NEWS! - UPDATED : Traffic Global XP v1.1.0103 by Just Flight

[Stephen]

NEWS! - UPDATED : Traffic Global XP v1.1.0103 by Just Flight

 

 

Doing a review a few weeks ago (vFlyteAir's Piper PA28R Arrow III G5 - E1000) we came across a nasty bug that crashed the SASL plugin and made the review extremely hard to process and complete. Problem was we couldn't find the culprit? Was it in the vFlyteAir aircraft itself (very rare, as vFlyteAir are exceptional in their release products), but it took a week or so to locate and outer the issue.

 

Oddly the problem was caused by Just Flight's Traffic Global plugin... again another extremely rare thing to happen, and why would it cause so much damage to the PA28R Arrow?

 

Just Flight had only just earlier done an extensive update to Traffic Global v1.1.0012 12th January 2022, and included was details of changes to the X-Plane Traffic Warning system (or to intergrate the plugins aircraft with your aircraft). Called the "Traffic Collision Avoidance System", or TCAS this system shows and alerts you to other aircraft on a collision or in your immediate vicinity, and usually shown on your aircraft MAP or HSI display.

 

So we had a nasty conflict, caused by "Apparently the X-Plane datarefs sometimes getting set to NIL values" and between two areas not really connected...  and this is why the TCAS system in X-Plane has never really worked well together in synchronicity.

 

There is also the current situation that with the highly updated version of the ATC (Air Traffic Control) in coming in the new, now close to release X-Plane 12, in that the TCAS system will be better intergrated into the core X-Plane default software (we hope of course).

 

So did Just Flight jump the gun too quick in intergrating the new X-Plane 12 TCAS system into the older X-Plane11 version? Or was it just a nasty bug, or even a bad idea that didn't work?

 

Well here is a very quick follow up update release to cover the problem in TG v1.1.0103. Just Flight have also done other changes, but overall this update was put out to fix the TCAS conflicts, that means if you use Traffic Global, then you will need to update to this new version to fix the nasty bug conflicts that goes to heart of any SASL plugin that uses X-Plane's TCAS features.

 

v1.1.0103 Changelog

- Stop labels jittering
- Compatibility workaround for RXP
- Don't apply ft/m conversion when formatting flight-level values for labels.
- Fix incorrect positioning of radar/flightplan/departureboard window buttons after disabling and re-enabling the plugin.
- Improvements for runway operations where a single taxiway enters two connecting runways
- Add squawk codes to TCAS data
- Replay mode didn't start correctly and didn't restore aircraft after replay ended
- Fix exit positions for aircraft with offset reference datum
- Fix debug display of exits and ground positions
- Fix for default key mappings possibly not being added
- Clearer indication of why ASXP may not be connected
- ActiveSkyXP NetAddress value is not read from config.ini correctly
- Fix distant labels not being drawn (broken in 1.1.0081)

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Who says life is easy being a reviewer....  If you have Traffic Global XP from Just Flight, then go to your JF account and download the new Traffic Global XP v1.1.0103.exe installer, and do the update by following the prompts.

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Yes! Traffic Global XP v1.1.0103 by JustFlight is NOW available from the X-Plane.Org Store here :

 

Traffic Global (Windows)

Price is US$52.99

The application is also available directly from JustFlight

 

Traffic Global (Mac)

Price is US$52.99

 

Requirements

X-Plane 11

Windows only  - For the MAC Version, go here

Download Size : 2 GB

Current version: v1.1.0103 (February 22nd 2022)

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NEWS! UPDATE by Stephen Dutton

25th February 2022

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