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Version 3.97.43, Internet released 03FEB2020. | [Download!] |
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- IMPROVED: Load FlightPlan sync trimeout increased from 15 to 30 seconds to allow for a large number of FlightPlans to be synced.
- IMPROVED: German platzrunden.txt 2020 version included.
- FIXED: Custom Aircraft images can be used again.
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Version 3.97.40, Internet released 20DEC2019. | [Top] |
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- FIXED: EURWX will not render on the Moving Map anymore due to the upcoming decennial flip.
- FIXED: A problem with the cycle date recognition for downloaded AeroData updates. Older versions of EasyVFR 3 can now no longer update their Aerodata; users MUST update to this version.
- FIXED: When more than 500 routes exist in PocketFMS then EasyVFR could crash when trying to load one of them.
- FIXED: USA METARs download failed due to remote interface changes.
- FIXED: Corrupted drumwheel interface at various places.
- FIXED: Google Map tiles at various places.
- FIXED: The 'address:' prefix on a Search to use Google places to find a location.
- IMPROVED: Squawk Areas will now be included in the Airspace Warnings System (AWS). By default they are classified as INFORMATIONAL warning.
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Version 3.97.23, Internet released 06AUG2018. | [Top] |
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- IMPROVED: GDL90 traffic with latitude/longitude set to 0.0/0.0 but with a high accurate NACp value will no longer be considered a bearingless target because 999 out of 1000 times these are targets for which the position ADSB-B frame simply hasn't been received yet.
- IMPROVED: UAT precipitation radar now no longer tries to create a running loop but uses new tiles simply to update the current overlay. This prevents the ugly empty tiles that are otherwise shown for quite some time.
- IMPROVED: GDL90 based traffic now displays an ambiguity circle around each depicted airplane symbol based on the received NACp (Navigation Accuracy) value for that plane. It can range from 10NM to 30 meters.
- IMPROVED: GPS sharing & A/P now combines all messages into one packet to be send instead of transmitting each message in a separate packet. This solves the issue discovered with the Trio Avionics EZ Pilot AutoPilot.
- FIXED: The previous version removed ARMV6 support causing some 32-bit devices to perform extremely bad up to the point it was almost useless.
- FIXED: With GDL90, when the GDL90 source was not used as GPS source for the app, traffic would be shown always with an altitude band instead of a single altitude value despite the GDL90 device being equipped with a barometric sensor.
- FIXED: On Android 64-bit, filing a flight plan to RocketRoute with a personal RR account (username/password) failed.
- FIXED: [Menu] - [Nav tools] - [User waypoints] did not respond to taps on lat/lon editor control.
- FIXED: GPS Sharing & A/P now only uses upper case to and from waypoint IDs, and removes all non-ASCII chars like dot, comma etc.
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Version 3.97.16, Internet released 08MAR2018. | [Top] |
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- IMPROVED: TAF processing speed is significantly improved.
- IMPROVED: Android and iOS 32-bit versions performance improvements.
- CHANGED: All Android devices now use the same memory pool sizes as on iOS. This should reduce the number of memory related problems but could cause issues for old devices with less than 1GB of system RAM.
- FIXED: METAR & TAF downloads were broken due to a security change at one of the WX providers.
- FIXED: Airfield Frequencies are back on the Information Center Window (ICW) when tapping airfield details.
- FIXED: Routes with long legs could cause EasyVFR to crash when the number of airspaces involved in that leg exceeded a certain amount.
- FIXED: On initial install only one example aircraft was downloaded instead of all available.
- FIXED: a memory leak with NOTAMs on the map.
- FIXED: With the option 'Use Google Watch' in [Menu] - [Settings] - [Wearables] set to ON while 'Give spoken information' was set to OFF, EasyVFR would crash as soon as it approached a route leg change.
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Version 3.97.1, Internet released 06DEC2017. | [Top] |
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- FIXED: Incorrect AeroData objects were displayed in the Vertical Profile View when a route was loaded.
- FIXED: Density altitudes below -999' were not shown on the ICW for airports.
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Version 3.97.0, Internet released 28NOV2017. | [Top] |
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- NEW: The Vertical Profile View (VPV) now has a slider at the ruler (the 'SyncSlider') that can be moved left/right. When this is done, a marker on the moving map (the 'SyncMarker') is shown so it is very easy to find a corresponding location from the VPV on the 2D map.
- NEW: Improved Density Altitude Awareness: Provided recent METARs were downloaded, the ICW and TripKit will display a calculated Density Altitude for airfields.
- NEW: A new NOTAM filter is introduced to filter out NOTAMs with a lower limit higher than a specific altitude.
- NEW: All items on the EFB tab can now be directly shared with other apps and devices using the built-in operating-system specific sharing capabilities. This is particularly handy for exported breadcumbs (KML) files.
- NEW: Windows version now also offers 'Open in ...' for TripKit PDFs on the FP tab.
- NEW: Exported flightplans can now be shared with any app using the platform 'Open in..' functionality.
- IMPROVED: Changed size of wind barbs and EurWX symbols so they are not so massive anymore on Windows.
- IMPROVED: When doing a straight-in to a runway which elevation is unknown, the vertical guidance will use the airfield elevation as target altitude.
- IMPROVED: TAF color decoding.
- IMPROVED: When pinch-zooming on iOS or Android, the slide-to-zoom icon on the right hand side of the moving map remains for 2.5 seconds to (hopefully) have users who don't know yet understand this can be used for zooming too.
- IMPROVED: When the ICW was showing WX data and a new WX download was initialized the ICW would 'collapse' momentary and show no WX data at all anymore.
- IMPROVED: The VPV now shows the same icon for airfields as used on the moving map.
- IMPROVED: EFB document downloads, specially when the existing local EFB already contains a lot of documents.
- FIXED: When a TAF contained 8 or more time groups EasyVFR could crash if processing TAFs was multithreaded.
- FIXED: When a Dynon SkyView was used as AHRS for the 3D mode there was a 4 seconds lag.
- FIXED: When using FLARM as input there was a noticable lag of the aircraft symbol on the Moving Map
- FIXED: When a NOTAM data download was corrupted, EasyVFR could freeze or crash.
- FIXED: When using a GDL90 device as GPS source, EasyVFR would not properly record breadcrumbs.
- FIXED: Data loss on GDL90 could occur when running under high network load.
- FIXED: Moving map obstacle depiction based on NOTAMs is no longer happening for Australia to avoid erroneous location indications.
- FIXED: A few nasty memory leaks, specially with NOTAM warnings enabled caused EasyVFR to crash within a few hours of operation.
- FIXED: When loading a breadcrumb the menu did not close, making the breadcrumb review feature in the EFB basically unusable.
- FIXED: When searching for a string of exactly 4 characters EasyVFR always considered this an ICAO search and did not do a textual search as part of the name of the AeroData. E.g. searching for PULA did not return any results at all, while there is an airfield with the name PULA in Europe.
- FIXED: A possible memory buffer overrun when using XConn or the EasySIM simulator with EasyVFR.
- FIXED: On some Windows 10 systems reading or writing XML files could result in whole-degree rounding errors for latitude and longitude values due to locale settings.
- FIXED: When reversing a route the VPV now correctly depicts this reversed route.
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Version 3.96.0, Internet released 06SEP2017. | [Top] |
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- NEW: Info fields [Bearing to Destination], [Bearing to Next Waypoint], [Planned Altitude], [Current ATC Frequency], [Current ATC Commname], [Next ATC Frequency], [Next ATC Commname] and [Next ATC Time to go] have been added.
- NEW: When highlighting a NOTAM or airspace, the user can now pan and/or zoom around freely.
- NEW: A 'Calibrate AGL altitude to 0 ft' is now available via [Menu] - [Nav Tools] - [Settings].
- NEW: Import routes using copy & paste from free text including entire flightplan messages from AROs.
- NEW: Import routes directly from RocketRoute.
- NEW: Import routes directly from AutoRouter.
- IMPROVED: When a route was created and no leg was defined yet, the ICW would show both APPEND and INSERT. This is now only APPEND.
- IMPROVED: Route waypoints labels on the moving map.
- IMPROVED: GPX Import of routes now recognizes airfields and will create waypoints accordingly.
- IMPROVED: GDL90 support for uAvionix SkyEcho, Stratux and for devices providing both pressure altitude and geoid (GPS) altitude.
- IMPROVED: Reduced battery consumption resulting in better battery endurance and less heat generation.
- IMPROVED: The Airspace Filter now also auto-adjusts on the max planned altitude in the current route.
- IMPROVED: When Flight Mode is active, EasyVFR will no longer attempt to sync flightplans via PocketFMS cloud to prevent lengthy delays when the device is connected via WiFi to one of the many devices that don't provide actual internet like PAW, iLevel, Stratux, SkyEcho, PingBuddy.
- IMPROVED: When in Flight Mode, no attempts will be made to sync the Favourite Flightplans data anymore.
- CHANGED: Total overhaul of the FLARM sockets interface.
- FIXED: When using a GDL90 device for traffic data AND as GPS location source, the text 'GDL90' on the moving map would be painted red, despite the traffic data coming in OK.
- FIXED: When connected to a FLARM or GDL90 device and putting EasyVFR in the background, other apps were unable to communicate with the FLARM/GDL90 device because the UDP port was kept open.
- FIXED: Logbook was not / no longer able to update.
- FIXED: The WX Timestepper often allowed a too far ahead in time.
- FIXED: Occasional crashes when opening the WX tab.
- FIXED: The background EFB document downloader continuously probed the network interface to see if an internet connection was available even if there was nothing to download anymore for the EFB.
- FIXED: Tapping a page header (for example the “User waypoints” on the User waypoints maintenance page) could cause EasyVFR to freeze.
- FIXED: EasyVFR allowed deleting of user waypoints while they were still in use in a route, causing weird behavior.
- FIXED: Spoken traffic warning so that 'miles' becomes 'mile' if it's just one.
- FIXED: Various 'flightplan' references changed into 'Routes'.
- FIXED: When a user installed EasyVFR fresh and entered credentials for a subscription that was no longer valid, then EasyVFR would freeze instead of offering the user to (re)subscribe.
