- Five airports rebuilt. Charlotte gains Concord-Padgett and Denver gains Centennial, with most of Denver's military traffic replaced by airlines. Innsbruck now flies its real published approaches, including the circle to runway 08, and its departures climb east down the valley the way the real ones do. Madrid's runways are redrawn to survey, Cuatro Vientos finally works traffic, and the terrain no longer hides the airfield. Shenandoah puts Charlottesville back to work. - Parallel approaches are no longer collisions. Two aircraft landing side by side on parallel runways were being scored as a mid-air, at every airport that has them. Not any more. - Live shifts count what you fly. Your shift goal is remembered between sessions, reaching it no longer ends the shift, and only the aircraft you actually work count toward it. Crashes between aircraft you never controlled are no longer charged to you, and a shift left in the background comes back instead of being lost. - Also fixed. A fast turn onto final no longer carries an aircraft past the far end of the airport, and aircraft rotate at their own speeds rather than one shared speed.

- Season 3: The Crossing. Seven new episodes: London, Paris, Iceland, Mumbai, and then the ocean itself. Episode 1 is free to play. - A new way to control. The season's flagship shift has no radar at all: crossings report positions on the hour, you keep the arithmetic between reports, and separation lives on a plotting board. A gentle coach walks you in, and a clock control keeps the quiet hours moving. - Weather with a spine. Organized storm fronts arrive: a monsoon that marches across Mumbai, and a volcanic ash line that closes the North Atlantic over Keflavik. - Paris joins live traffic. Real aircraft over Charles de Gaulle, Orly, and Le Bourget: one free live shift a day. - Every difficulty, for everyone. Novice to Master is no longer tied to any purchase: pick your tier on any career level. - A calmer tutorial. No more random emergencies at higher difficulties; the one scripted teaching emergency remains. - The Logbook grows. Season 3 writes seven new chapters as you complete episodes, and the entries know how your night actually went. - Under the hood: Iceland arrivals fly real published procedures, Mumbai's runway 26 is fixed, AI traffic flies honest approaches and go-arounds, and a rare collision scoring bug is gone. - Season 3 is optional. Full Game owners get it free, forever.

Behind the scenes: better shift telemetry that powers the public Tower Log, groundwork for upcoming season features, and small fixes. Thanks for flying with a one person tower.

You told us aircraft could appear inside thunderstorms. Fixed. Arrivals now steer clear when they spawn, and you get more time to fly out of a cell. The season page now shows what is inside each season, in five languages. Season 2 opens with a calmer first rescue. Also fixed: easier taps on the arrival and departure panels, the update check, and an overlapping picker in Settings.

The Watch is here. A career campaign told in seasons: step into the tower, work real incidents, and earn your place shift by shift. Season 1 "First Watch" and Season 2 "The Incident Desk", fourteen episodes with a full cast, a story, and a debrief after every shift. Search and rescue, front and center. The Watch builds Special Ops & Rescue into the story: follow the signal, hold a steady hover to hoist, and beat the survival clock. One episode even hands you a cooperative multi-aircraft rescue. Charlotte joins the map. Work KCLT with its real runways and published procedures. The Logbook. Every level you clear writes a permanent record you can look back on. Ratings, refreshed. Career is now Ratings, with a cleaner path through your qualifications. Smarter skies. Uncontrolled traffic now routes around thunderstorms instead of flying straight through them. You asked, we answered. A single Change Altitude control, a clearer traffic pattern and approach, ratings that only count a genuine finish, tidier aircraft counts, corrected runway alignment at several airports, a new Enter the Pattern lesson, and dozens of smaller fixes. A note for founders: if you already own the Full Game, you keep the base game and every season, free, forever. Thank you for being here early.

