What's New in Version 6.30.0 - Refreshed App Icon: Updated app icon featuring our new Straight-In design. - Modernized Header & Airport Buttons: Airports of Interest now feature clean, rounded capsule buttons that match the rest of your flight planning tools, along with updated typography and header styling. - Customizable Checklists: Added an option to hide emergency checklists from your home screen, giving you control over your dashboard layout. - Approach Plate Fix: Resolved an issue where a duplicate aircraft marker was displayed on instrument approach plates during active flight navigation. Thank you for using Straight-In! If you enjoy the app, please leave us a review on the App Store.

Weather at Your Fingertips in Flight Mode Staying ahead of the weather while en route just got simpler. We've introduced a dedicated Weather Icon directly on the Flight Mode Toolbar. One-Tap Access: Instantly open the weather details dialog without interrupting your active flight flow. Context-Aware: The weather dialog automatically opens to your currently active airport of interest, providing you with immediate, relevant METAR information right when you need it. Seamless Airport Switching in Weather Details Reviewing conditions across multiple airports is now faster and more intuitive. Airports of Interest List: The Weather Details dialog now features a convenient list of all your airports of interest anchored at the bottom of the view. Quick Switching: Easily tap and toggle between any airport in your list to instantly update the displayed weather information. Clear Highlights: The currently viewed airport is visually highlighted, so you always know exactly which location's conditions you are reviewing at a glance.

Route METAR Weather Integration Real-Time METAR Lookups: View current METAR weather conditions directly along your planned flight route using a dedicated details overlay. Instant Details Panel: Tap on route airports to bring up full weather details, colored markers, and wind observations without leaving your flight planning screen. Cockpit Benefit: Gives pilots rapid access to current weather conditions along their intended route, improving situational awareness during both preflight planning and in-flight updates. Confirmation-Backed Route Reset Safer Flight Form: Replaced the legacy reset button with a prominent, confirmation-backed action button in the New Flight Form. Accidental Clear Protection: Tapping the reset action now prompts you to confirm before wiping your current route inputs. Cockpit Benefit: Prevents the frustration of accidentally losing your entire planned route due to a stray tap in a bumpy cockpit. Device Storage Optimization Automatic Stale Asset Cleanup: Older sectional, IFR low, and procedure chart files are now automatically detected and removed once a new database version is downloaded. Reclaim Free Space: The app proactively manages cache folders to prevent the accumulative build-up of outdated megabytes. Cockpit Benefit: Keeps the application footprint lightweight and prevents device "storage full" warnings when downloading large state-wide chart updates. Quality of Life Improvements Splash Screen Version Footer: The active application version (v6.29.0) is now displayed at the bottom of the splash screen. Cockpit Benefit: Simplifies version verification during initial app startup or when checking compatibility with offline chart databases.

Info Strip UX Updates * Gesture-Controlled Handle: Added a dedicated bottom-middle grab handle to expand and collapse the airport info strip. * Swipe Support: Pilots can perform vertical swipe gestures on the grab handle to smoothly expand or collapse the airport details sheet, preserving sliding animations. * Cockpit Benefit: Allows quick, intuitive one-handed adjustment of the airport overlay using physical swipes, reducing the need for precise taps in turbulent conditions. Scroll Indicator Cues * Visual Scroll Cues: Added visual cues to long, scrollable menus such as the instrument approaches (IAP) list, signaling that more procedures are available below the screen edge. * Dynamic Feedback: Indicators automatically disappear once the user scrolls to the bottom of the list or if the entire list fits within the view. * Cockpit Benefit: Helps pilots immediately identify when an airport has more instrument approaches available, preventing missed options during high-workload phases. IAP Selection Persistence * State Preservation: Resolved an issue where toggling between airport tabs, viewing active selections, or switching details caused the active instrument approach selection to clear. * Persistent Views: The selected approach chart remains active and displayed when navigating back and forth between airport tabs. * Cockpit Benefit: Prevents losing the selected approach chart when navigating between airport information tabs, keeping critical plates instantly accessible without re-selection. Map Tile Ordering Repairs * Corrected Z-Index Layering: Fixed rendering order where Proximity Circles and Route paths were occasionally drawn underneath base map tiles and chart layers. * Overlay Visibility: Navigation lines, routes, and proximity circles are now correctly rendered on top of the chart layer, ensuring they are always visible. * Cockpit Benefit: Keeps essential navigation lines and safety proximity margins layered clearly on top of background maps and charts. Backend Processing Repairs * Airport Diagram Database Fixes: Repaired airport diagrams in the system database (such as KGEG) to ensure they generate and display correctly. * Cockpit Benefit: Restores access to airport layouts and taxiway diagrams that were previously failing to load, ensuring complete ground navigation coverage.

