Pilots Atlas6.25.0 - App Store

The aviation app pilots have trusted since 1998 - now rebuilt for modern iOS.

Pilots Atlas puts 85,000 airports, 180,000 waypoints and 28,000 points of
interest in your pocket, fully offline. Plan flights, read NOTAMs, track
aircraft live and decode weather without relying on connectivity.

FREE TO DOWNLOAD. FREE FOREVER.
Start with a 7-day Premium trial. When it ends, keep the core features at no
cost - no subscription required.

- FREE FEATURES (Always Available) -

NOTAMs - FREE FOR EVERYONE
. Worldwide NOTAMs from the FAA NOTAM Management Service
. A tab on every airport: decoded, grouped, plus everything within 25 nm
. Drawn on the map where they apply, with a filter switch per category
. Plan for a departure time - see this morning what closes tonight
. A briefing for a whole route, cached against signal loss

LIVE AIRCRAFT TRACKING - FREE FOR EVERYONE
. Real-time ADS-B traffic worldwide, at no cost
. Multiple community networks with automatic failover, so coverage stays up
. Connect your own receiver: SBS1 (dump1090), Stratux, GDL90 or FLARM
. Flight path history, configurable zoom and labels

SUN, MOON AND NIGHT - FREE FOR EVERYONE
. Night by rulebook, not astronomy: ICAO/EASA, FAA 91.209, FAA 61.57(b), UK ANO
. Sunrise and sunset for any place, in its own time zone, offline
. Whether the sun will sit on final at each runway end - now or at your ETA
. Moonlight tonight, with a verdict for night VFR

AI COPILOT
. Ask for weather, NOTAMs, airspace, airports and routes in plain language
. Brief a saved trip at its own cruise altitude, or ask "what's near me"
. It reads the map with you and flies you straight to any result

ON YOUR WRIST AND HOME SCREEN
. Apple Watch app: weather, GPS tracking, flight timers, haptics, voice notes
. Widgets and Live Activities on Home Screen, Lock Screen and watch face

THE BASICS
. 11,000 navaids, and search by ICAO or IATA code
. Configurable units (NM/KM/MI) and a dark mode built for the cockpit

- PREMIUM FEATURES -

WEATHER AT A GLANCE
. METAR/TAF with VFR/MVFR/IFR/LIFR colour coding
. The forecast for the time you actually arrive, from the TAF period covering it
. Custom weather lists, decoders for METAR, TAF and SNOWTAM, holdover tables

FLIGHT PLANNING & NAVIGATION
. Multi-waypoint trip planning with colour-coded routes
. Worldwide winds aloft - courses, ground speeds, times and fuel, corrected
. A terrain and airspace profile of your route, with the real ground beneath
. Distance rulers, range circles, proximity alerts, GPS track recording
. GPX import/export, LIDO / OFP route paste, and cloud sync across devices

AIRSPACE
. Worldwide airspace: class, vertical limits and a readable weekly schedule
. Tap anywhere and every airspace above that point is offered, likeliest first
. A full-screen vertical cross-section you can pan, zoom and filter
. FIR overlays, Special Use Airspace, and full airport details

ANNOTATE YOUR WORLD
. Markers, notes and photos anywhere on the map, plus favourites
. Offline-first - every annotation works with no signal

- OFFLINE MAPS -

. Aviation day and night, streets, terrain and satellite base maps
. The open flightmaps VFR chart, and topographical maps with contours
. Download whole regions for use with no signal

- CAPTAIN'S CORNER (Free) -

. Unit converters, climb gradient and jet fuel calculators
. Aircraft country codes, ICAO prefixes, dangerous goods, VOLMET, ACARS
. Operating minima, Morse, 5,000+ aviation abbreviations

- SUBSCRIPTION OPTIONS -

. 7-day free trial - full Premium access
. Monthly or yearly subscriptions
. One-time lifetime purchase available

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Version History Can I fly this today? Load your aircraft, check every runway and see whether you land before dark — all in the trip you already planned.

NEW
• Before dark: every trip shows whether you land before night by your own rule — UK ANO (sunset + 30 min) or civil twilight — from the trip's wind-corrected times, with the latest departure that still makes it. In flight, a caution tells you when your live arrival slips past dark.
• Community Board (Settings › Support): suggest features, report issues and share tips, vote and comment, and get notified when the team answers or a status changes.
• A short tour of the highlights on first launch — replay it any time from Settings › Support › Feature Tour — plus tips at the moment they help.
• Traffic labels show relative altitude, TCAS-style: "+05↑" is 500 ft above you and climbing, a flight level when your own height is unknown, "GND" on the ground.

PREMIUM
• Mass & balance: enter your aircraft's loading schedule from the POH once, then load each trip — people, baggage and fuel per tank. Pilots Atlas checks mass and CG at take-off, along the whole fuel burn and at landing against your envelope, in lb/in or kg/mm.
• Runway performance: take-off and landing distance for every runway end at departure and destination, from your POH figures with UK CAA safety factors, for the weather at the time you are there — METAR, forecast or your own entry. Slope, surface and NOTAM closures are included; crosswind is shown separately.
• Flight documents: print or share the navigation log with a load sheet, the envelope drawn to scale with your fuel burn, and a runway performance page with blank lines for ATIS, wind and QNH.
• A demo trip — Lake Constance (EDNY → EDTZ) with a DEMO Cessna 172S — shows it all. Open it from the new-trip sheet with "Explore the Demo Trip".
Nothing turns green until you have confirmed your figures against the POH.

