PC-12 Legacy - Version History

Panagiotis Rizikos

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Changelog of PC-12 v1.5.1 || February 21, 2025
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VISUALS
- Interior
  - Fixed floating polygon under radio stack
  - Fixed texture glitch on executive variant cargo door
  - Fixed texture glitch on cargo variant cargo door
AVIONICS
- EFIS
  - Fixed bug that caused FPS drops on some computers

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Changelog of PC-12 v1.5.0 || February 18, 2025
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VISUALS
- Replaced cockpit seats with new models
FLIGHT DYNAMICS
- Revised flight model for improved stability, addressing flaps ballooning, adverse yaw, cruise drag, approach attitude, and trim effectiveness
- Adjusted propeller drag, climb thrust and high-end thrust
SYSTEMS
- Flight controls
  - Rebalanced aileron-rudder interconnect to new flight model parameters
- Autopilot
  - Reworked autopilot PIDs
- Engine
  - Reduced ITT by an average of 15 degrees based on new data
- Lighting
  - AM-250 altimeter backlighting is now adjustable using the panel lighting knob
- Oxygen
  - Adjusted excessive O2 volume changes from thermal expansion/contraction
AVIONICS
- KAS-297
  - Added L:vars to expose interim altitude and vertical speed variables
- EFIS
  - Bug fixes to mode annunciations
  - Fixed CDI scaling in VOR/LOC mode
  - Code clean-up
- EIS
  - Added 5 degree temperature offset to OAT probe due to probe heating from friction

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Changelog of PC-12 v1.3.9 || September 6, 2024
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ENGINE
- Fixed bug causing ITT to be very high
FLIGHT DYNAMICS
- Ground handling
  - Improved bouncy landing gear when on the ground
OTHER
- Fixed disappearing exterior clickspots and INOP flap reset switch when on the ground. Bug caused from new contact point calculations.

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Changelog of PC-12 v1.3.8 || September 3, 2024
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SYSTEMS
- Engine
  - Adjusted erroneous ITT for ISA+30

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Changelog of PC-12 v1.3.7 || September 2, 2024
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VISUALS
- General
  - Removed chocks and red from hangar due to MS' request
- Interior
  - Capped some holes in cockpit walls
- Exterior
  - Fixed normal map artifacts on left wing
SYSTEMS
- EFIS
  - Changed decision height increments to 10ft up to 500ft, 50ft above
- Electrical
  - Fixed popping overhead circuit breaker
- Yaw damper
  - Corrected bugs in yaw damper logic
  - Added two-gain yaw damper setting to improve low speed handling
  - Increased yaw damper response speed
- Air conditioning
  - Doubled AC efficiency to improve temperature adjustment time
- Nose wheel steering
  - Improved differential braking effect on steering
  - Made NWS much more sensitive
  - Clicking the left pedal will allow to toggle between using pedals only, or pedals and braking for full nose wheel steering. The option will presist until changed by the user. Default is pedals and braking.
- Engine
  - ITT correction for various ISA conditions
  - Implemented custom fuel limiter to get correct PCL travel range
  - Implemented custom torque limiter to avoid accidnetal excursions
  - Implemented custom N1 to show correct values on EIS
- Autopilot
  - Reworked autopilot PIDs (GNS and PMS GTN)
FLIGHT DYNAMICS
- engines.cfg
  - Modified engine tables to achieve correct take-off, climb and approach performance
  - Modified Ng and governor sensitivity
  - Modified torque limiter sensitivity
- flight_model.cfg
  - Adjusted aircraft drag to adapt to new propeller performance tables
  - Adjusted induced drag
  - Reduced yawing tendency from flaps
  - Adjusted crosswind effect on aircraft
  - Increased rudder and trim effectiveness to account for increased yawing resistance
  - Improved nose wheel steering sensitivity
  - Improved pitch trim effectiveness
  - Added new ground handling parameters
AVIONICS
- EADI
  - Updated lateral mode annunciations
  - Updated vertical mode annunciations
  - Introduced Glideslope Arm logic and annunciation
  - Added Decision Height aural alert
  - Merged left and right side decision height systems
  - Code cleanups
- EIS
  - Added custom N1 indication
  - Added 5 degree offset to OAT indicator
VARIOUS
- Cameras
  - Slightly raised pilot eyepoint

