flybywiresim/aircraft
Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
12 Months active
Languages Used
JavaScriptMarkdownTypeScriptSCSSYAMLcfgglTFC++
Technical Skills
Build ScriptingCI/CDDocumentationEmbedded SystemsFlight SimulationFront-end Development
Michael Corcoran
PROFILE
Michael Corcoran
Over twelve months, Tracer developed and maintained core avionics and simulation features for the flybywiresim/aircraft repository, focusing on flight management, navigation, and cockpit systems. He engineered robust Flight Management System enhancements, improved error handling in C++ and TypeScript, and advanced UI/UX for both pilots and developers. His work included implementing ECAM control panels, refining altimetry and navigation data flows, and modernizing codebases through TypeScript migration and strict typing. By integrating event-driven architectures and strengthening system reliability, Tracer addressed real-world operational edge cases, improved maintainability, and ensured compatibility across MSFS versions, demonstrating deep technical breadth and attention to operational detail.
Overall Statistics
Feature vs Bugs
70%Features
Repository Contributions
92Total
Bugs
18
Commits
92
Features
43
Lines of code
194,000
Activity Months12
Your Network
21 people
Work History
September 2025
1 Commits
Sep 1, 2025September 2025: Strengthened the Flight Data Recorder's file handling resilience in flybywiresim/aircraft. Implemented robust work-directory access error handling and improved operator visibility, reducing downtime and safeguarding data capture.
1 Commits
Sep 1, 2025September 2025: Strengthened the Flight Data Recorder's file handling resilience in flybywiresim/aircraft. Implemented robust work-directory access error handling and improved operator visibility, reducing downtime and safeguarding data capture.
September 2025
August 2025
7 Commits • 4 Features
Aug 1, 2025Monthly summary for 2025-08: Delivered core Flight Management System enhancements and code quality improvements in flybywiresim/aircraft. Implemented DTG and leg sequencing refinements for the FMS, added a centralized troubleshooting log for uplink errors, improved data loading robustness for airway retrieval, and advanced IRS alignment and GPS status messaging. Expanded TypeScript strict mode across the codebase, improving typing, safety, and maintainability. Fixed UI and rendering issues including an EIS W glyph font rendering fix on the A380. These changes collectively improve flight path accuracy, reliability, debuggability, and developer productivity.
August 2025
7 Commits • 4 Features
Aug 1, 2025Monthly summary for 2025-08: Delivered core Flight Management System enhancements and code quality improvements in flybywiresim/aircraft. Implemented DTG and leg sequencing refinements for the FMS, added a centralized troubleshooting log for uplink errors, improved data loading robustness for airway retrieval, and advanced IRS alignment and GPS status messaging. Expanded TypeScript strict mode across the codebase, improving typing, safety, and maintainability. Fixed UI and rendering issues including an EIS W glyph font rendering fix on the A380. These changes collectively improve flight path accuracy, reliability, debuggability, and developer productivity.
July 2025
4 Commits • 2 Features
Jul 1, 2025July 2025 focused on stabilizing critical flight management workflows, enhancing visual fidelity in A32NX, and improving FS2024 compatibility. Delivered key features and reliability improvements across the A32NX suite, reducing risk in core flight systems and enhancing user experience for operators and testers.
4 Commits • 2 Features
Jul 1, 2025July 2025 focused on stabilizing critical flight management workflows, enhancing visual fidelity in A32NX, and improving FS2024 compatibility. Delivered key features and reliability improvements across the A32NX suite, reducing risk in core flight systems and enhancing user experience for operators and testers.
July 2025
June 2025
15 Commits • 6 Features
Jun 1, 2025June 2025 monthly summary for flybywiresim/aircraft: Delivered foundational feature and reliability improvements that increase realism, maintainability, and cross-system integration. Key outcomes include delivery of the ECAM Control Panel (ECP) for A32NX with interactive controls, status indicators, simulator integration, plus documentation updates and refactoring to support ECP. Strengthened FMS reliability with enhanced navigation data troubleshooting by wiring NavigationDatabase to EventBus and ErrorLogger for improved error capture during data fetch and mapping. Implemented comprehensive altimetry improvements with split barometric corrections, expanded correction range, and fixes for related indicators across PFD and aircraft variants. Advanced event handling and listener infrastructure to improve asynchronous failure propagation and testability. Expanded hardware integration via RMP API exposure and standby mode handling with AMU state synchronization. Integrated FMS flight number into ATSU/ARINC429 and updated FMC display and docs. Also performed build/repo hygiene and UI usability enhancements, including treating GLTF as binary to reduce diffs and renaming UI weight setting to US Units, along with enabling 4K textures via environment variable.