IMPROVED
• Built for the cockpit: larger touch targets, numbers that read the same in every language ("4 500 ft"), times that say which clock they are, the age of every weather report, and an Offline badge without network.
• Stopping a recording, cancelling Direct-To and deleting a waypoint ask before they act.
• Navigation log columns sit under their headings, and the trip overview uses your own units.
• Airport information and briefings read better in flight: sun times for the briefed place, distance and track, grouped TAF changes.
• The Finder marks the map centre with a crosshair and calls it "Map Centre" — only your GPS fix is your position.
• Notifications arrive as standard banners; reminders you set yourself still pop up in the app.
• Premium stays on through Apple's billing grace period, and the Watch shows your subscription status.
• Large offline packs install with far less memory.

Blue skies and tailwinds! 6.25.0 Oct 7 Everything after the landing: record your flight, relive it, share it — as a fly-over video over 3D terrain, a recap for family and friends, or a logbook entry that writes itself.

NEW
• Fly-over video: the camera chases your aircraft over satellite imagery and 3D terrain, with your track at its real altitude. Takeoffs, landings, peaks, lakes, castles, airfields you flew over and the sunset pop up as bubbles on the map; altitude, ground speed and time run along the bottom. Add your own photos from the flight, pick Calm, Bright or Epic music, then share it or save it to Photos.
• Flight recap for yourself, other pilots, family or a feed: a plain-language story, the route on the map, story and square cards, and your flight files.
• Every landing measured against its runway and scored out of 100.
• Fly this track: follow a saved flight again, with guidance on the flight bar and a target cross on the map.
• Share flights as GPX, KML, KMZ, CSV or IGC, and import them back.
• Optional cloud sync of your recorded flights across your devices, with share links anyone can open.
• Landed: after a full stop at a named airport, Pilots Atlas offers a ready-worded message for your family and friends — you decide whether to send it.
• A sample flight around Lake Constance to try replay, recap and video before your first recording.
• Flight bar: nearest airports, Direct-To, destination fields and the age of the weather report.
• Runways tab: headwind and crosswind for every runway, density altitude and runway closures from NOTAMs.
• A maximum demonstrated crosswind on your aircraft profile, used by runway wind, landings and the widget.
• Your pilot name on IGC files, logbook exports and recap PDFs.

PREMIUM
• Post-flight debrief: airspace, terrain clearance, approach, wind and night, flight by flight.
• A logbook that fills itself from your recorded flights — day and night split, PDF and CSV export — and stays in sync across your devices.

IMPROVED
• The flight recorder keeps your flight when the app is closed, starts at the takeoff roll, and starts on the climb for slower aircraft.
• Saved flights show their phases, touch-and-goes and airports, can be trimmed and renamed without touching the file, and are searchable.
• Replay in 3D, with the track at altitude and a curtain to the ground.
• NOTAM briefing checks each airport at the time you are there and sorts by your flight level; runway closures are read more precisely.
• Trips carry one flight time and a fuel plan with a final reserve.
• Airspace downloads come in compact parts for every country, so large countries load quickly, and airspace types follow OpenAIP's own classification.

Blue skies and tailwinds! 6.24.0 Oct 1 Range circles, markers, notes and trip points now stay with the airport you put them on — and one tap clears every range circle at once.

NEW
• Delete All in the Range Circles list: tap Edit, then Delete All. The confirmation tells you how many circles go, and they go on all your devices.
• An airport's popover offers Delete Range Circle and Remove Marker whenever it has one, right where you set it.

IMPROVED
• Range circles, ETOPS circles and markers set on an airport, navaid, waypoint or POI belong to it: its popover shows them, changes them and removes them, and a marker stays on the map with the Positions layer switched off.
• Notes written on an airport, navaid, waypoint or POI are kept with it and open again from its popover.
• Add to Trip from an airport adds it by its ICAO ident, and Remove from Trip takes it out again — one visit per tap, so an out-and-back keeps its other leg.
• The map follows every change at once: a new trip leg, a resized or deleted range circle, a new note. Move a position and its range circles, marker and note move with it.
• Weather stations show their latest reading as soon as it arrives, on the map and in the popover.
• Your chosen coordinate format is used everywhere: Aviation Directory, search results, the current-weather list, airspace details and the coordinate finder.
• Clearing or syncing many circles, markers or notes redraws the map once, not once per item.

Blue skies and tailwinds! 6.23.0 Sep 26 Fourteen days of Premium, on the house — trip planning, full airport and navaid details and unlimited AI Copilot, with no account and no payment details.

PREMIUM — 14 DAYS, FREE
• Open this version and your 14-day Premium trial begins. No account, no payment details, nothing to cancel: trip planning with winds aloft, the terrain and airspace profile of your route, NOTAMs along it, the offline check for every flight, the nav-log PDF, full airport and navaid details, and unlimited AI Copilot.
• When the fortnight is up, the moving map, airspace, weather layers, worldwide NOTAMs and live ADS-B traffic stay free — as they always have been. Every trip, note, marker and recording you made during the trial is yours and stays put.
• The Premium screen lists exactly what Premium adds, so you can see what you are trying before the two weeks start.

