Magknight have updated their B787-9 Aviator Edition once more, bringing with it an assortment of improvements in all sorts of areas.

Fuselage and cockpit art join an improved fuel system, automatic checklists, and enroute CPDLC/ACARS using HOPPIE.

These improvements are topped off by other improvements and the implementation of feature requests from users.

It was back in September when the aircraft last saw a major update: version 1.6.0 saw the release of their brand new cockpit, with smaller updates releasing afterwards in the months that followed.

The version history at x-plane.org’s store shows the aircraft was updated in the following areas:

Improved fuselage and cockpit art

• Screen LCD effect
• Reduced animation time on most buttons
• Extra cargo doors
• Cockpit hatch
• Additional GPU models
• New (brighter) external lights
• Animations for keyboard buttons
• Window lines, pillar seals and HUD glass changes

Improved fuel system

• Automatic fuel Jettison
• Crossfeed
• Pump loadshedding
• Better primary pump selection
• Various small fixes and improvements

Automatic checklists

• Automatic checklists, defined on a per-livery basis
• Autocomplete for checklists
• Standard normal checklists included
• Intergration with cabin announcements

Enroute CPDLC/ACARS using HOPPIE

• Added freetext to various pages
• Logon, logoff, responses and freetext messages supported
• Oceanic and CPDLC clearance requests
• Improved resilliance
• Station status shown on logon/request pages
• Simbrief uplink for aircraft loadout, configuration and flightplans

Various other feature requests and improvements

• Toe brake animations
• Reversers moving the throttles
• EFB QNH inHg/hPa auto-detect
• On-the-fly reload of cabin soundpacks
• Added message info box to COMM
• STORED VHF improvements
• EFB error showing when EFB off
• QNH Pressure range (#511)
• Gear doors automatically deploy after takeoff
• Improved NWS control logic
• Brake temperature simulation
• GEAR EFIS page
• Full spoilers command order (#502)

On top of 1.7.0, Magknight has pushed four smaller updates through to 1.7.4, which include small fixes and improvements.

• Fixed issue with CPDLC logon request
• Fixed instance of SASL soft crash
• Indicator test
• Added indicator capabilities to most of the overhead yellow indicators (others to come)
• Fixed bugs associated with having batteries off but elec power on somewhere
• Fixed bugs with electrical drive disconnect
• Indicator test ends after 3 seconds
• Reduced display reflections
• Master warning/caution indicators
• Green light indicators
• Balance ON indicator

The aircraft is available at x-plane.org for US $44.95.