Best,
Raul

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Hello Raul.

This is worth a bug report :wink:

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Ref SU15 change notes.
GNS530/430

Added support for disabling the autopilot through XML configuration using the “” tag.

Which Tag ???

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Researching elsewhere, that missing tag in the Update notes, tag appears to be <DisableAutopilot>

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Note: Probably not showing up because of a HTML formatting issue trying to show text between a “<” and a “>”

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Yes, that’s the tag.
I’ll forward the issue with the official release notes.