The Flight Academy is open — learn the craft in ten 3-minute lessons over St Maarten, Manhattan, Dubai, London, Tokyo and more. One skill at a time, and your first win comes in the first minute. Special Ops & Rescue — guide rescue helicopters to survivors: follow the signal, hold a steady hover to hoist, and beat the survival clock. New rescue missions in Anchorage, San Diego, and Lucerne. Your trophy room — 24 awards as spinning 3D medallions. Flip them, tilt them, earn them across your whole career. Clearances like a real controller — enter the traffic pattern, clear published approaches, and issue crossing restrictions ("cross the fix at 5,000, then turn…"). Departures wait for you — departing aircraft hold in a Departures list instead of blocking your landings. Release them when you're ready. Parla italiano! — FlatoutATC is now fully localized in Italian. Dozens of refinements — release a holding aircraft straight into a landing clearance, a redesigned speed control, real published procedures at Anchorage and Boston, and a game clock that pauses when you do.

This update fixes a rare crash that could occur during the tutorial. Thanks to the players who reported it.

This is a quick fix for an issue introduced in 2.8 where your career progress and stats could appear empty on the home screen after updating. Your progress was always safe in the cloud — this update simply restores it to the display, and re‑enables Game Center achievements and leaderboards. Thanks to the players who reported it and helped us fix it fast.

Two new airports, live Atlanta traffic, and a brand-new way to learn the ropes. NEW AIRPORTS • Rio de Janeiro — work Galeão and Santos Dumont together across Guanabara Bay, with real Brazilian SIDs and STARs. • Iceland — Keflavík and Reykjavík on the Faxaflói bay, flown with real Icelandic procedures and North Atlantic terrain. LIVE TRAFFIC • Atlanta joins New York and London as a live, real-time ADS-B region. • Live shifts now have a goal: work your target number of aircraft to earn a rating and a place on the leaderboard. NEW TO ATC? • A brand-new guided tutorial walks you through arrivals, helicopters, busier airspace, and your first emergency — one lesson at a time. GAMEPLAY • Fly over the weather — storms now build in stages with a grace window instead of an instant loss. • Radio failures (7600): some aircraft go silent and stop taking commands. Keep the rest of your traffic clear until they recover. • Helicopters can now descend below 1,000 feet for low approaches. REFRESHED LOOK • A redesigned home screen — themed shelves, a smart Continue card, a daily challenge, and per-level difficulty medals — plus a modernized Settings screen. Keep the feedback coming via Settings → Talk to the Developer. Happy controlling!

Fixes a bug where resuming a saved game could make it stop sending new aircraft partway through, as if it had started a fresh session. Your progress and the remaining traffic now stay in sync when you continue a game.

Our biggest update yet. *** LIVE AIR TRAFFIC *** Step into a live shift over New York or London and work real flights, pulled from real-world ADS-B data. The aircraft on your scope are flying right now. One free shift every day. *** NO MORE ADS *** We removed every ad from the game. No interruptions, ever. ALSO NEW • Night operations and time-of-day lighting • Richer 3D tower and terrain • A shareable post-shift report card • Per-airport live leaderboards • A refreshed first-run experience • Plenty of polish and fixes Thanks for playing — now keep the traffic moving.

