SkyDemon Version History

This page details the significant changes made to all SkyDemon platform products from one version to the next. The release date given generally corresponds to our PC and Android products; the release date for our iOS product may be slightly different due to Apple's approval process.

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Version	Changes
4.0.1 21 Nov 2024	Airspaces can now be found in the Find tool when typing only a partial identifier (iOS, Android, PC) Previously, you had to type the entire identifier to find them. Now you can start typing and a list of all matching airspaces is shown. The Aircraft Editor screen has been redesigned to make it easier to navigate and understand (iOS, Android) Instruments are better laid out on small screen sizes (iOS, Android) The Safetycom frequency is now shown in the PLOG and Radio tab when operating in the UK (iOS, Android, PC) Added support for validation of lateral centre of gravity for helicopters (iOS, Android, PC) If you are using the Helicopter weight and balance model, you must now set minimum and maximum lateral centre of gravity limits in your aircraft profile, otherwise a warning will be displayed stating the aircraft is out of balance.
4.0.0 22 Aug 2024	New country information screens give access to AIPs, airfield popularity information and online resources (iOS, Android, PC) You can get to the country information screens by pressing the All Countries button in the Airfields tab. Additionally, when you plan flights crossing multiple countries, information for those countries appears automatically. More detailed scenery data when zoomed in, especially coastlines, vegetation and urban areas (iOS, Android, PC) Connectivity over RS232 via Bluetooth is now supported for sending frequencies to radios and course data to autopilots (iOS, Android) This will normally require an avionics engineer to set up the device in your aircraft. For more information, see the User Manual. Final Reserve fuel introduced in aircraft properties as a new way of specifying fuel minimums (iOS, Android, PC) Previously the Holding Time item was used for this purpose. Now you can set that item to zero if you wish, and use only Final Reserve to help specify your minimum fuel amount for flights. Enhancements to memory consumption and speed of loading for scenery and NOTAM data (iOS, Android, PC) Support added for Flybox and Levil devices, both of which feature autopilot control (iOS, Android, PC) The old Third-Party Devices screen has been replaced with a new Connectivity screen which has better structured access to all supported devices and a new Bluetooth section.
3.16.16 27 Jun 2024	Update of GAR guidance for flights arriving into or departing from the UK (iOS, Android, PC) FIX: A gradual slowdown of chart rendering followed by a crash could happen on older devices (iOS, Android)
3.16.15 28 May 2024	FIX: A bug in the last version could cause SkyDemon to crash under certain circumstances (iOS, Android, PC)
3.16.14 22 May 2024	Better filtering of NOTAMs based on Item D schedules (iOS, Android, PC) You will no longer see NOTAMs in your briefing if their Item D schedule is not active Improvements in efficiency of memory usage and drawing (iOS, Android, PC) Scratchpad contents are now saved to storage, and are accessible post-flight from the Logs menu (iOS, Android) Previously, scratchpad contents would be lost if the software was closed. Now the contents are saved until explicitly cleared by the user. In Germany, there is now easier access to the Textual Information document from the VFR AIP for airfields (iOS, Android, PC) You will see a new Textual Information option in the Airfields tab for most German airfields with an ICAO identifier
3.16.13 3 Apr 2024	The new Explore Heatmap tool allows you to create and explore heatmaps from all your logged flights (iOS, Android) Find the new tool under the Logs menu. You will need to have at least 50 logged flights in your SkyDemon cloud. Many improvements to memory consumption, speed of loading data and speed of drawing maps (iOS, Android, PC)
3.16.12 14 Feb 2024	Improvements to the High Contrast / Night chart style (iOS, Android, PC) Improvements to speed of switching between full-screen tasks (Android) These include PLOG, Logbook, Scratchpad. Improvements to performance while updating charts (iOS, Android, PC)
3.16.11 12 Dec 2023	You can now customise the trail left by your aircraft in flight (iOS, Android) You can choose between breadcrumbs or a thin line, and change the colour, in the aircraft symbol options.
3.16.10 26 Sep 2023	FIS boundaries are now drawn in our maps (iOS, Android, PC) This is the first time such boundaries have been drawn in our maps, though the information has always been available elsewhere. They appear as dotted green lines, and can be turned off (if desired) from the Mapping screen. International borders are now highlighted in our maps (iOS, Android, PC) These make it easier to see where one country ends and the next begins. In the SkyDemon chart styles they appear as a thick but faded gray line. Airspace activations by NOTAM and AUP are listed in the What's Here screen for the airspace (iOS, Android) Previously, these activations were listed in separate parts of the software.
3.16.9 12 Jun 2023	Terrain shading and colours have been updated to look better across Europe (iOS, Android, PC) This mostly affects our primary chart styles, SkyDemon Terrain and SkyDemon Ground Cover. A list of recent finds is kept in the Search window (iOS, Android) This makes it quicker to locate things you successfully found recently. You can now tap the wind in What's Here to see winds aloft at all altitudes (iOS, Android) Open the What's Here screen over a wind barb on the map to see more wind data. Improvements to graphical NOTAM depiction in Eastern Europe (iOS, Android, PC) The aircraft CG envelope can now be defined as a moment-mass graph (iOS, Android) Previously the only option was to define it as a distance-from-datum-mass graph, but now you have the option to use the style from the aircraft PoH.