Post by Travis on Mar 25, 2019 13:33:56 GMT -5
Version 1.8.1 Service Pack 1 is officially released here in our forum as of today. The website and retailers will be updated in the next few days.
The biggest changes for 1.8.1 SP1 are bug fixes. Version 1.8.1 would CTD sometimes when flight details were being revised before loading. Other (smaller) bugs have been fixed as well.
In the meantime, we were able to offer increasing support for FSDT's GSX and its ability to accept passenger counts for boarding and de-boarding.
If you start your GSX boarding before you start your FCDU loading (once you've set the new option HONOR_OTHER_GROUND_SERVICES=1), the FCDU will keep 'in-count' with the count of the GSX passengers. (We'll process a few ticks behind GSX since we count a passenger as boarded or de-boarded only after they have done so.) Sometimes GSX will not accept our PAX count, and there's currently no way to tell.
We now support multiple GSX passenger bus trips.
For P3D3 and P3D4 Captains, we now include the Lorby-SI "LorbySceneryExport" tool which is used by MakeRunways to give better visibility to newly installed sceneries.
There has been one other functional change. Starting with SP1, if your Airline requires "Position Reporting" you are now able to miss one position report without penalty.
About Our Installers (and, why are there so many?)
There are several different installers, but you likely only need one installer.
If you are updating from the original 1.8.1, we have very small "Refresh Installers" for you. Just download the FS9, or SimConnect-32, or SimConnect-64 installer from the links below, and point it to your simulator's root folder.
These Refresh Installers only contain updated docs, DLLs, EXEs, and GAUges. They must be installed over an existing FSCaptain 1.8.1, as they contain no sounds and no configuration files!
We're only referring to the Refresh Installers here in the forum, since that's where the 'unofficial release' took place.
All Full and Fixpack installers have already been updated to 1.8.1 SP1. So if you haven't installed FSCaptain 1.8.1, just search for our normal Full or Fixpack installer.
Is there Any More that I have to Read?
Each Installer download has an obvious README file (README-9 for FS9 and README-32 & -64 for the SimConnect versions). The READMEs also expound on the need to FULLY BACKUP any current FSCaptain installation before installing!! It doesn't cost more than a few seconds of CPU and drive access time... but it could save your flight sim career in the meanwhile!
Is that it??
Sure, that's enough reading for now! 
When you have downloaded the right Installer for you, unzip it and review the README files, and welcome to the world of FSCaptain 1.8.1 SP1.
Happy Flying with ACME!
11.7MB - Refresh Installer for SimConnect 64-bit -- P3D4 only
www.fscaptain.net/downloads/E93G8ag3/FSCaptain_Refresh_181_SP1_SC-64.zip
12.0MB - Refresh Installer for SimConnect 32-bit -- FSX, P3D2, P3D3 only
www.fscaptain.net/downloads/E93G8ag3/FSCaptain_Refresh_181_SP1_SC-32.zip
10.2MB - Refresh Installer for FS 2004 / FS9 only
www.fscaptain.net/downloads/E93G8ag3/FSCaptain_Refresh_181_SP1_FS9.zip
