Wheels up: a squadron polish pass 38702a9
A batch of details that were bugging the flight line — features first:
- Gallery gear toggle. Aircraft in the showroom now pose wheels-up by default, and G drops the gear (and raises it again) on anything that has wheels to show.
- Spectate everything. J no longer stops at aircraft — it rides every contact in the bay, nearest first: airliners, MiGs, yachts, freighters, the supertankers, the escorts, and the Big E herself. While spectating, SHIFT+ARROWS or RIGHT-DRAG pans and tilts around the subject, WHEEL or [ ] zooms, and 0 reframes.
- Pause means silence. Holding the sim with P now suspends the entire audio graph — engine, lock tones, gatling, weather, all of it — and releasing the pause brings it straight back.
And the fixes:
- AI aircraft finally retract their gear. Any gear-equipped AI jet used to fly the whole sortie with its wheels hanging out — gear now comes down only on the ground and on final, and goes up the moment they’re airborne.
- SFO’s south end is clear. Three terminal and hangar blocks overlapped the southern stretches of the 01L/01R strips; they’ve been shifted off the pavement. No more clipping a building on short final.
- Menu titles cleaned up. The F1–F7 and ESC badges are gone from the MISSIONS rows — the keys work exactly as before, the titles just stopped shouting them.
- Analytics were homepage-only. The GA tag only ever loaded on the front page, so every blog entry, tag page, the store and the assets shelf were invisible to it. The tag now ships on every page, through a loader that’s ready for Google Tag Gateway — it tries the first-party path first and falls back to Google’s CDN until the gateway is switched on.