¶ 1.2.30 (23 December 2024)
CHANGED - Updated first-run wording to include MSFS 2024
¶ 1.2.29 (01 November 2024)
FIXED - PACXBridge not installing properly under certain conditions
¶ 1.2.28 (25 October 2024)
ADDED - Native support for P3Dv6 and X-Plane 12- FIXED - Possible crash when a boarding incident is generated
- FIXED - IFE displaying broken JetStream Radio content instead of SkyBlue Radio
- FIXED - IFE map not updating correctly
- FIXED - Excessive memory usage during record loading
- CHANGED - Updated sound library backend to improve reliability
- CHANGED - Updated FSUIPC connection library
- CHANGED - PACX is now a 64-bit application
- CHANGED - Updated FSUIPC and XPUIPC dependencies
- CHANGED - Updated default airports database slightly
- CHANGED - Updated various dependencies
¶ 1.2.24.0 (02 August 2022)
- ADDED - Confirmation of application closure when viewing end of flight report
- FIXED - Ability to open interaction/vocal recognition popup over flight report
- FIXED - Incorrectly labeled career archive warning message box
- FIXED - PACX HUD disappearing in MSFS
- FIXED - High GPU usage on certain computers
¶ 1.2.20 (03 May 2022)
- FIXED - Crash during boarding under certain circumstances
¶ 1.2.19 (28 April 2022)
- ADDED - Option to separate headset and speaker audio
- ADDED - Ability to continue a flight line
- ADDED - FSLabs Airbus seatbelt sign support
- ADDED - Popup to indicate when records are initially loading
- ADDED - In-Flight Entertainment System
- ADDED - Option to select if a customs card is required on a per-flight basis
- ADDED - Cabin preview to start flight menu
- ADDED - Ability to filter flight records by active, archived, or no career
- FIXED - Temperatures above 99 degrees not being properly announced
- FIXED - Flight number 100 not being announced properly
- FIXED - Fixed ##00 flight numbers not being announced (1500, 2500, etc.)
- FIXED - Incorrect name selection when airport continent is incorrect
- FIXED - Events relating to crossing 10,000 feet happening off-schedule
- FIXED - Short delays causing the delay apology announcement
- FIXED - Cabin ready check/notification not working under various conditions
- FIXED - Formatting issues in name files causing PACX to crash on load
- FIXED - Greeting not playing if the flight number cannot be spoken
- FIXED - Excessive resource usage and instability relating to hardware input code
- FIXED - OutOfMemory crash for users with large amounts of records
- CHANGED - Updated PACXBridge C++ libraries to 2022
- CHANGED - PACXBridge now creates a log file
- CHANGED - Moved user documentation to online system
- CHANGED - Changed requirements to switch to the deboarding phase slightly
- CHANGED - Improved wording of cockpit descent announcement
- CHANGED - Updated dependencies
- CHANGED - Optimized records system to reduce memory usage and load time
- CHANGED - Removed tooltips from menu buttons and passenger status icons
- CHANGED - Updated .NET to 4.8
- CHANGED - Cabin to cockpit interactions now use the "headset" audio device
- CHANGED - Momentary engine state changes are now ignored
¶ 1.2.13 (30 April 2021)
- ADDED - Toggle seatbelt sign hotkey/joystick option
- FIXED - Times not loading from imported flight configurations under comma-decimal cultures
- FIXED - Repetitive "prepare doors for departure" announcement under certain conditions
- CHANGED - Increased the likelihood of flight crew identifying as captain or first officer
- CHANGED - Non-XML files are now ignored when loading names and airplanes
¶ 1.2.10 (09 March 2021)
- ADDED - Ability to load custom aircraft from the documents directory
- ADDED - Repeating audible alert when crew response is required
- ADDED - Option to play a chime when the seatbelt sign is turned on or off
- ADDED - Region-specific passenger names
- ADDED - "AKA" tag to aircraft to better support formatting/nomenclature from third parties
- ADDED - ENTO airport
- ADDED - Flight crew voice to user-generated announcements
- ADDED - Toggle HUD key and button binding option
- ADDED - Seatbelt support to the Aerosoft Airbus
- ADDED - A320 NEO as a default aircraft to PACX
- ADDED - YBSU, OPIS and OPKC airports
- ADDED - SPJC airport
- FIXED - Flight numbers with preceding zeros being pronounced incorrectly
- FIXED - London Stansted (EGSS) is no longer announced as London Gatwick
- FIXED - Incident awards not being given
- FIXED - Negative numbers not being spoken
