Flight Deck ONE

World Map

Premium feature — available with an active Premium subscription.

Built-In Navigation Database. Airports worldwide are on the map with their frequencies, runway lengths, widths, surfaces and thresholds, plus navaids, waypoints, airways and airspaces, all current to the latest AIRAC cycle. Nothing to download, nothing to sign up for, and it all works without a connection. The database is refreshed with each release.

Waypoints. A new layer shows enroute and terminal fixes with the symbols you know from charts: a triangle for a named fix, a four-pointed star for an RNAV waypoint, a flag for a VFR reporting point. Tap one to see what it is and where it is used — SID, STAR, approach, holding, FIR boundary. Search finds waypoints by name, and clusters open with a Zoom To.

Airspaces. Class A to E, CTR, TMA, prohibited, restricted and danger areas, each in its own colour and switchable in the layer filter. Names and altitude bands are drawn on the map, and what is shown follows the zoom, so a country view keeps its structure without drowning in slivers.

Airways. Low and high airways are drawn from the same database: low routes in green, high routes in dashed violet, named along the line, with an arrow on one-way segments. Switch either level on from the layer filter; they show from country scale in.

Layer Presets. The layer filter now opens on presets instead of a list of switches: Airport, VFR, IFR, or Auto, which follows the flight and picks IFR whenever a flight plan is loaded. Each preset shows only what matters at the current zoom, so airways and hazard areas appear where they read and stay out of the way where they don’t. Custom keeps every switch for those who want them.

Airport Layouts. Zoom in past a few kilometres and the airport itself appears: taxiways, aprons and ramps in their true shape rather than a blank patch of ground, with the taxiway identifiers printed along the centrelines. Follow B to the holding point, find where V meets the apron, see which stand sits at the end of which cul-de-sac — the ground reads the way a taxi chart reads. Layouts arrive as you reach each airport, a few kilobytes at a time, and stay on the iPad for the next visit. In satellite view the photograph is left to speak for itself and only the centrelines and their names are drawn over it.

Runways and Stands. Zoom in on any airport and its runways are drawn to scale on the pavement, marked the way they are painted: threshold bars, the aiming point, touchdown zone bars, edge lines and a centreline you can follow, with the threshold numbers where they belong. Where a runway has a displaced threshold, the markings sit where you would really touch down, and the pavement before it carries the arrows that tell you so. Closer still, the apron fills with stands, each one drawn where a parked aircraft’s nose comes to rest and pointing the way it faces. A stand carries the colour of its size class — the same colour that class wears on the aircraft card — so finding one that takes your aircraft is a matter of matching the two. Tap one for its size class, the equipment it takes, the airlines that use it and its heading.

Park Me Here. With the aircraft on the ground and stopped, every stand offers a single tap to put you on it, nose in the right direction and wheels on the ramp. Airborne, a dropped pin offers Fly Me Here instead. Your Hangar keeps track: the aircraft card, its inspector and its map callout show the stand it is parked on, and setting a base records the stand as well as the airport.

Pin Charts From the Map. Charts opened from the airport inspector can now be pinned like the ones in the EFB briefing: tap the pin on the chart, or swipe a row in the inspector’s chart list. Pinned charts collect in the Pinned Charts floating window, which the toolbar offers on every screen, and they stay put through a relaunch until the flight ends. No OFP is needed, so a VFR hop gets the same one-tap access to the plates you have set aside.

A Map That Stays Readable. Only the airports that matter at each zoom are drawn, from every strip close in to international airports at continent scale, and the same rule applies to navaids. Areas you have visited load instantly from a local cache.

Fresh Data Between Releases. When a new AIRAC cycle is published, the app fetches it in the background, verifies it file by file and switches to it right away, no relaunch needed, so the map and the frequencies stay current without waiting for an app update. Settings › Storage shows which cycle is in use and lets you check by hand.

OpenAIP Is Optional. The free OpenAIP key is no longer needed for anything. Add one if you fly to minor airfields and bush strips the built-in database does not list, or want services, hours and remarks in the airport inspector. It only ever adds to what the built-in database knows: positions, runways and frequencies always come from the database, so the map never moves under you.

Frequencies

Premium feature — available with an active Premium subscription.

The Right Frequency, Where You Are. Every COM keypad now opens with the frequencies you are most likely to need next: the airport you are parked at while on the ground, the nearest towered field once airborne. Tap one and it fills the keypad, ready to set. NAV keypads do the same with the closest VOR and DME stations. None of this needs a flight plan, so it works just as well on a VFR hop as on an airline sector.

Frequencies in the EFB. A new Frequencies section sits right after Route. It lists every published frequency for origin, destination and alternate, and the enroute centres your route crosses, in order, each with the fix and elapsed time at which you enter its airspace and the centre you are currently in highlighted.

