AW109 Power Elite 1.11 for X-Plane 12 (In the making)
- Added EADI extended mode, you can now press M on the upper bezel to change the view
- Added EHSI maps with custom SDK plugin, press M to show navaids, weather and routes *
- Added user writable tail number via text file, XPDR ident can now be done right
- Fixed SAS excessive sensitivity, now handling is actually enhanced for both AP
- Fixed a minor flaw in the Fuel XFEED logic, now it also got its flag on the EDU2
*Router are programmed with the on board GNS 530
AW109 Power Elite 1.10 for X-Plane 12 (Current)
- Full compliance with X-Plane 12.1.2
- Updated exterior and interior model, now it’s perfectly sized to the blueprint *
- Updated landing gear stiffness and damping, now it reacts fine in all conditions
- Updated rotor brake, effectiveness is now proportional to the brake lever position
- Updated rotor inertia at startup, now it should be faster and sound following
- Updated engine sound a bit, turbine hiss is now being prioritized
- Solved the weird oscillations issue when on the ground with engines off **
* Updated default liveries and .psd template; ** Increase flight models per frame (General > Flight Model) above 2
AW109 Power Elite 1.09.4 for X-Plane 12
- Full compliance with X-Plane 12.00*
- Improved engine sounds, now made with FMOD 2.02
- Fixed a bug causing quick discharge of battery if no EPU connected
- Added rain, wiper effects and glass scratches
- Updated xLua plugin and embedded scripts to Luajit 2.1
- Fixed a bug causing no engine response to different air temperatures (1.09.1)
- Fixed a bug causing no rotor inertia when starting up the engines (1.09.1)
- Fixed a bug causing speed rotor textures to appear at the wrong RPMs (1.09.1)
- Fixed a bug causing external lights not to be seen at daylight (1.09.1)
- Fixed a bug causing wrong label positioning on cabin windows (1.09.1)
- Updated max temperature for full power to get more realistic behavior (1.09.1)
- Updated engine inertia according to sound when reaching idle speed (1.09.1)
- Updated external lights with photometric X-Plane 12 parameters (1.09.1)
- Fixed a bug causing the engines being unable to exploit all the power (1.09.2)
- Fixed a bug causing no external sound when starting with engines running (1.09.2)
- Fixed a bug causing turbine outlet temperature going red too often (1.09.2)
- Fixed a bug causing some cabin sounds to be triggered at flight resume (1.09.2)
- Updated FMOD package for better engine and rotor sounds (1.09.2)
- Updated fuseleage nose and set the cabin external step as a separate object (1.09.3)
- Fixed minor texture details such as wipers UV maps and EDUs text symbols (1.09.3)
- Fixed a bug causing wipers sound to not to sync correctly to the movement (1.09.3)
- Fixed a bug causing fuel pump 2 sound not to play cue if fuel pump 1 is off (1.09.3)
- Fixed a bug causing rotor brake to destroy the engine separation (1.09.3)
- Fixed a bug causing payload weight slider not visible in X-Plane settings (1.09.3)
- Fixed a bug causing analog altimeters to give incorrect thousands values (1.09.3)
- Fixed a bug causing texture map mismatch on artex light switch panel (1.09.3)
- Added missing EDUs test function for checking warnings and advisories (1.09.3)
- Fixed a bug on the altimeters, preventing the numbers to rotate correctly (1.09.4)
- Added missing RA-215 radio altimeter instead of the pilot backup altimeter (1.09.4)
* No backward compatibility. Version 1.08.x will be the last for X-Plane 11 until the end of its lifecycle.
AW109 Power Elite 1.08.3 for X-Plane 11 (Current)
- Improved rotor animations, now spinning smoothly at every frame rate
- Improved caution light, now with a tiny texture correction
- Improved cabin volume, now you can hear that noise right
- Fixed a bug causing misbehaviors when altimeter unmatch barometer (1.08.1)
- Fixed a bug causing the the tail rotor to unmatch the flight model (1.08.2)
- Fixed a bug causing massive system failure if Avitab™ is not installed (1.08.3)
AW109 Power Elite 1.07
- Improved EDU, now with convenient CAS advisories for auto-hover and auto-yaw
- Improved textures, renamed the label UNCOUPL with DECOUPL on the Helipilot panel
- Fixed a bug preventing instrument glasses to be properly lit
- Added AviTab™ integration* with rotating tablet mount and dynamic glowing light
- Updated ACF, now with a proper panel resolution and room for more instruments
* Get the AviTab™ plugin on https://github.com/fpw/avitab/releases/latest
AW109 Power Elite v1.06
- Improved 3D model, fuseleage and assets were adjusted to better match version E
- Improved textures, fuseleage UV map and textures were overhauled to ease repaints
- Improved autopilot, FD now follows the shortest path in HDG mode
- Fixed a bug preventing real weather to appear after being downloaded
- Fixed a bug causing analogic altimeters to delay the switching of thousands
- Fixed a bug preventing the UNCOUPL switch to disengage servos
- Added a convenient landing lights cycle command
- Updated attitude hold, code was overhauled to ensure precision and steadiness
- Updated reference guide, now with trimming instructions and corrections
- Updated texture template, now with convenient aesthetic and text layers
- Updated liveries with increased resolution on virtue of the new UV map
AW109 Power Elite v1.05
- Improved EDU, CAS code was rewritten and is now visible on Windows *
- Improved EDU, CAS messages are now of the exact number and type of version E
- Improved EDU, fonts and screen glowing are now more similar to the real ones
- Fixed a bug causing wing-level with vertical-only FD on Windows
- Updated installer, now with a clearer suggestion about where to install
* This anticipates the official fix for the XPD-10211 bug, foreseen with XP12 beta 1
AW109 Power Elite v1.04