- FIXED - Issue preventing maximum passenger count being used as the randomly generated passenger count
- FIXED - Issue preventing certain ambient in-flight comments from being genereated
- FIXED - User log being spammed if the boarding music was not able to be played
- FIXED - Issue preventing passengers being generated at the age of 17
- FIXED - Issue preventing certain random sounds from being selected
- FIXED - Crashing relating to missing activations
- FIXED - An issue causing incorrect cabin layout behavior
- FIXED - Settings page closing after hitting escape during mapping
- FIXED - An issue causing part of the vocal input joystick mapping to not be loaded correctly
- FIXED - Hotkey mappings not being reset if PACX was restarted
- FIXED - Message boxes occasionally appearing behind application windows
- FIXED - Decimal times not being read correctly from FlightConfiguration.xml
- FIXED - A hang that could happen when an award or promotion is earned
- FIXED - Earned passenger choice awards not appearing on the awards page
- FIXED - EDDF not being pronounced as Frankfurt
- FIXED - Voice not playing back for certain interactions
- FIXED - Zero degrees not being pronounced
- FIXED - Escape key not cancelling vocal recognition
- FIXED - PACX HUD freezing when Microsoft Flight Simulator is closed
- FIXED - PACXBridgeMSFS not restarting after a simulator crash with flight continuation
- CHANGED - Increased size of settings menu
- CHANGED - Generic minor aircraft problems no longer trigger an explanation of the brace position
- CHANGED - Flyouts are now closed when a popup is opened
- CHANGED - Careers are now sorted by status then airline code
- CHANGED - Deboarding now starts after engine shutdown then doors open, seatbelt sign off, or 60 seconds elapsed
- CHANGED - Improved debugging and error handling systems (Sentry)
- CHANGED - Improved mapping behavior
- CHANGED - Vocal recognition now uses the current default microphone instead of the one set at initial launch*
- CHANGED - Improved activation related logging
- CHANGED - Color of selected incident-related passenger
- CHANGED - Improved error handling in certain records related operations
- CHANGED - Made initial asset loading more asynchronous
- CHANGED - Improved rank progression requirements
- CHANGED - The application window title now updates to reflect the currently open popup
- CHANGED - The HUD interaction selection now resets after 10 seconds
¶ 1.1.3.0 (23 October 2020)
- FIXED - An issue preventing PACX HUD from appearing in Microsoft Flight Simulator (MSFS2020)
- FIXED - An issue causing PACX to intermittently freeze/hang
- CHANGED - Improved the system that detects when joysticks are plugged in/unplugged
- CHANGED - Improved PACX HUD DPI font scaling
¶ 1.1.2.0 (16 October 2020)
- FIXED - Aircraft not being restricted in career mode
- CHANGED - Flight attendant count increased to roughly 1 flight attendant every 50 passengers
¶ 1.1.1.0 (15 October 2020)
- ADDED - Option to keep PACX on top of other windows
- FIXED - An issue causing freezes under certain conditions
- FIXED - Hotkeys being reset under certain conditions
- CHANGED - Improved window focus behavior
¶ 1.1.0.0 (12 October 2020)
- ADDED - Display of percent completion of in-flight service
- ADDED - Microsoft Flight Simulator information to first-time setup
- ADDED - Ability to map joystick/controller buttons
- ADDED - Cabin view layout
- ADDED - PACX HUD support for Microsoft Flight Simulator (MSFS 2020)
- ADDED - Error message which is displayed if vocal recognition is unavailable
- ADDED - Volume sliders for cabin announcements, boarding music and cabin announcements
- FIXED - Inability to detect higher cruise altitudes
- FIXED - Voice recognition language requiring English (United States) as the priority language
- FIXED - Crash relating to empty name list
- FIXED - Passengers eating/drinking less than required
- FIXED - 0 byte record files causing PACX to crash
- FIXED - Possibility to have delays generated after landing
- FIXED - Remaining time counting down after landing
- FIXED - SimBrief importing using block time instead of air time
- FIXED - Most EU countries receiving unneeded customs announcements
- FIXED - Flight phase will now be logged on change
- FIXED - Window title of PACX being incorrectly displayed as "MainWindow"
- FIXED - Hotkeys/menus to avoid summoning vocal and interaction menus while not in a flight.
