What's New in v2.9.5: Improved — Refreshed App Store screenshots and minor improvements.

What's New in v2.9.4: New — Runways & Approaches: every airport marker now shows its runway layout, true to orientation, and the airport sheet lists the published approaches for each runway (ILS category, RNP, LOC, VOR, NDB). The alternate finder shows each airport's best approach. New — Vertical Profile: the wind as you will feel it along your route, H for headwind and T for tailwind, with your average en-route wind on the WIND button. Plus a nautical-mile scale, an aircraft riding the flight path, and elapsed time under the simulated position slider, with a green bar tracking real progress in flight. New — Nearest Airports: in flight, the NRST button lists airports around your estimated position, sorted by distance, with current weather, TAF hazards and best approach. Radius and minimum runway are set in Settings. Estimated position, not GPS — your FMS remains the reference. Improved — The weather dot on each airport now shows the TAF trend as a coloured ring when it differs from the current METAR. Improved — SIGMETs stay on top of the rain radar, with a bolder outline and a lighter fill, so they remain visible in heavy precipitation. Fixed — TAF hazards no longer flag fog or low cloud that the forecast clears before your arrival. Fixed — The flight time read from your ATC flight plan now includes the approach, so arrival time, simulated position and waypoint times match your OFP.

What's New in v2.9.3: New — Departure delay, live from Flightradar24. Before departure, the flight banner now shows whether your flight is on time or delayed: NO when on time, orange from 20 minutes, red beyond an hour. It refreshes every 3 minutes until take-off. New — Take-off time that follows reality. The departure time in the banner is now TO TIME, and it updates itself from Flightradar24: estimated take-off before departure, actual take-off once airborne. The vertical profile, simulated position and weather timing move with it. You can still set it by hand, and your own time always wins. Improved — Visual improvements. Every airport along your route now shows its ICAO code under its marker. The vertical profile shows the time you pass each waypoint, following your TO TIME. On iPad in portrait, the flight banner no longer covers the status and distance indicators. Changed — Philippine radar coverage is no longer available, as the source has stopped providing data.

What's New in v2.9.2: New — Departure delay, live from Flightradar24. Before departure, the flight banner now shows whether your flight is on time or delayed: NO when on time, orange from 20 minutes, red beyond an hour. It refreshes every 3 minutes until take-off. New — Take-off time that follows reality. The departure time in the banner is now TO TIME, and it updates itself from Flightradar24: estimated take-off before departure, actual take-off once airborne. The vertical profile, simulated position and weather timing move with it. You can still set it by hand, and your own time always wins. New — Every airport along your route now shows its ICAO code under its marker, so you can tell them apart at a glance without tapping.

What's New in v2.9: New — Aerodromes that require a specific crew qualification are now flagged, both on the airport page and in the Alternate Finder, so a field that needs one never slips quietly into your diversion shortlist. Coverage is currently limited to Europe and the North Atlantic; your operations manual remains the authority. New — Airport search is now a single field that accepts an ICAO code, an IATA code or an airport name, with results ranked by relevance — no more choosing the right tab before you start typing. Codes that don't exist can no longer be selected. Fixed — More reliable D-ATIS. Reports that arrived cut off mid-sentence, missing the QNH and the wind, are no longer shown as if complete. Reports quietly rebroadcast days later are no longer shown as current. And several airports that never returned an ATIS at all now do.

What's New in v2.8: New — A single Layers panel now gathers Radar, Lightning, SIGMET, Turbulence, CB Tops, Icing, Wind and En-route Weather instead of crowding the toolbar. The toolbar itself is shorter, and its buttons no longer shift position depending on whether a route is loaded — the same gesture lands in the same place every time. New — Each of the eight radar networks now shows how long ago it last published. A source that has gone quiet is flagged right on the slider instead of just showing an empty sky, so you're never left mistaking a dead feed for a clear one. Fixed — METAR and TAF could occasionally show as "Not available" on the first lookup after opening the app, even though the report existed. Lookups now retry automatically, so a slow connection is never mistaken for a station with no report. Fixed — NOTAM alerts were sometimes shown in red for routine approach-procedure restrictions (RNAV, RNP, STAR, SID), not just for genuine closures. Red is now reserved for actual runway or aerodrome closures and ILS unavailability, so the ones that truly matter stand out.

What's New in v2.7.1: - Improved — The weather along your route now stays usable in flight. Load your route on the ground and it comes with you: with no connection you can zoom in, zoom out and scrub back through the timeline, and the precipitation stays on screen instead of disappearing. - Fixed — Coverage shading no longer drops out offline. The shading that marks areas without radar data used to vanish, in whole or in part, as soon as you zoomed or recentred the map without a connection. It now stays put. - Improved — Coverage shading is far easier to read on satellite and hybrid maps. In daylight it used to blend into the terrain; it now stands out as clearly as it does at night, so a clear sky is never mistaken for a blind spot.

