Fixes and improvements: • Fixed two stray items appearing in the navigation bar • The app now checks for the latest improvements on launch, so new installs always start current • Endorsement Advisor for flight instructors — describe the scenario, get every required endorsement grouped by training stage, backed by a plain-English library of all 96 current endorsements • SkyBrief worldwide — 28,000+ airports and training content matched to your aviation authority (FAA, EASA, Transport Canada, CASA, CAA NZ) • Offer codes — redeem member and promo codes right from the subscribe screen, or during setup

• Endorsement Advisor for flight instructors — describe the scenario, get every required endorsement grouped by training stage, backed by a plain-English library of all 96 current endorsements • SkyBrief goes worldwide — 28,000+ airports and training content matched to your aviation authority (FAA, EASA, Transport Canada, CASA, CAA NZ), with unit preferences to match • Student Training Home — your training phase, hour-requirement progress, and the most useful thing to study next • Fix My Weak Areas — every missed quiz question anywhere in the app lands in one drill deck until you've got it • Document & currency reminders — medical, flight review, and knowledge-test windows • Offer codes — redeem member and promo codes right from the subscribe screen, or during setup • Plus faster briefings, clearer charts, and hundreds of fixes

Five weeks of updates in one release — the biggest since launch. PAY LESS FOR FLIGHT TRAINING (new) • A full cost playbook: a scholarship database with deadlines, financing compared honestly, and the specific habits that cut what a certificate actually costs. Most students overpay by thousands and are never told how not to. CHECKRIDE PREP (free) • 938 practice questions and 616 flashcards across 8 tracks — Sport through ATP, including the post-MOSAIC sport rules • Full mock written exams, timed and scored like the real thing • Mastery tracking, so you drill what you keep missing instead of what you already know FLY, AND IT LOGS ITSELF (WORK IN PROGRESS) • Arm the tracker before takeoff and it records hands-off, then hands you a logbook draft with times, route and landings • Track Replay: fly the route back with altitude, speed and ground track • Private pilot progress against 61.109 — every requirement, what you have, what's left TRAINING, EVERY DAY • METAR of the Day, a daily scenario, and real accident case studies • Radio Trainer: 20 scripted CTAF and towered scenarios • Maneuver Cards: 14 Private ACS maneuvers with real C172S numbers • Airspace quiz, hold entry visualizer, glide range planner, rusty pilot refresher, rental checkout packs IN THE BRIEFING • Vertical profile sounding, FAA weather cameras, taxi diagrams with hot spots for 907 airports, and a fuel stop advisor comparing 100LL prices along your route • Flyable days this week, at a glance • A layout you can rearrange — hold any card and drag it, like the home screen FOR INSTRUCTORS AND FLIGHT SCHOOLS • Rebuilt instructor dashboard: 28-lesson private syllabus, lesson plan builder, endorsements, Part 141 training records • Flight schools: dispatch oversight, school operating minimums, a fleet registry tracking inspection currency, seats and member ACCURACY • Go/No-Go now respects your personal minimums instead of judging every flight against VFR numbers • Navigation data refreshed, and dozens of fixes to numbers that matter • A weather observation old enough to be wrong now says s of looking exactly as current as a fresh one • Thunderstorm and icing advisories in force over your ai alerts — whether or not the hourly report has caught up Fly safe out there.

Your briefings just got a lot more honest — and a lot more capable. • Real winds aloft: the nav log now uses actual FB forecast winds at your cruise altitude for groundspeed, time and fuel — not surface guesses • Best-altitude optimizer: compare time and fuel from 3,000 to 12,000 ft and fly the fastest one • Real terrain in the vertical profile: actual ridgelines between airports, with cruise-below-terrain warnings • Real FAA TFRs along your route, with an honest warning any time the scan can't complete • Weight & Balance meets your route: save a W&B, and your next briefing offers to use it — weight-adjusted cruise, fuel endurance and a 45-minute reserve check • Fixed vertical profile with real along-route distances, terrain warnings, cloud layers and winds • Export a complete briefing packet as a PDF • Bigger text + better contrast: a new Text Size setting scales the whole app, and on-screen text stays readable against every sky • Send feedback right from Settings — we're listening • NOTAMs, decoded: a clean, grouped digest of active NOTAMs — closures and restrictions first — right in your briefing • Home Screen widget: your home airport's flight category, wind and ceiling at a glance (add it from the widget gallery) • Dozens of accuracy fixes: no more invented weather values anywhere Fly safe out there.

