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Release notes

Changelog

What's new and improved in Sky Matrix. We ship steadily, most updates arrive automatically the next time you open the app.

Weather for every airport, cleaner D-ATIS, a briefing you can print
November 2026
  • NewMETAR and TAF for every airport in your plan. Weather Alerts has a drop-down with every airport the plan names. For the one you pick it shows the METAR and the TAF as published on the OFP (brown) and, when you are online, the latest (green), each labelled in words. REFRESH fetches again.
  • ImprovedDestination and alternate weather on Weather Alerts. The weather block for the departure, destination and alternates, with the plan’s own planning weather and the D-ATIS, METAR and TAF now, is on the Weather Alerts page. ETOPS alternates stay on Route, beside the ETOPS points.
  • ImprovedCheck reminders start at take-off. The top-of-climb, cost index and fuel, and RVSM reminders begin only once a real take-off time is captured or entered, never from the scheduled departure.
  • ImprovedProgress fits cleanly. The progress figures, the EICAS / FMS fuel and the next waypoint are clear of the floating buttons and the bottom bar on iPad in either orientation, and figures no longer wrap on a phone.
  • FixedPrint / Save as PDF. The button on the Load page produced an empty PDF. It now prints the whole briefing.
  • FixedD-ATIS text. Outside the US a D-ATIS could arrive with stray symbols, page headings and a second copy of the METAR and TAF. It is now shown clean everywhere it appears.
The OFP inbox and on-blocks by GPS
End of October 2026
  • NewOFP inbox. Your account has its own ofp-…@skymatrix.biz address. A plan emailed there waits on the Load page for 36 hours, and nothing loads until you tap it.
  • NewOn-blocks by GPS. The first stop held for two minutes after taxi-in stamps on-blocks. It’s provisional: if the aircraft moves on, the time is withdrawn, and if you clear it, GPS leaves it alone for the rest of the flight.
  • NewOld plan reminder. When a loaded plan’s flight has long since finished, a window says so once per launch.
  • ImprovedEvery new plan asks first. Save the old OFP to My Docs, erase it or keep it. A revision clears the old plan’s figures, keeps what you entered and names the entries it kept.
  • ImprovedLanding by GPS. The landing time is now the first fix below 100 kt, and only within 5 NM of an aerodrome.
  • ImprovedArrival temperature. Taken from a D-ATIS issued in the last 60 minutes, otherwise from the METAR.
  • ImprovediPad beside your chart app. iOS won’t run GPS for a Home Screen app in the background, so the guide now says to keep Sky Matrix in Split View or Stage Manager.
  • ImprovedAndroid app 1.11. Open with from a file manager loads the plan. It installs over 1.10.
The route map, frequencies and Learn
Late October 2026
  • NewA route map. MAP on the flight bar draws your route on its great circle with the FIRs it crosses, the alternates and ETOPS points and your GPS position, plus the current SIGMETs worldwide and satellite cloud tops where NASA has them. Countries and FIRs work offline.
  • NewFrequencies and runway wind. The airport’s frequencies on the Arrival and ATC pages and for the alternate you are watching, and the headwind or TAILWIND and crosswind on your runway.
  • NewClearance from a photo. On the ATC page, photograph the clearance and Sky Matrix AI writes it out word for word, then fills only the boxes that are still empty.
  • NewLearn. INIT → Learn holds the Sky Matrix Academy, a set of short interactive videos of the app’s own screens, and the user manual.
  • NewTurbulence ahead. Progress lists the turbulence on your route in flight order and alerts you about 20 minutes before each area.
  • NewBlocks-off by GPS. With GPS armed, leaving the stand stamps blocks-off at the moment the movement began, marked auto (GPS), and never over a time you typed.
  • NewSwipe to act. Swipe a checklist item right to tick it; swipe a NOTAM right to star it and left to open it. Deleting still needs a tap.
  • ImprovedAndroid app 1.10. An armed GPS keeps recording with the screen off, so take-off and landing are exact when you reopen the app, and reminders arrive as phone notifications. It installs over 1.9.
  • ImprovedNew navigation. INIT is the first button on the bottom bar; PA and the light / dark switch moved to the flight bar.
  • ImprovedOne screen per page. Departure, Arrival and Progress fit one screen, with the D-ATIS (or the METAR when the broadcast is old) read for you and the rest folded into groups with a one-line summary. Held landscape, the Inflight pages use the whole width.
  • ImprovedReminders you acknowledge. A reminder now opens as a window with one button, Acknowledge, so it cannot disappear unread.
