FSTramp history Version 8.85: ============= •Microsoft has changed the MSFS flight plan file format. This caused the manual waypoints of a flight plan file created by FSTramp to be displayed incorrectly after loading into MSFS. The problem has been solved. •Release date 2024/02/06. Version 8.84: ============= •FSTramp is now compatible with Prepar3D version 6. •Release date 2023/07/06. Version 8.83: ============= I have to apologize for the companies Microsoft/Asobo. Once again they broke the controls of some airliners with an update. •With the A310 from Asobo, the engine thrust can no longer be controlled by add-ons. A solution was found for this problem without the user having to take any action. •Automatic Thrust cannot be disabled by add-ons on the Asobo B787 and B747. If you want to fly these planes automatically by FSTramp, you need to disable the A/T ARM switch on the plane. •With the B787 from Asobo, the automatic trim works so delayed that it can be described as non-functional. We therefore recommend deactivating the second option from the top (Airplane with automatic elevator trim) in the FSTramp Aircraft dialog box for the B787. For this, however, the B787 must be the active aircraft in the simulator. •Release date 2023/06/26. Version 8.82: ============= •To create the FSTramp version 8.8, we switched to a newer version of the Microsoft C++ compiler. Unfortunately, it has now turned out that this makes mistakes when converting numbers under certain conditions. As a result, the sink rate was not set as a negative value in automatic flight. The issue has been resolved with this bug fix. •Release date 2023/05/22. Version 8.81: ============= •In connection with MSFS11, airline names of real airplanes were sometimes displayed defaced. This problem was eliminated by integrating an HTML text converter. •In FSTramp for MSFS11, the airfield map now shows the presence of tank trucks and their movement. •The X-Plane 11 Autopilot speed control will no longer go into a stuck state. •Release date 2023/05/08. Version 8.8: ============= •A purely organisational change is the outsourcing of most of the mountain elevation data to a separately installed file FSTrampElevationV2.zip. This measure became necessary because file hosters such as avsim.net no longer accepted the previous FSTramp setup file because of its oversize. •Unfortunately, IVAO and VATSIM only provide the simulators with a very small amount of text data and this is encoded as ICAO code. For automatic translation into human text, the two customisable files Airline.json and Aircraft.json have been added to FSTramp. •FSTramp for MSFS11 is now compatible with 4k displays, which means that the world map is also sharp when the display scale is greater than 100%. This requires Windows version 10 or higher. •In order to be able to fly airliners in MSFS11 with the autopilot from FSTramp, it has been necessary to the «Automatic Thrust» switch had to be manually deactivated in the aircraft. This now happens automatically as soon as the aircraft allows it. •In X-Plane, the way «Automatic Thrust» works has changed and FSTramp has been adjusted accordingly. As a result, automatic flight now works normally again. •X-Plane's multiplayer support has been expanded from 19 planes to 63 planes in version 11.5 and organised differently. Since, I hope, all providers like IVAO, VATSIM, etc. have changed to this method in the meantime, FSTramp has been changed from the old method to the current one. •Release date 2023/04/21. Version 8.73: ============= •This update has the task of making FSTramp compatible again with the standardised autopilot in Microsoft Flight Simulator and additionally adapting its own autopilot to the changed behaviour of the aircraft. •Microsoft/Asobo wanted to make the standard autopilot in the simulator more authentic to the Garmin original and did not think about its remote control via SimConnect. As a result, FSTramp could not control any of the aircraft with their own autopilot. With a lot of effort and compromise, they were able to re-establish automatic flight using the standard autopilot. Manual operation of this autopilot via panel in FSTramp also works, but is sometimes unreliable. •Over time, Microsoft/Asobo changed the mathematics of aerodynamics, which caused the FSTramp autopilot (green dot) to pitch the nose of the aircraft. To remedy this, the parameters of the FSTramp autopilot were adjusted. •Release date 2023/03/14. Version 8.72: ============= •The missing airfields, when used with X-Plane 12, are restored. •Release date 2022/10/20. Version 8.71: ============= •FSTramp is now also compatible with X-Plane 12. •Release date 2022/10/18. Version 8.7: ============ •Asobo has fundamentally changed the function of the Content.xml file in Sim Update 10. As a result, the FSTramp Scenery Assembler is missing the directory of the scenery. However, this fact only becomes visible after the initial installation of the simulator, since the old Content.xml file is not deleted during the simulator update. The FSTramp update circumvents this problem by creating and using this directory of scenery internally. •Release date 2022/10/01. Version 8.6: ============ •Since the format of the MSFS scenery files expands with every update, the Scenery Assembler has been adjusted accordingly. The following two additions were integrated at the customer's request: •The FSTramp for MSFS window has always been on top of all other windows. Now it has this behavior only when overlapped with a window of MSFS. •If a flight plan with destination airport is loaded in FSTramp and neither Fly Plan, Fly Holding or Fly to is active, the direct distance and flight time to the destination airport is displayed above the flight plan window in the line remaining. This helps blind people to estimate the touchdown point after deactivating automatic flight. •Release date 2022/06/06. Version 8.55: ============= •VOR or NDB names, previously sometimes defaced by random text, are now displayed correctly. •The activity POI displayed in FSTramp for MSFS11, represented as rudimentary airfields, has been removed. •Release date 2022/01/25. Version 8.54: ============= •This update is solely dedicated to compatibility with MSFS2020. •The flight plan is now saved in MSFS format so that it can be loaded manually in the simulator. •If an activity with a flight plan is loaded in MSFS, this flight plan is also automatically loaded by FSTramp. •There are add-on scenarios whose function is to replace the MSFS ground vehicles with vehicles that are more regionally appropriate. Unfortunately, these sceneries cause the CDT of the MSFS when another add-on, like FSTramp, requests the position of the ground vehicles. To avoid this CDT in FSTramp for MSFS, the display of the fuel trucks was removed. •Release date 2022/01/14. Version 8.53: ============= •The Scenery Assembler is now adapted to the newest extensions in the format of the BGL files of the MSFS and also the finding of all files of a scenery has been realised completely different. The Navigraph Navdata for MSFS, in the current version, are fully supported. •Release date 2021/12/31. Version 8.51 + 8.52: ==================== •The following bug has been fixed: Since version 8.49 the scenery assembler ignores some BGL files of add-on sceneries. •Release date 2021/01/05. Version 8.5: ============ •A bug that prevented the reading of some flight plan files of the Microsoft Flight Simulator has been fixed. •Release date 2021/01/03. Version 8.49: ============ •The FSTramp Scenery Assembler is now compatible with Navigraph Navdata for Microsoft Flight Simulator. •Release date 2020/12/31. Version 8.48: ============ •The reading of flight plans created with MSFS has been revised so that approaches can more frequently find a counterpart in FSTramp. •The sorting of the approaches has been changed so that ILS and VOR approaches are preferred. •Release date 2020/11/30. Version 8.47: ============ •The MSFS file Content.xml was not read if the last line at the end did not contain a line break. The resulting lack of all airfields, VOR and NDB has now been remedied. •Asobo has changed the format of the exclude instruction in the BGL files and FSTramp has been adapted accordingly. •The SIDs and STARs of a flight plan created by MSFS are now often also displayed in FSTramp as part of the flight plan. •Release date 2020/11/07. Version 8.46: ============ •At some point the aerodynamic model in X-Plane was changed. Not only the experimental model but also the default model. This made the pitch channel of the FSTramp autopilot unstable, which leads to dolphin-like movements of the aircraft. This undesirable behavior of the FSTramp autopilot has been corrected. •Release date 2020/10/27. Version 8.45: ============ •A bug concerning FSX, Prepar3D and X-Plane, caused by sorting the sceneries in reverse order, has been fixed. •Release date 2020/10/09. Version 8.44: ============ •The world map now also contains the major power lines and aerial cableways. •The integrated AIRAC cycle was updated to 2020/01. •The compatibility with scenery add-ons has been improved for all simulator types. But especially for Microsoft Flight Simulator. •Release date 2020/10/08. Version 8.43: ============ •Small compatibility issues with MSFS11 have been fixed. •Release date 2020/10/01. Version 8.42: ============ •Small compatibility issues with MSFS11 have been fixed. •A new option "Fly to here and pause" has been added. •Release date 2020/09/21. Version 8.41: ============ •After the SimConnect interface of MSFS11 was repaired by Asobo, the display of AI aircraft was reactivated in this version. •Data of add-on sceneries for MSFS11 are now also displayed. •Release date 2020/09/02. Version 8.4: ============ •This version is also compatible with Microsoft Flight Simulator 11 (FS2020). In contrast to all other variants of FSTramp, the >FSTramp for MSFS11< app must be started manually. It is located in the Windows Start menu - FSTramp. The following things must be observed when using FSTramp with MSFS: 1. After using FSTramp, the mouse arrow must be moved over the simulator window. If this does not happen, the simulator will not receive any keyboard hotkeys. 2. The 'Skip to here' function of FSTramp works to a limited extent. Jumps over long distances to a target on the ground usually lead to the destruction of the aircraft. Short jumps on the ground or long jumps in the air work. Since this malfunction is due to a bug in the simulator, I hope for future improvement. 