- KML placemark location import plugin
- When teleporting to a location the selected local simulation date and time will now also be set
- The time can be selected relative (sunset, sunrise, morning, noon, afternoon, ...) or absolute
- Date and time can also be specified per location
- Either both date and time or either one: the missing value will be chosen according to the date/time selection (today, selected date, morning, afternoon, evening, ...)
- System locations have been renamed to Preset locations
- Those are the locations that come "out of the box" with Sky Dolly
- Double-clicking on any column of a preset location will now teleport to that location (previously only the ID column was double-clickable for preset locations)
- Double-clicking a column other than ID on a user or imported location will still edit that column, as before
- Set correct country for city Hong Kong (preset locations)
- Updated the "Flight Analysis" SQL to properly match the closest timestamps in tables position and attitude
- Note that since Sky Dolly v0.18 the position and attitude is sampled at different intervals; timestamps may or may not match exaclty (in most cases they do not)
- Also refer to: SQL Query for Finding Closest Timestamps
- Optimised logbook SQL table column types
- An illegal data access ("crash") has been fixed that affected various flight import plugins, among them the KML FlightAware import [Issue #179]
- The IGC flight export plugin now properly exports coordinates in the western and southern hemisphere (no negative values, but a proper 'W' respectively 'S' character)
- The IGC flight export now properly exports the pre-flight declaration section ("C records")
- The (obsolete) task number has now the correct 4 (instead of 6) digits
- The TAKEOFF declaration is now the actual first recorded position and the START declaration is now the coordinate of the first waypoint (previously it was the other way around)
- In analogy for the FINISH (last waypoint coordinate) and LANDING (last recorded position)
- The velocity, pitch bank and heading is calculated correctly again when augmenting imported flight data
- Added more flight import unit tests, covering now also the "flight augmentation" code
- Properly make newly inserted location visible (scroll to row), specifically when location table is sorted by ID in descending order
- Do not reset backup period to "Never" when setting the backup path fails
- Correctly name the file selection filter of the Sky Dolly logbook location import plugin
- Properly enable/disable pitch, bank, true heading and indicated airspeed spinboxes based on location selection
- Upgrade Qt to 6.7.3 (from 6.7.2)
- This brings some improvements for the "Windows 11" style ("Fusion" style is still the default style though)
Sky Dolly "Jaunty Jodel" carries the Olympic spirit into the world: over 200 new locations - each country taking part in the Olympic Games in Paris 2024 - have been added as location presets. Please enjoy the diversity and beauty of our little planet - happy flying!
- The logbook table now properly scrolls to the row being recorded, to ensure its visibility
- The aircraft table now properly scrolls to the row being recorded, to ensure its visibility
- Added Kosovo to list of countries
- Added Beach and Castle to location types
- The location description field now stretches vertically
- The location table now properly scrolls to the newly added location, to ensure its visibility
- After adding new user locations the location table receives the focus again, to make the selected row (the newly added location) better visible (as selected row)
- The "On Ground" column is now sortable, too
- The location table (Location module) does not show duplicate entries anymore when adding new user locations (the newly added user location was correctly only stored once though)
- Properly store (and restore) the aircraft table layout (Formation module) when changing the column to be sorted
- Properly restore table widget sort column and sort items accordingly when switching between Logbook, Formation and Location modules
- Small memory optimisations
- Ensure that the front wheel steering simulation variable is not sent to AI aircraft (formation flight) which would cause an "exception 20" (SimConnect data error)
- Support for the Fenix A320 nose wheel steering added
In "Illustrious Ikarus" flights with a recording duration over a day are now properly displayed. For instance the flight duration in the logbook is now shown as timestamp (hh:mm:ss format), in days, weeks, months and so on, depending on the actual duration. The time edit widget next to the timeline automatically also shows the date once the recording time exceeds 24 hours.
New location import and export plugins are also introduced, allowing to exchange locations in the Sky Dolly logbook format which is also automatically converted to the latest format when importing.
Note that recording times up to 263 milliseconds (that is 292,471,209 years - a long time) have always been supported. That is the maximum timestamp in milliseconds (a signed 64 bit number).
- New location export plugin
- Sky Dolly logbook (*.sdlog) export
- New location import plugin
- Sky Dolly logbook (*.sdlog) import
- Locations exported from older Sky Dolly releases are migrated upon import to the latest data features
- The maximum simulation rate spinbox now steps in powers of two (1, 2, 4, 8, ..., 128)
- The MSFS simulation rate is always a power of two
- Non-power of two values may still be entered by editing the text
- The maximum custom replay speed factor has been increased from 200 to 99999
- This allows for "timelapse replays" with one second per day (factor of 24 * 60 * 60 = 86400)
- The recording sample rate setting has been removed. Reasoning:
- The aircraft position is now sampled at a fixed 1 Hz (one sample per second) anyway (see above)
- While the aircraft attitude is sampled "as fast as possible" (for each simulated frame)...
- ... all other data is (only) recorded "as available", that is very infrequently
- Few users were probably aware of what this "Recording Frequency" settings was supposed to do and left it at "auto"
- Removing the timer-based recording also simplified the code
- The Statistics dialog now shows separate recording rates, for both positition (always around 1 Hz) and attitude samples (e.g. 30 Hz, that is the simulation frame rate)
- The simulation time is now updated in the flight simulator during replay
- According to the recorded simulation start and end times
- Note that the simulation time is not always in sync with real-world time (the simulation- and real-world durations may be different): this is taken into account when interpolating between the simulation start- and end times
- This allows for exact day of time reproductions, useful e.g. for video editing when video-recording (via separate screen capture solutions) the same flight multiple times from different camera angles
- The time synchronisation can be enabled and disabled in the application settings, under Replay (default: simulation time)
- The replay time widget now properly displays replay times longer than a day (for instance one year or longer), by including also the actual start date
- When loading a flight from the logbook the replay mode is automatically reset to Normal
- This ensures that the user aircraft is placed at its initial replay position (instead of being left at its current position in case Fly With Formation was previously active)
- Switching to the Formation module will then restore the last selected replay mode again (Formation (Normal), Take control of recorded user aircraft, Fly with formation), according to the persisted module settings
- A new Export system locations option has been added to the location export
- When enabled then also the default locations as provided by Sky Dolly (Sytem locations) will be exported
- Otherwise only the User and Import locations will be exported
- When importing flights via the Sky Dolly logbook (*.sdlog) format no system (default) locations are added (migrated) anymore
- The table schema and data is still migrated and updated accordingly though
- A distance threshold option has been added to the location import settings
- Existing locations within the given distance are either updated
- Or the location to be imported is skipped (not imported)
- Loctations may also be unconditionally imported (insert)
- GPX export: the geoid height (<geoidheight>) can now also optionally be exported
- This may be useful to calculate the ellipsoidial height h (WGS84 reference ellipsoid) as follows: h = H + N = <ele> + <geoidheight>
- Also refer to Find Ellipsoidal Height from Orthometric Height
- The exported waypoints now have a description (<desc>) element: Departure, Waypoint and Arrival
- IGC export: the proper standard pressure altitude (at a 1013.25 hPa (1 atmosphere) setting) instead of the indicated altitude is now exported
- Position- and attitude simulation variables are now sampled separately
- Position data (latitude, longitude, altitude) is only sampled at 1Hz: the expectation is that "stutters" during recording should be automatically smoothened out
- Removed
SMOKE_ENABLEsupport- Reasoning: from the official documenation: "There is no default 'smoke system' that this SimVar works on and this is a legacy variable that is available for use should you wish to use it but it affects nothing by default."
