Welcome to the Caribbean! X-Plane 12.1.2 is our latest minor release to bring new features and some fresh custom airports.
Note: X-Plane 12.1.2 is currently a beta release. If you want to try it, please run the installer and enable beta versions. Make sure that you use the latest version of the X-Plane Installer. More instructions, especially for Steam users, here.
What’s new?
First of all, you will see all types of different boats sailing around the X-Plane world! The number of boats shown depends on the World Objects Density setting within your Graphics Settings.
This new feature adds to the immersion of X-Plane, especially when flying around islands and coats. Specific ships types appear with region-specific accuracy.
Along with all sorts of new boats, we also added three custom airports in the Caribbean. These airports have been built by hand with custom buildings and ground textures.
Let’s take a look!
Princess Juliana International Airport (TNCM)
Princess Juliana International Airport is the main airport on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin and is the perfect starting point for you to discover our new boats and the next airports.
Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport (TNCS)
Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport is an airport on the island of Saba. It is famous for having one of the shortest commercial runways in the world with a length of just 1,312 ft (400 m). Our artists added a variety of custom buildings around the entire island as well as an orthographic overlay. We hope you enjoy your stay at Saba.
Gustaf III Airport (TFFJ)
Gustaf II Airport is located on the island of Saint Barthélemy, or St. Barth’s if you’re in the know. Due to its short runway and a variety of obstacles, a special license is required to land at the airport. St. Barth’s lists as one of the most dangerous airports in the world. Let’s see if you have what it takes!
Gateway Airports
X-Plane 12.1.2 represents a major milestone for our Scenery Gateway. We now ship with 20,000 (!!!) 3D Airports thanks to the stunning work of our community of designers. Thank you so much for this wonderful work – the entire X-Plane community appreciates you!
Additional Camera Commands
With our General Aviation pilots especially in mind, we have added four new camera commands that will help you to look around quickly, especially when flying an approach.
The first two commands allow you to tilt the cockpit view by 45 degrees to the left and right. Executing the command again will tilt the view by another 45 degrees. We also added some commands to look up and down. Instead of 45 degrees, the camera will tilt 30 degrees and just as the other commands, you can execute the command again to look 60 or 90 degrees up and down.
| Command | Description |
| sim/view/rot_cockpit_left_45 | Rotate cockpit view: tilt 45 degrees left. |
| sim/view/rot_cockpit_right_45 | Rotate cockpit view: tilt 45 degrees right. |
| sim/view/rot_cockpit_up_30 | Rotate cockpit view: tilt 30 degrees up. |
| sim/view/rot_cockpit_down_30 | Rotate cockpit view: tilt 30 degrees down. |
Dual Jetways
What good are two boarding doors if your jetway only attaches to one?! By popular demand, we have added support for dual jetways. Aircraft/airport authors now have the ability to update their products for this feature.
New Library Objects
Our artists added some new items to the general airport library, such as some passenger stairs, airport buses and a ground power unit.
Support for VirtualFly Hardware
Included with 12.1.2 is support of four additional products of VirtualFly in X-Plane:
- Switcho Engines Ignition
- Switcho Engines Electrical
- Switcho Lights
- Switcho Trims
Fixes and Enhancements
Replay System
We have focused effort on improving the stability of our replay system for this release. What good is a butter landing if you can’t show it to your friends later?
Local Web API
When the WebServer cannot bind to port 8086 a warning will be shown to the user, but X-Plane will continue to start normally.
Scenery
We updated the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas.
Aircraft
General
We fixed a problem regarding rain drops on windshields (XPD-15751).
Cirrus Vision SF50
We fixed an engine behavior bug in the Cirrus VisionJet. Previously, if you started the engine, shut it down and then immediately tried to start it again, nothing happened.
Beta ALIA VTOL
The ALIA 250 now has gauges for all four batteries on its display.
