Still a few days left. I'm not getting happy until I have flown at least 100 hours with the new IPC link system (currently 74.8 hours).
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Hello,
I think I have found a way to import Airac cycles into Super Flight Planner 4, which is a feature which was available in SFP3 through SFPTools but no longer now...
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Here is a screenshot of the new autopilot, as you may see it's built upon the model found in FS2004's Boeing 777 (simple and complete with almost all autopilot switches). The new autopilot feature is now finished and fully functional.

Meantime, new ideas coming out: do not strip the old Fly-To routines (which are still fully functional, I have just commented out the source code), yet improve them by adding "Fly To Plan Waypoint" and "Flight Flight Plan" (a Super Flight Planner internally simulated GPS). Another is "Do a 360 deg turn", to avoid FS ATC coming out with "Please expedit descent to etc. etc.". The plane will do a complete 360 turn while keep on descending. Chances are I can add these new features with final release.

Hello guys,
I'm here to talk about the progress done on Super Flight Planner project so far. Next release should be ready at about end of next week . I'm now fine-tuning the new IPC system which already works flawlessly here; I will also see whether I'd had some time left to provide a simple radio stack, as well [...]

Hello all,
as usual, I'm here to post the Super Flight Planner periodical development progress which is quite active right now, I think... Several bugs (but they was more like code-lacks) have been discovered and addressed successfully. One in special was in the creation of FSX flight plans. It seems that Flight Simulator GPS doesn't like when second fields in latitude/longitude are equal to 0 or equal to 60. As such, values like E 180:0:0 or N 18:23:60 are driving it crazy. My latitude/longitude routine was lacking a control to clamp second values in a range from 0.01 to 59.99. Now, this check is done so that E 180 will become E 179:59.99 and N 0 will become N0:0:0.1. The same patch has been applied also to the module that exports flight plans to FS2004. Other small workarounds have been added to flight plan recalculation routines in order to avoid less frequent calculus errors. The development continues with the improvements over FS Link system (click on the title to read the rest)...

Hello People
I would like to inform I have successfully implemented the first one of the several steps necessary to bring fresh air to the Flight Simulator link interface. The first job has been the reengineering of the existing IPC routines.

I have heavily changed the code in order to strip out access violation issues given by multi-threading.

The link routine now doesn't talk directly to Moving Map any longer, it instead uses multi thread windows to exchange data throught the Windows message processing queue, making the code virtually AV safe. The code is a little bit slower (unnoticeable however) while the planner still runs smoothly. I can see the result of my efforts by having Super Flight Planner and FSX running and linked together on my desktop since almost 8 hours without any error at all...

With the upcoming of Super Flight Planner Release Candidate 3, I have purposes to start to focus on how to improve quality of existing software features and speed optimization,

Hello,
Glad to inform Super Flight Planner 4 Release Candidate 3 has been released and is now available for downloads. It took two months to complete this release and we have quite a lot of improvements and bottlenecks removals. You will enjoy the new map navaid symbols, the way they are drawn now compares almost if not totally with the quality offered by commercial flight planning systems. Slow old chunks of code have been replaced by new faster routines, in order to achieve a range of 15% to 50% speed increase. And finally, the new Pilot Logbook system... (click on article title to read the rest)

The amount of mail I receive about the comparison of Super Flight Planner versus other products is not too relevant but it's not too few anyway....

Glad to inform Super Flight Planner development is close to next step: if all goes well, new version will be available among next Friday/Saturday.

Meantime I would like to introduce a great improvement which is definitively going to turn navaids display to a really impressive stage. To understand what I mean, just click on the picture above and see how VOR and NDB are going to be drawn now.

NOTE: to better render the navaids Super Flight Planner has been configured with white background.

Happy flying,
Alex.