There’s no formal mechanism for feature requests right now.

With this in mind, what’s the best way to submit feature requests? It feels a bit like they should go through the same sort of process, but they’re not bugs.

In my case, I’ve got a hydraulic system that X-Plane can’t really model and a read-only dataref I’d like to write into instead (but can’t). So I’m slowly writing the best email I can for Austin and thinking of cc-ing Sandy Barbour, but still half-wondering if there’s a feature request form that, over the years, I’ve never noticed.

Never knew that.. Looks like a flash drive. Oh the power.

It said that if email address is entered, will reveal how to dogfight with AI/friends.

But no such thing happened. Following form submission, showed some page that mentioned how to do stuff, but nothing about dogfighting!

Hi Ben! Looking forward to dogfighting in X-Plane 10.

-sh

It could be an Upgrade/Downgrade special addition! Maybe include one of the first versions of XPlane as a bonus to see how far things have come!

Honestly though I’ll probably just pick up a new set at a later date, when the production DVD’s catch up a bit. Thanks for replying,

The dongle we use for pro versions of X-Plane is _not_ a storage device! It is strictly a DRM device. (People thought it was a flash drive, which caused a ton of confusion when Austin offered to sell them at cost. People assumed it was a multi-GB flash drive but it’s not.)

How about a $20 dongle and kill two birds with one sale?

We actually have an in-lab prototype – there was some discussion with our distributors about being able to put a “patch to the latest sim” on an add-on’s DVD so that users without net access could run an add-on that requires > 10.0. I’m not sure if/when we’ll ever productizer it – you’re the first person to ask for such a thing as an end user in 2.5 years of v10.

1. Yes it will, but
2. The email from bugreports was a mistake – Philipp’s mail client wasn’t quite set up right – usually replies come from the engineer actually there.