Rise: The Vieneo Province News

We have added flight spoilers and ground lift dump (GLD) systems to our T-19 Stratomaster and W-6 Manx!



Flight spoilers allow you to steepen your descent without increasing speed. Upon touchdown, the GLD will deploy to remove about 23% of the lift and increase aerodynamic drag by about 41% (these numbers are from the T-19) to keep it from becoming airborne again and maximizing brake effectiveness.

These are mapped on the keyboard on the "(" and ")" keys. There are 5 settings at 25% increments (0%, 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%). The spoiler panels deflect upwards at about 50 degrees. Numerous CAS messages have been added (caution and advisory) as well as T/O CONFIG checks.

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Game Engine
0001261: [Vehicles] Calculate the lift/drag (Cl/Cd) per AOA on NACA 64A410 airfoils (reskin)
0001954: [Vehicles] External camera view has the sunglasses overlay (reskin)
0001704: [Avionics] GPWS mode 5 inhibit (reskin)
0001961: [Vehicles] Mammoth stuck offroad, speedometer broken, gear indicator says "1" (reskin)
0001733: [Avionics] Pilot flying and pilot monitoring aural commands and responses (reskin)
0000936: [Vehicles] APU, environmental, life support power usage (Phase 1) (reskin)
0001839: [Avionics] Need to add a CAS message before vehicles just "pop" (reskin)
0001985: [Cockpits] Camera view name on screen (reskin)
0001678: [General] Flight freeze in sim bay doesn't stop objects in orbit from moving (reskin)
0001251: [Vehicles] Bypass ratio definition for engines (reskin)
0001972: [Vehicles] Tires of T-19 spinning in the air when retracted (reskin)
0001974: [General] Allow for limits to be defined per camera (reskin)

Game Client
0001965: [Communications] Subtitles for dock announcements (reskin)

Game Server
0001983: [Vehicles] Give priority to powered on ships so they show on scanner and visually at a longer distance (reskin)
0001966: [Vehicles] Ships in dock bubbles stop showing track leading to jumps, can't see each other invisible and not on scanners (reskin)
Fixed a bug where the ATC audio was not being sent to occupants of the control tower

"skippy" was flying along in a T-19 near the operational vertical limit (service ceiling) and got distracted. He unknowningly continued to climb and suddely, without warning, the pressure vessel popped. His death was surely painless.

Many of our technologies and most of our regulations stemmed from disasters like these.

We initially reported some deficiencies in this area of cabin pressure and pressure regulation and CAS messaging back in 2020 but
hadn't sat down to fully flesh out the implications of operating on the surface at 2.5+ bar and going to orbit and back while maintaining passenger comfort.

Ultimately we decided on some pretty substantial engineering to allow 2+ bar pressure differentials. The orbiting space stations are at 1 bar. Ground dwellers who venture out of their habitats would experience high Nitrogen levels at 2.5 bar. We imagine they wouldn't build the structures to sustain a pressure differential but would enjoy more normal partial pressure of Nitrogen by substituting other inert gases. Those that have to work outside would be called "Narcs" because of the subtle but real threat of Nitogen Narcosis at that pressure.

If surface destination set it will gradually (500 fpm for comfort) adjust the cabin pressure to meet the destination.
If they have no destination and are below 10km it will use radar altimeter to determine a touchdown elevation and equivalent ISA pressure.
If they are above 10km or have a non-surface destination then it will use 1 bar.

Oh and while we were in there we added the bypass ratios to the engine definitions for every vehicle type!

Removed vertical limit on TCAS overlay
Added Deois Class B airspace outer perimeter to moving map

We added automation of routes and delivery of (or sale of) certain goods!



And since that went really well we added a FlightAware layer so you can track them!



Latest Game Client fix:

0001960: Languages dropdown was messed up