We finally have the update 0.9.25 online. The last few days have kept us pretty busy with our server recovery. But now everything is back and work can continue.
The changelog is not very long this time but under the hood there is a very important component. Disguised as "improved ILS behavior", this is actually a fundamentally new system for flying a lateral and vertical path. So far, the standard autopilot has done this for us, albeit more poorly than well. We now have our own code for this. This leads to a much more stable approach behavior and paves the way for a future autoland feature.
But what's so special about it? Quite simply, this code forms our basis for the general flying of LNAV and VNAV paths. Because whether the autopilot follows an ILS, an RNAV approach or simply the enroute waypoints or the vertical descent profile is ultimately irrelevant. The bottom line is that it is always the same use case and therefore always the same code. It can therefore be said that we have now reached the basic code for flight plan tracking for the upcoming custom FMS. And that is indeed something important.
To summarize: If the autopilot now flies the ILS well both laterally and vertically, then it will also do this well with our VNAV and LNAV profile later on.
Of course we will keep you updated about future progress of our backend systems. Stay tuned!