Fixes a rare issue where your career progress could be reset if the game launched during a connection problem. Also fixes Manhattan Heliops helicopters receiving an instant airspace violation at spawn.

``` 1. Daily streaks + Home Screen widget. Play the daily challenge on consecutive days to build a streak — tracked on the daily pill, a 7-day calendar, and a new Home Screen widget that shows today's airport and rolls over at midnight UTC. 2. Wind shifts. The wind can now change mid-session: a forecast warns you about two minutes out, then the active runways flip. Cleared aircraft keep their clearance and retiring runways stay usable for a short grace window — re-sequencing the rest is on you. 3. Redesigned iPhone home screen. The level list is now a full-width bottom sheet with the daily challenge pill above it, and the map keeps your current stage in view instead of hiding it behind panels. 4. 3D ground-view polish. Painted runway numbers, aiming-point bars and touchdown-zone chevrons; PAPI, runway and taxiway lighting at major airports; a working wind sock; landing/taxi lights that follow each aircraft's status. 5. Fixes. AI-controlled aircraft now land correctly at high-elevation airports like Denver (thanks to the player who reported it on the dev board), and the command ribbon fits portrait iPhones without scrolling.

1. New level — Manhattan Helicopter Operations. Heli-only sector over NYC with real building obstacles, hospital rooftop pads, and layered Class B airspace busts. All rules covered in the on-screen brief. 2. Save & Resume. Background or close the app mid-game and the next launch offers to resume right where you left off — aircraft, score, camera, weather all restored. Game starts paused so you can orient. 3. Direct To improvements. Pick a helipad or airport with a helicopter selected and the autoland engages at ≤1.5 NM. Picker now includes airport entries on every level. 4. Polish — zoom-stable data tags and radial menu, selection haptic + sonar ring, destination runway pulses on the wind-preferred runway only, roomier tutorial start, and the Pause button (plus background → foreground) no longer expires emergency timers.

1. 3D terrain now covers Los Angeles (LAX), Washington-Dulles (IAD), and Boston (BOS) — same DEM-mesh detail as the rest of the fleet. 2. Osaka Kansai (KIX) runway correction — labels were swapped between the two parallel runways and threshold coordinates were geometrically off; both runways now match the published airport layout. 3. New onboarding cards explain helicopters and weather before you face them. Cards appear automatically the first time a heli spawns or a thunderstorm forms, and emergencies wait to roll until you've met both. 4. Stability fix — hard crash on rapid 3D-mode toggle cycles closed out (Crashlytics, first reported on iPhone Mini-class hardware).

1. Daily Challenge pill is now a small chip at the bottom-left that opens the full details on tap. The old full-width card was covering bottom-of-world pins on small phones (Australia, New Zealand, Argentina); they're reachable again. 2. World map polish — pinch zoom is smoother on small devices, double-tap now always zooms in further (instead of toggling back out on the second tap), and pin labels in dense clusters (NYC area, Tokyo, London) automatically deconflict so you can tell what you're tapping.

1. Two new airports: Lukla (VNLK / Tenzing-Hillary) — a short uphill runway carved into the Nepalese Himalaya at 9,334 ft with Mount Everest on the horizon, and Anchorage Ted Stevens (PANC) with twin parallels 07R/L plus the crossing 15/33, served by Lake Hood seaplane operations. 2. New York metro rebuild — the Newark map now covers all four major airports (EWR, LGA, JFK, TEB) with hand-authored Empire State, One World Trade, Hudson Yards and MetLife buildings rising in the 3D tower view. Teterboro spawns up to 40% helicopters with matching triple-slot helipad goals. 3. Talk to the Developer — submit feedback from inside the app and the developer can reply on a public Q&A board at flatoutatc.com/talktothedeveloper. Push notifications land on your home screen when there's a reply; tap to read the thread inside the app. 4. Helicopter improvements — vertical lift-off straight from the helipad and distance-scaled helipad approach speed for cleaner finals. 5. Reliability — pause time no longer counts against the level timer when you resume, "stuck plane" STAR arrivals fixed, landing clearance refused when an aircraft is below airport elevation, thunderstorm drift direction corrected. 6. Smoother under load — emergency arrow and path-history rendering rewritten to reuse SpriteKit nodes; the air radar runs noticeably cooler in heavy scenarios. 3D Ground Tower regained its satellite floor inset.

