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A more formal announcement will be made when the launch date is finalized, but we will be adding full time support for: SEA, PDX, SLC, ASE, DEN, and PHX. Additionally, we'll provide part time coverage for: OAK, SJC, RNO, MRY, SMF, GEG, YKM, EGE, ABQ. "Part time" means that we'll cover ONE of those fields at a time for a period of two weeks before closing it and moving to the next one in the list. This provides fresh airports, additional traffic concentration (since the part time field is temporary) and interesting piston/turboprop routes since the primary full time fields are generally pretty far apart.

More fluffy stuff Tony

Both of the JAR ground plugins are notoriously buggy. I completely uninstalled both Ground Handling and Tugmaster because of the issues I constantly had with them.

"Ricardo 2696", "Mortem" and "K4bel123", thank You very much for being so generous in your explanations. I am in the process of following your suggestions.

Just so everyone knows, it appears that the company routes use a .fpl extension

Some great shots! Thanks for posting.

+1 worst is JAR seems to ignore incompatibility with IXEG. Love the JAR Airbusses, but am done for now with their ground operations plugins

The initial part of the descent is "constant MACH" - and since the speed of sound gets bigger with warmer temperatures, you will see that the indicated airspeed keeps going up as you descend. So in a way you are not only descending, you are also accelerating! In addition, the "glide angle" for a constant airspeed is also constant - but you have to remember that at high altitudes the plane is moving a lot faster than indicated. (TAS > IAS). So you will also get a much higher ROD for the same angle. These effects are portrayed well in X-Plane, and it is not unusual to see 5000+ fpm rate of descent in the real 737 when descending at constant MACH at high altitudes. The passengers (and pilots) are unable to feel "high ROD" - you could descend at 20.000 feet per minute and no one would know (at least not for a minute or so...) Jan

A screenshot done right now from one of our beta testers: ready for the take off!

Here you go... fictional as it's based on the SWISS Airbus A320.

Two screenshots about the takeoff data card work in progress with rain and wind (with and w/o gusts): MAC and ACT TOW values are shown at 0 because when I did the screenshots I didn't have used the load panel to specify pax, cargo and fuel so some computations weren't done yet. Data cards are dynamically updated in real time.