New features in Micro Flight 5.0 : ( updated 10/04/2005 )

• Terrain engine made more accurate and powerful.
• Improved sea graphics.
• Smoothed land shores.
• DTM import made accurate.
• Objects can be placed in a scenery using exact coordinates.
• More night objects and options.
• Runways and taxiways imperoved.
• Radio navigation aids added.
• Improved map with design mode.
• Improved clouds graphics.
• Additional wind layers can be added.
• Improved smokes and weather effects.
• Improved glider selection user interface.
• Option for compact GUI added.
• Improved slew mode using mouse.
• Improved joystick input.
• Field of view selection.
• Multiple viewpoint selection for planes.
• Improved flight models for all types of planes.
• New flight model for airship with realistic characteristics.
• New types of navigation instruments for planes.
• New cannons and bombs weapon types.
• Airplane replays can be saved and loaded as traffic planes.
• All flight data is saved and loaded with the flight.
• Netplay was completely rewritten and works well now.
• Graphic performance was boosted with hardware vertex processing.
• The program was compiled for DirectX9.0c compatibility.

Read the full list of changes in this page

F-86 at Big Sur Monterey

F-86 Dusk approach

Moonlight on Monterey bay

New features in Micro Flight 4.2 : ( updated 02/08/2004 )

• Realistic water waves.
• Simulation of ships and carriers.
• Carrier landings.
• Improved user interface.
• Improved flight model.
• Improved ground handling.
• Improved cross wind handling.
• Improved performence and stability.
• Improved animal behavior.
• Multiple vehicle replay.
• Spoilers and airbrakes.
• Tilted instrument panels.
• Additional moving parts.
• Additonal airplane parameters.
• Adaptive joystick input.
• Joystick axis assignmen.
• Model file encoding and decoding.
• Developer tools on startup screen.
• TrackIR viewpoint support.

New features in Micro Flight 4.0 : ( released 20/03/2004 )

• Advanced sky hemisphere.
• Advanced environment lighting.
• Exponential fog model.
• Fog layer below clouds.
• Improved weather effects.
• Additional water later.
• Realistic night scenery.
• Realistic G effects.
• Realistic pilot view.
• Active volumetric clouds.
• Cloud updrafts and downdrafts.
• Clouds can be formed above thermals.
• Thermals induced roll effects.
• Wind gusts and turbulence.
• Close object view for close cockpit objects.
• Ambient lighting can be adjusted.
• Improved brakes functionaly.
• Hot air balloon flight model improved.
• Hot air balloon has two new handles [burnerh] [canopyh].
• Helicopter and autogyro flight model improved.
• Parachute bail out mode improved.
• Reflections maps and specular highlights for gliders.
• Improved shadow calculation.
• Improved user interface.
• Improved map with new functions.
• Runways are shown on map and can be selected.
• Photographic map option.
• Shaded relief map option.
• Autopilot control panel added.
• Improved automatic thermalling.
• Autopilot control panel added.
• Improved automatic thermalling.
• Airplanes can land on water.
• Total energy variometer.

IL-103 at Grand Canyon

Super Solution at France

IL-103 at Carmel

Version 3.5 update fixes these issues : ( uploaded 14/11/2003 )

• Multiple simultaneous joystick inputs are supported.
• Scenery coordinates are calculated with merkator projection.
• Densely populated thermals are calculated more accurately.
• Rockets and bombs are simulated more accurately.
• GPS bugs fixed ( trip and speed displays ).
• Scenery scanning bug fixed allowing faster scenery loading.

New features in Micro Flight 3.5 : ( uploaded 19/03/2003 )

• Detailed and animated shadow.
• Better flight model for hang gliders and trikes.
• Rocket and Jet engines.
• Detailed and curved earth model.
• Detailed atmospheric model up to space.
• Global flight and navigation.
• Low earth orbit scenery.
• Orbital and re entry effects and physics.
• Improved HUD and map display.
• Program parameters are saved.
• Improved mouse pick and panning.
• This update containes the shuttle Columbia ( STS 107 ) .
• This update containes the reentry situation of the Columbia.
• All the parameters of the columbia and reentry situation based upon true values.

New features in Micro Flight 3.1 : ( uploaded 31/01/2003 )

• Accurate stalls and spins for planes and gliders.
• Full compatibility with HangSim scenery and gliders.
• Doppler effects for plane sounds in chase, leave and tower views.
• Joystick button 1 controlls view panning.
• Faster scenery scan when navigating between scenery areas.
• Default flight loading fixed when scenery exists in middle of map.
• Mouse picking can be used without disabling joystick.
• Mouse picking for flaps added.
• Crash detection options seperated to allow check for stress, impact and splash.
• Improved plane positioning when adding a new plane at ground level.

New features in Micro Flight 3 : ( uploaded 11/01/2003 )

• All flight models were greately improved.
• Cable towing was greately improved.
• Hot air and helium balloons are simulated.
• Winds aloft and wind gradients are simulated.
• Air temperature effects are simulated.
• Dynamic wind sensitive scenery objects.
• The sky and clouds were greately improved.
• The scenery can include the whole world.
• Flying between sceneries is possible.
• Terrain texture blending and mesh optimization were added.
• New user interface allows changes while game continues.
• Fully functional and realistic GPS was added.
• High quality head up display was added.
• Multiple selectable weapons were added.
• Fully interactive 3D instrument panels.
• The planes have more parts and better effects.
• Player can move from plane to plane during play.
• The flight path is shown on the map and in the air.
• The flight recording has been improved.
• The netplay has been improved.
• Joystick input was improved and supports new types of joysticks.
• Scenery can be imported from USGS data using 3DEM files.
• Scenery can be imported from aerial photography.
• New speech engine was added.