Tacview 1.9.6 beta 8 is now available.
2026-09-07FEATURES & CHANGES • ADDED Support for ADS-B reception using the RTL-SDR Blog V4 (R828D). • ADDED Relative distance, relative bearing, closure rate, and vertical separation charts. • ADDED Aileron, elevator, and rudder telemetry support for DCS World. • ADDED Aileron, elevator, and rudder telemetry support for X-Plane. • ADDED Helicopter mixed units, such as imperial units with distances in kilometers. • ADDED Option to display walls for all objects. • ADDED Aircraft Carrier as a separate object type in the Add/Edit Object dialog. • ADDED Option for wider bullseye ring spacing. • ADDED Add-on to calculate the distance between two geographic points. • ADDED Ctrl+Alt+F1 through Ctrl+Alt+F8 shortcuts to mute media windows. • ADDED Several missing C++ and C# SDK functions, including Telemetry.Save(). • ADDED DCS2ACMI option to export DCS World elevation data for Tacview 2.
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• ADDED Latest official 3D model and database for Nuclear Option. IMPROVEMENTS • IMPROVED Frame rate when playing back very large unoptimized ACMI files. • IMPROVED Support for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. • IMPROVED ADS-B database to version 2025-08. • IMPROVED Pilot names are now displayed only after boarding their aircraft. • IMPROVED Chart time selection and automatic scrolling behavior. FIXES • FIXED BMS 4.38 DTC INI files not being displayed. • FIXED Joysticks not working anymore with remote controls. • FIXED Quotes and commas not being properly escaped in CSV telemetry exports. • FIXED DCS World real-time telemetry with password authentication was not working with Tacview 2.
