v2.17.0LatestPilot Toolkit Overhaul2026-08-24
What's New
- Every tool that needs an aircraft now offers the whole fleet. The takeoff, landing and weight and balance calculators list all 115 aircraft, grouped by simulator and searchable, instead of a short list of presets.
- Reference speeds and ground rolls are filled in for you. Far more aircraft now load their rotation or approach speed and sea-level ground roll the moment you pick them. Where a figure is not on file the tool says which one is missing and leaves the field for you to enter from the aircraft's manual.
- Weight and balance works for any aircraft. Choose anything in the fleet, enter its empty weight, arms and CG limits, and the envelope and maximum weight checks run against those. Aircraft with published figures still load them for you.
- Your weight and balance load sheet is now saved. Enter an aircraft's weights and arms once and they will still be there the next time you open the tool.
- Pounds or kilograms in the fuel tools. The Fuel Calculator and the Equal Time Point tool both let you switch, and your figures convert with the switch.
- Set your own fuel burn. The Time, Speed & Distance tool now takes your aircraft's burn rate instead of assuming one.
- Load an example or clear the box in the METAR decoder, the same way the TAF decoder already worked.
Improvements
- Every tool can now be used entirely from the keyboard, with a clear outline showing where you are.
- Results are read out properly by screen readers, including the GO / NO GO calls on the takeoff and landing calculators.
- Tool pages sit better on a phone - results no longer squeeze into cramped columns, and the option pickers stack rather than running off the edge.
- Searching the toolkit now matches category names, so typing "navigation" brings up the navigation tools.
- Every calculator now shows its units, labels and results the same way, so moving between them feels consistent.
Bug Fixes
- Switching between pounds and kilograms in the Equal Time Point tool now converts your fuel figures instead of only relabelling them. Please re-check any point of no return you worked out previously.
- Clearing the temperature field on the takeoff or landing calculator no longer breaks the distances and the GO / NO GO call.
- The METAR decoder no longer reports a flight category for text it cannot read.
- Negative outside air temperatures can now be entered in the Airspeed Converter, so it works at cruise altitudes.
- Switching units in the converters no longer garbles four-figure values.
- Out-of-range entries - wind directions, runway headings, station elevations - are now flagged rather than quietly changed to something else.
- Diagrams and maps that were hard to make out in dark mode, including the runway diagrams and the route map in the SimBrief preview, now show up properly.
- The holding pattern entry types and the TAF change groups can now be told apart at a glance.
- Decimal weights are now accepted in the weight and balance tool.
- Removed two figures from the Fuel Calculator that only repeated what you had typed in.
- Fixed a spot on the Flight Map where hidden controls could still be reached by keyboard.
- The Route Planner and Flight Map now list every aircraft in the fleet. Some were missing from their aircraft menus before, including most of the Falcon BMS jets.