IMPROVED
• Give a range or ETOPS circle a new radius on an airport or position that already has one and it updates in place, keeping the circle you were working with.

Blue skies and tailwinds! 6.22.0 Sep 24 Tell the app where you fly and it fetches the map, airspace and terrain for it in one go. And while you have signal, the offline map now fills in everything you have not downloaded.

NEW — SET UP OFFLINE FLYING
• Mobile signal fades a few hundred feet above the ground, so download your area once, on the ground. Set Up Offline Flying opens at launch while your device holds no offline map for your region, and stays in Downloads as the Offline Setup card.
• It starts with what already works without signal — airports and navaids, METAR and TAF with their age, NOTAMs for your favourite airports, trips and flight recording, traffic from your receiver, sunrise, sunset and night, Captain's Corner — and what the download adds: the moving map, airspace and terrain.
• It finds your country from your GPS position, or from your device's region, and tells you which it used. Take the country, its whole continent or the world. Each choice shows its size, checks your free space and warns before a large download over mobile data.
• Progress is shown for each part, and the map keeps downloading if you close the app. Everything it fetches appears in its own Downloads screen.
• "Ready to fly offline" appears only when nothing is missing. If a country's airspace cannot be fetched, it tells you which.

NEW — THE OFFLINE MAP, ONLINE
• With signal, the offline base map fills its gaps from our own servers: countries you have not downloaded, and zoom levels deeper than your download. Same map data as the downloads, so the joins do not show.
• Without signal those areas stay empty, as before. The missing-tiles warning and Pack This Flight still count only what is on your device, so an area filled in online never passes for one you can fly offline.

NEW — AIRPORT DATA
• Refreshed: 86,094 airports (377 new), 48,248 runways and 30,346 frequencies, including navaid frequency changes.
• 799 airports now carry their official ICAO code, the one their METAR, TAF and NOTAMs are published under — Lusaka FLKK, Harare FVRG and Western Sydney YSWS among them. Searching for a former code still finds the airport.

PREMIUM
• Never had the 14-day Premium trial? It starts when you open this version: trip planning, airport and navaid details and unlimited AI Copilot, with no account and no payment details. Afterwards the moving map, airspace, weather layers and live traffic stay free, and anything you create is kept.
• The Premium screen now lists exactly what Premium adds — trip planning with winds aloft, the terrain and airspace profile of your route, NOTAMs along it, the offline check for every flight, the nav-log PDF, full airport details and unlimited AI Copilot.

IMPROVED
• Airspace downloads started from different places — Pack This Flight, the airspace cross-section, Aviation Data, the weekly refresh — now run one after another, each with its own Stop, and say "Waiting for another download…" while they wait.
• Every Downloads screen has a labelled Downloads button back to the hub, from any depth.

Blue skies and tailwinds! 6.21.0 Sep 20 Follow a tail number and its flights are recorded for you, whether or not the app is running. And a brand-new offline base map, taken country by country instead of continent by continent.

NEW — FOLLOWED AIRCRAFT
• Follow an aircraft and its flights are recorded on the server, with the app closed. Open it next week and the history is there. Three aircraft free, 25 with Premium.
• Tap any target on the live map and follow it from its popover — no need to already know the registration.
• Each leg names the airfield it began and ended near. Nearest field wins: a home strip with no ICAO code is the right answer, not the airport six miles away.
• The legs of one day are grouped into a trip and analysed together, and you can correct the grouping when it gets it wrong.
• A height profile you can zoom and scrub, tied to the track on the map.
• The altitude curtain: a ribbon from the ground up to the aircraft, coloured by groundspeed, so a flight's height is readable from the side.
• Several journeys drawn at once — different days, different aircraft — each in its own colour with its name and date written along the track.
• Claim a leg, and choose whether other followers see your name. Legs are anonymous until you do.
• A followed aircraft's last known position is marked whether or not you are looking at that patch of sky.
• GPX export for any recorded flight. Recorded from public ADS-B data by adsb.lol.

NEW — OFFLINE BASE MAP
• A brand-new base map, built from current OpenStreetMap data and styled for aviation.
• Downloaded per country, not per continent: take the two you fly in, not the twenty gigabytes around them. Navigation detail first, then two further levels, each stating its own size.
• "All of this area" takes a whole region's navigation tier in one action, sized for what is actually missing on your device.
• The download queue is visible at last — what is transferring with a real percentage, what is waiting and in what order, each with its own cancel, and Cancel all. Downloads continue while the app is closed.
• Lose signal and the map switches itself to your downloaded tiles, then returns to the style you chose when the signal comes back. It says so both times — you should always know which base map you are looking at and why it changed.

NEW — CAPTAIN'S CORNER
• The jet fuel calculator solves both ways at last: kilograms or pounds to litres, US gallons or imperial gallons, and back. Density in kg/L or lb/US gal.

NEW — PACK THIS FLIGHT
• A trip's offline check now covers everything the flight needs, not just terrain: the base map under the route, the labels on it, terrain, airspace, weather and NOTAMs. Each has its own download, or take the lot in one action.
• Base map coverage is measured along your actual track, not guessed from which countries you hold.
• Weather and NOTAMs show the age of the oldest record they hold, and never wear a tick once they are out of date. A check that could not run says so rather than passing.