Tap to Tune. Wherever a frequency appears, a tap sets it as COM1 standby without disturbing the active channel. Touch and hold to choose COM1 active, COM2 standby or COM2 active instead.

Smart Scratchpad

Premium feature — available with an active Premium subscription.

Your Briefing on the Pad. The Clearance, Departure and Arrival templates carry the frequencies of your origin and destination as ghost values, and the ATIS grid fills in from the live METAR. The Cruise template shows the centre you are in, its frequency and the fix where you will be handed over.

No Plan Needed. Without a briefing the pads follow the aircraft: Clearance and Departure keep the field you took off from, Arrival shows the nearest field in orange until you tap the airport label and pick your real destination from the fields around you, and Cruise shows the centre you are flying in. A VFR button next to the templates switches it all off.

Tap to Act. Underlined values are live: a tap tunes a frequency or sets the altimeter, a long press offers the other radio, side or seat. Everything else is just ink to write over.

Pencil Writes, Finger Taps. With overlays on, Apple Pencil always writes, straight across a value, and a finger operates the values. Switch the overlays off to write with a finger.

EFB

Premium feature — available with an active Premium subscription.

Charts, One Tap Away. The OFP card and the live flight card now carry direct “Charts” actions for departure and arrival airports. Tap one and the EFB opens straight on Charts, already filtered to that airport — no browsing required. Come back later and it stays on whichever section you left off on, instead of jumping back to Charts every time.

A Chart Setup Step That Asks the Right Question. The first time you open the EFB, it now asks what you actually need to decide: sign in to a chart account (Navigraph or ChartFox), stick with the free sources, or turn Charts off entirely. Free coverage — FAA d-TPP, the curated Flight Deck ONE library, and ENAV for Italy — works without any of that, and the choice is one tap either way. Changed your mind later? There’s a new Charts toggle in Settings › EFB.

Departure Time for Dispatch. Dispatching a new plan now lets you set a scheduled off-block time in Zulu, right next to the Dispatch New Plan header. Leave it on Automatic and SimBrief uses the current time, same as before.

Your Sidebar, Your Sections. Settings › EFB now lists every sidebar section with a switch, so a VFR pilot can hide Load & Balance and Performance and an airline pilot can bring Documents back. Overview always stays.

Pop-Out Charts Stay in Sync. Pop a chart out into its own floating window and it now mirrors exactly what’s showing in the EFB sidebar — the same page, not just the same airport. Switch between them and neither one resets.

Fixes & Improvements

• Auto-rated flights get a direct Blackbox button on the flight-end toast, one tap to the full analysis
• Aircraft cycles stay correct when a manual flight is removed from the Logbook
• The FMS Pack now fully unlocks the Garmin GCU keypads, rotary controls included — also when the pack comes from your Flight Deck FMS PRO purchase
• Flight Deck ONE reconnects to X-Plane on its own after the device was locked, instead of waiting for you to tap Reconnect
• The EFB keeps your OFP while a flight is in progress
• Pinned chart windows open on the exact page you prepared in the EFB, and switching chart provider re-pins the new charts
• The Hangar recognises the loaded aircraft even when only the letter case of its name differs, so Control Center and restored flights use the right one
• Airport names, frequencies and runway layouts from OpenAIP are back on the map, in search and in the OFP
• Memories and Hangar maps show only what they need: no navaids, waypoints or airspaces, and the flight memories map keeps the flight path
• The EFB route is drawn together with its waypoints instead of a few seconds later, and waypoints on the loaded flight plan are drawn once, on the route
• Every map remembers its own zoom for the session, and opens close to you at launch
• Tips appear one at a time in a sensible order, and each links to its tutorial on flightdeckone.app
• Radio keypads and the scratchpad never suggest a previous flight’s airport
• The World Data Cache can be inspected and cleared from Settings › Storage
• A flight that starts away from any known airport asks for departure and arrival right away
• The “Flight Restored” notice no longer vanishes behind the launch screen
• Fixed crashes in the Control Center popover on an outside tap or right after Start/End, and when a flight was restored at launch before iCloud was ready
• The Aircraft Info sheet opens reliably from the ⓘ button, the Simulator menu and ⌘I
• Your aircraft is drawn exactly where it is on the apron, even after short taxi and parking moves
• Coming back to a map keeps the view you left, unless you are following the aircraft; the first open of the session centres on the aircraft, close in on the ground and wide in the air
• Teleports set the aircraft down on the ground at the new spot instead of dropping it from the airport reference elevation
• The layer filter is tidier: aligned columns, smaller type, All and None per column, and a Stands switch
• Loading a hangar aircraft’s situation recognises it right away, so Control Center, the Hangar and the deck pick it up without a reload
• Relaunching the app in the middle of a flight no longer leaves a dive to zero in the Blackbox traces: recording picks up again at the first real reading from the simulator

For more on the Delta series, see the Flight Deck ONE Delta Series page.