- FIXED: Adding flightplan legs not always took into account a planned alt of highest terrain + 1000ft.
- FIXED: A problem with TAFs downloaded on the first day of a month that contained timeframes spanning previous month + current month.
- FIXED: A problem with TAFs downloaded on the last day of a month that contained timeframes spanning current month + next month.
- FIXED: An issue where a disconnect of a GDL90 device with the device's built-in GPS unit could lead to no position anymore.
- FIXED: A problem with loading routes containing French 2-letter NDBs.
- FIXED: When using a bluetooth GPS on Windows, EasyVFR would create very large breadcrumb files with multiple breadcrumbs per second. This is now fixed in such a way max 1 breadcrumb per second is stored.
- FIXED: When typing lowercase ICAO identifiers in the search input window EasyVFR would not switch to the associated region that airfield is located in.
- FIXED: When editing a logbook entry the entered time would offset by 1 hour.
- FIXED: Runways in the Searchresult were duplicated in their name.
- FIXED: When tapping the [End FP] button on the FP tab the popup now asks confirmation to delete the route instead of the flight plan.
- FIXED: When a flightplan was saved and the user tapped [Cancel] on the input field that asked for the name, the FP would still be saved.
- FIXED: On macOS, EasyVFR could sometimes crash when loading an aircraft profile.
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Version 3.95.17, Internet released 03APR2017. | [Top] |
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- NEW: Split screen revised! The split screen function now creates two equally sized windows instead of one large and two smaller ones. The top map (or the left one when viewing landscape) is the 'primary', the other one is the secondary. Only the primary map is controllable using the settings in the [Menu] option; the secondary map only accepts pinch-zooming. To switch primary and secondary maps, simply drag the secondary map to the primary map. This will make the two maps switch over.
- NEW: 3D Synthetic Vision has been significantly improved by showing an Artificial Horizon Indicator on top of the 3D view when an AHRS device is used like the iLevel SW2/3.
- NEW: 3D Synthetic View now shows a 'highway in the sky' path using boxes for the planned route at the planned altitude. When the last entry in a FlightPlan is a runway, then the 3D view will project a descend path from threshold altitude to threshold altitude +2000ft using a 3° descend path.
It is important to realize that the last part of the FlightPlan does not automatically adjust to intercept that glidepath! - NEW: A new Airspace Theme is available for USA users, which hides class E airspace.
- NEW: We significantly improved creating of route points (auto-insert for shortest route or simply append to current route) using the ICW (Information Center Window, the yellow overlay that is shown when a point on the map is tapped).
- IMPROVED: The FlightPlan tab now refers to routes everywhere to distinguish more from the phrase 'flight plan'. 'Flight plan” is now only used when referring to the document that has to be filed to an ATC unit.
- CHANGED: Android runtime RAM requirements have been raised with 40MB for all devices regardless of screen resolution.
- FIXED: 'UK Squawk listening areas' are now labeled 'Squawk Listening areas'.
- FIXED: The first label position for a Squawk Area airspace was not showing the listening fequency, but instead showed 'SQWK'.
- FIXED: DWD GAFOR and TopMeteo EurWX could not both be turned OFF, if one was turned OFF the other was turned ON automatically.
- FIXED: When a DirectoTo to runway was done the FlightPlan waypoint was not recognized as a runway but created as a user defined waypoint.
- FIXED: When a runway was part of a saved FlightPlan then the runway was not recognized as a runway waypoint when that FlightPlan was loaded again, but simply created as a user waypoint.
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Version 3.95.1, Internet released 16MAR2017. | [Top] |
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- NEW: The [Load FP] button on the FP tab now makes it possible to set one or more FlightPlans as favorites. Using a simple [Favorites] button the list of available FlightPlans can be limited to the ones marked as favorite only.
- NEW: When airspaces have a listening squawk, the corresponding squawk will be shown in the airspace label.
- NEW: EasyVFR now offers the option to decode TAFs into logical parts that are much easier to understand then the raw TAF text.
- NEW: Via [Menu] - [Nav Tools] - [my EasyVFR] you can see your licence status and additionally licensed products. You can also submit textual feedback to us, to help us improve our future customer-driven developments.
- NEW: When using an iLevel AHRS, the 3D view will now project an Attitude Indicator on top of the synthetic vision.
- NEW: When using a GDL90 device (for example a PingBuddy) as Traffic detection device, then EasyVFR will auto-correct the received pressure altitudes using the QNH from the nearest METAR. If no METAR is found then EasyVFR will not display a single altitude difference, but an altitude range.
- IMPROVED: To avoid conflicting information between DWD GAFOR and TopMeteo EurWX these two options are now mutually exclusive.
- IMPROVED: [Menu] - [Nav Tools] - [Settings], GDL 90 settings now allows the AHRS to be calibrated: the current position will be handled as 0 bank and 0 roll.
- IMPROVED: [Menu] - [Nav Tools] - [Settings], GDL 90 settings now allows to select the AHRS Heading or the GPS Track as source for the 3D Synthetic Vision.
- IMPROVED: Wind barbs on the map are now better readable.
- IMPROVED: Vertical Profile View panning is now much more responsive.
- IMPROVED: The FlightMode ON / OFF button was moved from the [Menu] page to one of the on-screen buttons.
- IMPROVED: Dynon breadcrumb conversion now works with Dynon's latest format.
- CHANGED: [Menu] - [Virtual Radar] was moved to [Menu] - [Nav Tools] - [Virtual Radar].
- CHANGED: The on-screen button to toggle infoFields ON / OFF was moved to the first [Menu] page.
- FIXED: Users with an Fusion license could get a pop-up on Windows stating that their licence needed renewal. Tapping the [Later] button continued as normal.
- FIXED: Wind and Eur SigWX symbols were not shown when the time stepper was active and METAR/TAF depiction was switched OFF.
- FIXED: Correct handling of non-ICAO departure airfield notation when filing FlightPlans.
- FIXED: When editing a logbook time, the resulting time could sometimes be one hour off from the time actually entered.
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Version 3.94.7, Internet released 18JAN2017. | [Top] |
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- NEW: In cooperation with the Deutscher Wetterdienst we built the most complete GAFOR implementation imaginable! The GAFOR areas are graphically depicted on the moving map using their well known color scheme, complemented with the textual Significant Weather codings, if applicable. Last but not least an extensive regional weather briefing is also available. Usage of this system can be controlled using [Menu] - [Nav Tools] - [Settings], option [Use DWD GAFOR].
- NEW: EasyVFR now supports the GDL90 protocol. As a result various devices that use this protocol to deliver Traffic Information (TCAS) are now usable with EasyVFR, for example the unbelievably small and light ADS-B receiver uAvionix PingBuddy, Stratux based Kickstarter project FlightBox ADS-B receiver kit from Open Flight Solutions and iLevel series from Level Aviation.
- NEW: EasyVFR's synthetic 3D View now accepts AHRS data from Dynon SkyView or Level Aviation's iLevel SW2/SW3 equipment to represent the actual attitude of the plane as an improvement over GPS derived attitude information.
- NEW: EasyVFR's unique graphical Weather Forecast now allows the user to quickly step back and forward in time using the new on-screen control that is shown when the user taps the current WX reference time shown top right on the moving map.
- IMPROVED: The yellow course finder tool that is shown in Flight Mode when panning the map will now be centered at 1/3 of the screen height instead of 1/2 so it no longer gets hidden below the default FlightPlan info fields.
- CHANGED: The settings options [Require small GPS movements] and [High framerate in turns] have been removed because they caused a lot of confusion and were not really useful.
- FIXED: On Windows desktop systems where the decimal marker symbol was not a dot, frequencies were often truncated to whole numbers.
- FIXED: Fusion license users using the Windows version of EasyVFR always got a pop-up stating that their license has ended because it is only 0 days valid. When tapping [Later] on the question if the user wants to renew his license, the app would still work though.
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Version 3.93.0, Internet released 21NOV2016. | [Top] |
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- CHANGED: Based on a Google email, the manifest for EasyVFR now contains the android.hardware.location.gps as a required feature (Read more on that). This might have consequences for devices without a built-in GPS, as these might not find EasyVFR on Google's Play Store anymore. In such case, EasyVFR can be downloaded straight from the PocketFMS servers here.
- NEW: Flying 'by the numbers' made Easy: user configurable InfoFields like speed, altitude, time to next waypoint etc. can be placed anywhere on the screen. You can set your personal preferences via [Menu] - [NavTools] - [Settings] - [Moving Map info block]
- NEW: On iOS, exported FlightPlans and TripKits can be shared with other iOS devices and eported to mail etc. using the built-in iOS System Share options.
- NEW: The Windows version of EasyVFR can now export FlightPlans directly to Garmin devices that are connected via USB or serial com ports.
- NEW: Android 64 bit is now supported.
- NEW: The [Menu] screen now has a new [Help] button that launches internet based help. The plan is to improve this the upcoming weeks significantly including a support chat functionality.
- NEW: To get rid of annoying airspace warnings on take-off and landing, EasyVFR now suspends airspace- and NOTAM warnings when within a user-configurable range from the departure or arrival airfield. By default these values are 5NM and they can be changed via [Menu] - [Nav Tools] - [Warnings].
- IMPROVED: On Android, EasyVFR flagged a GPS signal as unreliable at the moment less than 4 satellites were used as solution. This now happens only if that situation is present for 5 seconds or longer.
- FIXED: If in Settings | Wearable Settings, the option 'Use Android Watch' was ENabled while 'Use voice output' was DISabled, EasyVFR would crash when a FlightPlan was loaded and the plane was flying off track.
- FIXED: On some devices, button fading did sometimes not work correctly.
- FIXED: When exporting to Garmin FPL format, EasyVFR will now make sure every waypoint uses a unique ID.
- FIXED: Exporting FlightPlans involving waypoints with a digit in their ID got these digits removed.
- FIXED: Exporting FlightPlans with place names as Waypoint ID did not work.
- FIXED: Flight plan filing: four-character place names are no longer falsely picked up as ICAO airports.