- Some aircraft seem to (re-)use this simulation variable for other purposes, with unexpected visual results
- The following simulation variables are newly recorded and replayed:
SIM_ON_GROUND(for each aircraft attitude change)STEER_INPUT_CONTROL(nose wheel steering)
- Record the following new simulation variables, for analytical purposes
INDICATED_ALTITUDE_CALIBRATEDPRESSURE_ALTITUDE
- Rename column Date to Recording Date
- This is the real-world date and time when the flight has been recorded
- Also show the simulation departure- and arrival dates in the tooltip
- The Total Time of Flight column now supports durations measured in days, weeks, months and even years
- The application may now be automatically restarted after changing the user interface style ("Windows Vista", "Windows 11", "Fusion", ...)
- GPX export
- The elevation (<ele>) values are now properly exported as "above mean sea level" (and not "above WGS84 reference ellipsoid" anymore)
- The trackpoint timestamps are properly calculated and exported when exporting the entire flight (and not just the user aircraft); the proper timezone suffix (Z) is appended, too (ISO 8601 format)
- Formation module
- Record the flight conditions - specifically the flight start date/time - when the first aircraft is recorded (directly from within the Formation module)
- Prevent teleporation to the equator (0° latitude, 0° longitude) when no flight is currently loaded and Fly with formation is selected
- Do not reset the time edit widget when the recording is paused (keep the current recorded time)
- Migrate (update) missing logbook start- and end simulation times (local and zulu) based on the actual recorded positions (timestamps) amd/or the recording creation date/time
- Added new One Year in New York example SQL ("1 year timelapse")
- Added new pressure altitude analytical SQL script
- Ensure common creation- and start/end date (local and zulu) date & time formats on database level, add "not null" constraint for data conistency
- Upgrade GeographicLib to version 2.4 (from version 2.3)
- Upgrade cpptrace to version 0.6.3 (from 0.5.2)
This bug fix release provides an important correction for a regression that would prevent recording (and possibly replay as well), due to wrongly creating an IPv4 network connection instead of a local ("pipe") connection.
- Ensure that the connection is local again ("pipe")
- Fix the persisted connection type value
- Migrate existing application settings (fix the "off by one" value)
- This is a regression introduced with Sky Dolly v0.17.1
This is a pure maintenance release without any Sky Dolly specific fixes: it provides the most recent Qt framework release with several Windows 11 user interface style related fixes.
- Upgrade Qt to 6.7.2 (from 6.7.1)
- Do not create a logbook backup when importing a logbook (flight) from a previous Sky Dolly release (that needs to be migrated)
- Backups are only to be done when opening existing logbooks (and according to the Sky Dolly backup settings)
- When opening a logbook: retry with a backup directory relative to the logbook path (that is, "./Backups") in case a backup directory given with an absolute path cannot be created (e.g. because it refers to some non-existing drive letter, or otherwise is not writeable anymore)
- Do not create the non-existing backup directory when the periodic "Backup" dialog is shown
- The directory is created as needed when the backup is actually to be made later on
- When resetting the Logbook filter (pressing the "X" button) then also the search text field is now cleared
- Seeking backward and forward via flight simulator keyboard shortcuts (CTRL+, respectively CTRL+.) now repeats the action while keeping the shortcut combination pressed
- Application settings: the flight simulator connection plugin and connection type (pipe, IPv4, IPv6) combo boxes are disabled while the connection is active (replay or recording in progress)
- When the SimConnect.cfg client configuration that comes with Sky Dolly is removed from the application directory then a local (configuration index SIMCONNECT_OPEN_CONFIGINDEX_LOCAL) connection is used (just like in previous Sky Dolly versions)
- Also refer to the official documentation of SimConnect.cfg (client configuration) and SimConnect.xml (server configuration)
- Fix the example Flight-Analysis.sql script (documentation) [Issue #150]
- The flight_number is now stored on flight level (and not per aircraft anymore)
- Upgrade Qt to 6.7.1 (from 6.7.0)
- Note: fixes for the new Windows 11 style are expected to be in Qt 6.7.2, scheduled for August 2024
- Add new aircraft types from simulation update 15, selectable when importing a flight
- Ornithopter
- A320 V2 (iniBuilds)
- Note that any new aircraft that is recorded will be automatically added to the aircraft type list (existing behaviour)
- Platform styles that are not really selectable - such as "Windows Vista" style on Windows 11 and "Windows 11" style on Windows 10 - are not shown anymore in the style selection dropdown list
- The selection list is now sorted
- The aircraft type is properly set again when importing a flight (regression from v0.17)
- The aircraft type selector (combo box) does not show the unknown special value "-" anymore
- The aircraft type is properly set in the imported flight again
- On Windows 11 the default style is set to "Fusion", as a workaround
- The new "Windows 11" style still has a few known visual glitches:
- Active toolbar buttons are almost unreadable in dark mode [QTBUG-124286]
- The time display ("time edit" widget) only shows two digits [QTBUG-124150]
- Alternating table rows are not visually distinct [QTBUG-124564]
- However the "Windows 11" style can still be set, under File | Settings... | User Interface
- The new "Windows 11" style still has a few known visual glitches:
- Properly validate persisted enumeration values when restoring plugin settings
- The "native styles" ("Windows Vista" on Windows 10 respectively "Windows 11" on Windows 11) are now properly loaded when explicitly set in the application settings
"Humble Hawker" introduces keyboard shortcuts in order to control basic functionality from within the flight simulator itself, SimConnect network support as well as official dark theme support via selectable styles ("Windows Vista", "Windows 11" and "Fusion").