- FIXED - Deboarding ambient sound playing after flight completion
- FIXED - Inability to view pending flights before upload
- CHANGED - Successive point of interest and humorous public addresses unreasonably increasing satisfaction
- CHANGED - PACX is no longer the topmost window
- CHANGED - Autohide is now disabled by default
- CHANGED - Tweaked happiness benefit of point of interest and humorous public addresses
- CHANGED - In-flight service suspension now has a cooldown to prevent erroneous continuation
- CHANGED - Flights stuck in climb will automatically advance the flight phase to cruise
- CHANGED - PACX record files are now validated internally to attempt to repair/prevent errors automatically
- CHANGED - Revised hungry, thirsty and sleeping wording on the cabin view
- CHANGED - Simulator menu will now show "Show/Hide PACX" instead of "Show PACX"
- CHANGED - Sound devices and certain sound operations are now logged
- CHANGED - Improved hotkey detection
¶ 1.0.0.0 (31 July 2020)
- ADDED - Boarding/deboarding ambient sound
- FIXED - Incorrect average passenger age statistic
¶ 0.9.96.0 (27 July 2020)
- ADDED - ENSB airport
- FIXED - In-flight meal service sound not playing
- FIXED - Cabin lights dimmed announcement playing the wrong sound
- FIXED - A UI centering issue
- FIXED - Missing spaces in certain in-sim messages
- FIXED - "0 minutes" being announced as a flight length
- FIXED - Incorrect logic for medical incident sounds
- FIXED - Medical incidents not preventing in-flight service
- FIXED - Lack of response to requests to expedite cabin services
- CHANGED - Significantly improved record loading system to reduce RAM consumption and decrease load time
- CHANGED - Boarding issues are now announced to the crew automatically (and do not require you to ask)
- CHANGED - Improved "hour" and "hours" sound for flight times
- CHANGED - Extended time required for the cabin to be ready for departure
- CHANGED - Improved FSUIPC detection
¶ 0.9.94.0 (2 July 2020)
- ADDED - simBrief integration
- ADDED - Discord Rich Presence support
- ADDED - Data file export support
- FIXED - The wrong career rank name appearing during promotions
- FIXED - Time displaying minutes as a single "0" when loaded/imported
- FIXED - Unreasonable complaints or announcements caused by certain delays
- FIXED - Some sounds not playing due to improper naming
- CHANGED - Settings now auto-save without an apply button
- CHANGED - The preconfigured flight is now deleted when a flight is completed fully
- CHANGED - The flight crew is now made aware of boarding incidents without having to ask
¶ 0.9.91.0 (28 May 2020)
The Feedback Update
- ADDED - In-sim overlay/HUD
- ADDED - Native Prepar3D v5 PACXBridge support
- ADDED - Ability to close popups and flyouts with the Escape key
- ADDED - Several new comment types
- ADDED - Eight new statistics
- ADDED - Percentage of satisfaction display*
- ADDED - Close PACX button to the main menu
- ADDED - Ability to select incident frequency
- FIXED - Passengers not properly eating and drinking
- FIXED - Emergency status indication not appearing
- FIXED - Popups/flyouts occasionally opening off-screen
- FIXED - Improperly named deboarding expedite event
- FIXED - An issue preventing extreme flying from being detected
- FIXED - An issue preventing reconnection to the simulator under some conditions
- FIXED - Boarding music logic
- FIXED - Incorrect vocal input auto-accept behavior
- FIXED - Incorrect vocal input default fallback
- FIXED - Several incorrect sounds
- FIXED - Closing a flight report from the records page returning to the main menu
- FIXED - Incorrect sorting of flight reports
- FIXED - Instability under certain conditions relating to network-based events
- FIXED - Possible crash relating to certain record update operations
- FIXED - Inability to announce certain cities
- FIXED - Excessive time taken to process record uploads
- FIXED - Incorrect connection behavior under certain conditions in the PACXConnection.cpp file
- FIXED - Incorrect wording of unexpected arrival delays
- FIXED - Inability to connect to the simulator under certain scenarios
- CHANGED - Ending a flight under normal conditions no longer requires additional confirmation
- CHANGED - Revised/improved sound volume and length
- CHANGED - Time entry is now split into hours and minutes
- CHANGED - Flight reports now show dates and times
- CHANGED - Boarding music now stops at pushback
- CHANGED - Removed Extreme Taxi event
- CHANGED - Widened end of flight report UI
- CHANGED - Changed sound loading to avoid delays between spliced audio
*Although we originally opted not to show the exact percentage, after review, we determined it would help users better understand how the application is working.
