PilotDeck

A FLIGHT BRIEFING THAT STARTS WITH THE ANSWER • DECISION comes first, hazards right next to it — the verdict before the detail • TIMING shows departure, flight time and arrival with dates, and local time at each end the way a ticket reads: 0830L → 1036L • En-route alternates now appear across the whole briefing: weather, hazards, wind and runways • ALTERNATE LEGS gives distance and time from the nearest point of your route, not from the destination SIGMET: THE WEATHER BETWEEN AIRPORTS • METAR and TAF describe the ends of a flight. SIGMET describes what lies between — now in the briefing, above the airport summaries, as in an operational flight plan • Thunderstorm, turbulence, icing, volcanic ash, tropical cyclone and mountain wave, each with its layer • WX weather mode on the maps: set your flight level and zones you will not touch are dimmed, with their labels kept so you can decide whether to change level FLIGHT INIT: ENTER A FLIGHT IN ONE PLACE • Departure, destination, date, time, ground speed or flying time — one form • All alternates in one section: departure, destination and en-route, each with FIND for airports with live weather along your track • En-route alternates live in their own list and no longer overwrite destination alternates • CLR clears an airport field at once; a code that does not exist is marked UNKNOWN and is never saved • A reminder to set your own minima — the briefing verdict depends on them ROUTE BUILDER: DRAW A DETOUR AND SEE WHAT IT AVOIDS • Countries along the route in a column, and below the line the ones your detour now avoids • Close a country with its lock. A route that still crosses a closed country is shown in dense red, with the stretch inside it drawn in red and labelled in miles • UNDO and REDO, tools along the bottom of the full-screen map, and weather mode with its own flight level • SAVE returns the detour to the briefing in one press; leaving with unsaved points asks first WEATHER DECODING • TAF change groups decoded and labelled by strength: FM "conditions replaced", BECMG "gradually", TEMPO "temporarily" • Fixed: a forecast remark read as a funnel cloud • Fixed: stations reporting in statute miles blinked as if in fog • Fixed: sea-level pressure in US and Canadian remarks • Visibility now uses one colour scale whatever the units • New remarks decoded: next forecast time, forecast based on automated observations, last staffed observation REFERENCE • New REF for the route builder, and updated REF pages for the map, the briefing and the weather screen — all in the six ICAO languages Much of this release came straight from pilots' feedback. Tell us what you need — the feedback form in the app reaches the developer directly.