FIXED
• Weather could still come back empty for up to 150 airports at once. A malformed station identifier — not merely a blank one — makes the weather service refuse the whole request. Every path now goes through one validator, including the AI Copilot's, which used to answer "no weather at these airports" when what had failed was the question, not the airfields.
• A large download could freeze the app. It was a deadlock, not a slow disk.
• A pack whose file had gone was counted as two failures, a deleted pack could reappear on its own, and the counter read "80 of 81" a second after the tap.
• Downloading a route's weather could leave the app crawling and swollen for a minute or more. The map's weather layers were rereading every airport in the database each time, several times per download.

Blue skies and tailwinds! 6.20.0 Sep 18 NOTAMs arrive — on the map, at the airport, and as a briefing for the whole route. And the sun and moon stop being astronomy and start answering the questions a pilot actually asks.

NEW — NOTAMs
• NOTAMs worldwide, from the FAA's NOTAM Management Service. Not the US only: Frankfurt, Heathrow and Amsterdam are served today.
• Each airport has a NOTAMs tab, decoded and grouped, covering the field and everything within 25 nm of it.
• A map layer draws them where they are. Every European NOTAM in the feed is filed as a single point rather than a shape, so the area a NOTAM describes in its Q-line is drawn as the circle it actually is — and the ones written as a polygon in prose are drawn as that polygon.
• "NOTAMs in view" sits at the top of the map and always agrees with the layer beneath it — including when a load is still running, was capped, or is hidden by a filter. A green "no NOTAMs" is never shown for a map that has not finished looking.
• One filter switch per category: Runways & Taxiways, Airspace, Obstacles, Lighting, Navigation Aids, Communications, Procedures & Charts, Other.
• The map has a time — "Active now", "All valid", or a chosen moment. A runway closing at 2200 tonight is visible while you plan this morning, not only after it shuts.
• A pre-flight briefing for the whole route: every airport on it, then everything within 25 nm of the ground between them. It names what it could not reach or had to cap, because a short list of NOTAMs and a short list of airports we managed to ask about must never look alike.
• Cached, so a briefing you have pulled survives losing signal.

NEW — SUN AND MOON
• Night by rulebook, not astronomy: ICAO/EASA logging, FAA position lights (91.209), FAA night currency (61.57b) and the UK ANO, each as a local and Zulu window, with the one that is night right now marked.
• Every time local and Zulu; every azimuth true and magnetic.
• Glare: with the sun below 15°, each runway end is judged for whether it will sit on final — on the airport Overview tab, and at your ETA in the trip planner.
• Moonlight tonight: when the moon is up during civil night, how bright, and a verdict for night VFR.
• Plan for another date and time and every card recomputes. A seven-day sun table shares into a briefing pack.
• Sunrise and sunset for any place — tap anywhere on the map, or any airport, navaid or point of your own. This used to hang off the sun symbol, which sits wherever the sun is overhead: from Europe, usually over the Atlantic.
• Times carry the place's own time zone, computed on the device. No signal needed.

NEW — ELSEWHERE
• AI Copilot answers on airspace and NOTAMs — at a point, along a route, or for a saved trip at its own cruise altitude. With no place given it answers for where you are. It now signs in on its own instead of failing.
• The airspace cross-section opens full screen, pans and zooms, and a tap filters to one airspace. Missing countries download from inside the chart.
• The Map Legend moved to Captain's Corner, and is complete.

FIXED
• Map labels could vanish. On the default online style Mapbox could not find the font our labels asked for — and a missing font costs not the label but the whole map tile it sits on.
• "Offline Tiles Missing" was shown to pilots whose downloads were fine.
• Weather could go missing for up to 150 airports at once. One stored record with a blank station identifier turned a whole batch into a request the weather service refuses, and every airport in that batch came back empty.
• Large region downloads are fixed. They could stall the app until iOS shut it down mid-transfer — which is why continental packs so often never finished — and Cancel could be lost in the same moment, leaving the download to finish anyway. Interruptions no longer cost you the transfer either: backgrounding, a Wi-Fi handover or a locked screen resume where they stopped. Abandoned partial downloads are cleared, freeing the space a map pack needs.

Blue skies and tailwinds! 6.19.0 Sep 8 NOTAMs arrive — on the map, at the airport, and as a briefing for the whole route. And the sun and moon stop being astronomy and start answering the questions a pilot actually asks.

NEW — NOTAMs
• NOTAMs worldwide, from the FAA's NOTAM Management Service. Not the US only: Frankfurt, Heathrow and Amsterdam are served today.
• Each airport has a NOTAMs tab, decoded and grouped, covering the field and everything within 25 nm of it.
• A map layer draws them where they are. Every European NOTAM in the feed is filed as a single point rather than a shape, so the area a NOTAM describes in its Q-line is drawn as the circle it actually is — and the ones written as a polygon in prose are drawn as that polygon.
• "NOTAMs in view" sits at the top of the map and always agrees with the layer beneath it — including when a load is still running, was capped, or is hidden by a filter. A green "no NOTAMs" is never shown for a map that has not finished looking.
• One filter switch per category: Runways & Taxiways, Airspace, Obstacles, Lighting, Navigation Aids, Communications, Procedures & Charts, Other.
• The map has a time — "Active now", "All valid", or a chosen moment. A runway closing at 2200 tonight is visible while you plan this morning, not only after it shuts.
• A pre-flight briefing for the whole route: every airport on it, then everything within 25 nm of the ground between them. It names what it could not reach or had to cap, because a short list of NOTAMs and a short list of airports we managed to ask about must never look alike.
• Cached, so a briefing you have pulled survives losing signal.