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Changelog of PC-12 v1.2.6 || April 17, 2024
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VISUALS
- Exterior
  - Re-exported all exterior LODs
  - Optimized draw calls
  - Corrected various decal placements
  - Fixed backwards propeller on 5-bladed
  - Revised rivet textures for proper bump mapping
  - Added missing stencil and fastener decals
  - Corrected exhaust positioning + exhaust effect origin
  - Corrected exhaust cover model to reflect exhaust amendments
  - Optimized drawcall, topology of all exterior LOD's
- Interior
  - Material clean-up
  - Added correct baggage shelf and netting
  - Re-export of all Submodel and main models
  - Various decal corrections
  - Removed floating decal artifact on pilot side
  - Moved environment occluder + clickspots in main interior model (previously utilized as submodel)
  - Added corrected cargo nets for all variants (cargo needs Baggage shelf net removed)
  - Added a large amount of missing fastener decals
  - Added mesh to carpets at seams and seat/cargo railing boundaries
  - Fixed interior door for certain LOD's not linked to animation helper
  - Corrected mis-colored LIT typeface on overhead panels
  - Corrected interior windshield rain; rain no longer flows over the heating elements
  - Revised draw calls (WIP) and topology/material utilization for all interior LOD'sampling
  - Corrected black VS/Cabin gauges at night with cockpit lit
  - Tablet brackets adjusted to not obscure screen corners
  - All interior textures revisted and revised where required
- Cockpit
  - Reversed whisky compass animation and revised texture
- Executive interior
  - Added clickspot on co-pilot headrest to show/hide passengers
- Cargo interior
  - Added cargo pallets and straps
  - Added cargo shelf baggage
  - Minor adjustments
  - Added cargo payload LODs
- Commuter
  - Added clickspot on co-pilot headrest to show/hide passengers
- All cabins
  - Minor improvements and corrections
  - New material setup
AVIONICS
- General
  - All avionics updated to latest source code version
- EFIS50
  - Added start-up and warm-up timers
  - Refactored codebase and bugfixes
  - Corrected Autopilot annunciations
  - Autopilot NAV and APPROACH ARM and ACTIVE modes synchronised
- Altimeter
  - Left altimeter tied to its appropriate circuit
SYSTEMS
- Engine
  - Fixed bugs in condition lever operation
  - Test Lamp switch should also turn on the autotrim lights
- Autopilot
  - Synchronised APR and NAV indications to EFIS
- Condition lever
  - Condition lever now makes use of LOCK interface
  - Fixed tooltip names
- EGPWS/TAWS
  - Modified "500" callout to not play when starting on the ground
  - Added TERR 30 and 60 second and activated TEST/INOP lights
  - Added TERRAIN warnings
- GPS annunciators
  - Added power circuit to turn them off
- Trim
  - Fixed INOP rudder trim knob
  - Redid yoke trim knob in order to fix INOP aileron trim. Tooltip cut down to basic version
- Engine
  - Fixed bug that causes the prop blades to appear backwards
FLIGHT DYNAMICS
- Engines.cfg
  - Removed 25 degrees pitch from efficiency tables
  - Adjusted low pitch settings for 4-bladed propeller
  - Modified propeller efficiency at lower speeds
  - Turned propeller from 1 to 0.5 degrees left
- Flight_model.cfg
  - Adjusted flap induced drag
  - Increased flap drag
  - Modified steering parametres to improve ground turns
  - Revised flight model to improve yaw stability
  - Reduced rudder trim effectiveness
  - Reduced yaw moment of inertia
MANUAL
- Typographic corrections

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Changelog of PC-12 v1.1.0 || December 22, 2023
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---AVIONICS---

EFIS
- Fixed SWS_EFIS50_Push_SelectNavSrc_1 reset.
- Changed the logic of the GA annunciator.
EIS
- Fuel gauges reflect changes in real time.
- Adjusted fuel gauge bars limits.
- Removed incorrect indices from Environment variables.