- Improved flight model, matching the real machine even better
- Improved force trim release, now softer and less bumping
- Improved engine spool time and transition from idling
- Improved EDU, engine cursors and parameters are more precise
- Improved EDU, rotor speed value NR is now precisely calculated
- Improved FD, transition between modes is now softer
- Improved parking brake, now it can be disengaged with left and right toes
- Fixed a bug causing EADI lateral cue to appear with LNV mode and no FD
- Fixed a bug causing FD stand-by to be uneffective in certain FD arm modes
- Fixed a bug causing cyclic to being moved in cockpit view despite ATT HOLD
- Fixed a bug causing pedals to be auto-coordinated in some situations
- Fixed a bug preventing attitude vacuum gyro to being properly caged
- Fixed a bug showing the low speed rotor to be seen at a wrong rotor RPMs
- Fixed a bug causing flapping sound to keep alive even after a crash
- Fixed a bug causing nose gear to hide into its bay upon compression
- Fixed a bug causing engine out callouts at closing fuel valves when WOW
- Fixed a bug causing Bendix/King communication radios to miss decimal steps
- Fixed a bug causing FT release button to be uneffective when ATT HOLD off
- Added magnetic brake to keep cyclic in position when FD and ATT HOLD are on
- Added foldable access step on the right side of the cabin, as in the real model *
- Updated Bendix/King radios, KX165A is now version 8.33K instead of 25K
- Updated horizontal stabilizer, now fixed as in the real model
- Updated FMOD sound package to sound like an AW109 even better
- Updated landing gear with 5% fatter tires and a little higher main leg
- Updated rotor blades, increased mesh width and drop with engines off
- Updated tunnel console, cursors got center marks and better datarefs
- Updated power levers, now in flight position by default, as in the real model
- Updated .psd template with the new foldable access step
* This is the first of a series of free official props to match the various versions of the AW109, eg. cable-cutters, floats, etc…
AW109 Power Elite v1.03
- Improved flight model, now permitting a smooth flight up to VNE
- Improved landing gear sound, now properly muffled
- Improved cabin sound, now paired with engine speed
- Improved high speed rotor mesh, now bending a lot less upwards
- Improved rotor animation, now tuned to gyroscopic precession
- Improved flight directors accountability and stand-by functions
- Improved force trim release response from the helicopter
- Fixed cyclic trim, now acting properly in ATT HOLD with stand-by FD
- Fixed force trim function, added new command and CAS message
- Fixed SAS 1 & 2 functions, dealing better with control sensitivity
- Fixed 102% command, now working from joystick
- Fixed pilot visibility from cockpit and replays on some systems
- Fixed turbine sound, now properly working in all conditions
- Fixed cabin sound, now correctly tied to engines RPM
- Fixed a bug occasionally causing tail strike at flight start
- Fixed a bug preventing the pedals to move in ATT HOLD
- Fixed a bug preventing the start of engine 2 when fuel 1 was off
- Fixed transponder power, now correctly switching off on IVAO
- Fixed auto-trim, now it just keeps trims within their limits
- Fixed a bug pushing TOT over 1000° for seconds at startup
- Fixed anti-torque pedal request, now properly left sided
- Fixed a bug causing level-up of the helicopter when disengaging FD (SBY)
- Added auto-hover command, for the ease of steady operations
- Added auto-yaw command, for the ease of mouse-only pilots
- Added user command for cyclic trim reset button
- Added user commands for SAS 1 & 2 switches
- Updated hide yoke command, now also removes collective
- Updated guide with technical data and speed limitations
- Updated module, version is now identified by number
- Updated installer, now identified by product name and version number
AW109 Power Elite v1.02
- Improved pilot authority on pitch axis
- Improved cabin sound, now paired with rotor speed
- Fixed cyclic trim function w/autotrim
- Fixed airspeed alert to the correct VNE
- Fixed annoying rotor high alert
- Added missing cursor in pilot’s VVI w/sound
- Added DH selector and alert on EADI
- Added user command for ATT HOLD switch
- Added user command for 102% switch
- Updated reference guide
AW109 Power Elite v1.01
- Improved cabin sound volume, which had excessive muffling
- Fixed a bug forcing simulation to freeze at module reload
- Fixed a bug preventing custom lights to be visible on some systems
- Fixed a bug causing an excess of pitch response on some conditions
- Fixed a bug causing cyclic trim defective when AP in SBY mode
AW109 Power Elite v1.00
- Rogerson Kratos NEO AV 500 EADI & EHSI with NAV (N) and BRG (B) functions
- Primary EDU with functional START and CRUISE menus
- Secondary EDU with functional MAIN and AUX menus
- Custom CAS advisories, cautions and warnings *
- Helipilot, fuel management console and overhead panel with motorized PMS
- Realistic 3-axis autopilot with cyclic and pedal trim functions
- Bendix/King array of functional radios COM/NAV 1 & 2, ADF, XPDR and Garmin 530
- AeroTech LC-6 chronometer w/local time, UTC time, flight time and stopwatch functions
- Custom FMOD sounds package
- Extremely detailed 3D model with hundreds of moving parts and 4K textures
- 3D lights and PBR textures
- Fast installer and uninstaller for Windows, Mac and Linux powered by Amazon S3
- Five corporate liveries included
- PSD template included to make your personal livery
- Reference guide included with instructions and checklists
- Optimized for X-Plane experimental flight model
- Ready for X-Plane 12
* Due to an X-Plane bug XPD-10211 also affecting the 747-400, CAS isn’t visible on Windows until X-Plane 12 beta 1