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.

Fixed a bug with end level logic updating user progress. TEB is now a fixed count level instead of timed. Now allows for feedback on end level, whether completed level or not. Included Imam Khomeini International Airport and the Tehran area airspace. New toggle building layer on and off from settings menu.

1. Fixed two bugs causing crashes - one on level selection on some iPads and one on heading set for some iPads. 2. Added Chicago as a bonus level 3. Added ability to provide level feedback, not just rate.

Bug fixes.

1. General bug fixes. 2. Made daily challenges easier to complete. 3. Introduced Orlando Airport.

New bonus levels KDEN (Denver airport) and Queenstown, NZ. Daily Challenges from 30 airports. Easier progression in career stages.

Two new airports (Grand Canyon and Phoenix). Can now play a bonus level by watching an ad one time, without full game purchase. On completion of a level, you can rate how much you enjoyed it. Background analytics to help with debugging. Privacy policy updates.

The Ground Control level for N51 is now free to play. The Ground Control Level for Vancouver is complete, with all gates and runways available - this one is challenging. Bug fixes for restore purchase crashing when no purchases had been made. Bug fix for when the initial spawn count prevented a scenario style level from completing.

New levels for Asheville, St Maarten, Vancouver, Changhi and Dubai. Contours as obstacles now throughout multiple game levels. Bonus level with all these airports becomes available for full game purchasers without the need for progression through levels. SID's and STARS' added to these levels plus Sydney. New building details around airports. Improvements to acknowledgement display and timing. Much improved small device controls. Bug fix that prevented seed selection from showing. Bug fix to aircraft physics when game speed was not x1.

A ground control level for Solberg airport (N51) for users who've purchased the level!!!! A moving aircraft carrier level!. AI aircraft can now land themselves in levels where you play alongside AI. Career stage progression is now easier. Lots of user interface improvements, especially for small devices. Fixes to the tutorial on small devices. Small bug elimination. Improved analytics for detailed debugging if a user needs it.