PilotDeck

PilotDeck 4.3 — your documents on every airport and flight, your marks on NOTAMs. Free, like everything else. DOCS — ATTACH ANYTHING • Every airport and every flight now carries its own documents: photos from the gallery, a shot from the camera, PDFs and files from the Files app • SCAN — the document camera finds the edges, straightens the page and turns several pages into one PDF: the OFP, a crew list, a handling invoice • Open, share and delete from one list; the card shows "DOCS 3 · 4.2 MB" so you see what is there before you tap • Documents of a flight sit in its briefing under NOTES, next to the flight note NOTAM — YOUR OWN MARKS • MARK any NOTAM with a star: it goes to the top of the list, the MARKED chip filters to your marks only, the briefing counts them on the NOTAM row • Write your own note on a NOTAM — "closed stand, use C5" — and a NOTE tag on the row tells you it is there • Marks are kept per aerodrome and clear themselves when the NOTAM is withdrawn FORECAST • The forecast reference rewritten for the current screen: what each card and curve means, the AVN key opens the aviation block first • Rain by the hour as one strip — hour, icon, probability, millimetres, wet hours highlighted — and the same twelve hours on the probability curve • AVIATION · NEXT 24H: QNH by the hour, amber when it is falling fast STATION CARD • A TAF that lapses in the next three hours, or has lapsed, says so on the name line: "TAF 2h", "TAF EXP" • Vertical visibility with its unit: "VV 200 ft" ROUTES AND BRIEFING • The briefing scrolls smoothly on long routes — the calculations are done once, not on every frame • TXT S / M / L / XL — the font step is written on the key • Changing DEP or DEST on a flight with a built route: CLEAR ROUTE / KEEP / UNDO instead of a silent loss • Route builder: the globe from afar, a flat map below 2 000 km THE LOOK • Every screen header is now one instrument plate — BACK, the title, TXT and REF as zones of one housing, the way an FMS draws its soft keys • Both shortcut keys on the main screen take any tool or any game from one list; long-press to assign • The clock reads "06:23Z • 09:23" Weather, NOTAMs, routes, tracks, notes and documents stay free — no account, no subscription needed for any of this. The NOTAM marks and notes are the idea of Capt Adil Baria, Global 6000 — he asked for a way to keep his own reading of a NOTAM next to the NOTAM itself. Thank you. The feedback form in the app reaches the developer directly.

PilotDeck 4.2 — the North Atlantic tracks, live. Free, like everything else. NAT ORGANISED TRACKS (OTS) • Today's tracks on the route map: letters, direction (A ◀W, U E▶), one chevron along each, white in force and dimmed before their period — from the FAA NMS feed, refreshed every ten minutes • The message for YOUR direction comes first; when it is not out yet the map says so — "E▶ not out yet · Gander ~1400Z" — instead of showing the other way's tracks as if they were yours • A status line over the keys: "E▶ TMI 280 STARTS IN 2h 15m · 0100–0800Z · ENTRY 0539Z TMI 280" — counting down by the minute • NAT key in the left column: both directions, yesterday's message (PREV, orientation only), the areas on your route with entry and exit times, the checklists • Tap a track letter: the route as filed, levels, NAR, length, and whether your plan follows it. Tap an area title: entry and exit, the OTS of both directions, the pilot notes • Random routes are told honestly: "RANDOM ROUTE — OTS LIES N · NEAREST TRACK Z 410 NM" — a Bogotá–Porto flight runs 500 NM south of every track, and that is normal • TMI with its letter (279A) when a message is re-issued OCEANIC AREA NOTES — FROM THE SERVER, NOT A RELEASE • For each OCA: whether it still issues an oceanic clearance (Shanwick) or has moved to OCR, where "RCL RECEIVED" is not a clearance (Gander, Reykjavik, Santa Maria, New York, Bodø since 4 Dec 2024) • Clearance-delivery and HF frequencies, data-link logon and timing, SELCAL, reporting, SLOP, communication failure — with the AIP sections and AIRAC dates • Lines not confirmed from an official source are marked UNVERIFIED in amber. Notes are refreshed on the server with each AIRAC cycle; the AIP and the OTS message remain the authority TWO CHECKLISTS WITH TICK BOXES • FLIGHT — the approvals of the aircraft and the flight, once per route • ENTRY — the actions before each area, worded the way that area requires • Ticks are kept on the phone per route and area; RESET for the next flight. The NAT card sums them up: FLIGHT 4/4 · KZWY 2/4 · LPPO 0/4 THE BRIEFING • The NAT HLA card shows the OTS in force at your oceanic entry, the verdict on your plan and, when your direction is not published, yesterday's message for orientation MAP — STABILITY AND READING • Fixed: the route map ran out of memory on long oceanic routes and on return from the background. Zones now draw only when you are close enough to see them; the globe stays on the overview, the map goes flat below 2 000 km • Fixed: the country column could miss the destination country • Cards and LAYERS rows in higher contrast; cards scroll, MORE opens them full screen with the font-size key • The offline map now draws the oceanic areas and today's tracks, renders one zoom level deeper along the track, and shows "NO PACK TILE" where the pack ends • First run: satellite style, a clean map; the intro plays once, then a plate tells you where it lives • MAP REF: contents with jump links, a NAT · OCEANIC section, a TOP key Weather, NOTAMs, routes, the tracks and the notes stay free — no account, no subscription needed for any of this. Much of this release follows the letters of Capt Adil Baria, Global 6000 — the route by keyboard, the alternates, the oceanic page all started as his questions. Thank you. The feedback form in the app reaches the developer directly.