---VISUALS---

Cockpit
- Fixed a number of emissives not coming on

---SYSTEMS---

Standby OBS
- Fixed Localiser needle and to/from flags
EPS
- Changed EPS test logic
Landing gear lights
- Lights will now illuminate with LAMP TEST on the ground
KAS-297
- Fixed unlit decals
Autopilot
- Yaw damper can be disengaged when AP is on
- Increased yaw damper effectiveness
Air Conditioning
- Added missing curly brace that led to bugged temperature
Electrical
- Added missing curly brace that led to bugged cover behaviour
Engine inputs
- Added missing curly brace; code was commented out so no bug effects
Preflight
- Corrected tail circuit breakers
GTN visibility
- Modified code to also accept negative values to make things show/hide
Lighting
- Fixed inactive emissives in cockpit
- Disconnected warning/caution annunciations from backlighting potentiometers and connected with CAWS dimmer
- Fixed cabin lighting bugs
Other
- Cleaned up various parts of the code

---CONFIGURATION FILES---

ai.cfg
- Modified autopilot PIDs for smoother pitch reaction and improved intercepting
- Added new PIDs for use with TDS GTN750 (available in TDS compatibility modification)
Systems.cfg
- Removed duplicate tail beacon

---EFFECTS---

GaugeLight
- Brightened gauge pin lights

---FLT FILES---

All
- Cleaned up duplicates

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Changelog of PC-12 v1.0.5 || December 14, 2023
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---SYSTEMS---
- Loadouts
  - Fixed bug that caused crates to be invisible
- Airspeed indicator
  - Fixed INOP Vne
- CAWS
  - Fixed wrong overspeed threshold
- EGPWS/TAWS
  - Changed sink rate thresholds to 1750 and 2000fpm
- Oxygen
  - Modified O2 logic to not trigger prematurely
- Autopilot
  - Changed AP disconnect button logic so that when held AP is off, when released AP can be turned on again.
- EFIS
  - Changed Decision Height steps to 10 and 50ft from 1 and 10ft increments for faster response.
  - Removed L:var for OBS switching from XML code and moved to JS

---FLT FILES---
- All files
  - Corrected initialisation value of OBS knob L:var
---FLIGHT DYNAMICS---
- flight_model.cfg
  - Reduced static friction scalars to 1 to improve skidding

---AVIONICS---
- Engine Instrument System
  - Fixed EIS fuel weight to volume conversion value.
- KAS297
  - If the altitude select in not armed, pressing the ENG button in vertical speed select mode arms the system.
- EADI
  - Fixed selected reference mode for radio navigation.
- EHSI
  - Fixed selected reference mode for radio navigation.
  - Fixed bearing pointer headers in VOR/ILS mode.
  - Bearing pointer readout in GPS mode, display the distance to next waypoint.
  - Fixed pointer 2 to work correctly in ADF mode.
  - Fixed heading readout does showing decimal digits.
  - GPS mode ETA readout shows correct values when minutes are a multiple of 60.
---VISUALS---
- Exterior model
  - Modified trim tab code to convert into Flettner tabs
  - Fixed Prop vortices always present on LOD2 onward
  - Readded fictional Executive 5Blade livery
- Interior model
  - Split GTN Glass to separate material to retain glass material/effects applied.
  - Corrected gaugef ace emissives for cabin pressure gauges
  - Corrected overhead and main panel emissives to be streamlined whiteoverhead/orange main panel
  - Revised LOD logic to assumebly rectify occluder issues. OCCLUDERS ARE STILL SUBMODELED
  - Fixed skel misnaming on several interior LODs
  - Added commuter seats to lower LODs
  - Reexported all interior models+submodels to ensure hierarchy seamlessness.
  - Fixed cabin dimmer switches that were not functional
  - Cut tablet brackets
  - Moved Pilot/Copilot visibility clickspot from crewseat Headrests to PC12VC_SeatPilot_Handle_(1 &2) this is the lever on the adjustment rails
---CONFIGURATION FILES---
- cameras.cfg
  - Corrected various cameras (thanks George!)
---MANUAL---
- Added credit to E. Vaos
- Corrected "flaps selecton" paragraph in quickstart guid

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Changelog of PC-12 v1.0.1 || December 07, 2023
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Fixed installer bug that prevented TDS GTN from activating
Fixed INOP DirectTo & Home buttons with PMS50 GTN
Fixed artifacts on GTN glass surfaces
Corrected PDF checklist

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Changelog of PC-12 Legacy v1.0.0 || December 06, 2023
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Release version

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