We’ve introduced en-route IFR Low Altitude charts, simplified how your accounts stay logged in, and completely refined the flight map overlay and checklist interfaces to give you a cleaner, more responsive cockpit companion. #### ** Support for IFR Low Altitude Charts** * **En-Route IFR Low Charts**: You can now toggle en-route IFR Low Altitude charts directly on the map alongside Sectional and Airport views. * **Simultaneous Downloads**: The flight bag asset manager now supports downloading Sectional and IFR Low charts in parallel in the background, keeping download interruptions to a minimum. * **Smart Dashboard Indicators**: Active and downloading IFR Low charts are now reported on your welcome screen and flight bag summary cards, so you can track download progress and check currency at a glance. #### ** Hassle-Free Sessions & Settings** * **One-Time Login**: We’ve simplified our authentication system by introducing a long-lived session management token. You only need to log in once, and won't be logged out unexpectedly between flights. * **Seamless Re-Authentication**: If your session ever does require verification, the app now prompts for a quick password entry directly in-app, restoring your access without resetting your downloads. * **Checklist Filters**: Easily customize your active lists with new settings toggles to show or hide Emergency and Normal checklists independently. * **Custom Tool Visibility**: Declutter your dashboard by toggling the visibility of the Proximity Circle and PDF Rotation tools in the settings panel. #### ** Centralized Optional Flight Tools** * **Centralized Overlay**: The proximity circle toggle and PDF rotation controls have been moved to the floating Optional Tools panel, making them instantly accessible from any active view. * **Proximity Tools in IFR Mode**: Proximity circles are now supported on the IFR Low maps, helping you maintain spatial awareness. * **Modernized Icons**: The calculator tool now features a cleaner, standard calculator icon. #### ** Cockpit-Ready Checklist Improvements** * **Completion Badges**: Checklist headers now display a green checkmark circle the instant all tasks are checked. * **Sequential Navigation**: When you finish a checklist, the runner screen displays the name of the next checklist in sequence with an interactive arrow. Category-based styling (blue for normal, red/white for emergencies) helps guide you through the next phase. #### ** Refined UI/UX & Cockpit Visuals** * **Minimalist "Clear" Mode**: Toggle "CLR" to completely hide side menus, page headers, and checklists, giving you an unobstructed view of the map when flying. The CLR button has been redesigned as a sleek circular control. * **Overlay Dropdowns**: Runway lists, sectional charts, and approach plate selectors have been rebuilt to slide out as floating overlays, ensuring your menus never shift or push adjacent controls. * **Map High-Contrast Markers**: Map overlays, ticks, and proximity circles now feature a high-contrast double-stroke (thick black outline, thin white inline) for perfect readability over any chart colors. * **Scale-Invariant Labels**: Text labels on map overlays and approach charts now maintain a constant, readable size and position, regardless of your map zoom or pinch scale. * **Seamless Map Loading**: Map overlays now replace background map layers directly, preventing the default base map from flashing when zooming or panning. * **Interactive Page Header**: Tapping the active page button in the header now toggles the airport info strip with a smooth spring animation, freeing up valuable screen real estate. Button styles have been modernized to rounded rectangles.

1. **Adding Climb Mode Calculator** - Added a new "Climb" mode to the in-app aviation calculator tools, joining the existing Alt, Fuel, and TSD modes. 2. **Rotating Airport PDF Documents** - Added functionality allowing users to rotate PDF documents (like approach plates and airport diagrams) for easier viewing in the app. 3. **Ordering Airports of Interest** - Updated the UI to dynamically sort the user's "Airports of Interest" so they match the actual sequence of their flight plan. We also added an orange accent color to highlight the currently active airport. 4. **Showing IP in Location Sources** - Updated the Location Sources sheet to display the device's current IPv4 address right above the UDP port field, and made it selectable/copyable to make network setup much easier for users. 5. **Aircraft Position on Departures** - Worked on the logic and mapping required to display the user's live aircraft GPS position directly overlaid on instrument departure procedure charts. 6. **Splash Screen UI Fix** - Fixed an annoying visual bug where the aircraft graphic on the splash screen had the wrong z-index and was accidentally covering the authentication form, blocking users from logging in. 7. **Persisting User Email State** - Improved the login/authentication flow UX so the app now remembers and persists the user's email state. 8. **Fixing KTIW Airport Diagram** - Troubleshot and fixed an issue preventing the airport diagram for Tacoma Narrows (KTIW) from generating/displaying properly for users.