- FIXED: Flight plan filing: previously, the route time string was changed to include seconds.
- FIXED: When executing a straight-in, the 'Should Be at Altitude' is now no longer obscured by the purple FP line.
- FIXED: Sometimes the 'time on map' selector on the WX tab was one hour off with the moving map.
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Version 3.92.11, Internet released 16AUG2016. | [Top] |
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- NEW: Extended runway center lines. For all airfields used in a FlightPlan, all runways will be shown with extended center lines using an ILS-like feather graphic if the option to display runways on the moving map is ON. As an additional feature, EasyVFR will show the desired altitude the airplane should be at (using a 3 degree descend path) if EasyVFR detects the airplane is executing a straight-in. This is provided the calculated altitude is 700' AGL or more and the runway elevation is known.
- NEW: On iPad Air and higher devices, EasyVFR can now operate in slide view mode.
- NEW: On ipad Air2 and higher devices, EasyVFR can now operate in split view mode.
- NEW: FightPlans can now be exported to Garmin's FPL format.
- FIXED: When rapidly double-tapping on a FlightPlan on the FlightPlans list shown with the [Load FP] button on the FP Tab, EasyVFR would crash.
- FIXED: On iOS devices, when viewing an EFB document, website or AeroData summary on the EFB tab, or when viewing the TripKit on the FP tab, the content of the shown documents could not be zoomed, resulting in very hard to read information.
- FIXED: When selecting a breadcrumb file for viewing, it will now also be visible on EasyVFR's own Moving Map instead of just via Google Maps or Google Earth.
- FIXED: Voice warnings containing clock direction ("Traffic at eleven o'clock") sometimes used negative numbers.
- FIXED: When on Android a document (PDF, website, HTML based view) was viewed once and EasyVFR was put to the background and after a while put back to the front, then EasyVFR would crash with a report about WebView must be on the same threads.
- FIXED: When using a FlightPlan with departure from or arrival on a non-icao airfield, the default used for the filed flight plan using the RocketRoute interface was set to the airfield who's ICAO was equal to the first for characters of the internal ID of the non-icao airfield. From now on EasyVFR will correctly use ZZZZ as indicator again in these situations.
- FIXED: When a place was choosen as alternate for a FlightPlan, the name of that place would not be visible on the FP Tab, but would be visible on the Filing Form used to file the flight plan via RocketRoute.
- FIXED: The various ETE data on the FP tab is now computed without taking the actual plane position into account, so always from the start of a leg to the end of a leg.
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Version 3.92.0, Internet released 28JUL2016. | [Top] |
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- NEW: You can now setup EasyVFR to allow beeing tracked by friends and family using MENU->Virtual Radar. The tracking site can be found at virtualradar.pocketfms.com.
- NEW: When tapping the waypoint icon on the FP tab, the Map will auto-center to the location represented by that leg.
- NEW: Obstacles are now shown on the map using symbols that show the obstacle type, e.g. a windmill, building, antenna, etc.
- NEW: Wearable Settings now have the option to set a delay for playing sounds and spoken directions to enable a bluetooth connected audio-out device to wake up.
- NEW: When switching 'Give spoken information' from OFF to ON in [MENU] - [Nav Tools] - [Settings] - 'Wearables Settings', EasyVFR will speak out 'Voice output is now enabled' to make it possible to verify the spoken information actually works.
- NEW: When an obstacle is warned for on the Moving Map, this obstacle will now be shown using a red version of the obstacle instead of the default gray one. It will be shown less large as it did before.
- NEW: New LIB data options are available: Cumulative Distance, Cumulative ETE(p), Cumulative ETE(g).
- IMPROVED: Various performance improvements were realized.
- IMPROVED: When the ICW is launched on a location where no AeroData is found for, the app will create exactly one User Waypoint named 'USER WPT ' and show that in the ICW.
- IMPROVED: The WX tab now also gives the time the last EurWX download was done.
- IMPROVED: The NOTAM tab now gives the time of last download instead of the age so it is consistent with the WX Tab.
- IMPROVED: When ICW is active then a tap on the DirectTo button will create a FlightPlan to the first item on the ICW list.
- IMPROVED: The TripKit now prints the T/O time as well instead of only the T/O date.
- IMPROVED: Two & three finger distance measurement on the Moving Map now show the distance in the unit selected by the user.
- IMPROVED: VPV now shows the scale in the distance unit selected by the user.
- IMPROVED: The name of the FlightPlan is now shown on the FP tab.
- IMPROVED: On Android, EasyVFR would quit when the back key was tapped twice rapidly.
- IMPROVED: Magnification levels now go to 1000.
- IMPROVED: In landscape, the [Nav Tools..] button in the menu is shifted one position to the right.
- IMPROVED: The various Magnification Setting options in the Settings menu now have a graphical representation.
- IMPROVED: Various 'Cum.' (cumulative) abbreviations in the FP tab have been changed into a small leading c. For example 'Cum. ETE' has become 'cETE'.
- IMPROVED: When the option 'Add PlanePos to WPT list when DirectTo' in the Settings screen is set to ON, then with each DirectTo button tap the app will create a User Waypoint representing the plane location at the moment the DirectTo button was tapped using an ID 'ACFT'. These waypoints can be maintained using the User Waypoint list.
- IMPROVED: In an attempt to improve the Android version capbility to detect if the position information is still accurate, a new settings option 'Require small GPS Movements' is available. When ON, the app requires at least a 0.0005 degree movement within each 5 seconds. If that does not happen, then the GPS position is flagged as inaccurate.
- IMPROVED: If EasyVFR was suspended for a long time, the WX and NOTAM reference date & times were not adjusted and could point to a way back in the past.
- FIXED: If an airfield had more than 16 georeferenced approach plates, EasyVFR could crash.
- FIXED: The Search Results window would not display strings with non-ASCII characters, and truncate the text at that text location.
- FIXED: When the User Waypoint maintenance screen was used once it was no longer possible to maintain User Waypoints added after that moment until the app was restarted.
- FIXED: When in Flight Mode and the ICW was activated by tapping on an airfield, that airfield was often displayed twice in the ICW.
- FIXED: When the departure airfield was changed, the MH column for the first leg would still retain the old value.
- FIXED: When loading a FlightPlan and EasyVFR was restarted, it would load the choosen FlightPlan automatically again, but then when saving new changes it has lost the original filename of the FlightPlan.
- FIXED: When the minimum required runway length for hard or soft runways was set to zero in an aircraft profile, EasyVFR would consider all airfields to be non-suitable.
- FIXED: EasyADSB and PilotAware without a GPS with option 'Use FLARM GPS as EasyVFR GPS' off often did not work.
- FIXED: TCAS warnings on the Moving Map will now always show the most critical one.
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Version 3.90.1, Internet released 12FEB2016. | [Top] |
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- FIXED: OS X version only: a problem was found that prevented web pages to be opened / viewed.
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Version 3.90.0, Internet released 01FEB2016. | [Top] |
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- IMPORTANT: Download AeroData after having installed this version, otherwise Airspace Labels won't function properly.
- NEW: EasyVFR now switches to an 'Overview Mode' when a certain zoomlevel is reached (the max of screen width or height spans more than 175NM). In that mode only FIS and CTRs are depicted, no AeroData objects are shown, and a selective list of large cities is displayed. 'Overview Mode' will be displayed top-right.
- NEW: [Menu] | [Nav Tools] | [Settings] now has an option [Airspace labels magnification level].
- NEW: Ultralight circuits depiction is now available for Germany via ulplatzrunden.txt - thanks Wolfgang!
- NEW: Updated traffic circuits and UL traffic circuits for Germany.
- NEW: On the WX tab there is now an option to choose what WX Color Coding to use for METAR/TAF depiction. Currently NATO, GAFOR and ORBIFLY are supported.
- NEW: For Europe, the WX Tab has a precipitation radar option. When turned on, the Moving Map will show an animation of a precipitation radar with 15 minutes interval. When turned off again, the state of the other WX visuals (METAR/TAF, SigWX and Wind) are restored to their previous state.
- NEW: The Airspace Labeling system is renewed using Bernds 'SmartAirspaceLabels'. These are labels for airspaces, that always stay upright for optimum readability in both North Up and Track Up operations. One corner of the label will always connect to the corresponding airspace.
- NEW: EasyVFR now speaks! Spoken messages are available on iOS, Android and Windows desktop for Airspace Warnings, Leg Changes, Traffic, Obstacles, Track Deviation and GPS reception. This can be set using [Menu] | [Nav Tools] | [Settings] | [Wearables Settings].
- NEW: RS-232 Serial port GPS interface when running under Windows desktop.
- IMPROVED: Various textual changes in the Aircraft Profiles screen.
- IMPROVED: The 'Mains Power Disconnected' pop-up now has a 'Do not show again' option. When selected, a message will show for 5 seconds when external power is lost and no user confirmation will be required anymore.
- IMPROVED: NOTAMs on the Moving Map are now also shown when in Track Up mode.
- IMPROVED: Naming of FlightPlans when saving for the first time, eliminating double place name occurances.
- IMPROVED: Instead of 'FIS/FISA' now the frequency will be shown in the Airspace Label for these airspaces.
- IMPROVED: The list of Mode A/C/S traffic displayed top-left now uses the same font as the Airfield labels, and uses an opaque background where the background color is depending on the alarm level given by the FLARM/EasyADSb/PilotAware hardware. Level 0 equals white, 1 is green, 2 is amber and 3 is red.
- IMPROVED: The ICW now uses the [NOTAM Master] button instead of [NOTAMS on map] to detect if the NOTAM page on the ICW should be updated when in Flight Mode. This is now identical to how WX data is handled with the [WX Master] button.
- FIXED: When a FlightPlan was loaded while already in Flight Mode, the purple 'Active leg arrow' would not get updated to the correct position.
- FIXED: The Logbook could 'wrap around', overprinting itself when there were many entries in it.
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Version 3.82.0, Internet released 20NOV2015. | [Top] |
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- IMPROVED: NOTAMs for the alternate airfields are now reported on the TripKit, as well as on the NOTAM EasyPrint, Moving Map and NOTAM briefing.