June 2025
15 Commits • 6 Features
Jun 1, 2025June 2025 monthly summary for flybywiresim/aircraft: Delivered foundational feature and reliability improvements that increase realism, maintainability, and cross-system integration. Key outcomes include delivery of the ECAM Control Panel (ECP) for A32NX with interactive controls, status indicators, simulator integration, plus documentation updates and refactoring to support ECP. Strengthened FMS reliability with enhanced navigation data troubleshooting by wiring NavigationDatabase to EventBus and ErrorLogger for improved error capture during data fetch and mapping. Implemented comprehensive altimetry improvements with split barometric corrections, expanded correction range, and fixes for related indicators across PFD and aircraft variants. Advanced event handling and listener infrastructure to improve asynchronous failure propagation and testability. Expanded hardware integration via RMP API exposure and standby mode handling with AMU state synchronization. Integrated FMS flight number into ATSU/ARINC429 and updated FMC display and docs. Also performed build/repo hygiene and UI usability enhancements, including treating GLTF as binary to reduce diffs and renaming UI weight setting to US Units, along with enabling 4K textures via environment variable.
May 2025
4 Commits • 3 Features
May 1, 2025May 2025: Delivered targeted improvements across the Flight Management System (FMS), EFB UX defaults, and MCDU UI for flybywiresim/aircraft. Focused on delivering business value through improved route accuracy, safer and more automated procedures, and cleaner UI rendering, enabling smoother operations and easier future development.
4 Commits • 3 Features
May 1, 2025May 2025: Delivered targeted improvements across the Flight Management System (FMS), EFB UX defaults, and MCDU UI for flybywiresim/aircraft. Focused on delivering business value through improved route accuracy, safer and more automated procedures, and cleaner UI rendering, enabling smoother operations and easier future development.
May 2025
April 2025
9 Commits • 4 Features
Apr 1, 2025April 2025 — delivered core ND simplifications, improved cockpit lighting handling, robust startup phase initialization, and documentation updates; fixed critical stability issues in VOR handling, EIS font rendering, SimBrief typing, ATC frequency preservation on runway spawn, and memo color logic. These changes improved user experience, reliability, and maintainability, with impact on flight planning accuracy and simulation startup fidelity.
April 2025
9 Commits • 4 Features
Apr 1, 2025April 2025 — delivered core ND simplifications, improved cockpit lighting handling, robust startup phase initialization, and documentation updates; fixed critical stability issues in VOR handling, EIS font rendering, SimBrief typing, ATC frequency preservation on runway spawn, and memo color logic. These changes improved user experience, reliability, and maintainability, with impact on flight planning accuracy and simulation startup fidelity.
March 2025
11 Commits • 5 Features
Mar 1, 2025March 2025 monthly performance summary for flybywiresim/aircraft: Delivered major features across FMS, ND/MCDU, and internal architecture, plus stability improvements and a release. Business value was realized through: streamlined pilot workflows with safer waypoint handling; clearer ND/MCDU guidance and enhanced approach visualization; architecture modernization enabling better data exposure to external SDKs; reliable EFIS overlays in plan mode; and a clean, documented release process.
11 Commits • 5 Features
Mar 1, 2025March 2025 monthly performance summary for flybywiresim/aircraft: Delivered major features across FMS, ND/MCDU, and internal architecture, plus stability improvements and a release. Business value was realized through: streamlined pilot workflows with safer waypoint handling; clearer ND/MCDU guidance and enhanced approach visualization; architecture modernization enabling better data exposure to external SDKs; reliable EFIS overlays in plan mode; and a clean, documented release process.
March 2025
February 2025
6 Commits • 5 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025 monthly summary for flybywiresim/aircraft: Delivered user-facing navigation data enhancements and labeling clarity for FMS, plus internal code modernization. Key features implemented across the month include a UI-driven navigation database swap confirmation for Honeywell H4 FMS, RNP AR SIDs labeling and authorization status in the FMS for A380X, extended ident formatting for Lat/Lon waypoints, Navigraph subscription status improvements in the EFB, and internal code modernization via TypeScript migration of legacy FMS/MCDU code and a TCAS singleton refactor. These changes improve pilot situational awareness, reduce data-entry and interpretation errors, and boost long-term maintainability; also included targeted fixes such as invalid Bing map calls.