What's New in v2.7: - New — Radar for Taiwan, the Philippines and South Korea. Three more regions join the map, alongside Europe, Turkey, Israel, the United States, Australia, Japan and China. Turn the radar on and every region in view is live at once, on one shared timeline and one shared colour scale. - Fixed — Precipitation no longer vanishes from the map. Echoes could disappear a moment after appearing, most often just after panning to a new region, and only came back when you moved the time slider. - Improved — Radar loads much faster, in every region. Frames that used to take close to a second now appear almost instantly. - Fixed — Offline radar. Precipitation already downloaded stays fully visible without a connection.

What's New in v2.6.1: - New — Precipitation radar beyond Europe. The United States (NEXRAD, covering the CONUS, Alaska and Hawaii), Australia, Japan and China are now built in, each taken straight from the country's national weather service. There is no source to choose: turn the radar on and every region in view is live at once, alongside Europe. - Improved — Editable manual SIGMETs. Scanned SIGMETs are parsed more robustly, and if something still reads wrong, a new EDIT button lets you correct the text and coordinates in place instead of deleting and starting over. The details panel now shows the corrected coordinates actually used to draw the hazard polygon.

What's New in v2.5: - Improved — Realistic climb and descent in the vertical profile. Top-of-climb and top-of-descent are now drawn using the standard 2:1 / 3:1 gradients and can span several legs, so the profile matches how the aircraft actually flies. This fixes overly steep descents on long-haul routes and missing climbs when the first waypoint sits right on the departure field. Waypoint markers now sit exactly on the flight path. - Fixed — SIGMETs reported as "TOP ABV FLxxx" now extend above that level in the vertical profile instead of being capped at it, so you can see their true vertical extent. - Improved — More reliable SIGMET scanning. Printed and manual SIGMETs are now parsed more robustly: coordinates split across line breaks and common OCR errors (slashed zeros, misread digits) are handled, so the hazard polygon lands in the right place.

What's New in v2.4: - New — Icing Severity Layer. WAFS icing forecasts are now displayed in the vertical profile and on the map as a dedicated overlay. Four severity levels (Trace, Light, Moderate, Severe) plotted at FL100 through FL300, with an independent altitude selector. - Improved — Precipitation radar tiles now load and swap instantly. Tiles are pre-fetched at your current zoom level and continue downloading in the background during playback — no more flickering or gaps when scrubbing through frames. - Improved — Waypoint coordinates are now shown in DMM format (degrees and decimal minutes), matching the style used by FMS systems and Jeppesen charts.

What's New in v2.3.1: - Improved — D-ATIS reliability. Outdated broadcasts that were occasionally re-listed on the ACARS feed (sometimes showing a future or stale issue time) are now detected and filtered out automatically. - Improved — The ATIS pressure (QNH) is now cross-checked against the live METAR. If it diverges significantly, the broadcast is treated as outdated and hidden — so you only see current information.

What's New in v2.3: - Improved — D-ATIS now pulls from live ACARS broadcasts for more up-to-date airport information. The badge shows the actual issue time of the broadcast (e.g. 0800Z) instead of the fetch time. - Improved — ATIS data older than 4 hours is automatically hidden to prevent acting on stale information. - Fix — The "What's New" screen now correctly appears after every update.

What's new in v2.2.7: New — Amend your initial cruise level directly from the flight HUD: tap INITIAL FL and the vertical profile instantly redraws to match. Improved — The vertical profile now follows the step climbs and descents in your ATC flight plan more accurately, holding each cruise level until its change point with realistic climb and descent transitions. Fix — More reliable subscription restore, including promotional and offer codes. If your premium tools were locked despite an active subscription, updating restores access.

What's new in v2.2.6: New — Amend your initial cruise level directly from the flight HUD: tap INITIAL FL and the vertical profile instantly redraws to match. Improved — The vertical profile now follows the step climbs and descents in your ATC flight plan more accurately, holding each cruise level until its change point with realistic climb and descent transitions. Fix — More reliable subscription restore, including promotional and offer codes. If your premium tools were locked despite an active subscription, updating restores access.

What's new in v2.2.5: New — Amend your initial cruise level directly from the flight HUD: tap INITIAL FL and the vertical profile instantly redraws to match. Improved — The vertical profile now follows the step climbs and descents in your ATC flight plan more accurately, holding each cruise level until its change point with realistic climb and descent transitions. Fix — More reliable subscription restore, including promotional and offer codes. If your premium tools were locked despite an active subscription, updating restores access.

What's new in v2.2.4: New — Amend your initial cruise level directly from the flight HUD: tap INITIAL FL and the vertical profile instantly redraws to match. Improved — The vertical profile now follows the step climbs and descents in your ATC flight plan more accurately, holding each cruise level until its change point with realistic climb and descent transitions. Fix — More reliable subscription restore, including promotional and offer codes. If your premium tools were locked despite an active subscription, updating restores access.

What's new in v2.2.3: New — Amend your initial cruise level directly from the flight HUD: tap INITIAL FL and the vertical profile instantly redraws to match. Improved — The vertical profile now follows the step climbs and descents in your ATC flight plan more accurately, holding each cruise level until its change point with realistic climb and descent transitions. Fix — More reliable subscription restore, including promotional and offer codes. If your premium tools were locked despite an active subscription, updating restores access.

