MSFS: World Update 2 uitgebracht

Vandaag heeft Asobo versie 1.11.6.0 uitgebracht van Microsoft Flight Simulator. Deze update bevat een aantal verbeteringen, maar brengt ook World Update 2 met zich mee. World Update 2 richt zich op de Verenigde Staten. Na installatie van de update dien je de World Update gratis te downloaden vanuit de in-game Marketplace. Hieronder de toevoegingen op een rijtje.

World Update 2:

Airports

• KATL – Atlanta International
• KFHR – Friday Harbor
• KDFW – Dallas / Fort Worth International Airport (DFW)
• KSWF – New York Stewart International Airport

Points of Interest

• Chimney Rock
• Crazy Horse Memorial
• Pilgrim Monument, Provincetown MA
• Fort Jefferson
• Washington Monument, Washington DC
• Capitol, Washington DC
• White House, Washington DC
• Wright Brothers National Memorial
• Mount Rushmore
• Biltmore Estate
• Devils Tower
• New River Gorge Bridge
• United States National Arboretum
• Bixby Creek Bridge
• Chesapeake Bay Bridge
• Sunshine Skyway Bridge
• Mackinac Bridge
• Navajo Bridge
• Astoria-Megler Bridge
• U.S. Grant Bridge
• Lowry Avenue Bridge
• Lewis and Clark Bridge
• The Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge
• Fort Knox
• Monument Rocks National Natural
• Coronado Heights Castle
• Ellis County Courthouse
• Monument Valley
• Yosemite El Capitan
• Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde, Colorado
• Shiprock, New Mexico
• Haystack Rock at Canon, Oregon
• Half Dome, Yosemite
• Dworshak Dam
• Hoover Dam
• Oroville Dam
• Alcatraz (water tower and lighthouse only)
• Fort McHenry, Baltimore
• Rainbow Bridge, Niagara Falls
• Glen Canyon Dam
• Las Vegas Strip (Night)
• Confederation Bridge
• Johnson Space Center Houston (visitor’s center)
• Kennedy Space Center Florida (visitors center)
• Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (memorial site)
• Mauna Kea Observatory, Hawaii
• National Radio Astronomy Observatory
• Gulf of Mexico, Oil Rigs
• Airport Graveyard, Tucson

Overige patch notes:

PERFORMANCE AND STABILITY

• Several crashes were fixed to improve overall stability of the title
• Optimization on photogrammetry loading
• Offline air traffic aircraft are now properly removed at a long distance. This caused a performance degradation over time.

PLANES

• From handling and flight model improvements to auto-pilot fixes, a general review of all planes has been made for this update.

AIRLINERS

• Fixed: Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental fuel consumption issue
• Fixed: Airbus A320neo fuel consumption issue
• Reduced yaw oscillation on the Airbus A320neo by further reducing yaw gain

GENERAL AVIATION AIRCRAFT

• Pipistrel Virus SW121: Fixed – Cruise speed adjusted (previously too low) in the aircraft selection menu
• Cessna 152: 5% more elevator authority
• Cirrus SR22: Fixed – The mixture control is no longer set to Automixture
• Cessna 208 B Grand Caravan EX: Fixed – invisible spoiler removed
• EXTRA 330LT : Engine reactivity increased
• EXTRA 330LT : Fixed full castoring tail wheel animation and allowed up to 90° rotation
• Robin Cap10 : Allowed 90° range of motion for full castering rear wheel

Garmin glass cockpit equipped aircraft:

• Added visual notification on PFD when deactivating AP
• Flight director is now automatically turned on when AP is enabled and cannot be disabled

UI

• The data consumption value calculation has been fixed
• Fix input feedback on some devices
• The livery name should now be correctly displayed in the menus
• The weather image in the flight plan should now be correct in all cases
• Some accuracy for the live time have been fixed
• Fixed an issue that prevented the checklist eye button to be selected
• The bushtrip menu should no longer freeze
• Switching from online to offline in the menu should no longer freeze the title
• Fixed some behaviors that resulted in having the World map search not responding

INPUT

• Honeycomb Bravo Throttle Quadrant default preset has been added (GA Twin engines configuration)
• CH Throttle Quadrant default preset has been added
• CH Flightstick Pro default preset has been added
• CH Combatstick default preset has been added

ACTIVITY

• The logbook should now properly log unfinished flights (either via return to main menu or via landing and shutting down the engine and Master)
• The landing challenge target should now be properly displayed after restarting the activity

WORLD

• Streetlights of smaller streets and roads should now be displayed more randomly
• Workers on an airport should no longer randomly freeze and stop being animated