NEW — SUN AND MOON
• Night by rulebook, not astronomy: ICAO/EASA logging, FAA position lights (91.209), FAA night currency (61.57b) and the UK ANO, each as a local and Zulu window, with the one that is night right now marked.
• Every time local and Zulu; every azimuth true and magnetic.
• Glare: with the sun below 15°, each runway end is judged for whether it will sit on final — on the airport Overview tab, and at your ETA in the trip planner.
• Moonlight tonight: when the moon is up during civil night, how bright, and a verdict for night VFR.
• Plan for another date and time and every card recomputes. A seven-day sun table shares into a briefing pack.
• Sunrise and sunset for any place — tap anywhere on the map, or any airport, navaid or point of your own. This used to hang off the sun symbol, which sits wherever the sun is overhead: from Europe, usually over the Atlantic.
• Times carry the place's own time zone, computed on the device. No signal needed.

NEW — ELSEWHERE
• AI Copilot answers on airspace and NOTAMs — at a point, along a route, or for a saved trip at its own cruise altitude. With no place given it answers for where you are. It now signs in on its own instead of failing.
• The airspace cross-section opens full screen, pans and zooms, and a tap filters to one airspace. Missing countries download from inside the chart.
• The Map Legend moved to Captain's Corner, and is complete.

FIXED
• Map labels could vanish. On the default online style Mapbox could not find the font our labels asked for — and a missing font costs not the label but the whole map tile it sits on.
• "Offline Tiles Missing" was shown to pilots whose downloads were fine: packs were registered only for offline styles, and the default style was in no catalog at all.
• Weather could go missing for up to 150 airports at once. One stored record with a blank station identifier turned a whole batch into a request the weather service refuses, and every airport in that batch came back empty.
• Interrupted region downloads no longer lose the transfer. iOS reports a backgrounding, a Wi-Fi handover or a locked screen exactly as it reports a deliberate cancel, and the partial download was discarded on both — which cost the large continental packs, the only ones that run long enough to be interrupted.

Blue skies and tailwinds! 6.18.0 Sep 6 Route planning gains the two things it was missing: the real ground beneath your route, and real winds in the navigation log.

NEW — TERRAIN PROFILE
• The cross-section now draws the actual terrain under your route. Since February it drew a flat line at sea level, which over the Alps made an airspace floor look reachable when the ground was already above it. It also says which elevation resolution each stretch came from, and marks gaps as "no data" instead of letting them read as flat ground. Advisory only: bare earth, no masts or towers, never a clearance figure.
• Every airspace the route crosses is tappable, opening the same detail card as a map tap — at the point your route enters it, not the polygon's centre.
• The Profile button existed only in the compact trip editor. On iPad and Mac, in the wide layout, it could not be opened at all. Both layouts have it now.

NEW — WINDS ALOFT
• Global winds aloft. Courses, ground speeds, times and fuel in the navigation log are wind-corrected for the first time — worldwide, not only over the US. Set a cruise altitude and the winds are read at it.
• The log says which of four states applies: fetching, no cruise altitude set, nothing available, or applied and at what level. An empty wind column must never read as calm air.

NEW — ARRIVAL WEATHER
• The trip Weather tab now shows each airport's forecast for the time you will be there, beneath the current conditions, taken from the TAF period covering your estimated arrival. TEMPO and PROB groups are shown separately — a chance of IFR is not IFR.
• Each arrival time says whether it is wind-corrected, and an arrival no TAF period covers says so rather than showing a forecast for a different time.

NEW — MAP AND AIRSPACE
• A tap now offers everything under your finger. An airport inside a CTR, under a TMA, under a FIR only ever offered the airport; the rest were reachable only by switching layers off. All of them are listed now, likeliest first, with class and vertical limits on each row.
• "This Position" is always the last entry, so a position, a ruler or a briefing can be started anywhere — including on top of an airport.
• An airspace's operating hours and activation conditions are now a readable weekly schedule instead of raw JSON.
• Double-tap the map to fly to an annotation.

NEW — WEATHER DATA
• A full sync is two requests instead of about 68. The Airport Types filter goes with it: every airport gets weather now, not only the large ones. A refresh interval replaces it, 15 minutes to 6 hours.

FIXED
• Airspace downloads had stopped working for everyone, on every version — OpenAIP moved their data behind a paid-access bucket and anonymous downloads began failing. They now go through our own server. Countries already on the device kept working, so the failure was invisible until you added one.
• An airspace ceiling filed in feet was shown as FL19500 rather than FL195, and that figure reached the proximity logic.
• Region downloads resume after an interruption instead of starting over. Half of all downloads that were started never finished, and the largest packs fared worst.
• A clear night was rated "Excellent conditions for VFR flight". Day and night are now shown under both the EASA/SERA and the 14 CFR definitions, and the rating is capped after dark.
• Location access was requested cold, with no explanation, and a denial left no way back. It is explained first now, and recoverable.
• Weather sync stopped permanently after the first low-memory warning while looking merely slow.
• Aviation Data read "Zero KB" during a refresh, and a continent row claimed "0 of 52 have data" directly above "49 cached".

