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ADS-Pro V440
ADS-Pro V439
ADS-Data (ADS Database)
ADS-PRO V440 – new features
General
- Choise of the Units
- m | kg | s | km/h
- m | kg | s | kts
- ft | lb | s | mph
- ft | lb | s | kts
Engine
- IC Engine: variation of SFC with Power and Rpm
Control Surfaces / High Lift Devices
- Easier definition
- Automatic 3D-Display
- Check if overlap (change in color and warning messages)
Display additional information on the UI
Add new technical notes/validation reports
ADS-PRO V440 – bug fixes
- Twin-Tail: the symmetric tail is miscalculated on the 2D-Line editor when moving one cross-section in Y
- Save File: remove whitespace from both sides of the file names (if any)
- Other minor fixes
ADS-PRO V439 – new features
General
- Compute airplane wetted area based on reference or true area (function of design context)
- The reference geometry of a VTail is imposed to be trapezoidal
Engine
- User defined Specific Fuel Consumption and Engine Installation Factor
Aerodynamics
- List airfoil candidates (Reverse Engineering, Performance Analysis)
- List airfoil candidates for a given flight condition defined by a lift coefficient and a Reynolds Number.
- User defined miscellaneous drag coefficient to take into account extra drag generated by external components (gimbal camera...) or protrusions...
Display additional information on the UI
Add new technical notes/validation reports
ADS-PRO V439 – bug fixes
- Impossible to insert a new control station in front of the last one without refreshing the body before
- Miscalculation of the total fuel capacity with fuel tanks in tailbooms
- Miscalculation of the ground position for a UAV without landing gear
- Miscalculation of the equivalent deflection of the elevator and rudder for a ruddervator
- Trim drag for negative control surface deflection
- Impossible to compute a canard configuration with tailboom in Design Level 1
- Incomplete list of airfoil candidates for some sorting values
- Wheel fairing generated with default dimensions
- Other minor fixes
ADS-PRO V438 – new features
General
- Possibility to model flaperons
- Compute taper ratio for lifting surfaces with multi trpezoidal sections
- Airplane wetted area computed from true areas
- Compute drag (CS, HLD): limit the deflection to the max/min values
- Change process: don't reset the mass fudge factor
- Load dataset: display all missing files together
- Output/Process Window: don't display the same message consecutively
3D Geometry
- LCL Editor: avoid having 2 points with the same coordinates
- CtS Editor: prevent moving red points (their position is ONLY defined from LCL Editor)
Control Surfaces/High Lift Devices
- Press F5 to refresh the geometry and position (not done automatically)
Propellers
- Add new propeller charts (2-blades propeller)
Landing Gear
- Wheel has brakes: initialize the symmetric brake
Performance
- Stall: add flap settings
- Takeoff/Landing: add runway surface
- Takeoff: display drag breakdown if not possible to accelerate to VLoff
Processing
- Design Level 1: add information (engine nominal power imposed by...)
- Performance Analysis: compute empty weight with a constant mass fudge factor
- Performance Analysis: display pitch angle for variable pitch propeller
Advanced Parameters
- Add fudge factor applied in ground effect on the drag increment due to the deflection of the CS/HLD
Battery Database
Display additional information on the UI
Add new technical notes/validation reports
ADS-PRO V438 – bug fixes
- Interference drag due to flap/aileron deflection: remove the ground effect because already included in profile drag increment
- 3D-Model not updated when airfoil is changed
- The vertical displacement of a CtS is not displayed on the CtS Line Editor
- 3D-Model of a winglet not updated when airfoil of the last wing section is changed
- Not possible to load an airplane with tailboom and cargobay, cargodoors
- Not possible to generate a fuel tank in a tailboom
- Impossible to compute total volume of fuel if one component has more than one tank
- Impossible to display the results Quality when some results are not numerical values
- Impossible to compute the interference drag for Light Business and Light Transport Categories
- Impossible to stretch a body without refreshing it before (dataset created in a former version)
- Miscalculation of the MAC position in the chord direction of a multi trapezoidal lifting surface
- Other minor fixes
ADS-PRO V437 – new features
General
- Check the name of a dataset
- Display tips at the opening of a new session
- Update data in the treeview when modified during the run
Propellers
- Add new propeller charts
- Add information about propeller performance (efficiency, activity factors...)
- Add advanced parameters to improve the computation for extreme configurations (large diameter, high power...)