What's new in v2.2.1: New — Amend your initial cruise level directly from the flight HUD: tap INITIAL FL and the vertical profile instantly redraws to match. Improved — The vertical profile now follows the step climbs and descents in your ATC flight plan more accurately, holding each cruise level until its change point with realistic climb and descent transitions. Fix — More reliable subscription restore, including promotional and offer codes. If your premium tools were locked despite an active subscription, updating restores access.

What's new in v2.2: New — Amend your initial cruise level directly from the flight HUD: tap INITIAL FL and the vertical profile instantly redraws to match. Improved — The vertical profile now follows the step climbs and descents in your ATC flight plan more accurately, holding each cruise level until its change point with realistic climb and descent transitions. Fix — More reliable subscription restore, including promotional and offer codes. If your premium tools were locked despite an active subscription, updating restores access.

---What's new in v2.1.5 Fix — The in-app update notification now correctly queries your regional App Store, preventing a rare case where the banner could display an outdated version number shortly after a new release. ---

--- What's new in v2.1.4 Notification badge when a new version is available on the App Store. Smarter OCR for Mach-speed flight plans — NaviGate now correctly reads flight plans filed with a Mach cruise speed (e.g. M076F370), common on transatlantic and high-altitude routes departing airports like BIKF. Previously, these plans could fail to load entirely. The TAS extracted from the flight plan is also now properly converted to knots regardless of whether the filed speed is in knots, km/h or Mach, giving the Equal Time Point tool accurate wind component calculations. Cleaner Alternate Finder — RAF stations are no longer suggested as diversion candidates. Military airfields are filtered out of both the automatic scan and the offline pre-load. ---

--- What's new in v2.1.3 Smarter OCR for Mach-speed flight plans — NaviGate now correctly reads flight plans filed with a Mach cruise speed (e.g. M076F370), common on transatlantic and high-altitude routes departing airports like BIKF. Previously, these plans could fail to load entirely. The TAS extracted from the flight plan is also now properly converted to knots regardless of whether the filed speed is in knots, km/h or Mach, giving the Equal Time Point tool accurate wind component calculations. Cleaner Alternate Finder — RAF stations are no longer suggested as diversion candidates. Military airfields are filtered out of both the automatic scan and the offline pre-load. Radar coverage improvements — The radar overlay over Crete now adapts dynamically to data availability, consistent with the existing behaviour for the Canary Islands. ---

--- What's new in v2.1.2 Flight Timeline improvements — The SIGMET overlay in the vertical profile now filters based on your exact scrubber position rather than the nearest WAFS time slot, so hazard zones appear and disappear at their precise validity times. The WAFS data label now reads "WAFS DATA: ..." for clearer reference. A fix also corrects an issue where amending the EOBT to a time past midnight UTC could display the wrong forecast slice. Smarter OCR — Characters that caused misreads on scanned flight plans (O/Q, 0/O, 8/B confusions) are now automatically corrected against the airport database. Fewer rescans, faster route loading. Smart Alternate Finder — Your planned alternate looking marginal? Tap the hazard badge in the flight HUD and choose "Find a Better Alternate." NaviGate scans airports around your destination — within the radius and minimum runway length you set in Settings — pulls live TAFs, and sorts the results into Suitable and Caution so you can pick a safe diversion at a glance. Select one and it drops on the map instantly. Designate Any Alternate — Prefer a specific field? Type its ICAO directly in the finder. NaviGate fetches its METAR, TAF and NOTAMs and caches them for offline use. Airports without a usable TAF are clearly marked "cannot verify" — never mistaken for hazard-free. Always-On Hazard Badge — A status badge now stays in the flight HUD whenever a route is loaded: green when clear, red when a hazard is forecast for your destination or alternate, amber when weather can't be verified. Tap it any time to review hazards or change your alternate. Crosswind Component — Enter runway track, wind direction and speed for an instant crosswind and headwind/tailwind readout. Available in the Toolbox alongside ETP, Ruler, Time Calculator and Unit Converter.

Smarter OCR — Characters that caused misreads on scanned flight plans (O/Q, 0/O, 8/B confusions) are now automatically corrected against the airport database. Fewer rescans, faster route loading. Smart Alternate Finder — Your planned alternate looking marginal? Tap the hazard badge in the flight HUD and choose "Find a Better Alternate." NaviGate scans airports around your destination — within the radius and minimum runway length you set in Settings — pulls live TAFs, and sorts the results into Suitable and Caution so you can pick a safe diversion at a glance. Select one and it drops on the map instantly. Designate Any Alternate — Prefer a specific field? Type its ICAO directly in the finder. NaviGate fetches its METAR, TAF and NOTAMs and caches them for offline use. Airports without a usable TAF are clearly marked "cannot verify" — never mistaken for hazard-free. Always-On Hazard Badge — A status badge now stays in the flight HUD whenever a route is loaded: green when clear, red when a hazard is forecast for your destination or alternate, amber when weather can't be verified. Tap it any time to review hazards or change your alternate. Crosswind Component — Enter runway track, wind direction and speed for an instant crosswind and headwind/tailwind readout. Available in the Toolbox alongside ETP, Ruler, Time Calculator and Unit Converter.