3. Since the MSFS has a bug in the SimConnect communication interface in the first release, which leads to stuttering and a drop in the frame rate, all AI aircraft were temporarily removed from FSTramp. Nevertheless, a stuttering of the scenery cannot be completely avoided. •Warning for users of Prepar3D v4. FSTramp has been converted to SimConnect v4.5 and therefore no longer works with older versions of Prepar3D v4. •The optional FSTramp autopilot, recognizable by the green signal light in the control panel, has been expanded to also control aircraft with automatic trim or without trim. Normally, the autopilot built into FSTramp controls the flight altitude with the elevator trim. However, some aircraft, such as the Airbus models or modern Boeing, have an automatic trim that cannot be influenced by the FSTramp autopilot. In this case, the FSTramp autopilot can be instructed to control the flight altitude using the elevator. •The command 'Fly Flight Plan from here' previously worked so that the aircraft first steered towards the route specified by the flight plan and then followed it to the desired waypoint. Now the aircraft flies directly to the desired waypoint in the flight plan. •If the landing is carried out using an ILS in automatic flight according to the flight plan, the autopilot, APPR and BC are not automatically deactivated at the end of the flight. •The autopilot control panel will have the following changes: 1. If the content of the input fields HDG, ALT, VSPEED, IAS or MACH is deleted and this is confirmed with ENTER, the corresponding status of the aircraft is transferred to the field and sent to the autopilot. 2. If the content of the ALT input field was manually overwritten during the automatic flight according to the flight plan, this state was previously automatically deactivated if it was necessary for the automatic landing. Now the ALT key is highlighted in yellow to inform the pilot to deactivate the manual mode by clicking the ALT key. •The same instructions for flight altitude or speed, which are sometimes repeated at several waypoints in the airfield procedures, have so far led to them appearing several times in the FSTramp flight plan window. Now these instructions are bundled and only appear once in the flight plan window. •Release date 2020/08/22. Version 8.3: ============ •Following a request expressed by many users, the waypoints of airport procedures were integrated into the window of the flight plan. This gives the pilot more options for influencing the automatic flight. Predefined height and speed specifications within procedures can be overwritten or the entry point of a STAR or Approach can be changed using 'Fly Flight Plan from here'. However, the waypoints contained in a procedure cannot be deleted or added to. •In version 8.21 the optional activatable autopilot from FSTramp was without function. This error, which arose during my experiments with the future Microsoft Flight Simulator, has been fixed. •Release date 2020/06/27. Version 8.21: ============= •FSTramp for 64-bit simulators has been changed from hardware rendering to software rendering. This prevents VRAM problems with Prepar3D v5 and its DirectX 12 and X-Plane v11.50 with Vulkan. •Release date 2020/05/15. Version 8.2: ============ •The reason for this version is to make it compatible with Prepar3D version 5. •xSwiftBus has been added to the list of supported multiplayer clients. When using xPilot, xSwiftBus, xSwift, xSquawkbox or X-IvAp, the online aircraft in the 35 nm environment are also displayed in FSTramp. AI aircraft do not have to be activated for this. The Resources\plugins folder may only contain one multiplayer client at a time. •Release date 2020/04/17. Version 8.13: ============= •As the final stage of improving the world map, version 8.13 gives all friends of low flying a grid of MORAs (minimum off-route altitudes), a grid of numbers indicating the lowest safe altitude. If the earth's surface is elevated up to 5000 ft, this flight altitude is 1000 ft above the highest point, starting at 5001 ft, 2000 ft are added. Large numbers stand for the thousands, the small number for hundreds. Unlike other implementations where the grid width is usually one degree, FSTramp uses a grid that depends on the zoom factor. In order not to spoil the world map with unsightly clouds of numbers, they are placed in the landscape as unobtrusively as possible, like watermarks. The MORA grids can be deactivated in the right button bar. •Especially for blind pilots, the name of the procedure associated with an airfield in the flight plan can now be read above the selection list of procedures. •Release date 2020/01/18. Version 8.12: ============= •The cause of a sometimes occurring FSTramp error message when exiting the simulator has been removed. •The, in combination with X-Plane, incorrectly displayed taxiways from LHBP and probably other airfields have been corrected. •Release date 2019/11/18. Version 8.11: ============= •The world map now also contains the names and outlines