  • ImprovedWatch an alternate. Shows the D-ATIS or METAR, the TAF and a NOTAMs bar, and offers only the alternates whose weather the plan prints. REFRESH buttons sit wherever a D-ATIS or METAR appears.
  • ImprovedRETI as tick boxes. RETI YES, RETI NO or LMT RETI, one at a time.
  • ImprovedSettings for the flight. Arming GPS, the post-take-off check interval and the engine warm-up length and start are now under INIT → Settings → In flight.
  • FixedEst fuel at destination. On some layouts the Progress page showed the minimum required fuel instead of the planned remaining fuel.
  • FixedTime elapsed. A real take-off received from your other device could be treated as an estimate, so elapsed time came and went.
  • NewFor airlines with Flight Control. A device can be registered with a FIDO2 security key, or with the emailed code alone where the airline’s iPads cannot hold a key; the warm-up time can be set per aircraft by the airline.
Circulars, charts and the cruise level
October 2026
  • NewZoom inside the document reader. Pinch a PDF page, or use − / 100% / + at the top of the reader. Pages are drawn again, sharp, at the new size.
  • NewWeather charts as one table. The AI reading of your plan’s charts is shown in flight-time order — when, where on the route, what, at which levels, and how sure — with each line pointing at its chart page.
  • ImprovedInitial FL is the initial cruise level. On some layouts it showed the first level of the climb. The departure clearance’s initial altitude is no longer filled in for you; type the altitude ATC gives you.
  • FixedNav-log distances on one layout. Each leg’s distance was shown one waypoint early, so distance to go and the projected times in between were off, although the total matched. The alternate leg now ends on the plan’s printed alternate distance too.
  • FixedDestination and alternate weather on every flight. The plan’s weather block was shown only on flights with ETOPS alternates.
  • ImprovedAndroid app 1.8. A security update: the release app can no longer be inspected over a USB cable. It installs over 1.7 with no uninstall.
  • NewFor airlines with Flight Control. Company circulars arrive as proper documents in the airline’s colours, with a PDF kept on the device for the air; the fuel sheet is read on the airline’s own server with the airline’s own AI; and the airline’s console opens on a Today page with the day’s flights and what needs chasing.
Announcements, and the numbers you actually type
September 2026
  • FixedThe flight-plan reader updates itself. A device that already had the offline reader never fetched an updated one, so reader improvements stopped reaching the aircraft after the first install — and a plan’s Delta OFP information and planning weather, read by newer readers, showed nothing at all. The reader now refreshes whenever the app updates, and the stored briefing re-parses itself with it.
  • FixedThe current ATIS fills the QNH. Where the airport publishes separate arrival and departure broadcasts, the departure page could still read the arrival broadcast’s time and pressure, so the QNH in Altimeters on ground filled with the wrong value or not at all. The departure page now reads its own broadcast, and the QNH fills automatically whenever that broadcast is current — issued within one hour of departure.
  • ImprovedDelta OFP information. Where your operator’s plan prints it — the fuel burn and time increase or decrease with cost index or weight change — it is now shown on the Info page exactly as the plan prints it. Release changes keep their own card on the same page.
  • ImprovedETOPS alternates: the plan’s planning weather. The ETOPS sheet shows the planning weather the plan itself prints for each alternate — the weather at the arrival window and the minima the plan gives — before the decoded METAR/TAF and the live report.
  • NewPA is its own tab. Twenty-one standard announcements — greetings, abnormal and emergency — alongside your own, with your name and rank taken from your profile rather than a drop-down. Dangerous goods moved under Docs as DGR.
  • NewTap a gap and type into it. The highlighted details inside an announcement are now editable where you read them, not only in the boxes above. A detail that appears twice fills in both places, and clearing it puts the gap back.
  • NewTranslate an announcement. Into the language’s own script or into English letters, kept on the device so it is there in flight. It is a machine translation — have a fluent speaker check it, and the English stays the approved wording.
  • NewPhotograph an announcement. Sky Matrix AI reads a printed PA and puts the text in the box for you to check. It transcribes; it does not rewrite. If it cannot read anything, it says so.
  • NewYour weights against the limits. The figures you type from the loadsheet are checked against the aircraft limits — take-off weight on Departure, landing weight on Arrival — with the exceedance stated. With nothing entered, the line stays hidden rather than showing an all-clear.
  • NewReduced engine taxi in. On the Arrival page, beside the engine cool-down: which engine, and the earliest you may shut it down, worked out from your landing time and your own cool-down minutes.
  • ImprovedThe cruise level reaches the cabin. Change the level on the Departure page and the announcement follows. The flight plan still reads whatever the operator printed.
