FSX Planner Release 25 now available

by mark.avey on September 19, 2007

ZBlueSoftware are continuing the rapid developerment of their FSX Planner software with the release of build 25 (see our previous post for more information on FSX Planner):

Updates in Build 25

There is now an option to display the lighting of the airport. This is available by selecting Navigation -> Display Lighting. All taxiway and runway lighting will then be displayed.
Approach Transition Legs can now be edited. Transitions are displayed in a third table in the Approach Editing Dialog. You can double click on a transition to edit it in a similar fashion to editing an approach.
Exclusion rectangles can now be drawn as just outlines, by selecting the Display Border Only checkbox in the Exclusion Rectangle Data display. This allows you to have multiple exclusion rectangles over each other and still be able to select and work with all of them.
Moving an exclusion rectangle is now an undoable event.
Improved the display of Helipads to properly show closed, transparency, circles, H, medical and square helipad markings.
Adding a fuel trigger, scenery object or ILS beam using the buttons in the object data display now sets the display option for the items (ie fuel triggers, scenery objects or ils beams) to be turned on to ensure you can see the newly created object.
After exiting the Background Images dialog, the display flag for background images is now turned on the ensure you can see the background images.
FSX Planner now checks for background images in a folder called FSXPlanner located within your My Pictures folder. Note that FSX Planner does not automatically put images in this folder, instead it leaves them in their original location. However, if they are not found in their original location, then FSX Planner checkes the above folder for them.

Bug Fixes in Build 25

Fixed some bugs associated with the selection and dragging of the vertices of exclusion rectangles.
Fixed a bug that caused the helipad closed flag to be incorrectly decompiled from bgl files.
Fixed a bug that prevented Runway Fixed Distance marks from being correctly read from and written to the xml files.
Fixed a bug that caused meter or feet measurements to be incorrectly changed if you selected Meters from a combobox that was already set to Meters; or Feet from a combobox that wa already set to Feet.
Fixed a bug that caused measurements to be incremented by varying multiples of 3.28 if more than one airport was open at a time, or if more than one airport had been open at any time since FSX Planner was opened.
Fixed a bug that caused some VASI types to be incorrectly decompiled form bgl files. This could result in compile time errors stating that the VASI did not have a valid type assignment.