¶ 0.9.90.0 (3 March 2020)
First Beta of Version 1.0
- ADDED - More flight attendant requests
- ADDED - Many more verbal destination announcements
- ADDED - Cabin light dimming announcement
- ADDED - Ability to indicate if the aircraft has an IFE system
- ADDED - Ability to make humorous public addresses
- ADDED - Ability to announce the passing of a point of interest
- ADDED - Confirmation before closing PACX with a flight in progress
- ADDED - Prompt to reconnect after simulator connection is lost before cancelling the flight
- ADDED - DTNH, WAHQ, and WICA airports
- ADDED - Support for the PMDG 737 NGXu seatbelt sign and cockpit controls
- ADDED - Ability to specify in-flight service type on a per-flight basis
- ADDED - Block time tracking and reporting
- ADDED - Planned departure, actual departure, and flight time display to reports
- ADDED - Colors to represent various information and statuses on the passenger viewer
- ADDED - Support for direct reading of the QualityWings 787 seatbelt sign
- FIXED - Certain announcements playing out of order
- FIXED - A crash on initial flight start due to incident loading
- FIXED - An issue preventing PACXBridge from working in FSX Acceleration
- FIXED - An issue potentially preventing passenger counts from being read from the FlightConfiguration.xml
- FIXED - Incorrect boarding status audio response
- FIXED - Inability to enter a decimal minute by itself
- FIXED - Time to arrival counting down during deboarding
- FIXED - Incorrect automatic seatbelt sign behavior on certain aircraft
- FIXED - A typo in the folder creation system
- FIXED - Incorrect calculation of time at the departure airport
- FIXED - Minor sentence formatting issue
- FIXED - Ability to have passenger complaints about being both early and late
- FIXED - Incorrect loading of estimated departure time from stored flight reports
- CHANGED - Improved volume and timing of audio files
- CHANGED - Departure and arrival delays are now handled and complained about separately
- CHANGED - Passengers can now be impacted by boredom dependent on available entertainment
- CHANGED - Seatbelt sign assistance now defaults to "Partial"
- CHANGED - Improved boarding music logic
- CHANGED - The cabin can no longer be ready until the safety briefing/video has finished
- CHANGED - A time entered as a whole number and no denotation is now considered to be in hours
- CHANGED - Improved vocal recognition code and user experience slightly
¶ 0.9.11.0 (20 November 2019)
- FIXED - Issue with record loading/usage on certain systems
¶ 0.9.10.0 (18 November 2019)
- ADDED - 737-100 and -200 to the aircraft list
- ADDED - Saab 340 to the aircraft list
- ADDED - PGUM to the airports list
- ADDED - GCLA to the airports list
- FIXED - Inability to view previous flights online
¶ 0.9.9.0 (2 October 2019)
The Progression Update
- ADDED - Career mode*
- ADDED - Awards system*
- ADDED - Integrated records system*
- ADDED - Flight-specific sounds (flight numbers, destinations, time, temperature, etc.)**
- ADDED - In-sim menu and in-sim message support to X-Plane 10 and 11 via PACXBridgeXP
- ADDED - Crash detection and appropriate logic
- ADDED - Ability to display certain messages from PACX inside the simulator
- ADDED - Option to enable/disable filter (PA) effect on custom audio files
- ADDED - Fokker 50, 70, and 100 to the aircraft database
- ADDED - LTFM to the airport database
- ADDED - Default boarding music
- FIXED - An issue that could cause unreliable network communication with PACX
- FIXED - Capitalization of certain notable events
- FIXED - An issue that could cause directories to only partially copy
- FIXED - An issue that could cause passenger counts not to be loaded from the FlightConfiguration.xml file
- CHANGED - Boarding complete is always announced
- CHANGED - Refined UI
- CHANGED - Made incidents moderately more likely
- CHANGED - The START button is now a MENU button
- CHANGED - Audio delays are better handled for boarding complete and cabin ready announcements
*A more detailed topic on these is coming soon.
