Just Flight has issued a major update for their popular 146 Professional. V2 of the aircraft comes with major new features as well as several fixes and improvements. The full changelog is rather lengthy, and can be found at the end of this article.
The new features for the 146 Professional contain a custom developed UNS-1 FMS as can be found in the real aircraft. The UNS-1 comes with functionality for holding patterns, direct-to navigation as well as command heading. It can do calculations for the top of descent and performance monitoring. Furthermore, it supports custom flight plans, SIDs, STARs, approaches, and the navigation database is updatable via Navigraph.
The FMS is not the only new feature to this V2 update. The aircraft now also features a lot of new functions for passenger simulation, including a detailed passenger cabin with crew controls, annunciator lights and a cabin door. Via your EFB you can control crew and passenger actions. Additionally, to enhance the immersion and experience for your virtual passengers, the update includes a new cabin music player with several options for customisation.
The update also includes a new interactive yoke-mounted checklist, glareshield clipboard charts and several new liveries.
Just Flight’s 146 Professional V2 update is available for free to current customers. If you do not yet own the 146 Professional, you can pick it up for €64,95.
Changelog
- New: custom-coded UNS-1 FMS
- Unique interface based on the real world UNS-1 FMS
- Manoeuvres including Holding Patterns (HLD), Direct To (DTO) and Command Heading function (CMD HDG)
- Top of descent calculations based on target vertical speed included via the PATH VNAV page
- Navigation monitoring including wind information, XTK error and groundspeed.
- Real time performance information including current range, endurance, ETP/PNR
- Support for SIDs, STARs and Approach procedures
- Ability to save and import custom flight plans
- Custom database updatable via a Navigraph subscription
- Swappable units (KG/Lbs)
- Comprehensive UNS-1 FMS Operations Manual including a tutorial flight
- New: highly-detailed passenger cabin and galleys
- Crew lighting controls for the cabin and galleys, including separate cabin overhead and sidewall lighting controls, and galley worktop lighting
- Cabin door, no smoking/seat belt sign and call light annunciators
- Crew call panels with controls for cabin, inter-crew and emergency calls
- If enabled via the EFB tablet, random passenger, toilet and crew calls will occur during the flight, with associated chimes and annunciator lights, which the crew automatically cancel. The crew will also dim the cabin lights at night.
- Interactive passenger/service door and stair controls from within the cabin
- Accurately simulated ground service electrical supply
- Even the galley coffee maker functions, and the potable water is used over time
- Sound set updated to add numerous cabin sounds
- Volume of cabin sounds various depending on cockpit door position
- New: cabin music player
- Seven music tracks, with the ability to use your own music
- Volume control and mute
- Play/stop, shuffle and repeat modes
- If enabled via the EFB tablet, the cabin crew will automatically control the music player, such as turning on the music for boarding
- Volume of music varies depending on cockpit door position
- New: passenger and cargo boarding system
- Controlled via the EFB tablet, allows you to realistically simulate the passenger and cargo boarding and deboarding process
- Multiple boarding speeds can be selected, from instant to realistic
- Progress and time remaining is shown, along with reminders to open the relevant passenger and cargo doors
- Boarding/deboarding states are automatically synced to your stage of flight, e.g. starting at a parking spot will result in an empty aircraft, ready for boarding to commence
- Integration with GSX – when GSX boarding option is enabled via the EFB tablet, your selected payload will be synced with GSX so the correct number of passengers will be loaded by GSX, and you can monitor progress as usual via the EFB
- If enabled via the EFB tablet, the cabin crew will automatically open and close the passenger and service doors as required
- New passenger boarding/deboarding sounds added
- New: interactive yoke-mounted checklists and glareshield clipboard paper charts
- Customisable paper checklist mounted to the yokes and paper clipboard chart stored on top of the glareshield
- Up to 15 checklists and 20 charts can be shown, and are easy customisable PNG images stored within the 146 package
- Hidden clickspots allow you to cycle between the checklists and charts, rotate them to handle both portrait and landscape, show/hide the yoke-mounted checklist and stow/unstow the glareshield clipboard
- Dynamic index page will list the names and page numbers for all the checklists and charts that have been added
- ATC information (callsign, flight number and registration) can be displayed at the top of the checklists and charts
- New: liveries
- 146-200 Discovery Air
- 146-300 Buzz
- 146-300 United Express (Air Wisconsin, Battleship Grey)
- New: hidden HSI heading bug sync clickspot added to glareshield – used to sync the HSI heading bugs to the current heading
- New: engine windmilling animations
- Improved: GSX compatibility (profiles included for all variants)
- Improved: autopilot altitude intercept and hold accuracy
- Improved: altimeter drum animation logic for more accurate readings
- Improved: HSI course and RMI bearing needle logic for more realistic needle swing
- Improved: MWS ground operation switch textures
- Improved: flight models – reduced likelihood of the aircraft porpoising at low weights and better ground handling
- Improved: cabin doors, airstairs and window wiper animation logic
- Improved: state saving logic
- Improved: QC/QT cargo bay lighting
- Other changes
- Numerous sound set fixes and improvements
- Numerous fixes and improvements to the EFB tablet. Other cockpit controls can no longer be clicked through the EFB tablet screen.
- Flight deck door is now forced to the closed position if the cabin is disabled via the EFB tablet
- Autopilot vertical speed can now be controlled using the ELEVATOR TRIM UP/DOWN control assignments when the autopilot and vertical speed hold mode is engaged, similar to the existing pitch hold logic
- If enabled via the EFB tablet, the cabin crew will now automatically make passenger announcements for the different stages of flight if not already manually triggered by the user
- Reworked some TMS logic so that with TMS SYNC/TGT and/or TMS TGT modes selected, the TMS will now only return to standby mode if the hundreds (first) digit is adjusted, like the real aircraft
- Engines no longer flame-out when a flight is started on approach to a runway
- Radio altimeter limit selectors now default to a value of 200ft
- Cabin announcements are no longer enabled on the QC/QT cargo variants
- Reduced light bleed through cockpit door when door is closed
- Main menu thumbnails updated to feature MSFS SU14 lighting
- Doors are now closed and GPU is now removed automatically when using the relevant interactive checklists
- Updated Operations Manual
- Updated EFB Manual
- Updated PSD paint kit to include new passenger cabin