February 2025
6 Commits • 5 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025 monthly summary for flybywiresim/aircraft: Delivered user-facing navigation data enhancements and labeling clarity for FMS, plus internal code modernization. Key features implemented across the month include a UI-driven navigation database swap confirmation for Honeywell H4 FMS, RNP AR SIDs labeling and authorization status in the FMS for A380X, extended ident formatting for Lat/Lon waypoints, Navigraph subscription status improvements in the EFB, and internal code modernization via TypeScript migration of legacy FMS/MCDU code and a TCAS singleton refactor. These changes improve pilot situational awareness, reduce data-entry and interpretation errors, and boost long-term maintainability; also included targeted fixes such as invalid Bing map calls.
January 2025
14 Commits • 7 Features
Jan 1, 2025January 2025 Monthly Summary for flybywiresim/aircraft. The month focused on delivering high-value flight dynamics enhancements, robust data integration for MSFS2024 ecosystem, improved system configurability, and enhanced observability. All work was aligned with improving realism, reliability, and maintainability, enabling smoother cross-version operation and faster debugging.
14 Commits • 7 Features
Jan 1, 2025January 2025 Monthly Summary for flybywiresim/aircraft. The month focused on delivering high-value flight dynamics enhancements, robust data integration for MSFS2024 ecosystem, improved system configurability, and enhanced observability. All work was aligned with improving realism, reliability, and maintainability, enabling smoother cross-version operation and faster debugging.
January 2025
December 2024
1 Commits • 1 Features
Dec 1, 2024December 2024: Focused on delivering critical FCU fault visibility within the Fly-By-Wire aircraft simulation to improve reliability, diagnostics, and operator confidence. Implemented a comprehensive Fault Reporting and Diagnostics feature for FCU1 and FCU2, including new error messages and health status indicators, integrated into the flybywiresim/aircraft repository.
December 2024
1 Commits • 1 Features
Dec 1, 2024December 2024: Focused on delivering critical FCU fault visibility within the Fly-By-Wire aircraft simulation to improve reliability, diagnostics, and operator confidence. Implemented a comprehensive Fault Reporting and Diagnostics feature for FCU1 and FCU2, including new error messages and health status indicators, integrated into the flybywiresim/aircraft repository.
November 2024
13 Commits • 2 Features
Nov 1, 2024Month: 2024-11 — This period focused on delivering realism, reliability, and MSFS2024 compatibility for flybywiresim/aircraft. Key work included major feature delivery for A380X flight dynamics and FMC, targeted bug fixes across A32NX navigation and MSFS2024 integration, and essential maintenance/documentation updates. The combined efforts enhanced flight model fidelity, reduced edge-case failures, and improved onboarding experiences for users on MSFS2024.
13 Commits • 2 Features
Nov 1, 2024Month: 2024-11 — This period focused on delivering realism, reliability, and MSFS2024 compatibility for flybywiresim/aircraft. Key work included major feature delivery for A380X flight dynamics and FMC, targeted bug fixes across A32NX navigation and MSFS2024 integration, and essential maintenance/documentation updates. The combined efforts enhanced flight model fidelity, reduced edge-case failures, and improved onboarding experiences for users on MSFS2024.
November 2024
October 2024
7 Commits • 4 Features
Oct 1, 2024October 2024: Key release readiness and FCU enhancements across flybywiresim/aircraft. Focused on clean release tagging, unit handling fixes, and UX improvements for altitude display; improved build robustness and developer experience.
October 2024
7 Commits • 4 Features
Oct 1, 2024October 2024: Key release readiness and FCU enhancements across flybywiresim/aircraft. Focused on clean release tagging, unit handling fixes, and UX improvements for altitude display; improved build robustness and developer experience.
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Quality Metrics
Correctness89.0%
Maintainability86.8%
Architecture84.0%
Performance82.0%
AI Usage21.0%
Skills & Technologies
Programming Languages
C++CSSFLTFontGLSLGit AttributesHTMLJavaScriptMarkdownRust
Technical Skills
3D ModelingAPI DevelopmentAPI IntegrationARINC429AerodynamicsAircraft SystemsAircraft Systems SimulationAlgorithm ImplementationAsset IntegrationAsynchronous ProgrammingAvionics SoftwareAvionics SystemsBack End DevelopmentBackend DevelopmentBuild Scripting
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