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Release notes

Version 1.0 — current beta​

The first TestFlight build. Requires iOS 26.2 or later; runs on iPhone and iPad.

Live flight tracking

  • Import a ForeFlight .fpl, enter planned leg times, and fly with live timing guidance.
  • Full-screen instrument panel: projected time delta, distance to next waypoint, desired track on a compass dial, ground speed against a computed target, and a leg timer against plan.
  • Panel re-lays itself for iPad and landscape — four tiles across instead of a 2×2 grid.
  • Automatic takeoff detection at a configurable rotation speed, with a manual start.
  • Automatic leg switching at closest approach, with a haptic confirmation and a hysteresis window; manual override through Leg Control for jumping, restarting, and ending.
  • Position from Device GPS or a GDL90 source over Wi-Fi.

Post-flight scoring

  • Import a .kml track log and an .fpl route, enter planned times, settings, secret checkpoints, and fuel, and grade.
  • Results by leg: planned, actual, deviation, closest approach, course penalty, leg points.
  • Five penalty categories — timing, elapsed, course, secret checkpoints, fuel. See the scoring rules.
  • Grading runs off the main thread, so large track logs do not freeze the form.

Flights library

  • Saved flights with rename, delete, and re-grade.
  • Drafts for flights whose inputs are entered before they are scored.
  • JSON export of a score, and JSON and KML export of a live flight.
  • The live-flight KML is a gx:Track carrying each fix's real timestamp and GPS altitude, so re-grading a saved live flight reproduces the timing it was scored with in the air.
  • A track log with positions but no timestamps is refused at import instead of being scored on invented times.

Known limitations

Listed in full under Troubleshooting. The one most worth knowing: a live flight saved before the timestamped export will not re-grade, because its saved track has no clock to recompute from. Its original score stands and is correct.

Under consideration​

Not commitments, and not in any particular order:

  • A map view — route, recorded track, and closest approach at each checkpoint.
  • Background tracking, so a locked device keeps recording.
  • Keeping the display awake during a live flight.
  • CSV and PDF result exports.
  • Secret checkpoint and fuel entry on the live setup screen.
  • Scoring settings exposed for live flights.
  • iCloud sync between iPhone and iPad.

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