PilotDeck 4.0 — the map flies with you. FLY IT — the route map becomes a navigation display • GPS mode: own-ship, N UP / TRK UP, DTG · ETE · ETA · NEXT, track vector, range rings • NRST — nearest airports from your position, direct-to line, FIX on any point • Local flights open at the departure airport, 8 NM across; long routes open with the whole route • PTS: all plan points on the line, named ones only, or none OFFLINE MAP • PACK stores map tiles along the route on the device; in the air without network the map keeps drawing — plan, alternates, countries, SIGMET, own-ship TRACK RECORDING • REC writes your flight to the device: position, speed, altitude, fix quality, every second • TRACKS — replay, merge, trim, name, export GPX / CSV; nothing leaves the phone unless you share it • GNSS spoofing and jamming detector; auto-stop that does not fall for a frozen fake position ROUTE BY KEYBOARD • FPLN — type or paste your route: airports, VORs, NDBs, radials, coordinates in every common form; OFP text is understood • NAVLOG table, plan versions, UNDO / REDO, points without coordinates kept as PENDING FIX DATABASE — five-letter points get their coordinates • FAA CIFP on board: every enroute and terminal waypoint of the USA, Alaska, Hawaii and the Pacific, 28-day cycle • A worldwide layer of older fixes, marked so you check them • One name in several places? The list turns amber and offers the choice with coordinates, region and bearing — as an FMS does • Points you enter with coordinates go to a shared database; confirmed by three pilots, they become VERIFIED for everyone. Reference data, not for navigation MY POINTS · MY ZONES — for light aviation • Your own airfields, navaids and landmarks on the map and in FLIGHT INIT • Airspace zones entered the way the AIP prints them; names along the boundary, limits in the same line • ZONES page: which zones the plan crosses, CHECK against NOTAM; WATCH marks a zone to keep out of — AHEAD / INSIDE warning five minutes before the track vector reaches it • Zones are your own data, not an official source — read the limits yourself STATION SCREEN • New header: local time at the airport, elevation, longest runway — tap it for the coordinates • AIR BASE, HELIPORT, CLOSED, no scheduled service, soft runway — marked in amber; high-elevation airfields flagged from 5,000 ft • METAR: minimum visibility shown on its own line; the flight category follows the prevailing visibility, as the FAA defines it FLIGHT INIT · BRIEFING • FLIGHT INIT redesigned in FMS order: flight ribbon, ROUTE, TIMING, alternates, minima; DEP / ARR clock, ETD in local or UTC • Route cards show ETD · flight time · ETA, and NO TAF when there is no forecast • ALTN in the route builder: airports on a muted map filtered by runway length, with weather at your arrival time • Briefing verdict counted for the arrival window and your own minima • SIGMET names along the boundary, readable card with the whole message PERFORMANCE • The route map opens faster and runs cooler in GPS mode: fewer redraws, background work trimmed • Fixed a hang when leaving the map; the weather refresh is lighter when you come back to the app • Cards fit smaller iPhones Much of this release came from pilots flying with PilotDeck — special thanks to Capt Adil Baria. The feedback form in the app reaches the developer directly.