Version 8.06

• The total-energy variometer is now based on INDICATED airspeed, not true groundspeed; this is the way real total-energy varios work.
  

• The visual flight model ('/' key a few times to see it in different levels) now shows the PROPELLER forces per element... it's cool to see the varying lift distributions on helicopters and VTOLS when they are moving forwards rapidly, creating all sorts of strange asymmetric effects!
  

• Control systems with artificial stability can "flutter" at low frame-rates. While this can never be totally avoided (you need some speed to run a flight-control computer!) the worst-case flutter condition has been considerably reduced, improving low-frame-rate artificial stability, of course with no detriment to the high-frame-rate cases.
  

• New joystick buttons options: speedbrakes retract 1 notch, speedbrakes extend one notch... as well, if you hit the retract button when the brakes are already retracted, the brakes go the "auto-deploy" mode.
  

• Set the initial THROTTLE now in the map view when placing aircraft by clicking on the various maps. Kind of nice.

• Elec system: The battery voltage indicators now indicate the bus voltage, as in the real airplane... Turning on the generators will show a higher voltage if the generators are able to turn out more voltage than the battery... this is dependant on whether the generators are on, the engine they are connected to is turning fast enough, and they have not broken!
  

• Mods to the GPS NMEA output should allow altitude display on more receivers.

• bug-fix: ADF 1/2 really does show both ADG-1 and ADF-2!

• bug-fix: sim could crash in certain weather conditions... fixed now

• bug fix: if you select the "get lost" menu item when on mars, then (you guessed it) you get lost on Mars

• bug-fix: fewer (if any) "bumpy runways"

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