**The sounds, although present, may still require additional editing or refinement. We will use feedback from the community, and our own review, to continue to improve them.
¶ 0.9.8.0 (9 July 2019)
- FIXED - Generic Public Address not playing recorded audio
- FIXED - Start Flight "OK" and "Cancel" button not re-enabling after invalid input
- CHANGED - Departure ICAO, Arrival ICAO, and Flight Number are capitalized
¶ 0.9.7.0 (8 July 2019)
- ADDED - Boarding music option
- FIXED - Repetitive extreme flying event generation
- FIXED - Potential repetitive generation of turbulence event
- FIXED - Excessive false positives from extreme flying
- FIXED - In-flight service suspension announcement looping
- FIXED - In-flight service never being unsuspended after suspension
- FIXED - Wi-Fi option not reading from FlightConfiguration.xml
- FIXED - Incorrect parsing of times entered in hhmm format (0230, etc.)
- CHANGED - Updated documentation
- CHANGED - Custom safety demonstration files now have the PA effect applied
- CHANGED - Sound related errors are now better logged
- CHANGED - Deboarding now starts automatically after 30 seconds regardless of the seatbelt sign*
*The seatbelt sign can still be used to trigger deboarding sooner. The automatic trigger was added to overcome issues with aircraft that do not properly report the seatbelt sign.
¶ 0.9.6.0 (18 June 2019)
- ADDED - Various missing aircraft
- FIXED - Erroneous extreme flying detection during landing
- FIXED - Erroneous extreme taxi detection during landing
- FIXED - Bank detection
¶ 0.9.5.0 (16 June 2019)
- ADDED - Unsafe takeoff/landing condition logic
- ADDED - Unsafe taxi condition logic
- ADDED - Seatbelt sign assistance option
- ADDED - OTHH to the airports list
- ADDED - ATRs to the aircraft list
- FIXED - An issue with PACXBridge installing to Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition
- FIXED - An issue with the random system allowing zero-percent odds to pass
- FIXED - A potential issue with auto-hiding during initial setup
- FIXED - An issue causing looping emergency announcements
- FIXED - In-flight service and standard announcements occurring during emergencies
- FIXED - An issue that could cause incorrect recorded public addresses to be played
- FIXED - Improper spacing on delay and ahead of schedule reports
- FIXED - An issue potentially causing incorrect installation of PACXBridge
- CHANGED - Extreme flying performed with the seatbelt sign off is treated more harshly by passengers
- CHANGED - Boarding can be bypassed by moving the aircraft early
- CHANGED - The show/hide hotkey will now minimize PACX when open
- CHANGED - Deboarding now begins when the engines and seatbelt sign are off
- CHANGED - Vocal recognition information is now logged
- CHANGED - Normalized wording of numbers in settings
- CHANGED - Allowed cancellation of public addresses if they become irrelevant
- CHANGED - Added information about how to cancel vocal interaction to the user guide
- CHANGED - G-force is now included in extreme flight calculation
¶ 0.9.4.0 (4 June 2019)
- ADDED - Ability to specify sound directory with the /sounddir command line argument
- FIXED - Incorrect altitude reading in X-Plane*
- FIXED - Incorrect ground speed reading in X-Plane
- CHANGED - Mute audio in external view is ignored when connected to X-Plane
- CHANGED - Missing sound files are now logged
*This issue is what was causing PACX to be stuck in climb mode.
