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@nbschultz97 nbschultz97 released this 22 Oct 14:42

FPV flight over photoreal San Francisco

Footage recorded from this exact package. Watch the 42-second highlight reel (720p MP4).

Build notes prepared October 22. The official release page records publication,
download hashes and exact-package test results.

  • Flight Lab is one entry for replaying recorded flights and running
    simulations. Replay and Simulation each have one Back button; only the Flight
    Lab hub closes to the main menu.
  • Simulation can run a local Lua script, unchanged, in native ArduPlane SITL
    over streamed terrain, with live firmware messages and telemetry. You supply
    the SITL executable; scripts and results stay on this computer.
  • Saved areas (Data & Catalogs) build offline terrain and imagery for any
    location from public data: about 10 m elevation in the US (30 m elsewhere),
    USGS or Sentinel-2 imagery, optional 0.6 m US detail near the centre, and
    OpenStreetMap building footprints where mapped. Saved areas load without a
    connection and are used when streamed terrain has no coverage.
  • When nothing streams under the launch point, KESTREL now builds a small
    local area on the spot (usually under a minute) instead of a flat floor.
  • Mission Builder keeps everything in a mission you edit (loadout, brief,
    annotations, jammers, unknown fields) and saves back to the file you opened.
    Adds undo (Ctrl+Z), duplicate (Ctrl+D), stacked selection and a briefing
    field. Placed jammers now emit, and a strike destroys a jammer inside its
    blast. Six palette items with no purpose were retired; old missions still load.
  • New models for objectives, OPFOR target vehicles (with destroyed versions),
    civilian cars, and SOF and support vehicles.

Known limits: saved-area imagery is public data and looks soft at very low
altitude; building footprints are visual only, with estimated heights where
OpenStreetMap has none. Terrain is generated before insertion, never swapped
during flight. Two-PC LAN, full input rebinding and calibrated aircraft
performance remain incomplete. Customer layers, recordings and private parts
libraries are not bundled. Windows binaries are unsigned.

Source commit: 3814987f4876f48e334ad54ca370c5c6cdeb4f5b

SHA256 725be80ceabdb307744aa2b5f9753e4e92de5079c53e54225e820ff5ab907b34

Canyon pass Offline saved area
Canyon pass, Monument Valley Offline saved area built in game from public data