1. Rating-recovery sweep across the catalogue — every shipping level rebalanced. No more 2-to-3-hour timed marathons (Scottsdale, London, Paris, Sydney and Queenstown were all timed before); Master rates tuned down where they had been punishing (Atlanta 180→95/hr, Phoenix 150→90, Dubai 140→90, Vancouver 130→76); and every level now opens with 1-4 aircraft already in the sector so you're not waiting on the first arrival. 2. Hospital helipads at 31 airports — Cedars-Sinai (LAX), Mass General (BOS), Lariboisière + Pitié-Salpêtrière (CDG), Royal London + St Mary's (LHR), Vall d'Hebron + Sant Pau (BCN), Mayo Clinic + HonorHealth (SDL), Grady + Emory (ATL), and twenty-plus more verified rooftop pads. Vector helicopters to landHelipad goals the same way N51's Hunterdon worked in 2.2. 3. Survey goals across the catalogue — every level now has at least one circle-a-landmark-and-exit-via-a-navaid goal for light aircraft. Eiffel Tower, Tower of London, Coronado Bay, Camelback Mountain, Stone Mountain (ATL), Sagrada Familia (BCN), Victoria Peak (HKG), Red Rocks (Denver), Burj Khalifa (DXB) and dozens more. 4. Sharper 3D terrain — every level's elevation mesh regenerated at four times the resolution (1024² versus 512²) with wider bbox coverage. Mountains and coastlines reach the horizon in 3D mode; no more visible rectangular cutoff where the elevation data ended. 5. Map overlays for major hubs — new road, rail and town-blob layers for Madrid, Hong Kong, Newark, London, Tokyo Haneda, Atlanta, São Paulo, Denver, Barcelona, Tehran, Rome and Paris. Sits underneath the radar like a subtle context layer. 6. CDG Paris rebuilt from the ground up — went from country-outline-only to the full visual stack: terrain mesh + contour bands + Seine river network + 15 hand-authored Paris landmarks (Eiffel Tower, Notre-Dame, Sacré-Cœur, La Défense, Stade de France) + a Paris-area road overlay. 7. San Diego + Washington-Dulles procedure authoring — SAN picked up 10 FAA-verified TRACON fixes (BARET, LUCKI, VYDDA…) and a Coronado-Bay survey. IAD got 78 verified procedure fixes spanning IAD/DCA/BWI, the MIIDY FOUR STAR with its full 8-leg spine, and Capitol-survey goals through Pentagon-area airspace. 8. Better-fitting maps — a new auto-fit basemap reaches every level's named entities, so procedure waypoints that previously floated in black space now sit on real geography. The camera is also clamped: you can no longer scroll into empty space past the basemap edge. 9. Fuel-truck refuel — at N51, Scottsdale and Vancouver, aircraft request fuel before takeoff and a fuel truck routes from the depot through the taxiway graph. Each difficulty has a fresh ground-level goal target. 10. Memory and performance — Chicago 2D scene dropped from 1.04 GB to 238 MB on iPhone Mini after a corridor-geometry refactor (dot fields baked into per-airport canvases instead of live SKShapeNodes). 3D mode no longer leaks 230 MB on exit. The Pro Max scale-1 rendering crash from the 2.2.1 maintenance release is consolidated here.

This update fixes a crash that could occur in the 3D Tower and 3D Radar views, and makes the 3D scenes load more smoothly. Thanks for playing — and for the reports that helped us track this down.

1. 3D Radar Mode — view the entire airspace in three dimensions, with terrain elevation, rivers, contours and buildings rendered at MSL and aircraft flying at their actual altitude. Vertical-exaggeration slider lets you choose how dramatic the relief looks. Available on every level via the radar toggle. 2. 3D Tower View — at N51, Scottsdale and Vancouver, switch the ground scene to a from-the-tower perspective with imported aircraft models, real-scale runways and taxiways, and a fixed-position camera that pans + tilts like a pair of binoculars. 3. Helicopter operations — helicopters now hover at zero speed, yaw at twice the fixed-wing rate, and land on dedicated helipads via the new landHelipad goal. N51 ships with Hunterdon Medical Center as a medevac destination ~2 NM south. Vector the helo to within 1.5 NM and the autopilot handles the touchdown. 