- Keyboard shortcuts can be defined and triggered within the flight simulator, in order to:
- Toggle recording (CTRL+R) and replay (CTRL+P)
- Pause (ALT+P) and Stop (CTRL+S)
- Skip forward (CTRL+.) and backward (CTRL+,)
- Skip to begin (CTRL+PageUp) and end (CTRL+PageDown)
- The shortcuts can be defined in the Sky Dolly application settings (no restart required)
- Desktop notifications indicate whether recording has started, paused/resumed or stopped
- In order to make desktop notifications visible when the flight simulator is in fullscreen adjust the corresponding notification rules in the Windows settings (-> Notification Assistant)
- Added SimConnect client configuration support via SimConnect.cfg, with three configurations ready to be adjusted with specific IP addresses
- The configuration can easily be selected via File | Settings... | Flight Simulator (no restart required):
- Local (pipe)
- Network 1 (IPv4)
- Network 2 (IPv6)
- The sample SimConnect.cfg is located in the Sky Dolly application directory
- It should work with the default SimConnect.xml server configuration that is generated automatically by MSFS upon launch
- Adjust the server IP address and port as needed
- The configuration can easily be selected via File | Settings... | Flight Simulator (no restart required):
- Official "dark theme" support, via selectable user interface styles
- The user interface style can now be set in the application settings
- Notes for Windows 10
- Only the "Fusion" style supports "dark theme"
- While "Windows Vista" style is the default it does not support "dark theme"
- While the "Windows 11" style is seemingly selectable it does not actually work: "Windows Vista" will be used in this case
- Only the "Fusion" style supports "dark theme"
- Windows 11: the "Windows 11" (default) and "Fusion" styles both support "dark theme"
- In any case, "dark theme" needs to be enabled in the Windows (operating system) settings, as desired
- The default logbook name is now Sky Dolly Logbook
- In order to help to avoid confusion between the Sky Dolly application and logbook directory
- Existing logbooks remain at their current location
- The flight number is now also shown in the Logbook table [Issue #103]
- Flights can also be filtered with the flight number
- The flight number is now stored per flight (not per aircraft anymore)
- The flight number can now be edited (both in the Flight dialog and logbook table)
- The Formation module settings (relative position, replay mode) are now persisted
- Improved module settings performance: the logbook and location tables are now updated exactly once (and not twice) upon module initialisation
- A flight recording in progress is now automatically stopped and the flight stored to the logbook in case the flight simulator is terminated (e.g. also due to a crash)
- The full range of flight simulator simulation rates 0.0625 up to 128.0 is now supported
- The Sky Dolly custom replay rate is rounded to the nearest simulation rate, one of 0.0625, 0.125, 0.25, 0.5, 1, 2, 4, ... 128 ("multiples of 2")
- The flight simulator simulation rate is now shown in the replay speed group
- The simulation rate may be limited in the application settings (note that the replay speed may still be higher)
- Remove import & export CSV Sky Dolly format
- The default import CSV format is now: Flightradar24
- The default export CSV format is now: Position and attitude
- Use the Sky Dolly logbook import & export instead
- Dialog titles are now consistently in Title Case and streamlined ("Write Error", "Read Error", ...)
- KML export: the first position point is now properly exported as well
- Flight condition is not overwritten anymore when recording additional formation aircraft
- Toggling the "active pause" in MSFS while recording now properly resumes/pauses recording and the flight itself [Issue #106]
- Prevent a crash that would occur when a flight is loaded and the replay mode in the Formation module is changed to "Fly with formation", but no connection with MSFS exists yet
- Remove last recorded flight or aircraft in case persistence fails (improved error handling)
- In the Formation module the reference aircraft icon is properly initialised
- During replay the replay speed is now properly set to the last "custom speed" (e.g. 0.1) when checking the "Custom" radio button (previously the actual replay speed was always wrongly set to 1.0, mismatching with the displayed custom speed value, e.g. 0.1)
- Seeking on the timeline now correctly re-establishes the current flap (and other control element) settings
- Upgrade GeographicLib to version 2.3 (from version 2.1.2)
- Upgrade cpptrace to version 0.5.2 (from 0.1.1)
- Upgrade Qt to 6.7.0 (from 6.4)
- Add an exception handler dialog that provides information about abnormal program termination, including
- Information about the exception
- Stack trace (using the external Cpptrace library v0.1.1)
- Application- and basic system information
- Unix signal handling (macOS, Linux only)
- Fix CSV import for various CSV formats, e.g. Flight Recorder and Sky Dolly: proper CSV header validation
- Note: the Sky Dolly CSV format is obsolete and will be removed in the upcoming v0.17 release
- Fix the Little Navmap userpoint (location) import
- Relax CSV validation (import CSV without header)
- Properly check for empty (value: "") elevation values
- Properly store the newly selected logbook file path in the application settings in case an attempt is made to open a logbook that has been written by a newer Sky Dolly version and the user chooses an alternate logbook
- Regression introduced with v0.16.0
"Gregarious Gee Bee" introduces new Sky Dolly logbook export & import plugins, incuding time synchronisation for formation flights.
- Sky Dolly logbook (SDLOG) export plugin [Issue #75]
- The current plugin implementation always exports the entire flight (including all aircraft) into a single logbook file, without resampling
- Sky Dolly logbook (SDLOG) import plugin
- All flights including all aircraft are imported, including flight information (title, comment, creation date) and flight conditions (temperature, wind conditions, runway conditions, ...)
Note: the new Sky Dolly logbook import & export plugins render the existing Sky Dolly CSV import & export obsolete: the Sky Dolly CSV import & export will be removed in an upcoming release. However other CSV import & export formats such as the flightradar24.com, FlightRecorder and position and attitude formats will remain.
- All export plugins: now only the effectively supported resampling and formation export options (as reported by the given plugin) are selectable
- All import plugins:
- The "Add to current flight" checkbox has been replaced by an aircraft import mode combo box:
- Add to current flight: all imported aircraft are added to the currently loaded flight
- Add to new flight: all imported aircraft are added to a flight that is newly created
- Separate flights: a new flight is created for each imported file
- The aircraft type selection combo box is now disabled for those formats (such as the new Sky Dolly logbook) that already specify the aircraft type
- Depending on whether the given plugin also reports the flight recording time the timestamp offset of newly imported aircraft can now be automatically adjusted:
- None: no timestamp offset is being applied
- Date and time: the timestamp offset is calculated based on the recording date and time difference between the current and each newly imported flight
- Time only: the timestamp offset is calculated based on the recording time difference between the current and each newly imported flight, but ignoring the recording date. This can be useful when importing historic real-world flights from different dates in the past into the same "formation flight", but with the goal to replay them "on the same day" (as defined by the first imported flight)
- Old plugin settings are migrated to the new import mode settings
- The "Add to current flight" checkbox has been replaced by an aircraft import mode combo box:
- The Simulation Variables dialog (key V) now also shows the aircraft position as decimal latitude & longitude values [Issue #89]
- The flight recording time in the Flight dialog (key F) is now empty for new flights (without any recording)
- As before it is updated when the first aircraft is being recorded
- The recording time text field tooltip now also shows the recording date and time converted to UTC ("zulu time"), including seconds
- The flight title and description are now also editable during recording. Because why not :)
- It is now possible to clear a flight via the menu Replay | Clear. Clearing a flight will simply unload it from memory, that is any persisted data in the logbook won't be modified
- A new recent logbooks menu allows to quickly re-open logbooks that have been opened in the past
- Drag and drop support: you can drag a Sky Dolly logbook from the Windows File Explorer onto the Sky Dolly application in order to quickly open that logbook
- The current logbook file name is now shown in the application window title
- The filter values in the Logbook module are now persisted in the application settings
- The filter and default values in the Formation module are now persisted in the application settings
- The filter values in the Location module are now automatically reset when a user location is being added, in order to make the newly added location visible
- Added five new New Zealand locations
- The timestamp for waypoints is now properly restored when reading waypoint data from the logbook
- The first aircraft position data is properly cached (not reset when timestamp is set to 0)
- Fix the flightradar24.com CSV import (wrong CSV data validation)
- Fix interpolation of first sample point in case the timestamp of the first sample point is > 0
- which may occasionally happen if position data arrives a few milliseconds ("one frame") after e.g. the first engine data sample arrives (the arrival of the first sample data starts the timer)
- Fix internal SimConnect exceptions due to duplicate "frame" systemt event subscriptions
- Flight import plugin API simplified, by introducing a new FlightData structure that allows to move flight data between Flight objects
- Modules now have module-specifc settings (like import & export plugins)
- Basic unit tests for selected import plugins
- Prevents the creation of a logbook backup each time the application is launched:
- Make sure each "bump version" migration step really has a distinct UUID
- Don't compare patch version numbers, as the database version does not increment them
- Fix a crash that may occasionally occur when quitting Sky Dolly, in case when MSFS has been closed before and an "active connection" had been established, e.g. due to a replay or recording
"Flamboyant Fokker" focuses on the migration to the Qt 6.4 framework. If you are building Sky Dolly from source then also refer to the updated BUILD.md instructions.