- IMPROVED: PilotAware users no longer have to specify a DNS in their WiFi settings on non-cellular iOS devices.
- IMPROVED: Callsigns are now extracted from PilotAware datastream.
- IMPROVED: GPSSharing now includes the GPVTG data element.
- FIXED: Instability issues on some platforms.
- FIXED: Textual AIRAC Cycle date corruption at the startup screen.
- FIXED: Tap & hold to insert a waypoint into a FlightPlan could sometimes offset the waypoint a bit to the left or right.
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Version 3.81.0, Internet released 04NOV2015. | [Top] |
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- NEW: The NOTAM Tab now has an option to toggle show/hide Advanced Filter settings.
- NEW: The NOTAM Tab has a [NOTAM MASTER] switch so it is now consistent with the WX Tab.
- NEW: The NOTAM Tab now offers the option to hide NOTAMs with a given radius or higher from the map.
- NEW: [Menu] | [Nav Tools] | [Settings] now contains an option [GPS Sharing & A/P Settings]. This allows the user to have EasyVFR simulate NMEA messages for GPS and AutoPilot control via WiFi UDP broadcasts.
- NEW: Entirely new LogBook functionality that allows to edit or delete logbook entries and save and restore the logbook to the PocketFMS Cloud.
- NEW: When in Flying Mode, EasyVFR will now slightly offset the center of the map so that the area before the plane is larger than the area behind it.
- NEW: When panning the map in Flying Mode, a big yellow arrow will be overlaid on the Moving Map, showing distance and heading from your present position to the point on the map indicated by the arrow. When the arrow is tapped, the map will instantly recenter around the actual position, so you don't have to wait 30 seconds for the auto-recenter.
- NEW: Flarm Settings now offer the option to select UDP Protocol instead of TCP.
- NEW: Flarm Settings now have the option to disable using GPS data from the Flarm so the internal GPS is used again.
- NEW: NOTAM tab now offers a filter on Obstacle Lights NOTAMs.
- NEW: When in track-up mode, EasyVFR will now slightly offset the Plane Position to the bottom of the screen so the area ahead of the plane is increased.
- NEW: When loading a FlightPlan, the ItemPicker now has an option to enter text to act as a filter.
- NEW: When loading an Aircraft Profile, the ItemPicker now has an option to enter text to act as a filter.
- NEW: When loading a Breadcrumb, the ItemPicker now has an option to enter text to act as a filter.
- NEW: A new airspace type 'Fly Neighbourly Airspace' (FNA) was added.
- NEW: EasyVFR now supports Easy ADS-B.
- IMPROVED: Decompressing of EurWX data is now done multithreaded, so the annoying radar image is no longer shown.
- IMPROVED: EasyVFR's rubberbanding is significantly changed:
- The tap & hold time has been reduced,
- Rubberbanding now tries to "snap" to a nearby object close to an AeroData object.
- IMPROVED: When an airfield is added to the FlightPlan, the ICW will automatically switch to 'Auto Insert into FP' (indicated by the V on the button).
- IMPROVED: The NOTAMs on the NOTAM Tab now give a short content description as part of the header too. This allows for very quick scanning if a NOTAM is interesting or not.
- IMPROVED: Obstacle NOTAMs now no longer paint as a circle, but as an obstacle symbol at the location provided in the NOTAM.
- IMPROVED: User setting: when the NOTAM circle on the map spans more than the screen width/height, it will not be drawn for declutter reasons.
- IMPROVED: Added kg as selectable option for default fuel quantity in the Settings menu.
- IMPROVED: It is now possible using the WX Tab to select a time in the past to better understand how WX has been evolving.
- IMPROVED: On high-DPI devices the W & B graph is now better visible.
- IMPROVED: A small summary of the NOTAM is now displayed at the bottom of the NOTAM circle. When tapping this text, the NOTAM Tab will open scroll to the NOTAM that was tapped on the Moving Map. Now you can very easily hide the NOTAM from further being displayed.
- IMPROVED: The distance measurement bar & text disappears when the user starts to zoom or pan.
- IMPROVED: ShortID's for VFR reporting points (used as waypoint ID's on the Map for the purple FlightPlan line) are changed so they use the more explaining WPT_Ident instead of starting with the Airport's ICAO.
- IMPROVED: Runways in the Search Result list that have a length less than given in the Aircraft Profile will now be shown gray.
- IMPROVED: The FlightPlan path is now painted on top of other graphical symbols like NOTAMs and WX color depictions.
- IMPROVED: The purple FlightPlan line has been made wider to become more visible.
- IMPROVED: A 'NOTAM Issued' heading will now always be shown on the NOTAM Tab regardless of there are NOTAM issued the last 24 HRS.
- IMPROVED: Sorting of Runways is improved on the ICW and Airfield info. Runways with ident 3^ are now considered lower in sort than 18.
- IMPROVED: Various symbols on the VPV are changed with Bernd's proposals.
- IMPROVED: When rubberbanding Runways will no longer be used to auto-snap rubberbanding to.
- IMPROVED: When rubberbanding is enabled a clearer visible indication of that activation is done.
- IMPROVED: Instead of [V FlightPlan] now [-> FlightPlan] is used to indicate auto-insert in the current FlightPlan on the ICW window.
- IMPROVED: The NOTAM tab now puts UI elements in disabled mode instead of hiding them when NOTAM Master is turned off so it is consistent with the WX Tab.
- IMPROVED: Breadcrumb picker now reverse-sorts the entries so the newest ones are on top.
- IMPROVED: The NOTAM tab now uses a white outline as 'NOTAMs issued...' headers and the color used for the text is the same as the NOTAM header text.
- IMPROVED: The start of the current FlightPlan is now also shown with the new purple dot.
- IMPROVED: Usage of AndroidWaitLock is now removed, resulting in better Android battery life.
- IMPROVED: New icons for 'Georeferenced Approach Plates available' and 'General documents in EFB available' from Bernd.
- IMPROVED: New images for NOTAM circles & breadcrumbs from Bernd.
- IMPROVED: FlightPlan endpoints on the Moving Map are now much better distinguishable, specially for leg points that continue on the same track.
- IMPROVED: EasyVFR can now read complex Google Earth and Microsoft Excel generated KML files to import user waypoints from.
- IMPROVED: When the Search option is used after the [Direct To/Search] on screen button is used, EasyVFR will now apply the standard search filter instead of the much more restrictive Direct To filter.
- IMPROVED: FlightPlan auto-routing now also tries to snap to nearby placenames instead of using TCKxx values.
- IMPROVED: An updated platzrunden.txt is included (OCT2015 version).
- IMPROVED: European default airspace theme now supports MBZ/RMZ airspaces.
- IMPROVED: FLARM Traffic Symbols are significantly improved.
- IMPROVED: The NOTAM briefing now includes the alternate airfields as well.
- IMPROVED: If a NOTAM is filtered out by the 'Max radius to show on Map' option ('Show on map' must be on), then a white-on-red text 'NOT ON MAP' is shown in the left margin of the NOTAM briefing on the NOTAM tab.
- IMPROVED: In [Menu] | [Settings] | [Flarm settings] you can now specify a limiting vertical range outside which traffic will not be shown on the map. The default is 3000ft, meaning only traffic between 3000ft under and 3000ft over our current altitude will be shown.
- IMPROVED: Various improvements and fixes to the Easy ADS-B, Flarm and PilotAware system were made.
- FIXED: Australian NOTAM downloads would not display an error message in case a failed download.
- FIXED: ON Android, EasyVFR did not remember & reuse the email address when emailing the TripKit.
- FIXED: Flarm traffic showed altitude and speed info even when this info was considered not valid.
- FIXED: The airport symbols were not rotated in the longest runway direction on the map when they were part of a FlightPlan.
- FIXED: Often when tapping the closing cross on the Airspace Warning pop-up the GPS Calibrate function was triggered as well.
- FIXED: On the Search Results Window a pre-selected item could have been hidden by the search filter. Now the Search Results window will preselect only items that are not hidden due to filtering.
- FIXED: When the option [View On Map] was choosen from the Search Results window and then associated zooming reached the lowest allowed zoomlevel before the object was actually at the center of the screen, the panning was aborted. This resulted in the selected object sometimes not being visible or not at the center of the screen.
- FIXED: EasyVFR switched to New Zealand map theme as soon as center of map longitude passed 150E. This is increased to 160E so the Sidney area is using the correct Australian theme.
- FIXED: When tapping near an airfield that was previously set as departure for the FlightPlan, EasyVFR would offer to add it to the FlightPlan.
- FIXED: When airspaces were not enabled on the moving map, WX items would also not be shown.
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Version 3.62.0, Internet released 20JUL2015. | [Top] |
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- NEW: The TripKit now shows Distance and Speed in the user's prefered units.
- NEW: EasyVFR can now use the GPS and AHRS roll data from a Dynon SkyView.
- NEW: Bernd's Onscreen Approach Plate selector was implemented.
- IMPROVED: When setting an AeroData object as departure, EasyVFR always pops up a message that the user can do the same for the arrival. This popup now has an option to no longer show that popup in the future.
- IMPROVED: When rubberbanding (Tap & Hold on the magenta FlightPlan line), EasyVFR now determines if the drop was done on an existing AeroData object (closest object in range of .1 NM from the point where the rubberbanding was released). If so, that object will be automatically pre-selected so the user only has to tap [Insert into FP]. If no AeroData object is found, the exact lat/lon position is used as pre-selected item.
- IMPROVED: When searching for AeroData objects, the first item found will automatically be pre-selected in the search results window.
- IMPROVED: When a tap is done on a location on the moving map where the Information Centre Window would show no results for AeroData, the ICW will show Airspaces instead.
- IMPROVED: The Active Leg Arrow on the FP tab is less fat and isn't positioned to the leftmost side anymore.
- IMPROVED: On new installs the default map brightness is set to 140 (14 'clicks') because this way Airspace and AeroData stands out much better from base map data like roads and rivers.
- IMPROVED: When AutoWind is on, the [Reset Wind] button and the ability to change W/V in a FP leg are disabled.
