Public Beta XP 12.3.0-B1
mise à jour du 4 September 2025
## New Features
**Weather Radar**
A brand-new weather radar system is now available in several of our default aircraft, bringing enhanced situational awareness and realism to your flights.
**Available in:**
- Boeing 737-800
- Airbus A330-300
- Cessna Citation X
- McDonnell Douglas MD-82
- Cirrus Vision SF50
- Beechcraft Baron 58
**Features:**
- ±15° manual tilt and auto tilt
- Multi-scan modes (Auto, On-Path, All, Single-Elevation)
- Ground clutter suppression, predictive wind shear (PWS), and stabilized antenna sweep
- Full API for aircraft developers
**Radar Modes Include:**
- WX / WX+T / TURB: Active precipitation and turbulence detection
- MAP: Ground mapping
- TEST: Simulated return image for system check
- OFF: Powers down the system
The radar uses realistic modeling: it detects liquid water droplets (not ice crystals), simulates beam width, auto-gain by altitude, and the risk of “overscanning” cloud tops in cruise. For accurate scanning, tilting the radar down to catch lower portions of storm cells is recommended.
Fixes and Enhancements
General
- Fixed an issue where the time was displayed incorrectly (e.g. 12:60 instead of 12:00).
- Updated Global Airports from the X-Plane Airport Gateway, including OMDB Dubai International with custom buildings.
- Improved the “Resume Last Flight” function, especially when the previous flight ended at smaller airports or helipads (XPD-17164).
- Added the ability to call and dismiss the Ground Power Unit via the Ground Handling Window, similar to chocks. The GPU will remain connected until dismissed (XPD-16371).
- Fixed the weapon preview screen in the Flight Configuration screen.
- Pushback will remove chocks automatically now.
Aircraft
McDonnell Douglas MD-82
- VNAV descent now auto-initiates when reaching the top of descent (XPD-14985).
ATC
- Fixed the “Send to FMS” button on the flight planning screen.
Graphics
- Improved performance of wheel-smoke particles.
- Fixed an issue where Exposure Fusion didn’t work correctly when using an AMD GPU (XPD-17267).
- Fixed an issue where interior lights would switch off about 65,000 feet (XPD-17117).
- Fixed nightvision goggles.
Scenery
- Added missing drivers to airport vehicles.
- Service vehicles now correctly respect stop point settings (XPD-17175).
- Added new library objects and improved some existing ones:
- Water polygons and shores
- Low-profile airport barricades
- European-style ambulances
- Updated compass roses
- Improved colored surfaces for a closer match to draped ground signage
Systems
- Added warnings when ground tiles cannot be loaded in time for Synthetic Vision due to limited CPU resources (XPD-17215).
- Fixed an issue where the artificial horizon was not displayed correctly (XPD-17025).
Weather
- Improved stability of the METAR parser, especially when handling unexpected text or characters.
- Added display of real weather download age, as well as the age of the source data.
- Improved visibility of rain on the weather radar.
- Improved synchronization of manual weather between master and external machines (XPD-16607).
SDK
- Fixed an issue where new cursors were not displayed correctly on screens (XPD-17176).
New scenery assets to use in WED (World Editor)
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