- The new Qt 6 framework also provides initial support for "dark mode"
- As this is still considered "work in progress" in Qt 6.4 the "dark mode" is not enabled by default
- However you can already enable it by providing the following command line arguments:
- For the "Windows" style:
SkyDolly.exe -platform windows:darkmode=2
- For the "Fusion" style that currently looks better in "dark mode":
SkyDolly.exe -platform windows:darkmode=2 -style=fusion
- For the "Windows" style:
- Once the option "darkmode=2" has been set Sky Dolly will then follow the Windows "dark mode" settings
- Unfortunately the "Windows Vista" style (default style on Windows) won't support "dark mode" (due to underlying Win32 API limitations - also refer to QTBUG-72028
- The internal event state is now reset whenever replay is resumed
- This improves the situation where the flaps handle lever is initially in the wrong position due to multiple consecutive "timeline seek" operations
- The flaps handle lever will now go into the correct position during replay, upon the next "flaps event"
- Note that this is due to the "asynchronous nature" ("real-time update") of the flaps handle index simulation variable update that some aircraft have in place (specifically the PMDG 737)
- Upgrade Qt to version 6.4.2 (from version 5.15.2)
- Upgrade GeographicLib to version 2.1.2 (from version 1.52)
- Upgrade ordered-map to version 1.1.0 (from version 1.0.0)
- Use the C++20 standard (from C++17)
- Use named database connections: foundation import/export plugins that use the database (Sky Dolly logbook, *.sdlog) format
- "Orphaned create AI object" requests are now properly handled (the just created AI object is destroyed again) when the original request has already been removed in the meantime (e.g. due to a failed aircraft import)
- When importing a file (e.g. CSV format) without waypoint information the created waypoints have now guaranteed a unique timestamp
- Specifically in the case when only one position sample ("parked aircraft") exist
- Properly restore the default "show replay speed" option (applied when entering minimal UI mode) from the application settings
"Ethereal Embraer" focuses on improved 3rd-party aircraft support, especially "for the big birds".
- Improved replay specifically with 3rd party aircraft [Issue #73], for:
- Primary and secondary flight controls (ailerons, flaps, spoilers, ...)
- Engine (thrust lever)
- Aircraft handles (gear, wing folding, tailhook, ...)
- Improved replay for AI aircraft ("formation flight"):
- Animated ailerons, elevator and rudder
- Less SimConnect data sent
- New location categories, including improved CSV import & export with Little Navmap v2.8.8
- Addon, Cabin, Carrier, History, Obstacle, Oil Platform, Settlement
- When pausing recording the simulation is now also paused
- No need to "repeat flaps" in settings anymore (improved secondary flight controls replay)
- Added new flight information simulation variables (dialog Flight -> Conditions):
- Surface condition (normal, wet, icy, snow)
- On any runway
- On parking spot
- Increasing the replay speed now also increases the simulation rate (up to a maximum rate of 16x)
- The simulation rate is a power of 2: 0.25, 0.5, 1.0, 2.0, 4.0, 8.0, 16.0 - the nearest simulation rate is chosen, given the current replay speed
- Note: certain aircraft may reduce or even fix the simulation rate to 1.0 (for instance the Fenix A320)
- When the 'Add to flight' option is enabled and import fails then no empty (no recorded data) aircraft is left in the formation
- Small performance improvements
- Fix "ailerons reversal" (Asobo A320neo, F/A-18 and other aircraft with "PID controllers")
- Actual root cause (in MSFS/SimConnect): MSFS seems to expect "feet per second" instead of "radians per second" for "rotation velocity body" (radians per second would actually be the correct physical unit for rotation velocity)
- Ensure that all "position" and "percent" values as reported by MSFS are clamped to the proper range ([-1.0, 1.0] and [0, 100] respectively)
- Fix a crash in the Formation module that would occur when trying to delete the last aircraft from the aircraft table
- The mixture lever position is now properly initialised from "percent" (instead of "position") values:
- during "flight augmentation" ("flight augmentation" is applied when importing flights from e.g. flightradar24.com or flightaware.com)
- during IGC import (when detecting "engine noise" in the IGC data)
- In the Simulation Variables dialog (and elsewhere) ensure that at least one recorded data sample exist before accessing the "last" entry
- Prevent access to invalidated data upon application termination when either the Flight, Simulation Variables or Statistics dialog was open before quitting the application (rare race condition)
- Properly spell "airport" in the location CSV export in Little Navmap format (fix typo)
"Dapper Daher" introduced location import and export.
- New location export plugin
- Sky Dolly CSV export
- Little Navmap userpoint CSV export
- New location import plugin
- Sky Dolly CSV import
- Little Navmap userpoint CSV import
- Flight CSV export
- The Sky Dolly CSV export now uses comma (,) instead of tab stops as value delimiters
- Size of file reduced, rounding numbers to two decimal places (except latitude and longitude values that are rounded to six decimal places)
- Location module
- A new update button which updates the selected location with the current location in the flight simulator (sytem locations cannot be updated)
- Automatically scrolls to the newly inserted item (with any column sorting enabled)
- Additional system locations (101 in total)
- Locations can now be filtered with keywords, by country and category
- The location count is shown
- The system locations migration file, located at [Sky Dolly installation directory]/Resources/migr/Locations.csv, is now optional and can be deleted
- A new "Only this time" backup option has been added to the backup dialog: selecting this option will create a backup, but will then set the backup period to "Never" afterwards
- Added default aircraft types from simulation update 11 ("40th anniversary update"), for aircraft selector combo box (flight import)
- Position data is now interpolated within an "infinite interpolation window"
- Imported flight plans (e.g. GPX flight plans from Little Navmap) with "sparse waypoints" are now properly replayed
- Flight Recorder CSV import now also imports "propeller lever position"
- The keyword search text line edit widgets now have a "clear text" button
- The various tabs in the Flight information dialog (Description, Aircraft, Conditions and Flight Plan) are now properly updated when importing a flight or loading a flight from the logbook
- Imported "Historical flights" - that is to say, any real-world flight done before August 2020 - are now properly shown in the Logbook
- While the date August 18 2020, the birthday of MSFS, was certainly a reasonable choice for recorded flights...