Blue skies and tailwinds! 6.16.1 Aug 31 Trip planning grows up, and your flight numbers leave the app — on the Home and Lock Screen, in the Live Activity banner, and on your Apple Watch.

NEW — TRIP PLANNING
• Aircraft profiles. Enter your aeroplane's cruise speed and fuel burn once, and every time and fuel figure is calculated for it instead of a generic default. Type an ICAO type and the make and model fill themselves in; typical figures for that type are offered, but only applied when you press the button — they are book values for the type, not for your airframe. Settings ▸ Flight Settings ▸ Aircraft, or inside any trip.
• Route field. Type or paste a whole route — "EDDM DKB EDDS" — instead of adding waypoints one at a time. Airports, navaids, fixes and coordinates all resolve. Anything it cannot resolve, it tells you about before applying.
• Insert Before and Insert After on any waypoint. Adding a fuel stop between legs 3 and 4 no longer means adding it last and dragging it back.
• Drag the route on the map. Waypoints and the midpoint handles between them are draggable by default now. A new "Lock Route" switch protects a finished plan.
• Terrain profile. A side-on view of the ground beneath your route against your planned altitude, drawn from the elevation data on your device. Advisory only — bare earth, no masts or towers.
• Printable navigation log, as a PDF you can share or file.
• Pack this flight: which countries your route crosses and which terrain packs you are missing.
• Magnetic course, from the onboard magnetic model.

NEW — WIDGETS AND WATCH
• Flight widget — the flight timer plus the fields you picked for the Flight Info Bar, with distance and time to the next waypoint during a trip. Five sizes, including Lock Screen.
• Apple Watch — an Instruments screen in the Flight menu and a face complication in four styles. If the phone goes quiet while you record a track, the watch falls back to its own GPS and says so.
• The Live Activity banner now shows real ground speed, GPS altitude, track and the active trip's route.
• Nothing on a glance surface goes quietly stale: values older than a minute are withdrawn and replaced by a reason.

FIXED
• "Insert into Trip" on the map never inserted. It appended, exactly like "Add to Trip" — two menu entries doing the same thing, and the one promising mid-route placement never delivered it.
• The navigation log's course column was labelled HDG but carried a true course: no wind correction and no magnetic variation. It now reads TC, with a separate MC column beside it.
• Deleting several waypoints at once removed the wrong ones.
• METAR and TAF downloads stopped working for everyone when the weather service tightened its API. Restored.
• Premium features were locked on every launch for customers who own them, until they happened to open the Store tab.
• Live Activity: altitude in metres was labelled feet, a 3.28x error.
• Apple Watch: Trip Progress and the trip complication had never shown a trip, and iPhone unit settings never reached the watch.
• GPS altitude is no longer shown as a flight level anywhere. It reads "5,500ft GPS" — without a QNH there is no correct flight level to compute, and that number gets read out over the radio.
• Airspace data now loads country by country under a memory budget, ending the low-memory crashes some iPads saw.

Blue skies and tailwinds! 6.15.0 Aug 23 The Flight Info Bar: your numbers on top of every screen, and an awareness band that speaks up about airspace, terrain and traffic before you get there. Free for everyone.

NEW
• Flight Info Bar — a slim instrument strip that follows you across every tab, showing the fields you choose: ground speed, track, GPS altitude, height above terrain, vertical speed, GPS status, distance, time and bearing to the next waypoint, cross-track error, nearest METAR, QNH, UTC and local time, sunset, and highest terrain ahead. Double-tap a cell to switch its units, or track and bearing between true and magnetic.
• Awareness band — appears only when it has something to say: the airspace you are in, controlled or hazard airspace ahead with distance, time to reach it and vertical limits, FIR and country crossings, nearby ADS-B traffic, degraded GPS, approaching twilight, and points of interest below.
• Height above terrain, worldwide — a global elevation model is built into the app, so AGL and terrain-ahead work offline anywhere, with nothing to download first.
• Terrain packs — optional high-resolution elevation for 236 countries, in the Download tab. They are small (Switzerland 0.6 MB, Germany 1.5 MB) and the accuracy gain is large: valley airfields such as Innsbruck and Sion go from hundreds of metres out to within a metre.
• Magnetic track and bearing from the World Magnetic Model 2025, computed in the app rather than read from the device compass, so it stays correct in flight and offline.

The bar is off by default. Switch it on in Settings ▸ Flight Settings, or from the map toolbar; touch and hold that same button to pick your fields.

IMPROVED
• The bar keeps flying when GPS gets thin. It holds the last good values, marks them as coasting, and tells you when the fix is stale or lost instead of quietly freezing.
• Traffic distance and airspace lead time are yours to set, and any single alert category can be silenced without losing the rest.

FIXED
• Airspace geometry, three real errors: airspaces made of several polygons were skipped entirely, cut-outs inside an airspace were ignored, and vertical limits given above ground were read as if above sea level — which affected a fifth of the built-in airspace data. The ruler's airspace cross-section is corrected by the same fix.
• Weather: one airport with a non-standard identifier could fail an entire request, leaving around 300 large airports without METAR or TAF at the default settings.
• A database upgrade could fail on installs carried over from much older versions, breaking trips, photos, notes and saved positions on every launch.
• The climb gradient calculator in Captain's Corner reported rates 100x too high.
• Country names in the terrain pack list are now matched and grouped correctly.

Blue skies and tailwinds! 6.13.0 Aug 20 Faster startup, a more reliable map, and fixes for issues several of you reported.