of villages and neighborhoods. •The function of Fly Plan has been changed so that the aircraft follows the route more precisely. Fly to here was supplemented with the missing wind correction. •Release date 2019/11/13. Version 8.1: ============ •The reason for this version is the compatibility with the new VATSIM Client xPilot. When using xPilot, xSwift, xSquawkbox or X-IvAp the online aircraft in the 35 nm environment are also displayed in FSTramp. AI airplanes do not have to be activated for this. •The world map was supplemented by the names of countries, states, cities and towns. This information originates from OSM. •Release date 2019/10/27. Version 8.02: ============= •When calculating the magnetic declination, there was an error that led to deviations in the calculation of flight directions. •Release date 2019/10/02. Version 8.01: ============= •The Windows graphics system of some, but not all, computers has a strange bug. It causes the world map to be updated only every second move. The DirectX 9 from FSX was not affected. Re-initializing the graphics card before rendering a map segment bypasses this bug. •The collision detection of the label of aircraft was disabled. The resulting overlaps of the labels are now eliminated. •Release date 2019/09/20. Version 8.0: ============= •The world map of FSTramp, so far north-pointing and following the plane in jumps, was supplemented by a rotating and continuously moving map. Design and content remain unchanged except for cosmetic corrections. •Release date 2019/09/16. Version 7.26: ============= •The multiplayer system of X-Plane, in connection with plugins like XSquawkBox, X-IvAp or LiveTraffic, is completely underdeveloped compared to the FSX/Prepar3d world. So far it is hardly possible to track the online airplanes on a world map in real time. This FSTramp version tries the first step to improve this unsightly situation. The above mentioned three online apps are supported, whose aircraft are displayed in a small area (maximum 35 nm) on the FSTramp world map. Please note that XSquawkBox, X-IvAp and JoinFS are cannibalistic plugins, only one of them may be in the X-Plane\plugins folder. Also only airplanes are shown, whose transponder is active and whose altitude does not deviate more than 10000ft from your airplane. These rules does not make FSTramp, but the respective online plugin. •For all other simulator variants, there are only small cosmetic corrections but also the elimination of a bug that can lead to the crash of the simulator. This error has been in FSTramp for several years, is very rare and the error pattern was different every time. •Release date 2019/06/16. Version 7.25: ============= The following errors have been eliminated: •Airfields overlaid by add-on sceneries were not removed from the map display. •X-Plane's 7-character Airfield IDs may cause a crash during the automatic flight. •The X-Plane autopilot of the B747-400 refused the activation when the FSTramp function 'Fly Plan' was activated by a hotkey. •Release date 2019/05/07. Version 7.24: ============= •The erroneous numerical value of the flight direction was corrected in the flight plan window. In version 7.23 unfortunately the consideration of the magnetic declination was missing. •The short twitching of the elevators on some aircraft after activating 'Altitude hold' mode on the FSTramp autopilot has been eliminated. •More and more airfields without official ICAO identification are appearing in X-Plane. Their fictitious ID is up to 7 characters long, exceeding the previous limit of 5 characters. FSTramp has been drilled out and accepts that now. •Release date 2019/04/18. Version 7.23: ============= •The new autopilot has been optimized, but also many old parts of the application, that are no longer satisfactory, have been revised. •In order for the pilot to respond flexibly to ATC instructions without interrupting automatic flight, e.g. during the final approach, the default autopilot numeric values HDG, ALT, VSPEED, IAS and MACH can be manually overridden. After clicking on one of the input fields, a numerical value can be entered which, after confirming with ENTER, overlays the automatic set value. •Release date 2019/03/15. Version 7.22: ============= •Again, two weeks were invested in the new autopilot to improve the cooperation with various aircraft and especially to perfect his LNAV precision. •In X-Plane, the ILS stations sometimes have an incorrect indication of the elevation of their location. Therefore, the elevation of the runway is now basically used for the correct calculation of the glide path. This correction has no effect on the autopilot in the cockpit. •In the scenery's of the various simulators, the ILS transmitter is sometimes easily positioned to the runway. When using the FSTramp Autopilot, this error is now corrected so that the aircraft is not led next to the runway. •When the speed was regulated by the Mach number, there was sometimes a deviation of the IAS up to 10 knots. This has the cause in the measurement error of the IAS if axis of the air flow and axis of the pitot tube are not identical. As an error compensation, a correction factor was inserted that