- ... the date December 17 1903, the day of the first flight in human history, is certainly a safer bet when it comes to tracked (and imported) flights ;)
- Correct country name of Qatar
- Prevent teleportation by double-click on location ID during replay
- Fixed the TAB order in the Logbook and Location module
- AI aircraft data structures are now properly removed upon disconnect from MSFS: AI aircraft are hence properly re-created when re-connecting to the newly launched MSFS
- Rule of Zero, copy-and-swap [Back to Basics: RAII and the Rule of Zero - Arthur O'Dwyer - CppCon 2019]
- Thread-safe access to singletons [Back to Basics: Concurrency - Arthur O'Dwyer - CppCon 2020]
- "Const pimpl" pattern (where applicable) [CppCon 2016: Herb Sutter “Leak-Freedom in C++... By Default.”]
- Value-based aircraft list (CPU cache optimisation)
- Small performance optimisations such as return value optimisation and memory pre-allocation
- Replace regular expression etc. based CSV parsers by new CSV parser (very much inspired by Little Navmap CSV parser implementation)
"Celestial Cessna" introduces the "Location" module. And
- Location module
- Capture and teleport to locations in the flight simulator
- Manually add and edit locations
- Comes with an intial set of "system" locations (currently non-deleteable by design)
- Stores also pitch, bank, heading and initial speed
- Country list according to List of Country Codes [Wikipedia]
- Copy coordinates e.g. from Google maps and paste them (CTRL + V) into the Location module
- Various supported formats, e.g.
- 46.94809 7.44744
- 46.94809, 7.44744
- 46°56'53.12" N 7°26'50.78" E
- 46°56'53.12" N, 7°26'50.78" E
- 7°26'50.78" E 46°56'53.12" N
- 7°26'50.78" E, 46°56'53.12" N
- And other variants of the DMS notation
- Various supported formats, e.g.
- Renamed 'velocity' (= a vector) to 'speed' (= a value) where appropriate
- When starting a new recording the user aircraft is now updated in the logbook as soon as it becomes available
- The aircraft table in the Formation module is now updated by row (instead of the entire table) upon time offset changes
- The window is properly resized when in minimal mode and the default non-essential button visibility is changed in the settings
- Selection in the Logbook and Formation modules is now properly taking table reordering into account
- The Formation module is properly updated when a new logbook is opened or created
- Formation module: manually adjusted table column is kept when recording a new aircraft
- The modules (Logbook, Formation, Location) are now implemented as plugins
- The modules are topologically sorted, based on their defined dependencies
- "Persisted enumerations": dropdown combo boxes are automatically populated based on the persisted enumeration values
- Sky Dolly now also compiles and links with the Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 C++ compiler (MSVC)
- The code is now also analysed for programming / security flaws with the Microsoft C++ Code Analysis Action
- The maximum time of the replay timer is properly set after recording
- Apply relative position when Set relative position is enabled and Fly with formation is selected
This release mostly focuses on "under the hood" improvements, but also improves on existing functionality like the AI aircraft management.
- No sequence numbers added anymore to export filename in case the flight has only one aircraft and All aircraft is selected
- IGC & GXP import
- An option to convert from the WGS84 reference ellipsoid to the earth gravity model (EGM2008) geoid altitude has been added (enabled by default)
- Note: both the IGC and GPX specifications state that the GNSS altitude (elevation) refer to the WGS84 reference ellipsoid, but not every IGC/GPX file necessarily conforms to the specification and may contain earth gravity model (EGM) geoid altitudes (above sea level) instead
- IGC & GPX export
- The altitude is converted from the geoid (EGM2008) to height above the WGS84 reference ellipsoid
- CSV export
- A new position and attitude format has been added, exporting the position, pitch, bank, heading and speed, including UTC timestamps
- The order of the logbook table columns can now be changed
- The flight being recorded is now also shown in the logbook: the red airplane indicates this (in analogy to the Formation module)
- Improved AI aircraft management
- Minimised create / delete AI aircraft requests when switching the user aircraft or removing an aircraft
- A new set relative position option allows to keep the user aircraft at its current position, instead of placing it relative to the current formation user (reference) aircraft upon recording or replay
- When the set relative position option is unchecked then the current user aircraft position remains unchanged when
- Recording starts
- The reference aircraft in the formation is changed
- The relative bearing or distance is changed
- Otherwise the current user aircraft is positioned in relation to the reference aircraft
- So if you ever wanted to record two aircraft playing "chicken" by starting from opposite ends of some runway... this is your opportunity ;)
- When the set relative position option is unchecked then the current user aircraft position remains unchanged when
- The order of the formation aircraft table columns can now be changed
- The Delete key now deletes the selected aircraft
- The reference aircraft in the formation table changes colour to green when setting the replay mode to fly with formation, indicating that the user controls an "extra" user aircraft (which is initially placed relative to the green reference aircraft)
- Minor layout adjustments
- Button texts, non-essential buttons and the replay speed are now automatically hidden when switching into minimal UI mode
- This behaviour (the default visibility while in the minimal UI mode) can be defined with new options in the Settings | User Interface section
- The replay speed visibility can now also be toggled while in minimal UI mode
- Latitude and longitude values are now formatted with leading zeroes
- The recording timer is now always incremented, even (especially) when no sample data is currently being recorded (no value changes, e.g. typically for a "cold and dark" aircraft)
- Added and improved tooltips
- All question and information dialogs now have an explanatory title
- Tables now have alternating colours per row
- A question and confirmation dialog is now shown before and after logbook optimisation, also showing the before and after file sizes (after the optimisation)
- Dialogs (Flight, Simulation Variables, Statistics) are now (only) created on demand and immediatelly released after use, resulting in a smaller memory footprint
- The About dialog
- Now contains references to used third party libraries and tools
- Allows to copy the (extended) version information into the clipboard by clicking onto it
- Small layout improvements
- In the logbook module the date selection column width is now properly calculated (no month name is truncated)
- The position slider is now properly updated whenever an aircraft is removed or its time offset has been changed
- When pausing a recording (yes, that's actually possible ;)) the "recording timer" is only restarted in case no event-based recording is done (but a "timer-based recording" instead)
- The Window | Minimal menu entry is now properly synchronised (unchecked) when the module is changed while in "minimal UI" mode (e.g. by pressing F1 or F2, or via the Module menu)
- File paths are converted to native separators when shown in dialog boxes to the user
- The Settings dialog is now created on demand. This also fixes an issue with dialog z-ordering when the main application window is switched to "Stay on Top"
- Depending on the selected module the persistence of a flight is different (single aircraft vs formation flight). In order not to mess up the persistence logic switching modules is now disabled while recording
- In order to prevent data loss when recording a flight the following functionality is now properly disabled during recording:
- No existing flight can be loaded (including by double-clicking onto a logbook row)
- No user aircraft can be switched in the formation (including by double-cicking onto an aircraft in the formation table)
- Creating a new logbook or opening an existing one is disabled
- Quitting the application (with CTRL + Q or File | Quit) will properly stop and persist an ongoing recording
- Introduction of the GeographicLib (https://geographiclib.sourceforge.io/)
- Calculating undulation values (conversion between geoid and WGS84 reference ellipsoid altitudes)
- Geodesic calculations (distance, azimuth, relative position)
- Refactored the build system ("modern CMake")
- Resources like the undulation file can be auomatically (optionally) downloaded at build configuration time (refer to the BUILD.d instructions for details
- Third-party libraries (git submodules) like the GeographicLib are automatically checked out
- The environment variable MSFS_SDK is now queried in order to detect the MSFS SDK install path
- Model classes refactoring
- Template based, in order to reduce repetitive code
- Qt Signas and slots re-wiring
- Plugin management refactoring
- Plugin managers are now in a common PLuginManager library
- Plugins are now built after the main application
- Especially on macOS this allows to place the plugins inside the previously built application bundle
- And finally... on macOS the application icon set is now automatically generated at build time
"Beasty Boeing" adds two new export plugins (JSON and GPX) and improves various existing import and export plugins.