- IMPROVED: Sometimes there was a slight rounding error for the seconds in the Waypoint manager list.
- IMPROVED: Emailing breadcrumbs and FlightPlan TripKits now remember the last email address used.
- IMPROVED: Names of legs used in the TripKit are now the same as in the FP Tab.
- IMPROVED: The onscreen buttons have new icons.
- FIXED: Google maps tile crashed on occasion.
- FIXED: When editing the ID for a waypoint in the FP tab its description would get obscured.
- FIXED: When for a leg in the FP tab the 'Crossed Airspaces' was opened and then the planned cruise alt was changed, then for the no-longer crossed airspaces the 'view' buttons were not removed.
- FIXED: When a user has an outdated plates subscription (for example DFS) but still has approach plates stored on his device, EasyVFR did not allow the use of those plates.
- FIXED: When place names where used in a FlightPlan, the Dynon SkyView would show these as blank lines after having received it through WiFi.
- FIXED: When panning across areas that required EasyVFR to switch data files due to a coordinate system change, a crash could occur. This was most noticeable at the US/Canadian border area.
- FIXED: When there was no wind known, the TripKit would show 998/0 as wind. This is now changed into 'N/A'.
- FIXED: Added 'Airspace Warnings Settings' to the Warnings page so you can now again specify what type of warning to give for each airspace type.
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Version 3.60.2, Internet released 09APR2015. | [Top] |
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- NEW: An entirely new menu system with combined icons and text greatly eases the the use of EasyVFR while still maintaining usability in rough air conditions.
- NEW: German Traffic circuits are graphically depicted using the OpenAir formatted platzrunden.txt. When the current GPS location is in Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland or Austria the app will ask if you want to install the public domain version of platzrunden.txt.
- NEW: South Africa Base Set added.
- NEW: Using the [Send/Get SkyView] button on the FP tab (which will be enabled via [Menu] | [Nav Tools] | [Settings] | [Dynon WiFi Settings]), EasyVFR can send and receive FlightPlans to/From Dynon SkyView EFIS systems using WiFi.
- NEW: Option [Settings] | [High framerate in turns]. When on (default), EasyVFR will interpolate GPS course changes when executing turns to reduce the lag normally shown.
- NEW: Option [Settings] | [Wearables] allows the user to specify what vibration notifications should be sent to a smartwatch in case one is available.
- NEW: Map rendering speed is improved significantly.
- NEW: Fuel Totals are now also shown at the end of the FP Tab.
- IMPROVED: When the user once turns off Flying Mode, the app won't engage automatic Flying Mode anymore until the app is restarted.
- IMPROVED: The system to determine where to insert a FlightPlan waypoint using AUTO INSERT was significantly improved.
- IMPROVED: The FlightPlan totals on the FP tab now include Inflight Fuel burn total.
- IMPROVED: In some situations where EasyVFR tried to interpolate wind from different altitudes or nearby grid locations it could happen that a wind direction was found, but wind speed was set to 0.
- IMPROVED: When uploading breadcrumbs a number was shown after the filename. To make it more clear what this means the words "In queue" are appended.
- IMPROVED: AUSWX: If AutoWind is switched from OFF to ON and the date/time of last download was too far in the past, the app did not popup a message to ask if the user wants to re-download WX. It does that now.
- IMPROVED: Newly created FlightPlans had wind 000/00 when AutoWind was off. This is now set to n/a. Mathematically this doesn't make any difference.
- IMPROVED: When entering 0000 as pincode in [Menu] | [Settings] | [Flarm settings], EasyVFR will not wait for the Flarm to send a passcode request. This enables EasyVFR to use other RS232-to-WiFi modules too.
- FIXED: On iOS and OS X, emailing a generated TripKit often crashed the app.
- FIXED: If an EFB document's URL contained a space (translated to %20 in the URL), EasyVFR could not show the downloaded file.
- FIXED: When rubberbanding the FP Line, the option [WPT+] to add it as a user waypoint was enabled, causing weird behavior.
- FIXED: If a VRP only had an ID and not a description then the map would display a hyphen (-) appended to the ID when zoomed in.
- FIXED: When activating the EFB option using the EFB button on the ICW or the EFB button on the Moving Map, then, when the EFB tab was already open, the EFB Tab would close and would require manual opening again.
- FIXED: On iOS when EasyVFR was installed for the first time, it would ask for permission to use location data also for when the app was not running. This is changed to "when app running" only.
- FIXED: The message that popped up to inform the user that the altitude filter was changed contained spurious text.
- FIXED: When deleting legs, the app would crash if the last WP was deleted.
- FIXED: On Window Phone 8, when a subscription had less than 30 days to go EasyVFR would quit the app.
- FIXED: Flickering of the screen on iOS when having used a drumwheel and tilting the screen.
- FIXED: User waypoints listed in the user waypoints manager could sometimes give 60 as seconds.
- FIXED: AUSWX: Every subsequent download of wind data did not store downloaded winds aloft data that was previously already downloaded. However, since that previously downloaded data file was deleted after a new download, the result was that almost all winds aloft data was deleted after every second WX download.
- FIXED: When in split screen mode and 2 or 3 touches were done on multiple windows, EasyVFR would handle them as a distance measurement.
- FIXED: On iOS and OS X, when a Leg was deleted with the degrees symbol in its description, the confirmation popup that asked if the user is sure to delete the leg was empty. This is fixed by replacing the degrees symbol with a space.
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Version 3.50.8, Internet released 27JAN2015. | [Top] |
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- NEW: The first time EasyVFR is run, gets a 3D fix and is in Europe it will ask to setup NOTAM alerts.
- IMPROVED: AGL airspaces are now only warned for if the altitude difference is less than 10,000ft.
- IMPROVED: On various places where dates were displayed as YYYYMMDD they're now shown as DD-MMM-YYYY.
- IMPROVED: Graphical arrow for right hand circuit did not align exactly with centre of runway.
- IMPROVED: User Waypoints window now has some margins and better aligned Latitude & Longitude.
- IMPROVED: Flarm Interface stability and connectivity.
- IMPROVED: The first page at startup (with that [Next] button) is now suppressed when there is no need to display it.
- IMPROVED: Android: [MENU] | [Settings], option "Ignore GPS Fix status" changed into "Allow External GPS".
- IMPROVED: Android: V3 in-app billing has replaced the V2 in-app billing.
- IMPROVED: Windows: the last used window size will be restored.
- IMPROVED: Renewing and end-of-licence handling for both FFM and EasyVFR licenses.
- FIXED: An Aircraft Profile name containing a = sign would not be synced with other devices via the PocketFMS Cloud.
- FIXED: LatLon display in User Waypoints screen could sometimes show minutes as 60.
- FIXED: The dashboard bar would sometimes not come out fully.
- FIXED: When inserting a leg in the FlightPlan, various leg items were not recalculated correctly.
- FIXED: Android: EasyVFR would crash on systems without a GPS unless there was a bluetooth GPS connected.
- FIXED: Fuel Capacity & Taxi fuel input was always taken as liters when saved.
- FIXED: Opening an KML file while EasyVFR was not yet running would crash EasyVFR during the import.
- FIXED: Issue with the W & B Graph in case the window gets resized or rotated.
- FIXED: When entering lowercase w in the lat/lon searchbox it would be interpreted as e.
- FIXED: Memory leak in startup.
- FIXED: Sometimes the Advanced Fuel settings for Climb, Cruise and Descent when overlapping on the FP Tab.
- FIXED: Abbreviation "Cumm" in FP Tab is changed into "Cum."
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Version 3.50.1, Internet released 24DEC2014. | [Top] |
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- NEW: Aircraft Profiles were implemented, so EasyVFR now supports:
- Fuel Planning, also integrated in the TripKit,
- Weight & Balance, also integrated in the TripKit,
- Define suitable/non suitable airfields criteria, integrated in Direct To and Moving Map display,
- Integrated E6B unit conversions,
- The level you want: Simple, Easy and Expert modes.
- NEW: A User Waypoints Manager was implemented:
- Import KML files,
- Create User Waypoints by entering latitude and longitude in various supported formats,
- Export & Email user Waypoints in KML format,
- Modify or Delete previously created User Waypoints.
- NEW: EasyVFR is now available as a Mac OS X version with:
- full support for EFB Export and automatic FlightPlan saving in GPX format for Dynon SkyView users,
- support for Dynon Approach Plates to memorystick export,
- saving of exported GPX FlightPlans to the Dynon memorystick when detected.
- NEW: Option "Ignore GPS position accuracy" in [Menu] - [Settings] for Android systems. Leaving this OFF should improve 'position not valid' info on Android where no external GPS is used. Android users who do use an external GPS should turn this option ON.
- NEW: TripKit now has the option to print the W & B graph + data.
- NEW: TripKit NavLog now has a Fuel resume.
- NEW: When tapping on the Shortname or Description for a non-system waypoint in the FP tab, the user can now change the shortname and/or description to his liking with the one limitation that both must be at least 3 characters.
- IMPROVED: ICW (Information Centre Window) now supports the mouse's scroll wheel in Windows and OS X.
- IMPROVED: The default layout of the LIB was changed to implement the new Fuel Data columns.
- IMPROVED: If the altitude filter height is increased automatically due to the aircraft approaching the current filter height, then when later in time the difference between current alt and temporary set altitude again drops to 1000ft below the original filter height, this original filter height will be reapplied.
- IMPROVED: On systems where no location service is available (Windows, OS X) the airplane symbol will not be shown anymore.
- IMPROVED: The order in the TripKit is changed so NOTAMs are displayed last just before the notes page.
- IMPROVED: On the TripKit, the WX chart and the FIS chart, the FP legs are now painted beneath the FIS and WX data to avoid them overwritting significant info like the FIS frequencies.
- IMPROVED: On the TripKit, FIS briefing page, the FIS outlines are now painted using a more transparent setting so the frequencies come out better.
- FIXED: On some systems tapping the EFB button on the Moving Map or ICW could cause EasyVFR to freeze.