automatically adapts to the factor used in the simulator. •A possible failure of the FSTramp autopilot by the occurrence of a division by zero has been eliminated. •When FSTramp is completely new installed, the Program.cfg and Aircraft.ini files are created in UNICODE format to ensure compatibility with fonts other than Latin. •Release date 2019/02/08. Version 7.21: ============= •Compatibility with older editions of Prepar3D v4 has been reactivated. •Copy and drag&drop from plain text to other applications has been changed to 16-bit character set and is now functional again. •On older versions of Windows with a scaled display, the distance measurement on the world map did not work properly. That is fixed. •The new autopilot from FSTramp has been extensively redesigned. •Release date 2019/01/25. Version 7.2: ============ •Many commercial add-on aircraft disable the standard autopilot integrated in the simulator and use one brought along. Because FSTramp is unable to control these aircraft, this upgrade includes a FSTramp-integrated autopilot for wing aircraft. It must be switched on standby for each affected aircraft in the Aircraft dialog box of FSTramp. The green dot in the FSTramp Avionic Panel signals this condition. •X-Plane and FSX-original have previously caused FSTramp scaling problems for high-density displays. As a result, the writing was too small. Windows 10 now offers a solution to this, so that FSTramp is displayed correctly even when scaling over 100 percent. •Inconspicuous but complex is the conversion of the internal text representation from 8 to 16 bits per character. This makes FSTramp compatible with regional character sets other than Latin. •Release date 2019/01/18. Version 7.14: ============= •A compatibility issue with X-Plane 11.30 has been fixed. •Release date 2018/11/02. Version 7.13: ============= •Prepar3D offers the possibility to specify alternative storage locations for add-on aircraft within three possible simobjects.cfg files. FSTramp now also evaluates these files to determine the names of the AI and multiplayer aircraft from the addressed aircraft.cfg files. •When moving manually defined flight plan waypoints with the mouse, their current lat/lon position will be displayed next to the waypoint. •The lat/lon position of manually defined waypoints in the flight plan can now be changed later with the help of a dialog box. •If during the flight the function "Skip to here" is called and an airfield is selected, a dialog box will now appear to confirm the intention to cancel the flight. •Fixed bug: Speed restrictions within SID/STAR/Approach of an already loaded flight plan were ignored during the subsequent switch from propeller to jet. •Release date 2018/07/15. Version 7.12: ============= •This bugfix appears because the X-Plane autopilot in the Garmin FMS has recently a bug that impedes the automatic flight through FSTramp. The HDG mode of the autopilot often turns the aircraft in the wrong direction when changing course >25 degrees, resulting in a full circle. To avoid this problem, this bug fix divides large course changes into fast steps of 10 degrees. •Since the simulators so far offered no practical method for configuring the hotkeys for add-ons/plug-ins, FSTramp had to implement this themselves. At least for X-Plane this has changed since version 11.10. X-Plane users can now find these settings directly in their simulator, keyboard and joystick options. You can now also assign joystick buttons to the FSTramp commands without using an external joystick configuration program. In connection with this improvement, the secondary standard hotkeys for FSTramp have been standardized across all platforms, ie changed. The current hotkeys are displayed as before in the menu Plugins/FSTramp or Add-ons/FSTramp. •Updated AIRAC data for FSTramp, e.g. installed by tools from Navigraph, were previously overwritten by older data when installing an FSTramp upgrade. This was caused by the sharing of the folder C:\ProgramData\FSTramp\NavData by FSTramp and the AIRAC Upgrade Tool. Now the FSTramp setup saves its AIRAC data in the installation folder of FSTramp and leaves the data in C:\ProgramData\FSTramp\NavData unchanged. Nevertheless, after each upgrade of FSTramp or the AIRAC data the scenery database of FSTramp must be updated. The Scenery Assembler uses the AIRAC data package with the newest timestamp. •On customer request the copying of the description of SID, STAR and Approach is now possible again. The Copy option is located in the context menu of the window displaying the description. •Release date 2018/05/12. Version 7.11: ============= •An error was fixed in the FSTramp Scenery Assembler for Prepar3D/FSX. Since version 7.03, sceneries that are in a folder whose compound name ends in "scenery" have been ignored. Example D:\Add-ons\BigCityScenery •Fixed the following issue: After updating the X-Plane AIRAC cycle, its new timestamp was not recognized by the FSTramp Scenery Assembler. As a result, flight plans exported from FSTramp contained an incorrect cycle entry, which resulted in a warning when loading into the X-Plane FMS. •If X-Plane is operated in windowed mode, the last window position