4. 3D thunderstorms — translucent vertical cylinders plus floor rings show the full storm volume, phase-coloured to match the 2D scene (yellow forming, red mature, orange dissipating) and animated with the same pulse + alpha-breathe rhythm. 5. N51 polish — filled lakes, road and town overlay, new banner-tow / survey traffic that circles a fix and exits via another, plus a random-pool scenario that mixes the goal set differently every run. 6. iOS ↔ Web bridge — Settings → Account → "Use my purchases on the web" mints a one-time redemption code that unlocks the Full Game in the browser version at flatoutatc.com (free 4 levels, $4.99 IAP unlocks all). Sign in with Apple capability now enabled. 7. Faster + cooler — DEM-based terrain mesh ships per region for smoother elevation, and USDZ aircraft models load in parallel for snappier scene rebuilds. 8. Reliability fixes — takeoff-queue collisions are now correctly counted and the affected aircraft are removed properly (previously a single ground-conflict could leave a level unwinnable). A rotation crash at high-elevation airports like Grand Canyon is fixed, and Hong Kong runway orientation now matches the published airport charts. 9. Improved level instructions — per-level briefings polished across the catalogue with clearer step-by-step guidance and accuracy fixes.

Tokyo Narita: corrected runway threshold coordinates so the runway slabs line up properly on the radar — the parallel runways now appear in their real-world positions, oriented to runway heading 16/34, with stagger and lengths matching the published airport layout.

V2.1 — New airports and smoother play • East Asia level pack: Tokyo Narita, Osaka Kansai (with Itami), and Hong Kong (with Macau) • Mediterranean Europe level pack: Madrid Barajas, Barcelona El Prat, Rome Fiumicino (with Ciampino), and Athens • New tutorial that gets you flying in under a minute — concept cards plus level-specific guidance you can re-open anytime • Cooler running: 30 FPS cap and trimmed map data significantly reduce device heating during play • More of the app translated to Spanish, German, and French 11 new airline callsigns including Iberia, Vueling, ITA Airways, Aegean, and Cathay.

1. Major basemap upgrade — OSM-sourced coastlines and Great Lakes overlays for richer geographic detail. 2. First introduction of audio for check-in's 3. Custom level builder for paid users. 4. Auto-piloted aircraft now show a notification when tapped. 5. Improved basemaps, coastlines and rivers across all levels. 6. New bonus airport: Tokyo Haneda (RJTT) — four-runway operations over Tokyo Bay with Mt. Fuji on the horizon. 7. Bug fix: restored Ground Control on Scottsdale and Vancouver. 8. New bonus airport: São Paulo Guarulhos (SBGR) — twin parallel runways at 2,459 ft with Serra do Mar to the southeast. 9. New bonus airport: Innsbruck (LOWI) — single runway in the Inn Valley with the Karwendel and Tux Alps boxing in the approaches. 10. New bonus airport: Johannesburg O.R. Tambo (FAOR) — twin parallel runways at 5,558 ft on the Highveld plateau with Lanseria as the GA satellite.

Queenstown's world size has been expanded to fix transition issues, and Washington Dulles now uses a fixed aircraft count instead of a timer for a more consistent challenge. Runway numbers are now displayed directly on the thresholds for easier identification at a glance. We've added a new intercept localizer feature to give you tighter control over final approaches, and helicopters now operate at higher service ceilings for more flexible routing. N51 received additional fixes for improved stability. Plus, a brand new level has landed: Los Angeles Basin — ready for you to take command.

1. New Level: Atlanta (ATL) — Welcome to the world's busiest airport. Hartsfield-Jackson brings massive traffic volume with parallel runway operations. Think you can handle it? Improvements & Fixes 2. Thunderstorm logic overhaul — Departures will no longer spawn when a thunderstorm is sitting directly over an airport. No more sending pilots straight into a cell. 3. Boston Approach fix — The Novice difficulty on the Boston level had a 95% chance of spawning a thunderstorm, making it nearly unplayable for new controllers. This has been corrected.