- JSON export plugin
- Export in GeoJSON format
- Including style properties, interpreted e.g by https://geojson.io
- GPX export plugin
- Timestamps are based on either simulation or recording time; the later being useful for GPS-tagging screenshots taken during flight recording
- All import plugins
- An entire directory can now be imported at once:
- All imported files are imported as distinct flights or
- All imported aircraft are added to the same newly created flight ("formation flight")
- An entire directory can now be imported at once:
- All export plugins
- File existence is checked before overwriting existing files
- An export option for formation flights:
- Only export the current user aircraft
- All aircraft are exported into a single file (if supported by the file format, e.g. KML, GPX and GeoJSON)
- All aircraft are exported into separate files
- Resampling ("original sample rate", "1 Hz", "2 Hz", "5 Hz", ...) is now supported by all export plugins
- CSV export plugin
- The plugin now also exports flightradar24.com CSV format
- IGC export plugin
- The true heading (HDT) and indicated airspeed (IAS, in km/h) are now exported (in K records)
- KML export plugin
- The LineStrings are now exported as connected multi-geometry lines (no point limit anymore)
- Reduced the number of fractional digits to 6, reducing file size while still providing a practical precision in the range of centimeters (also refer to the mandatory XKCD)
- Miscellaneous
- Add shortcuts to dialog buttons
- The recording time is now shown in the Flight dialog
- Use title-case for all push buttons
- Add additional aircraft types (F/A 18, PC-6, Pitts Special, NX Cub, Volocity) from sim update 7 for the import aircraft selection
- Note: third-party aircraft types are automatically made available in the aircraft selection once recorded at least once
- The new Help menu contains a link to a "work in progress" online manual
- The flight creation date & time is now properly set when a recording (of the first aircraft) starts (not when the flight is persisted only)
- The logbook now properly shows simulation start- and end times (not local times)
- The IGC export plugin now properly exports simulation timestamps (not local timestamps)
"Anarchic Airbus" introduces various new import and export plugins: IGC, GPX and CSV (flightradar24).
- IGC export plugin [Issue #15]
- Export flight path (position and GNSS altitude)
- Export waypoints as flight tasks ("C records")
- Export pilot names
- GPX import plugin [Issue #16]
- The GPX format contains three elements: waypoints, routes and tracks
- Waypoints are typically "places to visit" along the way
- Routes describe "how to get there"
- Tracks contain the actually travelled path (typically recorded with a GPS device)
- The import dialog allows to select which elements to use for flight waypoints and the actual flown path
- It also offers a default altitude and speed, as timestamps and elevation values are optional values in the GPX format
- The GPX format contains three elements: waypoints, routes and tracks
- CSV import plugin
- The following CSV formats are now supported:
- CSV from flightradar24.com
- CSV from Flight Recorder
- The following CSV formats are now supported:
- KML import plugin
- The following KML formats are now supported:
- KML from flightradar24.com
- Generic KML documents containing at least one <gx:Track> element
- The following KML formats are now supported:
- Import
- The aircraft selection combo box is now editable, with autocompletion support
- The selected aircraft is now stored in the settings
- IGC import plugin
- The initial heading is now calculated on the first significant movement, compensating GPS inaccuracies (when the glider is standing still on the ground)
- Date and time of turn points (waypoints) defined by the task list (C records) are now updated with the actual flight time, based on the closest flown position
- Environmental noise level (ENL) determines the engine state (on/off, propeller lever)
- Logbook
- The Delete key now deletes the selected flight
- Columns will only be resized to content upon first data load; afterwards manual column resizing won't be changed
- Replay
- A replay loop button has been added: when enabled the replay restarts at the beginning whenever the end is reached
- In the settings the seek interval is now settable with a spinbox instead of a text field
- Recording
- The simulation variable indicated airspeed is now also recorded (however only for analytical purposes - e.g. exported as pressure altitude in the new IGC export plugin)
- The spoiler position value is now properly shown as percent (instead of raw number) in the Simulation Variables dialog
- For clarity the field is now also labeled spoiler position (instead of just spoiler)
- Switched internal leading/trailing flaps position unit from percent to position
- The greater precision (32767 vs 255 possible values) gets rid of the flaps sound stutter (e.g. audible in the cockpit of the A320neo)
- Sky Dolly wants and promotes peace
- IGC import plugin
- The International Gliding Commission (IGC) approved flight recorder format for gliders
- Basic header data (H records) import (pilot names, glider type and ID)
- Basic position (B records (fix)) import
- Basic task (C records) import (waypoints)
- Typo: plural of aircraft is aircraft (credits: Stefano Caporelli, Youtube comment Sky Dolly - Formation Flying)
- KML import plugin
- Flight augmentation (adding flight procedures, aircraft attitude etc.) does properly terminate when imported flight duration is less than 3 minutes
- Validate the number of imported positions
- Show a simple error message in case of import failure
- KML import plugin which imports KML flight data from flightaware.com
- Dates and times are now properly displayed using the system locale (e.g. "8/5/2021" or "5.8.2021" for dates like "August 5 2021",
"5:35 PM" or "17:35" for times)
- Date and time table items are now also properly sorted, regardless of their locale representation
- Logbook: the date column of the date chooser widget is now properly resized according to its content (month names)
- The initial speed when recording a new formation aircraft is now properly set (indicated airspeed, as opposed to true airspeed)
- Note that the conversion from true to indicated airspeed is currently done with a rule of thumb only
- https://www.pilotmall.com/blogs/news/how-to-calculate-true-airspeed-and-what-it-is-guide
- Depending on the altitude and especially pressure there might still be a substantial difference to the actual indicated airspeed
- Export
- Illegal file path characters are replaced by _ in the initially suggested file path
- KML export: exported character data (title, description) is properly enclosed in a CDATA tag
- Properly update AI aircraft when deleting the user aircraft during replay
- The main window is now made a parent of the KML export dialog, making sure that the export dialog is always centered and on top of the main window
- Especially when the Stay on Top option is enabled for the main window
- The initial speed in fly with formation replay mode is now properly set
- Properly converted from feet/s to knots
- Properly converted from true to indicated airspeed (the SIMCONNECT_DATA_INITPOSITION structure really seems to expected indicated airspeed)
- Starting the recording of the first aircraft directly in the Formation module would teleport the aircraft to be recorded right to the North Pole (0/0 longitude/latitude)
- The relative initial recording position calculation now properly checks the returned null position value
- Creating new logbooks works again
- an attempt was made to create a backup before migration of a non-existing database
This release introduces a new plugin architecture for import and export plugins.
