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