¶ 0.9.3.0 (2 June 2019)
- ADDED - Integrated seatbelt sign support for PMDG 737NGX, 747 QOTSII, and 777*
- ADDED - First run setup system
- ADDED - Tray icon menu
- ADDED - User documentation
- ADDED - A330 and A340 to the airplanes list
- FIXED - Public addresses starting back to back
- FIXED - Passengers not eating/drinking properly
- FIXED - Emergency public address repeating
- CHANGED - Improved FSUIPC detection and installation method
- CHANGED - Vertical speed variable
- CHANGED - Some passengers are hungry or thirsty by default
- CHANGED - Made passengers more forgiving for hunger and thirst
- CHANGED - Reduced in-flight service delay
- CHANGED - Increased maximum volume
- CHANGED - The installer now remembers your existing activation code
*This feature requires the SDK data broadcast to be enabled for those aircraft.
¶ 0.9.2.0 (1 June 2019)
- FIXED - An issue preventing flight uploads
- FIXED - A potential issue causing time calculation to stop
- FIXED - Deboarding getting stuck/not working
- FIXED - Ahead of schedule comment being applied to negative flights
- FIXED - Recorded audio being played at incorrect times
- FIXED - PACXBridge incorrectly/prematurely assigning variables*
- CHANGED - Added additional logging to assist in flight report logging
- CHANGED - Welcome message now plays when halfway boarded instead of immediately
- CHANGED - Changed "Time to Departure" to "Time Until Takeoff"
- CHANGED - Cruise altitude entry now properly supports unlabeled flight level entry (i.e. 340)
- CHANGED - Improved web infrastructure to reduce file size and allow larger flight reports
*This fix should also resolve the "sunroof" glitch in the PMDG 737 NGX.
¶ 0.9.1.0 (31 May 2019)
- ADDED - Option to mute audio in external view
- FIXED - Some decimal parsing causing issues with airport location
¶ 0.9.0.0 (31 May 2019- Public Early Access Release)
- FIXED - Decimal time entry issue
- FIXED - Reversed after-landing message
- FIXED - Cabin status showing before asked
- FIXED - In-flight service incorrectly starting
¶ 0.8.9.9 (30 May 2019 - Release Candidate)
- ADDED - Announcement audio
- ADDED - Crew response audio
- ADDED - Ability to have multi-gender names
- ADDED - QualityWings 787 support
- FIXED - UI bug with custom safety demonstration selection
- FIXED - Volume scaling issue
- FIXED - Mid-flight crash relating to event manager
- FIXED - Crash related to in-flight service
- FIXED - Wrong default option from Vocal Control
- CHANGED - Finalized and improved name list
¶ 0.8.0.0 (24 May 2019)
- ADDED - Ability for PACX to report passenger count to GSX
- ADDED - In-flight service suspension
- ADDED - Support for more in-cockpit controls (PMDG 737, PMDG 747, and PMDG 777)
- ADDED - Aircraft WiFi option to user interface
- ADDED - Custom safety demonstration option
- ADDED - Logic for handling simulator disconnection
- ADDED - Ability to control seatbelt sign from PACX
- ADDED - Cabin ready check system
- ADDED - Option to playback voice
- ADDED - More medical incident varieties
- ADDED - Ability to use PACXBridge (or other network API-based services) across two machines easily
- FIXED - Announcement auto-accept timer beginning without all fields filled out
- FIXED - Deboarding time updating
- FIXED - Various X-Plane related issues
- FIXED - Potential issue preventing passengers from eating or drinking
- FIXED - False-positive diversion check
- FIXED - Ability to send announcements without filling out all fields
- FIXED - Medical incident not occurring
- CHANGED - Departure scenario conditions are checked before a flight can start
- CHANGED - Interaction menu items alphabetically sorted
- CHANGED - When enabled, voice playback is automatic upon completing an interaction
- CHANGED - Renamed and moved Network API Port
- CHANGED - The exact nature of medical incidents is displayed on the interface
¶ 0.7.1.0 (14 May 2019)
- ADDED - Ability to play-back audio heard during vocal recognition
- ADDED - Ability to save flight configuration for re-use implicitly by pressing CTRL+S on the popup
- ADDED - More delay length options
- ADDED - Additional aircraft to XML by default
- ADDED - Additional delay reasons
- ADDED - Additional diversion reason
- ADDED - Missing delay-related vocal input mappings
- ADDED - Ability Ahead of Schedule event and associated logic