is not safely restored when it is started. FSTramp takes over this task. You can disable this feature in the file: C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\FSTramp for XP v11\Program.cfg In the section [Settings] the entry XPWndInitDisable=0 must be changed to XPWndInitDisable=1 . •Release date 2018/04/15. Version 7.1: ============ •So far, after changing the airplane in the simulator, this action had to be executed also in FSTramp. An often forgotten process. Now there is an automatic. This link is already initialized for the standard aircraft of the simulator. Add-on aircraft must be assigned only once the appropriate aircraft record in FSTramp. •Dialog boxes interrupt the simulation. That is at least unpleasant. Therefore, three of the previous FSTramp dialog boxes have been integrated directly into the user interface. The dialog boxes for automatically finding the optimal route, changing altitude and speed in automatic flight, as well as waypoint related settings now overlay on demand the list of the flight plan without stopping the simulation. •Above the list of the flight plan is the I/O line for the IO of flight plans in ICAO format. Switchable, now the current values of distance and time to the next waypoint of the flight plan as well as to the next landing can be displayed at this place. This also works within SID/STAR/APPR. •The window for the output of the text description of SID/STAR/APPR has been visually upgraded. As a by-product, during the automatic flight of this airfield procedures, the description of the currently flown section is scrolled into the text window and marked colored. •In the autopilot front end for X-Plane, the method of automatically setting the climb/descent rate was optimized in order to safely override the inappropriate value generated by X-Plane. •Release date 2018/03/15. Version 7.04: ============ •The graphical representation of SID, STAR and Approaches has been further optimized. This includes correcting unwanted side effects of changes in v7.03. •The internal logic of the Flightplan Open / Save dialog box has been made more user-friendly. •20 years old program code, developed at that time for the predecessor of FSTramp, caused in the combination of FSX with current 64-Bit Windows CTD. These are the input fields in the FSTramp Autopilot and Find window. The following operating sequence leads to a crash: left mouse click into an input field, click into any other window, click again in the previous input field. The real cause remains a Windows secret, the problem has been bypassed. •The communication interface SimConnect of Prepar3D and FSX reacts unusually when the simulator loads a Scenario / Flight in the startup, whose associated aircraft can not be found. FSTramp has been adjusted to respond tolerantly in this particular case. •X-Plane 11 users get a nicer menu Plugins-FSTramp. •Release date 2018/01/21. Version 7.03: ============ •If the simulator crashes, FSTramp may accidentally be blacklisted by Windows in the registry. This entry prevents the future execution of FSTramp and thus causes the crash of the simulator already in the start phase. The FSTramp Scenery Assembler has therefore been modified to examine this list at launch and remove FSTramp from it. •The automatic creation of the flight plan including the airport procedures (SID, START, APPR) was again greatly improved by additional selection criteria. •Some final approaches are not flown over all the waypoints specified in the APPR, but the aircraft uses a holding pattern as an abbreviation. The approach ENO.ILS01 at the airfield KDOV shows this method now supported by FSTramp. In this example the waypoint CFNRT is ignored. •Extreme course changes >120 degrees within the airport procedures are now presented and executed in a more practical way. The usual loop >180 degrees is only used when absolutely necessary. Due to the premature release of Prepar3D v4 this part of the program was so far unfinished. •Add-on sceneries created with Prepar3D's SDK4 include new data structures. These are now correctly interpreted by the FSTramp Scenery Assembler and displayed by FSTramp. •Upon customer request, the large-area airspaces of FSX / Prepar3D, which are referred to as Centers, were re-integrated into the FSTramp world map. They are displayed when the two switches U and L are not actuated. •Flight plans exported for X-Plane in the new FMS format are now marked with the same AIRAC cycle as X-Plane uses. This avoids an unnecessary X-plane error message when loading the flight plan into the FMC. •The wrong value of the wind speed has been corrected (affects only X-Plane). •The special aircraft "Boeing 737 Laminar R." is no longer necessary since X-Plane 11.10b7 and has been removed. •Release date 2017/12/10. Version 7.02: ============ •The cruise altitude set for automatic flight now overrides the requirements of airport procedures. This allows low-flying aircraft to use these procedures without being directed to higher altitudes. •Upon customer request, two bars were added to the autopilot frontend to indicate the trim. The horizontal bar has a special behavior. He shows the trim of rudder or aileron. Since