The latest X-Plane 12 version has gone out of beta testing, and that v12.1.2 is now noted as “Final”.
This v12.1.2 was listed as the “Caribbean Update”, and it was a very substantial update. Including four lovely heavy ships, and five leisure watercraft, including Austin Meyer being chased by sharks… to highlight the Caribbean release theme, three airports and destinations were also included; Princess Juliana International Airport at Sint Maarten, Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport on the island of Saba and the famous short sloping runway at Gustaf II Airport on the island of Saint Barthélemy, or St. Barth’s.
Important was the water fix between the tropical waters and standard deeper water, so there are now no visible hulls in the water, but the colourful coral reefs can still shine through. X-Plane is now noted with 20,000 3D Gateway Airports with Dual Airbridge support and you got more camera views. The general airport library also got some additions with some passenger stairs, airport buses and a ground power unit, and the X-Plane replay tool had a lot of attention.
Next up is X-Plane 12.1.3, which will bring upgrades to the ATC system (SIDs/STARs) and then later on improvements are coming to our weather engine, plus the introduction of the new cockpit weather radars. Most of these items will round out the changes to the New Year.
Read all about this here.
NEWS! by Stephen Dutton