- Plugin architecture
- Import CSV plugin
- Aircraft can now be added to existing flights (multiplayer formation flying)
- Select the aircraft type (used when spawning AI aircraft in formation flights)
- Aircraft types (name, number of engines, wingspan, ...) are constantly updated upon flight recordings
- The default aircraft of MSFS are already in the logbook and hence immediatelly selectable when importing a CSV file
- Also refer to new time offset feature in the Formation module which is useful to synchronise multiplayer formation flights, see below
- Export CSV plugin
- Export KML plugin ("Google Earth")
- Basic line style settings
- Plugin settings are persisted in Sky Dolly application settings
- SkyConnect plugin architecture
- SimConnect plugin (currently Microsoft Flight Simulator (MSFS) only)
- Auto-detection of installed flight simulator (automatic plugin selection)
- Plugin changeable at runtime via Settings dialog
- Import CSV plugin
- Logbook
- Filtering of flights
- By date via creation date tree widget
- Search field which matches the flight title, user aircraft and destinations
- Engine type (jet, piston, turboprop, ...)
- Formation flights (flights having more than one aircraft)
- The selected user aircraft is now shown in the flight log table (previously: simply the first recorded aircraft of the formation was shown)
- Filtering of flights
- Formation
- A time offset can be added to the selected aircraft, effectively shifting it back or forth on the timeline
- This is useful for multiplayer formation flights in order to synchronise the imported aircraft (also see CSV import plugin above)
- A new fly with formation replay mode has been added:
- All previously recorded aircraft are replayed
- You fly with your currently loaded user aircraft with the formation (in addition to the recorded aircraft)
- Take control of recorded user aircraft still exists
- You can now switch control between user aircraft (also during replay), by double-clicking on the aircraft in the Formation table (or push the Set User Aircraft button)
- Pause will now also freeze the user aircraft
- For both fly with formation and Take control replay modes
- Additionally in fly with formation replay mode user aircraft can be re-positioned relative to the recorded user aircraft in the formation while paused, by clicking on one of the relative positions
- Aircraft can now also be deleted from a formation flight during (paused) replay
- A time offset can be added to the selected aircraft, effectively shifting it back or forth on the timeline
- Better support for aircraft engine start & shutdown
- Additional simulation variables
- Combustion
- Smoke enabled/disabled (at the time of this writing not yet supported by Microsoft Flight Simulator)
- Database performance improvements:
- Forward queries
- Normalisation of aircraft type data (new table - less storage space required)
- A new View menu has been added, providing options to show/hide various UI elements such as the module selector
- Logbook backup can now be scheduled, the logbook settings are now in the File menu
- Once a month
- Once a week
- Daily
- Never or whenever exiting Sky Dolly
- Older logbooks are not backed up before migration
- This can be disabled in the new Logbook Settings (File/Logbook Settings...)
- User interface and usability refinments
- Active icons
- Small layout optimisations
- Creating a new logbook now changes into parent directory of the actual logbook directory, when logbook file name (without extension) corresponds with the parent directory name
- E.g. when creating a new logbook, when the existing one is c:\Users\The User\Documents\Sky Dolly\Sky Dolly.sdlog, the file dialog will now start with _c:\Users\The User\Documents_
- (Previously: _c:\Users\The User\Documents\Sky Dolly_)
- The replay speed group can now be hidden has well, just like the module selector
- Both view options are now in the new View menu
- Hiding the replay speed group and then switching into minimal UI mode (key M) allows for a truly minimalistic UI now
- Note that the module selector and replay speed group view visibiliites cannot be toggled while in minimal UI: switch to normal UI (key M) first
- Sky Dolly logbooks (*.sdlog) can now be associated with the Sky Dolly application: they will be opened upon double-click on the logbook (file)
- Associating *.sdlog files with SkyDolly.exe needs to be manually done for now (right-click on file, Open with..., choose SkyDolly.exe)
- Pressing the same shortcut for the Show Flight|Simulation Variables|Statistics (keys F, V and S respectively) now closes the corresonding dialog again
- Proper HiDPI support on Windows
- Only the database version is now read from the metadata table when comparing versions
- Related metadata tables and columns may change in future versions, resulting in an SQL error when trying to read the entire metadata table
This release introduces the Formation module.
- New module: Formation - record an unlimited number of aircraft and replay them altogher, with one single user interface
- Simply add new aircraft to the formation by clicking the record button while in the Formation module (the plus (+) sign inidcates that aircraft are being added)
- Previously recorded aircraft are replayed during recording of the new aircraft
- Change the user aircraft (the one which is being followed by the camera) at any time during replay
- Take control over the user aircraft any time during replay: manually fly it at any time (and give control back to replay at any time)
- Delete aircraft from a formation
- Set the position (relative to the current user aircraft) for the new aircraft to be recorded
- All aircraft are automatically persisted and added to the current flight
- The logbook now shows the number of aircraft per flight
- Start a new flight (starting with a single aircraft) by switching into the Logbook module
- The existing Simulation Variables and Flight dialogs show data about the currently selected user aircraft
- The module selector may be hidden
- Reduced data size of requested simulation variables
- Make sure that the delete flight confirmation dialog is on top of the main window (specifically when the stay on top option is enabled)
- Only the database version is now read from the metadata table when comparing versions
- Related metadata tables and columns may change in future versions, resulting in an SQL error when trying to read the entire metadata table
- The logbook (database) version is compared with the current Sky Dolly application version
- Newer logbooks are not opened with older Sky Dolly applications
- The user is offered the options to either create a new or open another (existing) logbook, or to cancel the operation
- The logbook table (in the user interface) is cleared upon logbook (database) disconnection
- Decimal points in logbook file names are not swallowed anymore (e.g. My Logbook v0.6.sdlog is a perfectly fine filename)
- UI elements such as Record and CSV Import/Export are now properly enabled or disabled based on the logbook (database) connection status
- Fix "logboog" typo in message
- Improve minimal UI switching
- Don't reset the elapsed time to 0 when unpausing a recording
- Keep displayed time when pausing a replay (don't set to total replay time)
- Automatically connect with simulator when seeking position
- Also pause the initially loaded flight
- When repeat values is enabled then also repeat values with zero value (e.g. canopy closed)
- Automatically reconnect in case the SimConnect server (flight simulator) has crashed
- Also store the flight into the logbook if a paused recording is stopped
- Don't request SIMCONNECT_PERIOD_NEVER twice (e.g. when stopping a paused recording): prevent SIMCONNECT_EXCEPTION_UNRECOGNIZED_ID server exception
- Ensure that waypoints have distinct timestamp (prevent database unique constraint violation)
This release introdcues the logbook, an SQLite based database.