Systems
- Fuel systems: compute tank volume based on the 3D-Model of the tank
- Fuel systems: check the consistence between the total volume and the sum of each tank volume
Processing
- Track changes: display the differences in results between two successive runs (great !)
- Lift distribution: update the lift slope at the position of the bodies (fuselage, nacelles, tailbooms)
3D-Display
- Improve the generation of the bodies (smoother)
- Add blades on propeller disc (visual check of the number of blades)
Display additional information on the UI
Add new technical notes/validation reports
ADS-PRO V437 – bug fixes
- 3D-Model of a body: difficulty to get a smooth shape
- Maximum rate of climb performance: lift curve slope not computed
- Engine enveloppe: not allowed to put it at the reference point
- Rudder display: incorrect on multi trapezoidal surface
- Incidence of wing sections for multi trapezoidal geometry
- Remove airplane from current session not allowed
- VTail: equivalent horizontal tail geometry for boom mounted
- Display new ailerons on 3D-Model
- Remove and save the last airplane from the treeview
- Compute fuel tank capacity (lifting surface)
- Other minor fixes
ADS-PRO V436 – new features
General
- Add results (definition of terms for different tables)
- Add information in the Output/Process windows
- Add information in the data description window
High Lift Devices
- If several high lift devices on the same lifting surface, possibility to define different angles of deflection
Propellers
- Compute activity factor based on engine nominal power
- Update propeller efficiency according to activity factor
Takeoff and Landing Performance
- Improve the accuracy (based on validation process)
- Split friction on braked and not braked wheels
- Adjust the drag generated by the high lift devices
- Adjust the effect of headwind
Stability
- Modification in the computation of the CG most forward position
Processing
- Possibility to compute the propeller efficiency from propeller charts or from polynomial equation
Seaplane
- Display a message if the seaplane model was not generated with a step
Display additional information on the UI
Add new technical notes/validation reports
ADS-PRO V436 – bug fixes
- Compute airfoil a0 for low Reynolds Number (need to be approximated)
- Compute exposed area for vertical tail
- Delete image files (2D Line Editor) before saving the files
- Performance analysis with 5-Blades propeller
- Display computed masses with a specific fudge factor
- Installation efficiency for propeller mounted on nacelle
- Number of operative propeller (Design Level 1)
- Initialize mass of batteries (Design Level 2)
- Update VTail position when the wing position and geometry are modified
- Minimum number of ribs (4)
- Other minor fixes
ADS-PRO V435 – new features
General
- Add additional results (Mass)
- Add information in the Output/Process Windows
- Add Message Box in the definition of Advanced Parameters
- Identification of "Read Only" Data with [ ]
Performance
- Compute and display the Speed Polar (Performance Analysis)
- Compute and display the Payload Range Chart (Performance Analysis)
Display additional information on the UI
Add new technical notes/validation reports
ADS-PRO V435 – bug fixes
- Bodies (force same shape and align section): the sections are forced in circumscribed rectangle
- Load a dataset created with a "higher" license
- Tools: Load Airplane if not equipped with the selected system
- Tools: mass of horizontal tail and vertical tail not computed
- Other minor fixes
ADS-PRO V434 – new features
General
- Define the most critical engine (multi-engine aircraft)
3D-Model
- Vertical Tail may be moved below the fuselage or tailboom
- Update the symmetric vertical tail
Performance
- Takeoff: take intoo account the ground effect to compute the lift coefficient
- Compute performance OEI with the most critical engine
- Propeller efficiency: extrapolate if pitch angle is lower than 15° (lower limit: 10°)
Display additional information on the UI
Add new technical notes/validation reports
ADS-PRO V434 – bug fixes
- Generation of the 3D-Model if 2 control stations are too close from each other
- Twin Vertical Tail: update symmetric
- Update fuselage shape if the second control station is in front of the first one
- Takeoff with ducted propeller
- Other minor fixes
ADS-PRO V433 – new features
General
- Additional input for reverse engineering process
- Check missing data before a run
Performance
- Multi-Engine: compute performance with OEI
- Takeoff: compute performance @MxTO power setting
- Landing: add free roll time
Display additional information on the UI
Add new technical notes/validation reports
ADS-PRO V433 – bug fixes
- New Airplane: no initialisation of the lifting surface standard geometry
- Load aircraft without making a run before: no initialisation of the lifting surface standard geometry
- Turbopropeller: check engine data if no reverse
- Reverse Engineering with a 5-Blades Propeller
- Other minor fixes
ADS-PRO V432 – new features
General
- All moving horizontal tail (stabilator)
- Add information in the TreeView to make easier the definition of the 3D-Model (areas, distances)
- Posiibility to launch some calculations from the TreeView: geometry, stability derivatives, airfoil candidates, costs...