- FIXED: When deleting a FP leg using the X button on the FP tab, the changed FlightPlan would not get reflected on the Moving Map unless a zoom had been executed.
- FIXED: Android 5 (Lollipop) is now fully supported.
- FIXED: EFB tree view was very unresponsive.
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Version 3.40.3, Internet released 06OCT2014. | [Top] |
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- NEW: An entirely reworked Information Center Window (ICW) that provides access to our rich database details with just one tap. It doesn't matter if you need frequencies, traffic circuit information, runway layout, Approach Plates or any other relevant info, it is just 2 taps away.
- NEW: Traffic Circuit direction and altitude depiction is now available. It can be toggled ON / OFF via [Map Layout] | [Map Objects] | [Circuit Info].
- NEW: When loading a FlightPlan the app will auto-pan to the takeoff position of that FlightPlan.<
- NEW: When an airfield has explicitely been set as destination, then the ICW will use 'auto insert' instead of Append for AeroData objects selected.
- NEW: Airspace outline and inside hatching width values can now slightly be influenced by using [Settings] | [Airspace Magnification Level].
- NEW: [Settings] | [FLARM Settings] now allows to set a magnification level for the Airplanes symbol depiction on the moving map.
- NEW: Added handling of files via email as attachment on Android, for example GPX flight plans.
- IMPROVED: After 10 seconds of inactivity the app will reduce the framerate to conserve CPU usage and battery power.
- IMPROVED: When in FlightMode, WX info will be available on the ICW.
- IMPROVED: When using the default European airspace depiction, MBZ zones are now more visible.
- IMPROVED: Editable items on the FP tab (cruise altitude, W/V, crossed airspaces) often were unresponsive when trying to edit them.
- IMPROVED: When the Object Search window is activated by tapping on an object in the ICW, the lat/lon coordinate at the first line is now the exact coordinate where the user tapped to get the ICW shown.
- IMPROVED: If the device is connected to mains power then a charging symbol is shown on the battery indicator.
- IMPROVED: The onscreen menu buttons are much more responsive.
- IMPROVED: [WiFi FP] to transfer FlightPlans between devices now also works on very restrictive Guest WiFi networks.
- IMPROVED: Airspace labels font size is now controlled by [MapLabels Magnification] rather than [Overall Magnification].
- IMPROVED: Scrolling the EFB, WX, NOTAM and FP tab's content can now be done using the scroll wheel on on the Windows 7 & 8 version.
- IMPROVED: The WX Date/time indication topright of the Moving Map has a slightly different color to increase readability.
- IMPROVED: When a FlightPlan is loaded, the NOTAM tab will not allow the user to change the start and end time filter anymore, these are now always linked to the FlightPlan T/O and LDG times.
- IMPROVED: A changed DuckPool Airspace theme is included with some minor changes.
- IMPROVED: When the StickyButton Menu is scrolled up and then deactivated, on re-activation the menu will be reset to it's original position.
- IMPROVED: When the user selects to download Google Map details for a spot location, the option [Google Map] in the Map Objects menu will automatically turn on.
- FIXED: NOTAM briefing for a FlightPlan could ignore specific small-radius NOTAMs.
- FIXED: When no METARs/TAFs were downloaded but EurWX data was available, the LoopWX function did not work.
- FIXED: When filing a FlightPlan, calculating the FIR boundary crossing times could sometimes be wrong.
- FIXED: If EasyVFR was suspended or closed withing ~60 seconds after startup on next startup all WX and NOTAM data would have been deleted because EasyVFR figured it had crashed at the first startup so it cleaned all its temporary datafiles in case one of these was the cause of the crash.
- FIXED: A memory leak in the VPV could cause EasyVFR to crash after 2.5-3 hrs of usage.
- FIXED: Generating a TripKit while there was no BaseMap selected caused the TripKit generating to crash.
- FIXED: When highlighting an airspace, the display could get into an endless loop where it kept zooming-in and zooming out.
- FIXED: When in track-up mode panning the map, the plane symbol would rotate to as if the map was in north up mode.
- FIXED: When quickly tapping on two tabs, they could be opened simultaneously.
- FIXED: When a FlightPlan has multiple legs to the same waypoint, then deleting one leg with that waypoint would delete all legs with that waypoint.
- FIXED: iOS now accepts .pfmsnavdata files as EasyVFR files.
- FIXED: The Moving Map scalebar now displays using the unit the user has selected as distance unit.
- FIXED: When a FlightPlan was saved with a comma or a semicolon in the filename, and that FlightPlan was deleted lateron, subsequent [Load FP]'s would forever give the message that the cloud was slow trying to download that deleted FlightPlan. This is now fixed by removing those characters from FlightPlan files.
- FIXED: FlightPlan total times could display 60 as minutes due to a rounding error.
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Version 3.30.1, Internet released 23JUN2014. | [Top] |
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- NEW: Greatly improved Mapping with new AeroData- and Airspace objects depiction.
- NEW: Moving Map displays now have a battery level indicator top-left.
- NEW: Greatly improved overall look & feel, new font, updated buttons.
- NEW: The Tripkit PDF can now be sent to any email address. The GPX version of the FlightPlan will be attached as well, so the FlightPlan can be loaded into many non-EasyVFR systems too.
- NEW: IFR NOTAMs now can be filtered out from the briefing.
- NEW: For max 2 individual airports the NOTAM briefing system can be instructed to always hide NOTAMs for these airports; This is very convenient when operating very close to a large international airport where you won't go to anyhow.
- NEW: DirectTo function now has its own filter options.
- NEW: FLARM TCAS Support using Butterfly's AIR Connect and PowerFlarm hardware.
- NEW: When airspace warnings are dismissed, any panning or zooming during the display of those warnings will be automatically reset so the display is exactly as it was before the warning was issued.
- NEW: Native file handling support on Android is implemented so for example a GPX FlightPlan can be loaded into EasyVFR simply by tapping on it.
- NEW: FlightPlans can now be wirelessly transferred between devices. This allows EasyVFR users with different accounts (e.g. friends, both flying with EasyVFR) to easily exchange FlightPlans.
- NEW: Dynon SkyView EFIS users can now select whether or not they want to include PDFs and/or approach plates in the export to the Dynon Memorystick.
- NEW: Separate magnification levels for Plane Symbol and MapObject label text now exist.
- NEW: EasyVFR now accepts user waypoint files (USER.PFMSNAVDATA) created by PocketFMS Desktop systems.
- NEW: The Windows 7 & 8 version of EasyVFR now fully supports multi-touch.
- NEW: Breadcrumbs can now be given to others by using the new 'Share' option after having selected a breadcrumb. This can be done by either emailing or by posting on Facebook.
- IMPROVED: It is now possible to directly check (and update) the METARs, TAFs and NOTAMs validity when activating the TripKit.
- IMPROVED: On Android when numeric data needs to be input now a numeric-only keyboard will be shown.
- IMPROVED: The trackline is now much better visible on high-DPI screens; also a 10NM marker is shown at the (extended) trackline.
- IMPROVED: FlightPlan legs now always show their waypoint IDs on the map.
- IMPROVED: The [Menu] structure is now much more logical.
- IMPROVED: Scale bar on the Moving Map is much more usable.
- IMPROVED: Dashboard bar is much better readable.
- IMPROVED: When the VPV is active the Tabs will no longer overlay this VPV screen.
- IMPROVED: For performance reasons, searching for AeroData objects using free text will now by default be limited to the current region (Europe, USA, Canada, Aus/NZ). 4-Letter search strings will be done for other continents too, based on the first character of that 4 character search string.
- IMPROVED: Base maps and Base sets can now be deleted from their respective download pages to free storage space.
- IMPROVED: When downloading the Canadian Base set, the default plane postion was set at a very desolate area.
- IMPROVED: When an Airspace or NOTAM is highlighted from the FlightPlan tab or the ICW then when disabling this highlighting, the map will reset to its original zoomlevel and position.
- IMPROVED: Improvements to Airspace Depiction themes for all regions.
- IMPROVED: FlightPlan loading and saving screens are reworked so they are better usable in landscape mode.
- IMPROVED: Breadcrumbs are shown using a smaller symbol.
- IMPROVED: Some small improvements to the AutoRouting.
- IMPROVED: TripKit Navlog now has totals for distance and time.
- IMPROVED: 3D mode now only shows labels for objects within 20NM range to prevent clutter.
- FIXED: Android screen rotation lock is now obeyed.
- FIXED: Reversing a FlightPlan with VPV on could cause EasyVFR to crash.
- FIXED: Often the [Menu] button had to be tapped twice after start of the app to actually popup the menu buttons.
- FIXED: Sometimes when changing magnification settings the app would crash.
- FIXED: NOTAMs with an effective radius larger than 150NM were not handled correctly.
- FIXED: Single core devices did not show Weather loop correctly (it ran very fast without actually showing WX).
- FIXED: Windows 7 & 8 version would auto-download WX even if [WX MASTER] was OFF.
- FIXED: When on the FlightPlan tab and the 'Airspaces crossed' content would span 2 or more lines, some data would be overwritten and become hard to read.
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Version 3.24.0, Internet released 11FEB2014. | [Top] |
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- NEW: PDF TripKit. This function generates a PDF file with a NavLog, Airspaces & Comms Briefing, WX Chart briefing, METARs & TAFs, FIS Chart briefing and a NOTAM Briefing. With one click generate all required documents for a safe flight! Then using the EasyPrint feature you can easily print and distribute the generated PDF.
- IMPROVED: Font- and button size selection. In de past, new devices often were not recognized correctly by EasyVFR and as a result the selected default font and buttons sizes often were too small. This entire system was revised. As a result, after installing this version the app might not use the same font- and button settings as you were used to. This is a one-time event only; you can adjust these now using [Menu] | [Settings], option [Overall Magnification], [MapObjects Magnification] and [Plane Symbol Magnification].
- IMPROVED: When selecting "Display" on the NOTAM tab, the Moving Map will now show the NOTAM's text in a white box when it pans to that location. Same happens when tapping a NOTAM on the ICW.
- IMPROVED: At various places in the app "NIS" was changed into "NAIPS".
