Checklist Reader – Your Voice-Controlled Copilot for MSFS 2024

Checklist Reader – Version 1.0.24.3 Checklist buttons, a one-step API demo and faster speech. -------------------------------------------------- NEW AND IMPROVED: Controls, speech and examples • The separate Checklist Library Extensions download carries the matching library update. The complete catalog contains 594 checklists: 54 in the Core Library and 540 in the optional Extensions. 228 checklists are revised, 15 of them in the Core Library: questions that only asked which aircraft, add-on or variant this is are gone, and so are items tied to a moment in the takeoff or landing roll. Real preparation items stay, in sections now titled "Before ...". • Every checklist command is now a mouse action as well as a spoken one. A new Checklist menu in Simulator Status and Lite, an optional button row while a checklist runs (Check, Skip, Next Item, Repeat, Pause, Continue, Stop) and Yes/No buttons for the questions the reader waits on put the whole run in reach of the mouse. Right-click a section to read it aloud or run it interactively. The Companion panel offers the same buttons; update the Companion package together with the application. • Flight > Technical Examples > API Demo now prepares the API demo in one step: it starts the local test receiver, opens its page and loads the demo checklist. The demo webhook is offered once, so a webhook you deleted does not come back. • Speech recognition with Whisper hears short answers better. The answer the current item expects now reaches Whisper first, and every recording starts with a short lead silence, so holding the key and speaking at once works as well as a short press. Whisper also starts transcribing a quarter of a second after you release the key instead of waiting out the full push-to-talk grace, and spoken lines no longer end in a quarter second of silence. The Windows recognizer keeps its grace period. • The MIN (Plain Checklist) switch now really switches what it bundles, in both directions: on means Reminders off, Simple Checklist Phrases on and Tell Me What Is Next off. The Config menu and the dialogs show the state that applies. Reminders also stop while a checklist is paused. • Co-Pilot and Camera are wide plates in the Companion, the short legends share the rest, and the annunciator has a white surface in light mode. • A monitoring profile can name systems it keeps monitoring although the checklist never mentions them (Keep Warnings...). A system that the checklist metadata rules out stays silent. • Flight plan imports no longer end in confirmation boxes. The Flight Plan Details window opens on the plan just loaded, and a coloured line under its menu tells whether the import was complete (green), had route points without map coordinates (yellow) or failed, with the reason (red). • The Simulator Status window has a normal frame with minimize and maximize, remembers a maximized state, and the Flight Clock tile now shows the simulator's local time as well. • The checklist editor is rebuilt as cards that follow the window: the header and the item masks use the height better, adapt from one to four columns, and drop-down lists stay dark on the dark theme. • The licence changes from MIT to a freeware licence: Checklist Reader stays free to use, while its rights stay with the author. Checklists and everything the program produces or reads (TourGuide datasets, flight plans, the API demo, the webhook test receiver) stay free of any restriction. The licence also explains that an update may replace a supplied checklist with the same ID. Earlier releases remain under MIT as they were published. -------------------------------------------------- FIXED: Checklist handling • Fixed: the checklist check no longer disables items that use camera or API actions. It wrote a repaired copy with the whole item marked invalid, which the editor then offered on every open. A wrong value in one action now costs only that action, and repair copies left by an older check are removed. • Fixed: stopping a section that is read aloud no longer unloads the checklist. The paper checklist, the Companion lists and the section menus keep showing it, and monitoring keeps what the checklist says about the aircraft. • Fixed: the Lite paper checklist now shows the loaded checklist and its section menus, and with a neural voice Lite prepares the checklist in the background as the full edition does. -------------------------------------------------- Community & Support The Checklist Reader is an actively evolving project, and feedback is always welcome. Join the community on Discord: https://discord.gg/EchPmVtueY For further support: simflightchris@gmail.com All checklist content, including drafts and derived procedures, is for flight simulation only and is not approved for real-world aviation. Checklist Reader and Checklist Library Extensions are independent projects and are not affiliated with or endorsed by the named developers or manufacturers.