3D-Model
- VTail mounted on fuselage: allow to define the Y position
- Systems/Other: allow to define the Y and Z position
- Gear fairing: allow to define the X position
- Compute the CG from the 3D geometry (lifting surface, fuselage, fuel tanks)
Performance
- Oswald efficiency factor computed from lift distribution
- Fuselage drag coefficient for pusher/tractor configuration
- Cruise flight condition: add power setting
- Takeoff: add rotation time
- Landing: add free roll time and rolling friction coefficient brakes on
- Propeller installation factor: take into account the shape and size of the body behind it
Display additional information on the UI
Add new technical notes
ADS-PRO V432 – bug fixes
- Load new license file and remove the dataset
- Ducted propeller: position and geometry
- Boxwing: default geometry
- Display headwind speed for takeoff and landing
- Tailboom default shape (engine nacelle type)
- Initialize CG location (performance analysis/Stall)
- Takeoff run: compute speed until liftoff speed
- Lifting surface shadded area
- Design level 1, seaplane: update takeoff curve
- Update engine position: Z
- Propeller efficiency if pitch angle higher than 45°
- Maximum lift increment for twin engine, wing mounted
- Twin vertical tail configuration to single vertical tail
- Takeoff flap deflection initialized to 0
- Other minor fixes
ADS-PRO V431 – new features
General
- Design of Seaplanes (Flyingboat) - Reverse Engineering, Design Level 1 & 2, Performance Analysis
- Add contextual menus (compute geometry, costs...)
3D-Model
- New components (Hulls, Floats, Struts
- Display ground and water surface
Performance
- Takeoff and Landing on water surface
- Influence of headwind
Export
Display additional information on the UI
Add new technical notes
ADS-PRO V431 – bug fixes
- Initialize Control Lines (Offset, DZ)
- Update 3D-Model wheninserting New Control Station
- Display 2D Line Editor make the Property Display Window empty
- Insert Control Station
- Update Line Editor (modification on circular Control Station)
- Change engine type for multi engine configuration
- Change propeller diameter
- Other minor fixes
ADS-PRO V430 – new features
General
- V-Tail Configuration
- Gull-Wing Configuration
- Folding Wing
- Compute/Display the area of the lifting surface during the Reverse Engineering and Performance Analysis data acquisition process
- Check engine dataset before making a run
3D-Model
- Display in transparency the reference lifting surface
- Rotation of the Cross Sections (function of the dihedral angle)
- Function key F6 to hide the selected component
- Function key F7 to display all components
Display additional information on the UI
Add new technical notes
ADS-PRO V430 – bug fixes
- Wing strut (force incidence and twist to 0)
- Strut default shape (compute geometry)
- Change classification when LCL Editor is loaded
- List Missing Data (missing data remaining at root position)
- Default structure on multi Vertical Tail configuration
- Default structure on Canard Configuration
- Control Surface and High Lift Devices Geometry for multi trapezoidal section
- Force initialisation of the standard geometry if Process with No Solution
- Update fuel tank geometry
- Initialisation of the number of tailboom
- Other minor fixes
ADS-PRO V429 – new features
General
- Strut-Braced Wing Configuration
- Improve Twin-Boom Design Configuration
Display additional information on the UI
Add new technical notes
ADS-PRO V429 – bug fixes
- Side Force due to Sideslip Derivative (VT-Boom Mounted)
- Other minor fixes
ADS-PRO V428 – new features
General
- Ducted Fan design capability (4-5 Blades, 0.8m-1.8m)
- Landing Gear: Improve the computation of the CG position for retracted and extended position
3D-Model
- Update CG position in real time with component position
- Update AC position in real time with component size and position
- Display the Ducted Fan on the LCL Editor
Performance
- Determine the best duct size to generate the thrust
Database
- New airplanes: CEA308, RFB Fantrainer F400, Edgley Optica, Glasair III
- Ducted Fan: Performance tables (4-5 blades, 0.8-1.8m)
- New airfoils: LS(1)0417
- New engines: Jabiru 2200, PT6A, Allison 250
Display additional information on the UI
Add new technical notes
ADS-PRO V428 – bug fixes
- Reverse Engineering: Update the length of the tailboom during the run
- Reset View: Unloading 3D-View
- Other minor fixes
ADS-PRO V427 – new features