• SkyBrief now asks for your permission before using device identifiers for ad measurement, in line with Apple's App Tracking Transparency • Behind-the-scenes improvements and bug fixes

What's New in 1.2.1: - Weather Charts Expanded

SkyBrief Pro - Introducing SkyBrief Pro with monthly and annual subscriptions - 7-day free trial on all plans - Pro unlocks AI briefings, route planning, Go/No-Go analysis, weight & balance, departure window forecasting, and more - Restore purchases support for existing subscribers New Safety Features - TFR Scanner — automatically checks for Temporary Flight Restrictions along your planned route - Crosswind Calculator — shows crosswind and headwind components with gust analysis, compared against your aircraft's demonstrated limit - Runway Performance Analysis — takeoff and landing roll vs available runway with density altitude and safety margins - IMSAFE Fitness Check — personal fitness-to-fly assessment integrated into the dispatch FRAT step, with pattern tracking across flights - Icing Risk Assessment — evaluates structural icing risk based on freezing level, cloud layers, and cruise altitude - Emergency Airport Finder — shows diversion airports within glide distance along your entire route Flight School & Dispatch - Admin Dispatch Log — school admins can browse all approved dispatch records for record-keeping - Dispatch email notifications now correctly include FRAT, W&B, and Go/No-Go details - Dispatch checklist is now only visible to students enrolled in a flight school - Students enrolled in a flight school automatically receive full premium access UI & Experience - Parallax sky background that drifts as you scroll - Pull-to-refresh on Briefing, Route, and Settings tabs - Improved tab bar with active indicator - Training tab lesson cards slide in with staggered animations - Long-press raw METAR text to copy to clipboard - Swipe to delete route briefing history entries - FRAT assessment now opens as a bottom sheet with blur background Bug Fixes - Fixed Departure Window incorrectly showing "No VFR windows" when VFR conditions exist but are below personal minimums - Fixed paywall closing immediately on first tap - Fixed subscription display for flight school students - Improved text visibility on Learning Mode cards - Renamed Lessons tab to Training - Security hardening on dispatch API authorization

What's New in SkyBrief 1.1.0 Cross-Country Planning Wizard Plan your XC flights step by step — enter your route, review weather at every waypoint, check weight & balance, fuel planning, takeoff performance, and complete a FRAT risk assessment, all in one guided flow. Your completed briefings are saved to Recent Briefings for easy reference. Flight School & Instructor Support Students can join a flight school, get paired with a CFI, and submit digital dispatch packets for instructor review. Instructors get a full dashboard with student progress tracking, lesson management, training plans, a curriculum system, and a dispatch approval queue. Smarter Weather Briefing - Go/No-Go decision engine with clear recommendations - Forecast timeline with trend arrows so you can see conditions changing - Departure window optimizer to find the best time to fly - Weather learning mode with plain-English annotations for student pilots - Preflight monitor that alerts you if weather changes between briefing and takeoff - Daily email briefing delivered to your inbox at 8 AM local time Takeoff Performance See density altitude, estimated takeoff roll, climb rate impact, and warnings calculated from real METAR data and your selected aircraft. Community PIREPs Submit and view pilot reports along your route to share real-world conditions with other pilots. Logbook Track your flights and export to CSV. More Improvements - Redesigned aircraft picker grouped by manufacturer - Expanded aircraft library with more Cessna and Piper models - Polished card designs with rounded corners and blur effects throughout - Improved dark mode support - Security hardening and accessibility improvements

What's New in 1.0.1 Route Planning Plan your flights with a full navigation log — enter departure, waypoints, and destination to get ground speeds, wind correction angles, fuel estimates, and heading calculations. Includes an AI-generated route weather briefing. Fuel Prices Redesigned fuel price cards now show community-reported prices with timestamps, upvotes, and the ability to flag outdated reports. Stability & Performance • Improved memory management and background task cleanup • Tablet layout refinements for all iPad models • Enhanced weather card rendering Under the Hood • Expanded airways and VFR waypoints database • Security hardening • Bug fixes