- IMPROVED: ATC File flight plan: Performance Based Navigation codes were added.
- IMPROVED: ATC File flight plan: Addition of REG as an "other info" field in FP filing.
- IMPROVED: ATC File flight plan: Departure/destinations which are TCK's are treated as non-ICAO now (previously was ICAO as it had 4 digits TCKx).
- IMPROVED: On iOS and Android, the app will show the Zoom in & out icons at the rightmost position of the screen when the user uses pinching to zoom. This serves as a clue to the user that he can zoom by moving his finger up & down on the rightmost side of the display as well (“one-touch zooming”). On Windows these two icons will be shown permanently because it turned out for many win32 users it was unclear how zooming works.
- IMPROVED: A less conspicuous default Airplane Symbol is now used (no more flashing tip strobes).
- FIXED: Date & Time selections now take time zones and DST into account correctly.
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Version 3.10.1, Internet released 20DEC2013. | [Top] |
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- FIXED: EasyVFR for Windows 7 & 8 did not show all documents in the EFB for an airfield if that airfield had a document with a name longer than 98 characters.
- FIXED: In rare occasions, EasyVFR for Windows would pop up a message stating that the export of plates to the Dynon memory stick had failed.
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Version 3.10.0, Internet released 20DEC2013. | [Top] |
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- NEW: User-customizable airplane graphic.
- NEW: Digital ATC flight plan filing introduced.
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Version 3.9.23, Internet released 03DEC2013. | [Top] |
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- NEW: Top left, the app will now show a GPS signal indicator. No image means no location service has been found at all. Red dish means no reliable position, green dish means position report is reliable.
- NEW: Revised PlotPlane symbol with flashing beacon and strobe lights.
- NEW: Using [Menu] | [Settings] | [Aircraft symbol magnification] the size of the PlotPlane symbol can be set by the user.
- NEW: A Windows 7 (or later) version including location/GPS support is now available.
- IMPROVED: VPV no longer requires a long tap to get airspace info or adjust the planned Altitude; a short tap is now sufficient.
- IMPROVED: DirectTo system button now limits search results to airfields only.
- IMPROVED: Color of AMBER METAR/TAF depictions has been slightly changed.
- IMPROVED: When wind is variable then both the Moving Map and ICW will show a rotating windbarb.
- IMPROVED: ICW now only uses one single station for the METAR/TAF depiction for all timeslices to avoid confusion.
- IMPROVED: When none of the NOTAMs to be displayed in the ICW has altitude information, then all the space reserved for altitude limits will be supressed.
- IMPROVED: WX reference time on the WX tab now follows the time tapped on the ICW.
- IMPROVED: WX reference point now follows the ICW selected location as the NOTAM tab does.
- IMPROVED: Queueing and downloading of selected EFB documents on the EFB tab now works in protected foreground mode. This results in significantly reduced download times.
- IMPROVED: If a NOTAM is received that was inserted into the NOTAM system less than 2 hrs ago, the NOTAM depiction on the Moving Map will display the depiction using an alternating brown/white.
- IMPROVED: If a NOTAM is received that was inserted into the NOTAM system more than 2 hrs ago but les than 24 HRS ago, the NOTAM depiction on the Moving Map will display the depiction using an alternating brown/purple.
- IMPROVED: NOTAMs that were created less than 24 HRS ago were displayed in brown everywhere except on the ICW. The ICW now uses brown as well.
- IMPROVED: When WX Master was toggled from OFF to ON all suspended WX downloads could suddenly get fired-off. This is now delayed for 60 seconds so the user has a chance to change any settings.
- IMPROVED: When panning from Australia to New Zealand and visa versa the WX download and NOTAM download toggle from 'special Australia mode' to 'general mode' so NOTAMs and WX for New Zealand are operational again.
- CHANGED: On the ICW the AeroData symbol and [Add Flightplan] buttons have swapped places.
- CHANGED: When loading a FlightPlan while there is an internet connection, if no reponse was received from the HQ servers within 5 seconds, the message 'Communication with the cloud is slow...' appeared. This timeout has been raised to 15 seconds.
- CHANGED: Switching to split screen is only possible when in Flying Mode.
- CHANGED: Switching to 3D mode is only possible when in Flying Mode.
- FIXED: When a time in the ICW was tapped that was in the same column as the closing cross, then that time was not selected.
- FIXED: When a NOTAM download failed, the button label remained 'Downloading'. This is changed into 'D\load failed'.
- FIXED: When setting the Briefing Range for NOTAM single location, the range was not persistent across sessions.
- FIXED: Wind coming from 360 was depicted overlapping the METAR/TAF depiction in the ICW; this has been fixed.
- FIXED: When working on a FlightPlan, when exiting and restarting the app often the FlightPlan worked on was not reloaded.
- FIXED: METARs that were issued at exactly the whole hour were also considered valid for the time mark exactly 3 HRS further ahead.
- FIXED: For Australian WX briefings it could happen that during 1 download 2 different TAFs were received for the same station (one original and one AMD). In these cases now only the AMD one is kept.
- FIXED: NOTAM Tab, WX Tab: When reference point was NWW-N the the compas indicator whould mention ?? instead of N.
- FIXED: For a very small number of airports (ESSA for example) TAFs and METARs were not found.
- FIXED: When having Overall Magnification in such a way that the options in the settings screen cover most of the screen, then when selecting one of of the settings causing the drumwheel to appear, then tapping [Cancel] would launch the next setting.
- FIXED: When using TrackUp display instead of NorthUp, the windbarbs would not rotate to the correct direction.
- FIXED: When using an overall magnification of 180% with a device with a width of 480px, the app would freeze after closing a tab.
- FIXED: When on the NOTAM or WX tab the user selected to change the location of briefing, the ICW would appear when the user taped on the map to set the new center of briefing.
- FIXED: When WX Master is enabled and the last METAR or TAF download was longer ago than the normal timespan used for autodownload, the app would set the date & time of last download to current, resulting in METARs & TAFs not being updated. This is now changed so METARs & TAFs will start their auto-download 1 minute after the Master WX has been turned on again.
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Version 3.9.0, Internet released 09OCT2013. | [Top] |
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- NEW: Visual appearance of airspaces is greatly improved by using transparent full-filled, dashed and dotted airspace visual clues. Default a number of pre-defined styles are selectable using the new function Menu | Map Settings | Select Map theme.
- NEW: Single Tap handling is now much more advanced and useful because it launches the new Information Centre window where you’ve got all relevant information for the location you tapped is at hands. This Information Centre gives you frequencies for airports, runway distances, advanced Weather forecasts (hourly based, up to 60 hours for Europe including SigWX and visibility) and active NOTAMs for that location tapped.
- NEW: ETI [p|g] and ETA[p|g] were added as possible FlightPlan columns.
- NEW: It is now possible to tap on the ICAO code on the WX Tab to view the location of the WX station on the Moving Map.
- NEW: When tapping 2 or 3 points on the Moving Map, the distance between those points will be shown at the top of the screen together with the time to travel that distance based on the current ground speed.
- NEW: The NOTAM system is expanded with local Australian NOTAMs using the Australian Airservice NAIPS briefing service.
- NEW: EasyVFR now supports data received from the Android 'X-Plane-to-GPS' tool from Kevin Roll (see www.appropel.com)
- NEW: Support for Bluetooth connected GPS receivers on Android has been implemented.
- NEW: When a switch from mains to battery power or visa versa is detected, a message will be briefly shown to inform the user. When in Flying Mode AND a switch to battery power has occurred, the user must acknowledge the message so there isn't a risk of missing that important event.
- NEW: EasyVFR now restores the last used zoomlevel when the app is restarted.
- IMPROVED: NOTAM Tab, FP Tab and WX tab have a scroll bar indicator at the right hand side of the tab.
- IMPROVED: Zooming using one finger on the right hand side of the screen has been made much less sensitive.
- FIXED: Magnification levels higher than 300% were not executed.
- FIXED: FlightPlan tracks going exactly true North or true South could not be rubberbanded.
- FIXED: When EFB tab for Airfield A was opened and then one for Airfield B was requested, the EFB Tab would still open on Airfield A.
- IMPROVED: On the NOTAM Tab the labels for 'Display FIR NOTAMs', 'Display Headoffice NOTAMs', 'Display Airfield NOTAMs' and 'Display Trigger NOTAMs' have been changed into 'Hide...' because that is basically what they do. For example in the old situation where there was a Trigger NOTAM affecting an airfield and 'Display airfield NOTAMs' was enabled but 'Display Trigger NOTAMs' was not, then the NOTAM would not have been shown, causing a lot of confusion.
- IMPROVED: On some devices the Tabs would cover the maps' scale indicator. To prevent this the scale indicator was moved to the right of the tabs.
- IMPROVED: Pressure unit 'mb' was changed into 'hPa'.
- IMPROVED: Fahrenheit was missing as temperature unit.
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Version 3.8.2, Internet released 23JUL2013. | [Top] |
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- CHANGED: Nothing (Apple iOS release only).
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Version 3.8.1, Internet released 30JUN2013. | [Top] |
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- CHANGED: For European airspace, classes C & D are now made blue. Class E, F and G are yellow and CTRs will be depicted according to their class. Airspaces in Europe classified as Military are now depicted in orange and using a thinner line and hatching as it used to be to make them less obstructive.
- NEW: When zooming in on the Moving Map to the level where runways are displayed also top right of the airfield symbol will be a symbol indicating EFB content. 2 White papers indicate only the AeroData summary is available, a computer-with-arrow symbol indicates at least one PDF is available, and the plate symbol is used when at least one georeferenced plate is available. Tapping on that symbol will open the EFB tab and jump directly to that airfield's EFB entry. The behavior also depends on whether you're in flying or planning mode: in flying mode only the local EFB storage is used to build the symbology.
- NEW: Menu | Map Layout now has the options to toggle EFB content and runways, provided the zoomlevel is such that these objects are to be shown.
- NEW: A new menu option [Onscreen Buttons] exists. When enabled, all system buttons will be shown (as was up to now), but when disabled, all system menu buttons with the exception of the main menu button will disappear.
