The latest issue of PCPilot, a popular flight simulation magazine (printed on actual paper !) is out !

Page 36 of this issue includes an article I wrote about the Flight Simulator Project, how it started, what's fun in developing it, what's not ...

I haven't had the chance to get my hands on a copy yet, I'm really impatient !

Many thanks go to Mark Embleton and Derek Davis for giving me this opportunity.
Not so many thanks go to my spam filter who almost made me lose this chance to talk about the Flight Simulator Project.

One last thing, it seems that a bug appears on some users with the latest version (exception at launch time), I'm in the process of identifying it and will fix it as soon as possible. If the latest version doesn't work for you, try the previous ;-)

Happy Landings !

Last Saturday, I released a new version of FSP. This version includes the following:

Changes in version 1.0.2107 (2005-10-08) :
- Added Com/Nav Radios
- Added a DME
- Added a Contrast/Saturation/Brightness Filter
- Added an option in the Options window to disable the post processing filters (for better performance)
- Added a new aircraft: Cessna 172SP
- Added Google Earth Communication!
- Added a tower view
- Added a Replay
- Added DEM support
- Added Fullerton (KFUL)
- Fixed a bug that was screwing up the lighting inside the airplane
- Tuned evening and sunset colors

So in short, lots of changes.

One note though, there's a bug with frequency tuning on the NAV instrument. The frequencies are not properly set. This has been fixed since and will be included in a later release.

One other note about the people in general...
I added two new questions in the FAQ because apparently people think:
- FSP is a side project of a Microsoft developer (http://del.icio.us/tag/simulator?setcount=100 search for : FlightSimulatorBeta)
- FSP is FS2006 ... (http://flyawaysimulation.com/postt8779.html)

Of course, this is *NOT TRUE* ...

Happy Landings