Hi all,
We wanted to provide an update on the issues raised in this thread. Our current development and testing priorities are:
• ATS behaviour
• ILS capture and intercept behaviour, particularly from larger intercept angles
• Holds and missed approaches
• Approach insertion and reselection reliability
We recognise that these systems are fundamental to IFR and online operations, and that failures during an approach can significantly affect the usability of the aircraft.
We will shortly release v1.3 alongside the Marketplace versions. This update will include improved AFCAS automatic trim, autopilot disconnection following sustained manual stabiliser-trim input, and a variety of other AFCAS and ATS fixes and refinements. We will share the full changelog before release.
To set expectations clearly, v1.3 will not contain all the work currently underway in the priority areas listed above. The Marketplace and non-Marketplace versions are being kept at feature parity, but the Marketplace release work and these systems-development tasks are being handled in parallel.
Several relevant fixes are now approaching completion. These include safeguards intended to prevent an existing route from being lost if an approach or transition cannot be successfully reinserted, together with further improvements to ILS intercept-direction handling. Our testing team is also evaluating a substantial rewrite of the hold and missed-approach logic.
These changes require careful testing across different procedures, intercept geometries and navigation-data cycles. We want to release them as soon as they are ready, while avoiding regressions elsewhere in the FMS and flight-guidance systems.
Thank you for the detailed reports, routes and videos supplied so far. They have been extremely helpful in identifying and reproducing these issues, and we will continue to provide updates as the remaining fixes progress.