General
- Check Cfe value when computed from Reverse Engineering
- Check file name before saving
- Add messages if components are oversized
Display additional information on the UI
Add new technical notes
ADS-PRO V427 – bug fixes
- Control Line Editor (Nacelle & Tailboom): Force initialization (align bleu points with red points) in order to avoid the use of the Control Line Editor
- Control Line Editor: unexpected DZ for CtS(1) and CtS(3)
- Cabin and Flight Deck: Update geometry before computing geometry
- Occupant: default standing position
- Tails relative area: computed from reference area
- Control Stations: Update relative position (%) if the last one is moved
- Main and Auxiliary Gear: Mass computation (Raymer Method)
- Fuel tank: Update geometry (Fuselage and Taiboom tanks)
- Other minor fixes
ADS-PRO V426 – new features
General
- Check fuel tank volume (Performance Analysis)
- Default Geometry (Light-Twin-Engine): Limite the number of Control Stations
- Results: Display static margin for Cruise, Best Range and Best Endurance
3D-Model
- Display graph to manage blended values for CSP, DZ and Offset
- Display Wetted Area Plot
- Display Volume Plot
- Display airplane MAC based on the reference geometry of the wing
Performance
- Best Range optimisation: Control on maximum power setting for cruise
- Best Endurance optimisation: Control on maximum power setting for Cruise
Display additional information on the UI
Add new technical notes
ADS-PRO V426 – bug fixes
- Compute default CG position for Canard Configuration
- Compute the 3D-Model of the fuel tank (Fuselage)
- Compute the propeller rpm (Fixed-Pitch Propeller, Partial-Power)
- Tangent interpolation for 3D-Model (bodies)
- Update Nacelle geometry while loading
- Other minor fixes
ADS-PRO V425 – new features
General
- List Airfoil Candidates from airfoil database (+1300) (the best airfoils for the main flight condition)
- List Engines form engine database (engine of same technology)
- Check for missing entities before computing
- Add option Refresh in Real-Time (LCL & CtS Line Editor)
Airfoil Database
Display additional information on the UI
Add new technical notes
ADS-PRO V425 – bug fixes
- Takeoff altitude (results display)
- Change process while LCL Editor is loaded
- Default geometry for UAV
- Update symmetric (Nacelle, Tailboom, Engine Pylon)
- Tangent interpolation for 3D-Model (bodies)
- Propeller blade number (same number)
- Engine position modification during Reverse Engineering
- Computing with missing entities
- Other minor fixes
ADS-PRO V424 – new features
General
- Add option to compute the aerodynamic with the parabolic drag approximation
- Add rate of climb table (for different flight weight)
- Improve takeoff performance calculation
Display additional information on the UI
Add new technical notes
ADS-PRO V424 – bug fixes
- Fix Control Point position on Longitudinal Control Line Editor (top view)
- Fix mass of wing with fuel tank (toolbox)
- Other minor fixes
ADS-PRO V423 – new features
General
- Point displacement on Longitudinal Control Lines (Mouse Down + Shift: vertical ONLY, Mouse Down + Ctrl: vertical ONLY)
- Don't save the session if On-Line Registered
- Don't load the airplane if one airfoil data file is misssing
- Add the flight description in information messages
- Add information about the selected standard geometry if not appropriated with the current geometry
ADS-PRO V423 – bug fixes
- Fix Engine pylon display on 2D Line Editor
ADS-PRO V422 – new features
Model Canard/Tandem Configuration
- Reverse Engineering
- Feasability Analysis
- Conceptual Design
- Performance Analysis
Improve algorithms
- Aerodynamic loads on lifting surfaces
- Control Surface deflection
- CG-Range
- Stability Derivatives
- Stall performance: stall departure location
- Static Stability: computed from static margin
- Takeoff and Landing performnace: reduction of calculation time
- Generation of Airfoil dataset
Add new checks during the run
- Trim lift and maximum control surface deflection
Airfoil Database:
- Add new property: Is Used For
Longitudinal Control Lines Editor and Control Stations Editor
Display additional information on the UI
Add new technical notes
ADS-PRO V422 – bug fixes
- Fix Engine envelope for pusher engine (Turbopropeller, Electric Motor)
- Fix VT position for a twin-boom configuration
- Fix Control Surface position for a twin-boom configuration
- Fix Airfoil Dataset generation via XFoil
