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      Instructor Station Changelog

      Bug fixes, updates, and enhancements to Navigator Instructor Station

      Latest stable release: Instructor Station 1.3.6 - 2023-02-08

       

      Instructor Station: 1.3.6 - 2023-02-08

      Fixed

      • Advanced weather tab breaks when "Use Metric Units" setting is enabled.

      Instructor Station: 1.3.5 - 2022-12-13

      Fixed

      • Rename `Scattered` weather theme to `Scattered Showers`
      • Add fractional miles to advanced weather visibility distance summary display
      • Set correct surface winds layer depth when applying updated weather

      Instructor Station: 1.3.4 - 2022-01-28

      Fixed

      • Correct METAR visibility, clouds and altimeter groups on Weather page
      • Add more clarity the "Clear" basic weather theme

      Instructor Station: 1.3.3 - 2022-01-10

      Fixed

      • Map reposition arrow hides when scrolling
      • Minimum visibility distance is 1/16 SM or 0.1 KM
      • Allow empty values when editing cloud base / visibility distance

      Instructor Station: 1.3.2 - 2021-09-29

      Fixed

      • Browsers would disconnect app if it was running in the background.

      Instructor Station: 1.3.1 - 2021-04-02

      Fixed

      • Preserve map layer selection on refresh
      • Hide orbit card when orbit is disabled

      Instructor Station: 1.3.0 - 2020-12-18

      Added

      • Reposition to a bookmarked position on the map.

      Fixed

      • Fuel/W&B supports Navigator versions prior to 3.5.3
      • Include heading, altitude and airspeed when repositioning from clicked position on map
      • Metar on weather page respects metric settings
      • Fix incorrect wind gusts label in basic weather
      • Use correct units for visibility layer altitudes in advanced weather
      • Improve PFD support for NAV1/NAV2 tuned to a VOR
      • Add back the IMC basic weather theme

      Instructor Station: 1.2.0 - 2020-07-29

      Added

      • Added PFD to map view
      • Set fuel and weigth according to aircraft-specific tanks and payload stations

      Changed

      • Allow more vertical height to display reposition options on map.

      Instructor Station: 1.1.0 - 2020-03-17

      Fixed

      • Weather screen wouldn't load unless a flight was already running
      • Map falls back to street map if the map server is not running, rather than failing to load

      Added

      • Timed failures display time remaining

      Instructor Station: 1.0.9 - 2019-10-28

      Added

      • IMC Theme on Basic Weather Tab

      Instructor Station: 1.0.8 - 2019-09-03

      Fixed

      • Set 100KM visibility in "Clear" weather theme
      • Correct barometric pressure values in "Heavy Rain" and "CAT-1" weather themes
      • Reposition menu on map would not open after clicking on the ownship icon

      Instructor Station: 1.0.7 - 2019-07-18

      Added

      • Schedule failures to be triggered after a given time delay
      • Include nearest navaids on map's reposition dialog
      • Support increasing/decreasing the simulation rate (requires Navigator 3.4.0 or greater)
      • Support Redbird.Orbit

      Instructor Station: 1.0.6 - 2019-01-03

      Fixed

      • Weather settings were sometimes being overwritten by default weather values

      Instructor Station: 1.0.5 - 2018-10-23

      Fixed

      • Make surface wind data consistent across different server calls
      • Map resize when user opened vertical track, clicked print, cancelled the print, and closed vertical track

      Instructor Station: 1.0.4 - 2018-08-14

      Fixed

      • Missing space in "Instructor Station" on Springboard
      • Navaid search in Dispatch Free Flight - backspacing part of input after selecting a start position, and then typing in a new one was giving back no results
      • Navaid search - escape apostrophes in airport names (such as Martha's Vineyard (KMVY))
      • Remove disallowed characters from path when saving a new flight (" * : < > ? / \ |)
      • Bug with wind knob on Basic Weather where after changing the direction once, the text input would no longer update with wheel input changes
      • Bug on Weights and Balances page where having weights of zero would not cause Apply button to disable if no changes had yet been made to the form

      Instructor Station: 1.0.3 - 2018-07-19

      Fixed

      • Setting fuel and weight
      • Reported magvar value

      Added

      • Support fetching weather metar

      Instructor Station: 1.0.2 - 2018-05-02

      Fixed

      • Disable unsupported Wind layers from Advanced Weather

      Instructor Station: 1.0.1 - 2018-04-03

      Fixed

      • Error with setting the weights/balances when in metric mode

      Instructor Station: 1.0.0 - 2018-03-21

      Added

      • Created standalone version of Instructor Station that can be installed separately from Navigator

      Changed

      • Map type toggle is now on the map itself, rather than in the settings menu
      • Compress long flight paths so it can be redrawn more quickly on page refresh
      • Draw flight path as two separate segments so previous flight path points can be loaded in separately from the live updates if flight is not paused on page reload
      • Changed circuit breaker failures from switches to buttons in Instructor Station
      • Made Instructor Station Position page and calculations match those in Dispatch

      Fixed

      • Don't erase flight path or localizer when the plane lands or on flight end
      • Limit the barometer to values between 28.1 and 31.5 on the Weather page
      • Parsing error on Weights page in Instructor Station if no simulation is running
      • Missing import for sliders on Weather page in Instructor Station
      • Magvar error on ownship rotation on map in Instructor Station
      • Missing localizer on map in Instructor Station