NEW
• AI Copilot — ask for weather, airports, routes and aviation reference in
plain language. It reads the map with you and can fly you to any result.
• Apple Watch app — weather, GPS tracking, flight timers, haptics and voice
notes on your wrist, kept in sync with your iPhone.
• Widgets and Live Activities — nearest airport, current weather and live
flight progress on the Home Screen, Lock Screen and your watch face.
• Additional aviation base maps, including the open flightmaps VFR chart.
• Refreshed worldwide airport data.

IMPROVED
• Map overlays now draw in a consistent, predictable order — terrain, weather,
airspace, navigation data and your own marks always stack the same way.
• The map centres on your position at launch.
• Faster launch: the map style is no longer built twice, and database
maintenance no longer runs on the main thread.
• More realistic default cruise speed for ETA calculations.

FIXED
• A crash that could occur while the map was loading or changing style.
• Route paste from LIDO / OFP flight plans works again, including compact
coordinate formats.
• Saved positions now appear wherever you are in the world, not just near
your last location.
• Weather stations and airports could be missing when zoomed out or when the
view crossed the date line.
• A "download fonts" banner briefly flashed on the map at launch.
• A map cache could grow over time and gradually slow down panning. 6.12.0 Aug 6 Faster startup, a more reliable map, and fixes for issues several of you reported.

NEW
• AI Copilot — ask for weather, airports, routes and aviation reference in
plain language. It reads the map with you and can fly you to any result.
• Apple Watch app — weather, GPS tracking, flight timers, haptics and voice
notes on your wrist, kept in sync with your iPhone.
• Widgets and Live Activities — nearest airport, current weather and live
flight progress on the Home Screen, Lock Screen and your watch face.
• Additional aviation base maps, including the open flightmaps VFR chart.
• Refreshed worldwide airport data.

IMPROVED
• Map overlays now draw in a consistent, predictable order — terrain, weather,
airspace, navigation data and your own marks always stack the same way.
• The map centres on your position at launch.
• Faster launch: the map style is no longer built twice, and database
maintenance no longer runs on the main thread.
• More realistic default cruise speed for ETA calculations.

FIXED
• A crash that could occur while the map was loading or changing style.
• Route paste from LIDO / OFP flight plans works again, including compact
coordinate formats.
• Saved positions now appear wherever you are in the world, not just near
your last location.
• Weather stations and airports could be missing when zoomed out or when the
view crossed the date line.
• A "download fonts" banner briefly flashed on the map at launch.
• A map cache could grow over time and gradually slow down panning. 6.11.0 Jul 26 Smoother, sharper maps and fresher data:

• Fixed a rare crash that could interrupt you while panning or zooming the map.
• Crisper map rendering with less flicker and cleaner lines.
• More dependable maps when your signal drops or you're flying offline — no more
chart "thrashing" when connectivity comes and goes.
• Refreshed airport database with the latest Airports data.
• Performance and stability improvements throughout.

Blue skies and tailwinds! 6.10.1 Jul 19 Smoother, more reliable flying — especially offline and on the move:

• Offline maps fixed: map tiles you download during a session are now usable right away — no more blank areas after grabbing a region before or during a flight.
• Smarter offline coverage: the app more accurately detects which areas still need downloading, so you're less likely to find missing charts when you're off the grid.
• More reliable live traffic: ADS-B now fails over smoothly between data sources, keeping nearby aircraft on your map even when one provider has an outage.
• Better search: finding airports, navaids and waypoints no longer fails on identifiers or names containing dots, slashes or other special characters — and results come up faster.
• Trip planning polish: clearer draft handling in the Trip Editor and refinements to the Navigation Log.
• Smoother map startup: the map renders cleanly on launch, without the brief blank flash some users saw.

Blue skies and tailwinds! 6.9.0 Jun 30 this is a maintenance release 6.8.3 May 16 this is a minor bug fix release 6.8.2 Apr 28 What's New in PilotsAtlas

• "What's Around Me" Passenger Briefing — New toolbar button opens a briefing panel with nearby airports, cities, and points of interest. Tap any row to jump
straight to the detail view.

• Interactive Runway Lighting Schematics — Replaced the static PDF reference with interactive diagrams for faster lookups in the cockpit.

• Improved GPS Tracker — Tracking now continues reliably in the background and while the device is locked. Higher-resolution sampling and quality filtering
give cleaner, more accurate tracks.

• Forgot Password — Reset your password directly from the sign-in sheet.

• Updated Maps — Upgraded to Mapbox Maps 11.21.1 for smoother rendering and cleaner aeroway layers.

• Stability & Sign-In Fixes — Resolved a startup crash on Release builds, a crash loop caused by a corrupted annotations cache, a trip-points sync gap, and
the repeated-login issue on first launch. Batch map downloads now report progress correctly.

Safe landings! 6.8.1 Apr 19 Offline Reliability
Completely reworked offline experience. The app now assumes you're offline until connectivity is confirmed — no more missed syncs or frozen loading
screens on startup. Weather data freshness badges update in real-time even without internet, so you always know how old your METAR/TAF is. ADS-B
aircraft data now persists longer during brief connectivity drops instead of vanishing after 60 seconds.

Points of Interest
New curated aviation-relevant POI layer including space centers, wind farms, and nuclear plants. Improved group toggles and visibility controls for
POI categories on the map.

