Autotune is not currently even a feature. You have to know and change the frequencies yourself! 🙂

Right – part of the point of the developer blog is to share development information with third party authors – to give them situational awareness. It’s a lot better for everyone if third party devs have some idea of where they’re going – otherwise the only thing they can do is “stop everything and wait”. If we have preferences for certain routes in the future scenery system (e.g. moving toward GPU effects for lighting or continuing to use the library) this helps give authors a road map. We want third party developers to know that their investment in 3-d modeling and texturing is still useful in a v10 world.

But this is all development information. It doesn’t answer the question “will you be happy when you get your DVDs.” That’s not something for this blog.

Alright , Chris thanks. Hopefully I will get some answer before Christmas, let alone 2012 by the time it actually ships to my door..

Hi Chris, this is not the forum for these types of questions/requests. Yes we tend to discuss some of the features that you’ll see on the horizon but the main purpose of this Developer’s Blog is for Ben and I to disseminate information to our developer community about the inner workings of systems and sub-systems that they may need to be aware of to continue developing for X-Plane. For the marketing-type questions that you have, you’ll have to wait until product release when things are more concrete.

Not trying to burn ya guys or be mad, it’s a sim, a game. However really want to see clear cut info on what exactly we will get/ not be getting on dvd. how many features are ready to use out of the box for users like me who dont make scenery, atc, etc or care. Put dvd in, load and fly.. end of story minus some downloads.

screenshot wise, yeah I’m persistent, so are many fans anxious. weeks and months on end with little to no news or shots is annoying. and no a screen shot of a messed up road curve or light counts. Vids like the 747 and neighbor hood from JANUARY count. world scenery, weather, more planes. v-10 tuesdays easy to do. just want the darn sim now

Ehh, yes they have been answered but not in detail or clear cut and dry this is what well get on dvd exactlty. how many airports will or wont have realistic atc, sure new lego bricks and art but only adding them default to a few places, leaving it up to users do add more.
what i imagined the sim ( v-10 to be) is what the forums, screen shots and xplane.com news pages have said for a darn long wait that isn’t over. I pictured really nice new scenery, no more crappy photo terrain of walmarts all over, finally airports with terminals and such ( at least for major ones) ATC centers etc.. but now, unless i’m wrong, its looking like while still those are true, limitations on what we will get on dvd were not addressed originally. aka v-10 feels like a new sweet sim with many new features, yet shipping with all the tools for us do to on our own + add on vs buying a ready to go sim where you can load a major airport, see new art assets, realisitic atc citing where you are and such by default.

Is this of use? … Vatsim2Xplane
Its been several years since I looked at this converter tool, not sure if it uses the current apt.dat format but probably is one readable by the sim.

You really should look into the posts related to the use of OSM data to get an idea on how this will change……