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Breaking change

Altitude 1.14.0.24b

Joystick push-to-talk, new audio meters and microphone gain, and reworked voice and network connections.

Highlights

  • Joystick push-to-talk: assign a joystick button to PTT in Pilot UI or Pilot Core, including home cockpit setups.
  • Audio meters and microphone gain: monitor microphone and output levels and adjust microphone gain. Keep microphone peaks below the red area.
  • Reworked architecture: voice and network connections have moved from Pilot Core to Pilot UI. GStreamer is now bundled with Pilot UI and is no longer needed on Pilot Core.

Interface and Communication

  • A reworked Settings page.
  • TX mute disables PTT when you are not using the radio. Click the TX button on the radio; it turns red when muted.
  • TeamSpeak 2 now shows the transmitting station’s name.
  • A new status bar shows Pilot Core connection information. If Pilot Core is disconnected, use its button in the status bar to connect.
  • An improved AutoUnicom window.

Aircraft Display

  • Ignore or restore individual MTL aircraft with .ignore <callsign> and .unignore <callsign>, useful for formation flights with another tool such as JoinFS.
  • Updated aircraft-position interpolation between network position reports.

Installation

  • Windows: the separate installers have been combined into one. You can also remove the separate GStreamer installation if you no longer use Altitude 1.13.
  • Linux: Pilot UI and Artifice now use Flatpak packages instead of AppImage packages. Keyboard PTT supports Wayland using libinput instead of libX11 and libXkb.
  • macOS: improved DMG packages.

Configuration and Security

Configuration files, logs and custom sounds now use these locations:

  • Windows: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\IVAO\Altitude
  • Linux: ~/.local/share/IVAO/Altitude
  • macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/IVAO/Altitude

Your VID, password and authorisation token are now stored in the operating system’s secure container rather than in the configuration file.

Simulator Compatibility

  • Microsoft Flight Simulator, FSX and Prepar3D: Altitude reconnects automatically if the SimConnect connection is lost.
  • Microsoft Flight Simulator: new LVars expose Altitude information: IVAO_ALTITUDE_SELCAL, IVAO_ALTITUDE_VHF1_VOLUME and IVAO_ALTITUDE_VHF2_VOLUME.
  • X-Plane: fixed an XPMP2 threading issue affecting recent X-Plane 12 versions. X-Plane 10 and earlier are no longer supported.

Minimum OS Requirements

  • Windows: Windows 10 or later.
  • Linux: GCC libstdc++ version 12 or later.
  • macOS: macOS 13 (Ventura) or later.