- NEW: Implemented User Selectable units for Speed, Distance, Altitude, runway LxW, Temperature and Pressure.
- NEW: When using the Search option you now can enter a latitude/longitude using format DDMMSSN DDDMMSSE. The coordinate will then be offered as user waypoint, and all objects near that coordinate will be shown as result too.
- NEW: If the current viewing area is Australia then the Settings page offers an option to enter NAIPS username and password.
- NEW: Australian METAR & TAF data is implemented.
- FIXED: EasyVFR would crash if a very specific command sequence was executed.
- FIXED: When saving an FP, EasyVFR now removes any invalid ASCII characters from the name to prevent cloud synchronisation problems.
- FIXED: A potentional crash with the VPV.
- FIXED: Runway surface type PEM is now shown using the dark runway texture, not the green " grass" one.
- FIXED: If the FP tab had the newline removed in the layout definition then the [Delete LIB] icon would be overprinted by the LIB data.
- FIXED: Fixed a crash when importing GPX FlightPlans with empty names.
- FIXED: When opening a breadcrumb file, on the MovingMap the first one was not shown at all, and all subsequent ones showed the previous ones.
- FIXED: When trying to delete multiple breadcrumbs after 4 or deletions (depends on the number of fields in the breadcrumb directory), the app would tell there were no more breadcrumbs and the proces had to be started again to continue deleting breadcrumb files.
- FIXED: EasyVFR had airfield symbols for military and military/joined mixed-up.
- FIXED: Breadcrumb records were only saved when the record represented a fix. This made it impossible to analyse "bad reception" situations.
- FIXED: If the position accurracy dropped below the "position is not valid" level then the last known good speed, altitude and course were kept and not reset to default values. This (maybe) could cause Flying Mode to engage again.
- IMPROVED: The FP tab has a higher tab image, and is moved to the second position in the tab order.
- IMPROVED: Airspaces that are marked as not having to be shown (for example due to Airspace filtering) will now also not show their labels anymore.
- IMPROVED: Implemented support for Android high dpi screens (Nexus 10).
- IMPROVED: Text size on the LOC Tab has been increased.
- IMPROVED: Magnification levels now have the option to scale up to 500% (useful for High DPI screens like the Nexus 10).
- IMPROVED: Improved the tap & hold on the Moving Map.
- IMPROVED: When a FP is loaded on next opening of the FP tab, the content will automatically scroll down to get the most of the FP in view.
- IMPROVED: The colors on the Search Objects window that were used to indicate the object is part of the FP and/or is selected are changed so they become better readable.
- IMPROVED: Choosing [Arrive] using the Search Objects window will now always append a leg to the FP, regardless if there are legs available or not.
- IMPROVED: The exact location on the Search Objects window was given in decimal degrees, this is now changed into DD MM SS.
- IMPROVED: When zooming in, VRPs will display their ID + fullname.
- IMPROVED: When flagging all airfield documents in a country for download, it could take a while before anything noticably happened. Now a progress text will be shown.
- IMPROVED: Downloading queued EFB documents is now less "relaxed" resulting in a little faster download times, provided the user doesn't touch the screen because this gives priority to non-download work again.
- IMPROVED: Queueing documents for download now shows status text every now and then so the user knows it's doing something. I still have to figure out why it can take so long to run the queueing, for example Australia.
- IMPROVED: Type D airfields never got their ICAO or name shown on the map.
- IMPROVED: The VP sometimes wrapped ICAO ID's over two lines.
- IMPROVED: With high magnification levels, the explainatory text on the Altitude wheel picker screen overlapped the drum.
- IMPROVED: If after first install the BaseSet download was not completed entirely, but the Aero- and AirspaceData was downloaded successfully, on next startup of the app the app would allow the user to continue. This has now been changed so the user is reminded to continue downloading the Base Set data.
- IMPROVED: If BaseSet data download is restarted, the AeroData and Airspace data will not be re-downloaded again.
- IMPROVED: On startup of the app, after having downloaded the BaseSet data, the app will offer to read the tutorials and/or view the instruction videos, with an option to never ask this again.
- IMPROVED: If an Approach Chart is overlaid on the Moving Map, that plate will be displayed in yellow on the EFB Tab to indicate that status.
- IMPROVED: Created an option for all platforms except iOS that when the app is terminated by the OS (for example because we're viewing a PDF outside the app) then the next startup will auto-continue without any delay (provided the AeroData is up to date as usual) to get to the Moving Map again ASAP.
- IMPROVED: When an (auto) METAR indicates visibility is unknown (////) or cloud base is unknown (//////) then those METARs will be displayed in black on the FP Tab and on the Moving Map.
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Version 3.8.0, This version was never publicly released. | [Top] |
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- Development version, only released to Beta Crew.
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Version 3.7.9, Internet released 21MAY2013. | [Top] |
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- NEW: Runways are now depicted on the Moving Map when zoomed in to a specific level. Soft runways are depicted using a green texture, hard runways are depicted using a gray texture.
- NEW: FlightPlan legs can be deleted directly from the FP tab by tapping the associated X icon.
- FIXED: If there was a new version of an EFB document in the EFB catalogue then the update system could end up in an endless loop trying to get the new version, resulting in the Download Queue never to get empty again.
- FIXED: If a logbook entry was created based on the nearest object being a runway for an airfield with a 7 character airfield ID, then the entry in the logbook could be the ICAO airfield where the ICAO was equal to the first four characters of the 7 character airfield ID.
- FIXED: With the VPV on and no FlightPlan loaded, then when selecting or de-selecting a mapobject the app would crash.
- FIXED: A potentional crash when using the VPV for a long-distance FlightPlan.
- IMPROVED: The scrollbar on the EFB tree could get very small if there where a lot of documents; now it uses a minimum size.
- IMPROVED: In 3D mode, when very close to the ground (for example taxing, lining up etc) the terrain could be painted "upside down" (in fact the terrain was painted above the Point of View).
- IMPROVED: WX looping is more smart by taking only the real options selected by the user into account.
- IMPROVED: VORTACs will have the frequency displayed on the Moving Map too.
- IMPROVED: DMEs will have their frequency displayed on the Moving Map too.
- IMPROVED: If a VOR has a DME, a small subscript "D" will be printed left of the VORs ID on the Moving Map.
- IMPROVED: The splitscreen option now enables the 3D map to switch to 2D, and then on that 2D map choose separate basemaps or plates to overlay. This basically means on Moving Map A you can do a "wide area overview" and on Moving Map B a more detailed, for example approach chart overview.
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Version 3.7.5, Internet released 02MAY2013. | [Top] |
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- FIXED: A FlightPlan saved using PocketFMS Desktop with a speed unit other than knots did not convert the speed correctly when loading into EasyVFR.
- IMPROVED: The System Button [DirectTo] now uses the center of the Moving Map shown as reference point instead of the actual plane location. This makes it possible to avoid the use of the tap&hold on the Moving Map to get to the AeroData Search window.
- IMPROVED: Sensitivity of tap & hold on the Moving Map is improved to avoid popping up unwanted Airspace Info while AeroData objects window was desired.
- IMPROVED: Symbols on the Moving Map for heliports, glider airfields, abandoned airfields, ultralight airfields and waterdromes have been made smaller.
- IMPROVED: FlightPlan track line width has been reduced.
- IMPROVED: Obstacle elevation text was slightly overprinting the obstacle symbol. This is now clearer.
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Version 3.7.1, Internet released 02MAY2013. | [Top] |
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- NEW: Vertical Profile View (VPV) vshowing terrain & airspaces for the FlightPlan being worked on when in planning mode. When in Flying Mode the VPV will show live terrain and airspaces ahead along the current track.
- NEW: EFB system with approach plates. The new EFB system holds all European approach plates available in AIPs, supplemented with the plates from Pooleys and the DFS; many of them are (or will soon be) geo-referenced to overlay on the Moving Map. Australian users have access to DAP and ERSA pages, Canadian users have access to COPA’s “Places to Fly” and USA users have the FAA’s A/FD details at their fingertips. Access to this wealth of information can be gained using the EFB tab or by selecting [Airfield Info] from the tap & hold AeroData search results list.
- NEW: FlightPlan export to GPX format and import from GPX format.
- NEW: Australian users can file their flight plan using a NAIPS for Windows Flight Notification File.
- FIXED: Occasionally FlightPlans could cause a crash if they contained an obstacle or place where no RNAV (VOR + radial/distance) could be determined.
- FIXED: When more than 500 Breadcrumb files exist in the breadcrumb directory, the breadcrumb picker (for viewing or deleting of breadcrumbs) would crash.
- FIXED: When doing multiple Breadcrumb deletions after a few times the app would crash.
- FIXED: When starting the app in landscape, tap & hold to search for objects would then only work in landscape mode. If turning the device to portrait then the selection buttons would not be accessible.
- IMPROVED: All drum selectors now have explanatory text.
- IMPROVED: Overall speed of FlightPlan analyzing has been improved.
- IMPROVED: High DPI screens are now supported such as the iPad 3+4 and Nexus 7.
- IMPROVED: Overall speed of panning & zooming of the Moving Map has been improved.
- IMPROVED: Auto activation of Flying Mode has been refined to prevent it being activated when indoors with a weak GPS signal.
- IMPROVED: Breadcrumb file recorded altitude as pure altitude without the correction as given by the user. This is now fixed, and the given correction is stored as separation value in the breadcrumb record.
- IMPROVED: When tap & holding on the extended flight plan track line on the moving map the app considered that to be rubber banding. This is now handled more intelligently.
- IMPROVED: Some users experienced very annoying data download failures and needed multiple re-starts to complete the downloads. The download function has now been improved.
- IMPROVED: AeroData objects which are part of a FlightPlan will now be displayed on the moving map even if the user has unselected those object types for display on the Moving Map.
- IMPROVED: When a tab was open in portrait and then the device was rotated to landscape, if the tab position fell outside the screen then it was impossible to close that tab. Rotation is now handled better.
- IMPROVED: The default plane position is set to the approximate center of the area of the downloaded Base Set instead of waiting endlessly for a first GPS 3D fix.
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