Version 9 - Probably Too Late

If you have a third party add-on and you haven't tested it against X-Plane 9, well...honestly it's probably a little bit too late to fix compatibility bugs now. We're in RC, and only changes to fix critical bugs are going into the sim; everything else will have to wait for 9.1.

So if you have an add-on and you haven't tested it against 9.0, for crying out loud, do it now! Submit the bug anyway - if we can't fix it for 9, we can fix it for 9.1. But...after almost 14 weeks in beta, we've got to close this build up.

BTW a minor side note on fuel pumps...

In X-Plane 864, an airplane will run even if the electric fuel pump is off. (However, if the fuel pump failure is triggered and the electric fuel pump is off, either by switch or electrical-system failure, then you're out of fuel.)

X-Plane 900RC1 restores this behavior; in beta 25, an electrical failure would turn off all sources of fuel. This is wrong for a plane like the C172 where gravity can feed the engine.

In the long term X-Plane does need a more complex abstraction (e.g. does this plane have gravity feed or engine drawn fuel, or engine driven pumps, etc. etc.) but for now the 864 model, while inaccurate and incomplete, causes less problems than beta 25, which was simply wrong for a number of planes.