- ADDED - Ability to cancel diversions
- ADDED - Ability to request and display deboarding time/progress
- FIXED - Sound volume/device controls not working
- FIXED - Crash related to the NetworkManager losing connection to a client
- FIXED - Deboarding getting stuck under certain circumstances
- CHANGED - Delays are recognized after 10 minutes (instead of 5)
- CHANGED - Interaction menu now displays a more descriptive label for the combo boxes
- CHANGED - Added logic for aircraft that do not report door positions normally to avoid missed announcements
- CHANGED - Delay lengths are now more clearly displayed
¶ 0.7.0.0 (10 May 2019)
- ADDED - PACXBridge to interact with the simulator directly
- ADDED - Ability to activate PACX vocal interaction via in-cockpit controls (TFDi Design 717 only for now)- FIXED - Turbulence detection
- CHANGED - Updated network API significantly
- CHANGED - Durations can now be entered as "#.#h"
- CHANGED - Hitting escape will cancel the voice input auto accept timer
- CHANGED - Converted to FSUIPC for universal simulator support and improved data output*
*Although we initially intended to avoid FSUIPC, we determined that it is currently the most effective and cost-efficient solution. It will allow us to support Flight Simulator 2004, Flight Simulator X, Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition, Prepar3D v1-4, and X-Plane (via XPUIPC). As well, it offers some data not directly available from standard simulator SDKs. As PACX matures, if FSUIPC is not sufficient, we will revisit the possibility of creating custom solutions instead.
¶ 0.6.1.0 (4 April 2019)
- ADDED - Return to Gate interaction option
- ADDED - ReturnToGate flight comment type (in the XML file)
- FIXED - Missing weather diversion comment support
- FIXED - Passengers being inappropriately drunk
- FIXED - Minor in-flight service generation bug
- FIXED - Flight status never becoming "Complete"
- FIXED - Fixed blank flight comments if an invalid comment was specified
- CHANGED - debugLog.txt file renamed to log.txt and generation location changed to %localappdata%\PACX
- CHANGED - Improved directory structure creation system
- CHANGED - Improved arrival text wording/timing
¶ 0.6.0.0 (23 March 2019)
- ADDED - Automatic update system
- ADDED - Installer system
- ADDED - Official hard/soft landing effects
- FIXED - Unreasonable passenger response to in-flight events
- FIXED - Landing rate detection
- FIXED - Unreasonable flight satisfaction ratings
- FIXED - Ability to drag the window from anywhere (it is now via the green button)
- FIXED - Door detection
- FIXED - Engine off detection
- FIXED - End of flight phase detection
- FIXED - Diversion display
- FIXED - Passengers making positive comments after unsatisfactory flights
- CHANGED - Diversion check is done after landing to avoid an instant response
- CHANGED - Comments on landing rate will no longer appear if the landing rate was not captured
¶ 0.5.5.0 (20 March 2019)
- ADDED - Ability to export/share a flight report
- ADDED - Ability to move the PACX interface around via click, hold, and drag
- CHANGED - Added/improved XML export variables and structure
- CHANGED - The passenger count will be randomly generated with the aircraft is selected
¶ 0.5.4.0 (4 March 2019)
- FIXED - Wording/display of times (in some cases)
- FIXED - Invalid times being set at flight start
- FIXED - Application freeze during certain simulator connection scenarios
- FIXED - Invalid data when flight is started while the simulator is paused
- FIXED - A crash during cruise
- FIXED - Expected departure time displaying during climb
- FIXED - Boarding status and time display after boarding is complete
- FIXED - Incorrect arrival time text
- FIXED - Incorrect tab order on the start flight popup
- FIXED - Popups opening while flyouts were expanded
- CHANGED - The boarding status check event will now open the flight status flyout
¶ 0.5.3.0 (3 March 2019)
- FIXED - Incorrect/unrealistic passenger loading time
- FIXED - Inability to enter decimal flight time
- FIXED - Events showing up incorrectly in certain data logs/exports
- FIXED - Crash caused by missing files on initial load
- CHANGED - Wording of "time to departure" label
- CHANGED - Improved wording of some error messages