- Add SQLite database support (logbook) for persistence
- Each flight is automatically persisted
- Simple load / delete functionality
- DB backup and optimisation functionality
- Simple logbook table which lists the recorded flights
- Each flight has an editable title and description
- The previous Scenario is now called a Flight (Flight dialog, shortcut key: F)
- Additional simulation variables support
- Waypoints (ICAO, latitude/longitude/altitude) are shown in the order of approach; each waypoint is only counted once
- Local and zulu simulation time
- Replay speed now also available in replay menu, including shortcuts: CTRL + [1 - 4] for slow motion, SHIFT + [1 - 5] for timelapse
- The custom replay speed factor can now be entered either as an absolute factor (1.0 = normal speed) or as percent (100% = normal speed)
- Remove Yoke X|Y Position simulation variables (not needed: yokes are still properly animated)
- Option to enable a minimal UI (shortcut key: M)
- The window geometry and state are persisted and restored upon application start
- New repeat values settings for selected simulation variables have been introduced: canopy and flaps
- Certain aircraft counteract the requested simulation variables, e.g. the canopy closes or the flaps retract automatically
- So with the repeat option enabled and if the given simulation variable has a value greater zero (e.g. canopy open) then its value is repeatedly sent to Flight Simulator
- The optimal settings are to disable the repeat options (in which case simulation variables are only sent when the value actually changes)
- Fixes a crash which would occur when quitting the application and when the Simulation Variables dialog was still open
- Altitude and other simulation variables measured in feet are now properly displayed with their unit ('ft')
- Replaced the non-writeable FOLDING WING HANDLE POSITION simulation variable with FOLDING WING LEFT|RIGHT PERCENT
- Properly parse the custom speed factor according to the current system locale (decimal delimiter may be , or .)
- The initial custom replay speed factor is now displayed with decimal places (e.g. 1.00 or 1,00 - to illustrate the expected decimal delimiter according to the system locale)
- Custom speed factor tooltip shows the valid value range
- Properly name simulation variable Yoke X Position (instead of Y)
- Simulation variables are now formatted according to the system locale
This release adds support for more simulation variables and reduces the amount of request data by organising the simulation variables into groups.
- Simulation variables have been split into distinct requests, saving both on required space and CPU usage
- The replay speed is now a factor instead of percentage value (1 = normal speed, 2 = double speed etc.)
- Additional simulation variables:
- Cowl flaps
- Electrical master battery
- General engine starter
- Folding wing handle
- Simulation variables now shown with units (feet, hPa, ...)
- Added a new Flight dialog, showing information about the aircraft and initial flight conditions
- The last CSV export/import directory is stored
- A basic error dialog shows when an import/export error occurs
- The seek interval can now be defined in the settings (either absolute in seconds, or in percent of the record duration)
- Do not start the elapsed timer when seeking a play position and not in replay mode (replay does not skip ahead when started)
- The time widget is now editable when replay is paused
- After importing a CSV file only pause when in connected state
- Do not start the elapsed timer when skipping to begin of recording
- Properly hide window when stay on top is deselected
This release supports additional simulation variables.
- Additional simulation variables:
- Propeller RPM
- Mixture lever positions
- Body Velocity
- Rotation Body Velocity
- Tailhook
- Canopy
- Lights (navigation, taxi, strobe, ...)
- Reduce required memory for sample points by using integer data types instead of double values for selected simulation variables
- Pause is enabled after CSV data import
- A high precision timer is used to increase the sample accuracy
- A new recording statistics dialog has been added, also showing a recorded samples per second counter
- New icons for record/play control actions
- When recording sample rate is set to 1 Hz (one sample per second) then the SimConnect request period is now also set to 1 Hz
- A new auto recording sample rate has been added
- Recording: samples are collected in an event-based manner ("as they arrive")
- Replay: samples are always sent per visual frame
- Reorganise simulation variables in tabbed widget
- Add additional flight information variables, captured once at start of recording
- Airline (Callsign)
- Flight number
- Tail number
- Wing span
- And more
- Properly reset play position to begin after importing CSV data
- Validate the CSV data upon import: specifically the first timestamp must be 0 (timestamps are shifted accordingly)
- Show simulation variables action is now deselected when the dialog is closed (via close button)
- Set the initial start position (on ground) when replay from (or seek to) start
- Prevent aircraft from dropping out of the sky after replay, by recording body velocities
- CSV import: Properly handle platform-specific line endings
This release introduces the first persistence, a simple CSV format.
- Additional simulation variables: flap positions, water ruder and brakes
- Improved position seek performance
- Skip to begin, end, forward and backward buttons
- Settings dialog with sample rate settings
- Basic CSV import & export
- Window stay on top option
- Make sure that the first sampled data properly starts with a timestamp of 0, in order to properly interpolate the requested values
- Properly close the connection when the server (flight simulator) quits
- Properly store aircraft control simulation variables, such as ailerons, yoke position, throttle, elevators and rudder
This release extends the basic recording & replay implementation.
- Recording & replay of basic flight controls (rudder, ailerons, flaps, gear, ...)
- Updated user interface
- Separate Simulation Variables dialog
- Simulation variables are now also shown during replay (in the new Simulation Variables dialog)
- Add record/play/pause actions, with keyboard shortcuts (r = record, space = play, p = pause)
- Validate the recorded simulation variables, specifically the position (sending invalid values back freezes or even crashes MSFS)
- Properly store the already elapsed time when changing the replay speed, for a smooth continuation of the replay
This release implements basic recording & replay functionality.
- Basic recording functionality: record, pause
- Basic aircraft data is recorded:
- Latitude, longitude, altitude
- Pitch, bank, heading
- Aircraft info: on ground, model name
- Basic replay functionality: play, pause, select replay position
- Selectable replay speed
- n/a