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This release includes a lot of changes and important steps towards an alpha release:

AI pilot capabilities
The AI pilots are fully able to laterally navigate including standard routings, directs, headings, approaches and their combinations. Holdings and arbitrary intercepts will not be implemented before the first stable release. Until then, you will have to be able to handle the traffic :)

Aircraft API
The aircraft API has been redesigned to ease future additions and/or changes. In particular, aircraft components such as ADIRU (Air Data and Inertia Reference Unit), MCP (Mode Control Panel), FMS (Flight Management System), autopilot and pilot are now separate classes. These changes present all those aircraft components in a realistic way, meaning the programmer can let the pilot press buttons on the MCP, or enter routings on the FMS "LEGS page".

UI
The settings dialogs have been dropped in favour of docks. This provides quicker access and provides one positive sideeffect: The radarscreen becomes more quadratic, which better resembles real ATC displays.

Download
You can download Openapproach-prealpha6.tar.gz from here. Please bear in mind that this still is a prealpha release and hardly playable.

Feedback
If you have any ideas, or you would like to report bugs, please email to openapproach at 26elf dot at, or leave a comment below!