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X-Plane 12.1.4 Release Notes
Release Date: January 24, 2025
New Features
New Flight Lessons with Austin
- Four new flight lessons on how to operate the Cirrus SR-22
- Three advanced lessons on how to operate the Lancair Evolution
Physics-Based Camera
- Physics-based camera for internal views (optional)
- Hand-held camera for external views (optional)
Scenery
- Improved scenery for Salzburg including Salzburg Castle as custom landmark
- Improved Salzburg Airport (IATA: SZG, ICAO: LOWS)
- New custom Barra Airport (IATA: BRR, ICAO: EGPR)
New Demo Area
- New demo area covering parts of Austria, Northern Italy, and Southern Germany
Garmin G1000 – Search and Rescue (SAR)
- New function to allow specialised flight paths when being involved in search and rescue operations
New Library Objects
- Snow and De-Icing Equipment
- Firefighting Scenarios and Ambulances
- Trucks
- Airside and Airport Operations
Gateway Airports
- New release of our Gateway Airports including 1,481 updated airports
Safe Mode
- Added a new “safe mode” in X-Plane in case of crashes because of a plugin, the save mode can also be activated manually by holding the CTRL key during startup
Fixes and Enhancements
General
- New Joystick profiles for the VKB S-TECS Throttle Mini
- Adjusted magnetic pole in X-Plane to match real world data
- Fixed an error when resizing the windows using a Wayland session on Linux
- AI aircraft will obey STAR altitude restrictions when on final (XPD-16285)
- Fixed an error when changing audio devices in the sound settings page (XPD-16365)
- Glider Tow crashes when activating TCAS Override (XPD-16422)
Aircraft
Cessna 172 SP
- Improved the climb and idle performance to better match those of the real airplane
Grumman F-14 Tomcat
- New manual on how to operate the F-14 Tomcat
ATC
- Entering an airport in the flight-plan as waypoint will no longer override the destination airport
- We’ve updated the voice pack to include additional aircraft manufacturers and models
- Don’t allow read-back before the message has been fully heard (XPD-163479)
- Pilot voice says “Ukraine International” instead of “international” at ENGM (XPD-16405)
- Many additional fixes and smaller enhancements
Scenery
- Added some “Warning Jet Blast Signs” at Princess Juliana International Airport (IATA: SXM, ICAO: TNCM)
Systems
General
- Fixed KDAB ILS7L.HANAV when flying a slow aircraft, such as the Cessna 172
- Boeing 737 autopilot turns to north upon capturing LOC instead of inbound course when flying the ILS32R at EDDK (XPD-16462)
Garmin G1000
- Pressing the small FMS knob on the MFD will no longer have an effect while being on the map display (XPD-16433)
FMS
- Fixed stutters when calculation the mach change-over altitude
Weather
- Improved the display of wind directions in the weather map
- Many improvements around the METAR reader, especially the handling of GRIB data:
- Sea-state group is recognised and ignored in METAR
- ‘M’ for ‘Missing’ is recognised and ignored in automated METAR
- More robust parsing of QFE
- No-data groups are handled fully. This should fix many cases of incorrect temperatures/wind/vis/QNH etc. where the METAR contains slashes. Previously these would leave the default – ISA – settings in place.
- Many more METARs should be read fully, instead of partially or not at all
- Zulu time is read and used to affect how much influence each METAR has on the current weather. This means you can no longer simply read the current/prior METARs and assume they will be equally weighted.
- Tops on CU/CB should no longer have a chance of being several thousand feet higher than reported in the GRIB
- METAR reporting CB no longer sets all cloud layers to CB
- CB chance is read from GRIB files and used to affect CU/CB classification
- Cloud layer blending over time for the same station changed to use the same method as elsewhere
- Cell blending changed to have smoother transitions
Web API
- Added support for calling commands using the Web API
