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Release notes

Latest beta​

Still version 1.0; requires iOS 26.2 or later.

Sectional moving map (iPad)

  • A VFR sectional under the live gauges, with the route, checkpoint radii, your flown track and the aircraft. North-up or track-up, pinch and pan, auto-recentre after 30 s.
  • An offline chart library: download an area at Standard or Full Detail, see it as CURRENT, OUTDATED or INCOMPLETE, and resume, update, rename or delete it. Wi-Fi only unless you allow cellular.
  • Start Live Flight shows how much of your route's chart is already on the iPad, with a one-tap download. See sectional charts.

Guidance

  • A second hero card, TARGET GS, showing the speed that makes the leg on time, the gap to it and your current speed. It can never contradict the delta card — both read the same projected error, with a ±3 s / ±6 s hysteresis band.
  • Impossible and unknowable targets are now named rather than displayed as a number: LEG TIME EXPIRED, NO GROUND SPEED, GPS LOST, LATE · BEST SPEED, EARLY · EXTEND LEG.
  • A lost fix is detected after 5 seconds; the cards grey out instead of projecting from a frozen position.

Leg switching

  • A checkpoint passed outside its radius now advances the leg instead of stranding you on it, shown as MISSED <waypoint> · UNDO and undoable with a tap.
  • Passage times are interpolated between fixes, so a GPS gap over a checkpoint still times it correctly.
  • The speed floor is a fixed 20 kts, so a slow aircraft into a headwind still advances.
  • Edit Leg Times in Leg Control changes the planned times without leaving the flight, with ±30-second buttons and a running total, for when you are re-briefed in the air.

Reliability

  • Tracking continues while Navigator is backgrounded, so switching to another app mid-flight no longer puts a gap in the scored track.
  • The screen stays awake for the whole live session.
  • End Flight saves the flight, scored or as a draft, and a draft is written every two minutes in flight.
  • Opening a .fpl shared from another app loads it straight into Start Live Flight.
  • Waypoints are matched to the track in route order, so a route that returns to its departure airport or crosses itself scores correctly; the finish is taken before the landing.
  • Restart Flight asks before discarding the track.

Version 1.0 — first beta​

The first TestFlight build. Requires iOS 26.2 or later; runs on iPhone and iPad.

Live flight tracking

  • Import a ForeFlight .fpl, enter planned leg times, and fly with live timing guidance.
  • Full-screen instrument panel: projected time delta, distance to next waypoint, desired track on a compass dial, ground speed against a computed target, and a leg timer against plan.
  • Panel re-lays itself for iPad and landscape — four tiles across instead of a 2×2 grid.
  • Automatic takeoff detection at a configurable rotation speed, with a manual start.
  • Automatic leg switching at closest approach, with a haptic confirmation and a hysteresis window; manual override through Leg Control for jumping, restarting, and ending.
  • Position from Device GPS or a GDL90 source over Wi-Fi.

Post-flight scoring

  • Import a .kml track log and an .fpl route, enter planned times, settings, secret checkpoints, and fuel, and grade.
  • Results by leg: planned, actual, deviation, closest approach, course penalty, leg points.
  • Five penalty categories — timing, elapsed, course, secret checkpoints, fuel. See the scoring rules.
  • Grading runs off the main thread, so large track logs do not freeze the form.

Flights library

  • Saved flights with rename, delete, and re-grade.
  • Drafts for flights whose inputs are entered before they are scored.
  • JSON export of a score, and JSON and KML export of a live flight.
  • The live-flight KML is a gx:Track carrying each fix's real timestamp and GPS altitude, so re-grading a saved live flight reproduces the timing it was scored with in the air.
  • A track log with positions but no timestamps is refused at import instead of being scored on invented times.

Known limitations

Listed in full under Troubleshooting. Two worth knowing: a live flight saved before the timestamped export will not re-grade, and the sectional map depends on an undocumented FAA tile service.

Under consideration​

Not commitments, and not in any particular order:

  • The moving map on iPhone.
  • Interpolated passage times in scoring, to match what live switching already does.
  • CSV and PDF result exports.
  • Secret checkpoint and fuel entry on the live setup screen.
  • Scoring settings exposed for live flights.
  • iCloud sync between iPhone and iPad.

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