usually only one of these two rudders is trimmed non-zero, this bar shows the larger of the two values. •Release date 2017/11/10. Version 7.01: ============ •Compatibility with the outdated version Prepar3D v4.01 has been reactivated. •The fault tolerance of the Scenery Assembler regarding Prepar3D sceneries with add-on.xml has been increased. •Release date 2017/10/30. Version 7.0: ============ •X-Plane 11 for Windows was added to the list of compatible simulators. •FSTramp is now compatible with Prepar3D add-on sceneries, defined by a file add-on.xml. The editor for the FSX/P3D file Scenery.cfg is omitted. •The table of the magnetic declination, previously taken from the file magdec.bgl, has been replaced by a current mathematical model. •Airspace data, previously taken from the simulator sceneries, are now part of the data of FSTramp. Cyclic updating occurs within the AIRAC cycles, such as those provided by Navigraph. •Release date 2017/10/28. Version 6.52: ============ •In the 64 bit variant for Prepar3d v4 an error was fixed which occurred during drag & drop in the flightplan window. •Release date 2017/06/09. Version 6.51: ============ •In addition to the 32 bit variant, the setup now includes the 64 bit variant for Prepar3d v4. Recognized errors in version 6.5 have been fixed. •Release date 2017/06/03. Version 6.5: ============ •The development of these versions had only one theme, complete integration of digital airport procedures, known as SID, STAR and approaches, in the flight plan and automatic flying of the flight plan including procedures. •The target, automatic flight of the flight plan including airport procedures from runway to runway, was so far considered impossible. The following properties of the procedures are in the way: 1. Procedures that consist only of one point and do not result in a route (KJFK:SID:MERIT4). 2. STAR which basically have no predetermined connection to a runway. 3. Approaches that go directly into the missed approach without contacting a runway. 4. Procedures with embedded RADAR vector segment, that require a decision of the ground control or the pilot. 5. Extreme course changes that require a pragmatic interpretation or force the use of holding patterns. 6. Important but not always self-evident, the correct interpretation of the digital procedure data. •To avoid these obstacles, FSTramp complements the specified airport procedures with additional route segments. This can be connections to the runway but also necessary additions within the procedure. Freely invented parts are characterized by dashed lines and not always safe or useful. These can also go through a mountain or contradict the regulations. The pilot is the last instance of control! •Release date 2017/05/26. Version 6.22: ============ •With the same functionality, the user interface has been streamlined by halving the number of sub-windows. •The list of AI / Multiplayer aircraft is now designed space-saving. •The FSTramp status bar displays the used and total RAM of the simulator. •Especially for Prepar3D the detection of vehicle change through the Avatar has been integrated and designed the submersible icon. •A crash caused by sleeping hard drive has been eliminated. •Release date 2016/10/14. Version 6.21: ============ •This update is mainly a bug fix for version 6.20. •The context menu of the flight plan contains the new point 'Simulator pause'. With activated mode 'Fly Plan' pauses the simulation when the aircraft reached this waypoint. •The flight plan I/O line accepts chained Airways without specifying the intersections. Sample: ABERI B934 W52 G493 G913 B152 G495 W109 G494 A588 W107 A326 B591 L2 B591 M646 B462 R337 ROR •Release date 2016/07/10. Version 6.2: ============ •As usual, in Version 6, the load or save a flight plan within FSTramp also causes the loading of this flight plan in the memory of the simulator. As an extension, and in memory of version 5, the load or save a flight plan initiated by the simulator causes now loading this flight plan in the memory of FSTramp. Deactivated if the flight plan in progress. •In automatic flight according to fligh plan, all waypoints, even if they are located in the smallest circle, flew over sequentially without skipping points. •If on the world map a flight plan waypoint touched with the mouse, and the info pop-up appears, this waypoint is scrolled into the visible area of the flight plan window and selected there. •The short stuttering of the simulator at the appearance of the info pop-up of FSTramp is eliminated. •The translucent checkered pattern on the world map, caused by compression artefacts of the elevation data, is reduced by an improved algorithm of decoding. •The used AIRAC cycle is displayed in the dialog box About FSTramp. •Above the usual flight plan window now resides an input-output line for flight plans in the form: SLLP TERAX UA304 VIR SLVR. •Airport procedures can be assigned to the airfields of the flight plan and saved with the flight plan file. The automatic routing has corresponding options, but also the manual association is possible. Although this feature at the moment seems insignificant, it is still the basis for the complete fusion of