Autopilot difficulty factor

We are beginning to collect aircraft that demand more piloting skill, such as aircraft equipped with a two-axis autopilot or no autopilot at all.

Here are the criteria and XP bonuses the autopilot difficulty level:

• Level 0 (3-axis autopilot) – no bonus
• Level 1 (2-axis autopilot or old-fashioned autopilot) – 50% bonus
• Level 2 (no GPS following capabilities but heading hold) – 80% bonus
• Level 3 (no GPS, fully hand piloted) – 100% bonus

We will kickstart the testing process with the A2A Comanche, the classic DC-3 and Super Constellation which have difficulty levels of 1, 2 and 1 respectively. If an aircraft you are using meets one or more criteria, please post in the Autopilot Difficulty Factor Channel

Sim Rate

The current SIM rate is now displayed during flight tracking:

An optional sound is played when the Sim Rate changes.

Aircraft Types Scoring exception support

We added a mechanism to support Scoring exception on aircraft types.

Based on your feedback, the scoring system now supports these aircraft:

• Piper PA-24 Comanche
• Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet
• Rans s6
• Vertigo – Turboprop Racer
• TDFi MD-11
• BN2 islander
• BN2 trislander

We continue tracking all exceptions concerning specific aircraft that cannot comply with certain scoring rules in our ticketing system.

If you are using such an add-on, please open a ticket with the “aircraft-scoring-exception” category.

Other Changes:

• Improved the loading performance for freelance routes.
• Increased the maintenance cost penalty when ending a lease with a damaged aircraft from 10% to 25%.
• Reference flight is no longer needed to create a regular route.
• Reduced the weekly randomness of heatmap for regular routes from +-10% to +-5%.
• Factories that are inactive for one month are automatically deconstructed, and industry points are given back to the company.
• Airport ownership is released when migrating your company to another world.
• System airport ownership kits selling points will be gradually deactivated during the coming 3 weeks.
• Increased the delay in LANDING lights off when taxiing from 1 to 3 minutes.
• You can now fill a Say Intentions pilot’s key in the Global Settings (needed soon for players using SayIntention.io when we start sending events in a few days)
• The routes database update has started. It is expected to take 1 day to complete.

• Fixed gross weight computation when having an extra payload.
• Corrected Landing Gear detection not working correctly in some cases.
• Fixed the issue of freelance routes sometimes selecting two airlines at loading.
• Fixed regular route duplication not assigning crew members.
• Fixed the issue of too many update logs being displayed in custom regular routes when the pilot was not available.
• Adjustments have been made to the Flight Scoring system based on players’ feedback.