- Fix Wing Chord dimension greater than 0
- Fix Initialize fuel tanks in booms while loading
- Fix save file if no valid license
- Fix missing engine characteristics (TP)
- Fix the modification (tractor / pusher) is not taken into account in the 2D line editor of the LCL and CtS
- Fix List of missing data (Aircraft & Prop)
- Fix Contour Lines display for engine pylons
- Fix Contour Lines display is circular fuselage shape
- Fix Y-position of mid-engine during design level 1 & 2
- Fix Ri for a push-pull configuration (Design Level 1)
- Fix VT position if HT-Mounted
- Fix Loading Missing Engine File
- Fix Pylon (LS) Geometry computation
- Fix stability derivatives if no aileron selected
- Fix uncheck HLD after stopping execution
- Other minor fixes
ADS-PRO V421 – new features
Model Light Business Airplane
- Turbopropeller engines
- Interior: cabin, flight deck
- Doors: passenger, emergency, cargo doors
- Display containers
Add turbopropeller database
Add new checks during the run
- Interference of crew members with the wall of the fuselage
- CG range for all load cases
Create engine envelope by default for:
- Turbofan, Turbojet
- Turbopropeller
- Electric motor
Longitudinal Control Lines Editor and Control Stations Editor
- Possibility to display/hide the additional shapes
Display additional information on the UI
Add new technical notes
ADS-PRO V421 – bug fixes
- Fix additional shapes display on Control Station and Longitudinal Control Lines Editors, for bodies located out of the symmetric plane of the airplane
- Fix data not saved for control systems
- Fix check of the computer Id during On-Line Registration
- Fix engine drag computation for multi engine
- Other minor fixes
ADS-PRO V420 – new features
Display additional shapes on the Control Stations and Longitudinal Control Lines Editor
- Lifting surfaces
- Control surfaces
- High lift devices
- Fuselage
- Nacelles
- Landing gear
Improve the mass computation of the aircraft's systems
Add contextual menu to display/compute the characteristics of fuselage, control surfaces and high lift devices
Display additional information on the UI
Add new technical notes
ADS-PRO V420 – bug fixes
- Fix technical note display TN00-063 (chek-list to perform the reverse engineering)
- Fix crash if request to insert a control station in front of the last one (from the TreeView and the Longitudinal Control Lines Editor)
- Fix gear strut position (from the wheel side)
- Fix distance and angle measure on the Control Station Editor
- Other minor fixes
ADS-PRO V419 – new features
Focus on the reverse engineering analysis
- Geometry, propulsion
- Performance: cruise, climb, takeoff, landing and stall performance analysis
- Aerodynamic analysis
- Quality analysis
- Statistical analysis
Engine envelope created by default (single cylinder)
Compute equivalent friction coefficient for parabolic drag polar and shift-do-to-camber drag polar
Display additional information on the UI
Add new technical notes
ADS-PRO V419 – bug fixes
- Fix crash if request to display statistics
- Fix volume coefficient computation (not computed during reverse-engineering analysis and performance analysis)
- Improve propeller efficiency calculation for a fixed pitch propeller in Level Flight
- Improve results display for stall performance if no high lift device selected
- Other minor fixes
ADS-PRO V418 – new features
Compute the performance of an airliner:
- Cruise performance
- Payload chart
- Drag tables and charts
- SAR tables and charts
- Mission table and charts
Model airliners
- Turbofan engines
- Interior: cabin, flight deck, cargo bays, gear bays
- Doors: passenger, emergency, cargo doors, gear doors
- Structure: ribs, spars, frames
Add turbofan database
Improve installation efficiency for propeller driven airplane
Display additional information on the UI
Add new technical notes
ADS-PRO V418 – bug fixes
- Fix the generation of the fuselage 3D-Model
- Fix error message display when New Airplane + Select category
- Fix crash if lifting surface section has a relative position lower than 1m
- Fix refresh of the Memo content if Check Data selected
- Fix initialization of the trapezoidal section index at 100% position along the span
- Fix image import on the Top-View. The imported image must have a width greater than the height. A warning message is displayed if this is not the case.
- Fix the change of lifting surface incidence. Not relayed to cross sections
- Other minor fixes