flight plan and airport procedures in the future. •Release date 2016/06/23. Version 6.1: ============ •This version is primarily a compatibility update, but also includes three improvements. •On some SLI systems occurring black oceans are blue now. •Mysterious crashes when opening complex dialog boxes have been eliminated. •The sometimes incomplete labeling of the flightplan window header is corrected. •The toolbar next to the flight plan window is expanded to include a Save button. •In the dialog box Manual Planpoint Settings the enterable value range has been extended. •Zoom in with the right mouse button can be canceled by ESC. •Release date 2016/02/09. Version 6.0: ============= •Manual flight plan editor with VNAV calculation. •Automatic routing of the flight plan in different modes. •Automatic flight from take-off to landing, including vertical navigation. •Two, independent of Windows, color themes for the entire application. •The navigation data has been updated to AIRAC cycle 1513. •Release date 2016/01/22. Version 5.6: ============= •Compatibility adjustments for Prepar3D v3. •The navigation data have been updated on the AIRAC cycle 1510. •Several bug fixes. •Release date 2015/10/05. Version 5.51: ============= •In pure FSX: Steam Edition installations, without FSX: CD, FSTrampDBC not found the simulator. This trouble has been corrected. •Release date 2014/12/22. Version 5.5: ============= •In response to the release of Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition the necessary compatibility adjustments were integrated. •The misrepresentation of user aircraft, AI aircraft or intersections with some graphics cards has been eliminated. •Release date 2014/12/19. Version 5.42: ============= •This upgrade improves compatibility with some problematic add-on scenery. Among other things, makes it the runways of the Dreamfactorystudio LIRF visible. •To reduce the system load, the number of the AI/MP aircraft shown simultaneously on the map is reduced to 80. Aircraft in the vicinity of your own aircraft are preferred. In addition, the number of simultaneously displayed AI/MP labels is limited to 20. •The Options-Settings-Global dialog box includes two new sliders to fine-tune the brightness of the earth's surface. •Release date 2014/09/04. Version 5.41: ============= •The v5.4 installer program contains an error that can in some Prepar3D systems prevent FSTramp from starting up. This error has been corrected, and FSTramp functions will remain unchanged at level v5.4. •Release date 2014/06/18. Version 5.4: ============ •From this version on, FSTramp supports Prepar3D v2 as well as FSX. Unlike with FSX, FSTramp can be used with Prepar3D v2 in full-screen mode. •To the IFR airport procedures introduced with version 5.3, display of VFR circuits (traffic patterns) has now been added. •Beside the graphical display of procedures, directions regarding course, and allocated altitude and speed are available in text form. •While the SHIFT key is pressed, the 'Skip to here' function in the World map context menu will put you on the ground at any spot you indicate. Use this at your own risk! •Release date 2014/04/01. Version 5.31: ============ •Version 5.31 includes a small bug fix for version 5.3. It eliminates a possible error message when you exit the simulator. In addition, it improves in a wide variety of situations, the representation of airport procedures. •Release date 2014/02/14. Version 5.3: ============ •While in previous versions of the program only out-of-date data from FSX scenery could be used, this new version contains updated data for waypoints, airways and IFR airport procedures (SIDs, STARs, Approaches). •Regular updating these data can be done via your usual AIRAC cycles supplier. •Display of different traffic regions and areas, and the way in which these are recognised by the mouse have been modified. •The map now shows movements of near-by shipping. •Release date 2014/02/07. Version 5.2: ============ •The map can now be moved by dragging with the left mouse-button depressed. •New: Cities, roads and railway tracks are shown on the map. •An extensive database of inland waterways was implemented, which are shown at a high zoom factor. •The database of continents and islands has been updated. •Online upgrade notice has been integrated. •Release date 2013/04/01. Version 5.1: ============ •The Equatorial mesh width of the elevation data is now 250 meters. Greenland and Antarctica are the exception. There, as in version 5.0, the value is 1000 meters. •Resolution of the surface of the earth in full-screen mode has been increased from 25 to 40 dpi, which produces a sharper image. If FSTramp is used as overlay over the panel in a smaller window, resolution is increased to 48 dpi. •The earth surface got a new colour scheme. The old scheme will however be available. •The problem of incompatibility with FS Passengers has been fixed. This made also a change in the default Hotkeys of FSTramp necessary: Program visible / invisible: Ctrl+F12 Program docked / undocked: Shift+Ctrl+F12 Fly flight plan: Ctrl+F11 Fly holding: Shift+Ctrl+F11 •Release date 2012/12/01. Version 5.0: ============ •Release date 2012/10/01.