Faster Search
Full-text search (FTS5) now indexes airport names, ICAO codes, navaids, and waypoints for instant results as you type.

Stability & Performance
- Subscription state preserved during network outages — no more false "premium required" messages
- Map tile server automatically recovers if its port is occupied
- Weather sync resumes seamlessly after reconnecting
- Reduced app bundle size (~3 MB savings)
- Crash fixes and reliability improvements throughout 6.8.0 Mar 25 Drag & Drop Annotations
Reposition your notes, saved positions, and images directly on the map. Long-press any annotation and drag it to a new location. Enable per
type in each layer's settings.

Redesigned Notes
The Notes sheet has been completely redesigned with native iOS patterns, search, swipe actions, and a cleaner settings tab.

Improved Weather Display
METAR and TAF cards now show flight categories, improved time formatting, and collapsible sections for easier scanning. Fixed ICAO visibility
parsing for European stations.

Offline Map Reliability
Annotations now display correctly on offline maps with bundled fonts. Added font download status banner and automatic refresh after style
changes.

Captain's Corner Expanded
- 7 aviation directories: abbreviations, ICAO prefixes, aircraft registration, VOLMET frequencies, and more
- 4 built-in calculators: fuel, climb gradient, unit converter, wind chill
- 76 new reference entries across 6 tables
- "Show on Map" — tap any airport, navaid, or waypoint to jump straight to the map

Faster Search
- Full-text search indexes for instant results across airports, navaids, and waypoints

Map Improvements
- Pulse animation highlights focused annotations
- Drag & drop repositioning for positions, notes, and images
- Weather auto-refreshes when opening annotation popovers
- Fixed EDTO circle filtering and map tap handling 6.7.0 Mar 19 ADS-B OVERHAUL
• Multi-source community ADS-B with automatic failover — always stay connected
• 3D aircraft rendering at real altitudes with flight phase coloring
• Aircraft type estimation and per-feature scaling on the map
• Tap any aircraft to instantly see its full flight trace
• Aircraft photos from Planespotters.net in detail popovers
• New ADS-B Receivers tab for configuration and diagnostics

AVIATION RULERS
• Magnetic heading display using WMM 2025 model
• ETE and wind calculations directly on ruler lines
• Airspace cross-section view along your ruler path
• GPS-based auto True Airspeed with iCloud sync
• Dual-scale tick marks with customizable font sizes

NEW MAP FEATURES
• OpenAIP integration — airspace, navaids, and obstacles from open data
• Sun & Moon celestial popovers — tap for sunrise, sunset, and astronomical data
• GPX track recording with local notifications
• Auto-minimizing tab bar for a cleaner map view
• Offline font packages for map styles

BUILT FOR iOS 18
• Requires iOS 18 — optimized for the latest platform features
• Upgraded to Mapbox Maps v11 for smoother rendering
• Improved stability, memory management, and thread safety
• Smarter network handling — no wasted requests when offline

Safe skies! 6.6.1 Mar 8 What's New in FreeFlightAtlas 6.6

ADS-B OVERHAUL
• Multi-source community ADS-B with automatic failover — always stay connected
• 3D aircraft rendering at real altitudes with flight phase coloring
• Aircraft type estimation and per-feature scaling on the map
• Tap any aircraft to instantly see its full flight trace
• Aircraft photos from Planespotters.net in detail popovers
• New ADS-B Receivers tab for configuration and diagnostics

AVIATION RULERS
• Magnetic heading display using WMM 2025 model
• ETE and wind calculations directly on ruler lines
• Airspace cross-section view along your ruler path
• GPS-based auto True Airspeed with iCloud sync
• Dual-scale tick marks with customizable font sizes

NEW MAP FEATURES
• OpenAIP integration — airspace, navaids, and obstacles from open data
• Sun & Moon celestial popovers — tap for sunrise, sunset, and astronomical data
• GPX track recording with local notifications
• Auto-minimizing tab bar for a cleaner map view
• Offline font packages for map styles

BUILT FOR iOS 18
• Requires iOS 18 — optimized for the latest platform features
• Upgraded to Mapbox Maps v11 for smoother rendering
• Improved stability, memory management, and thread safety
• Smarter network handling — no wasted requests when offline

Safe skies! 6.6.0 Mar 6 this is a bugfix version. 6.5.0 Feb 17 Enhanced Trip Planning & Search

- Intelligent Waypoint Parser - Paste complete flight plans with airways and get instant results. The new batch parser handles complex
waypoint sequences with deduplication and geographic proximity matching for accurate route planning.

- Lightning-Fast Search - Completely redesigned parallel search with instant results, smart filtering, and relevance scoring. Find
airports, navaids, and waypoints faster than ever.

Improved Reliability

- Session Memory - The app now remembers your last active tab and restores your workspace exactly as you left it.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed trip renaming UI hang for instant responsiveness
• Resolved cross-device sync conflicts in trip points
• Improved airport search accuracy with procedure suffix handling
• Fixed POI database query edge cases
• Enhanced crash reporting and error handling

Performance & Stability

• iOS 17+ optimizations for faster launch times
• Reduced memory usage during intensive operations
• Better handling of large trip files
• Improved MapBox rendering performance 6.4.0 Feb 2 critical fix crashing the app when syncing data to the cloud. 6.3.2 Jan 23