  • FixedThe departure ATIS is the departure broadcast. Where an airport publishes separate arrival and departure broadcasts, the Departure page was showing the arrival letter — the one you read back on the radio.
  • FixedAutomatic take-off and landing times. Capture had stopped working on any device that had been closed and reopened, which also left elapsed time blank and made it run from the scheduled off-blocks time. The app also no longer jumps to another page by itself when it stamps one.
  • FixedSharing a flight. Both Share this flight and Send this flight to my other device had stopped working on every device. They work again.
  • ImprovedEvery time is 24-hour, on a dial. The same on every device, whatever the device’s own clock setting, with a Clear on each field.
  • ImprovedThe Load page. Feedback, Print, Crew, Share and Send are buttons that open one panel at a time instead of a wall of cards.
  • ImprovedReading a plan offline. The offline reader now arrives with a subscription and downloads itself once, automatically, the next time you connect; after that a plan reads with no internet at all. On a trial, plans are read by Sky Matrix AI, which needs a connection.
  • ImprovedTouch targets and right-to-left text. The announcement controls are a full 44 px, and an announcement in Urdu, Arabic or Hebrew now reads in the correct order around the details that fill in.
Getting around, Progress and lookups
August 2026
  • ImprovedGetting around. The three in-flight sections — Briefing, Inflight and Docs — are on a labelled bar across the bottom, each section’s pages run along a strip under the flight bar, and the app reopens on the page you left. All sections on the Load page is a picture grid of everything.
  • NewProgress page. Live position against the OFP plan: distance flown and to go projected onto the route, plus time and fuel against plan.
  • NewWeather and aircraft lookups on the flight bar. Check an alternate’s METAR, TAF, D-ATIS or NOTAMs — or look up a callsign or registration — without leaving the page you are reading.
  • NewDaylight mode. Heavier text and stronger contrast for direct sun, without making anything bigger. Separate from the text-size slider, because bright and dim need opposite things.
  • NewTell the reader when it is wrong. If the data check shows a misread value, correct it: it is fixed on your device immediately and sent to us as a suggestion.
  • ImprovedNav log. Opens at the last fix you timed on a long sector, DIR TO offers the fixes ahead and marks the ones you bypass as abeam, and tapping a waypoint shows the full OFP detail for every built-in format.
  • NewCrew handover. Pass the live flight — times, nav-log actuals, rest plan, notes — to the relieving pilot with a 6-digit code, or by AirDrop / Quick Share / file when there is no internet.
  • ImprovedSigning in. No PIN prompt within 60 minutes of using the app, and I already have Sky Matrix restores your licence on a new or reinstalled device in one step.
  • NewInstallation guide. An illustrated step-by-step guide for iPhone, iPad and Android.
  • FixedReader accuracy. MORA is shown in feet for every operator (some print hundreds of feet), and a number of fields that were read from the wrong column have been corrected — or left blank where the plan does not print them.
  • ImprovedTimes. Elapsed runs from your actual take-off rather than the scheduled off-blocks time. ATIS has a refresh button, states when it was read, re-checks every 10 minutes, and only offers runways for the page you are on.
New login & AI features
July 2026
  • NewPIN & biometric login. Set a PIN once after activation, then unlock with PIN or Face ID / fingerprint. Your licence code is never re-requested, including across updates.
  • NewRead with AI (beta). An AI OFP reader parses less-common flight-plan layouts and flags any fields it's unsure about.
  • NewAnnouncement Prep. Upload an announcement template (photo, PDF or text) and have it filled with this flight's data and your name, in your chosen language.
  • NewColour-coded, time-windowed NOTAMs, METAR/TAF and D-ATIS on the inflight Nav screen, with automatic fallback to OFP weather when a live source is unavailable.
  • ImprovedOfficial Flightradar24 aircraft lookup for more reliable type and route data.
  • ImprovedAdjustable warm-up / cool-down timers (default 5 minutes) on the Departure and Arrival cards.
  • FixedAircraft type occasionally misread from certain OFPs, the parser now validates against real aircraft designators.
Accounts, pricing & guide
July 2026
  • NewSelf-service trials and subscriptions from the welcome screen, with a reminder 7 days before expiry.
  • ImprovedSimplified plans, with a 7-day money-back guarantee — see current pricing.
  • ImprovedRefreshed marketing site and an updated user guide covering the new login and pricing.
Foundation
Mid 2026
  • NewOFP briefing with weights, fuel, NOTAMs, weather, route and enroute data.
  • NewInflight display with internet UTC clock, timers, ETA and reminder banners; crew-rest planner; dangerous-goods reference; announcement guide.
  • NewOffline-capable install (PWA) and an Android app; device-locked licensing.