Fixing Terminal Chart Crash.
Addresses iPadOS 14 compatibility
iPadOS 13 compatibility and other bug fixes
Compatibility for legacy devices
iPad Pro 11” full screen support
Miscellaneous bugs fixed
New capabilities include:
- Smart Notes (information elevated in the context of your route)
- HTML Airway Manuals (fully indexed and searchable)
- Oceanic Tracks (for the North Atlantic, Pacific and Australia)
- SID / STAR selector
- Display of ownship on SIDS and STARS
- Highlighting improvements
New capabilities include:
- Smart Notes (information elevated in the context of your route)
- HTML Airway Manuals (fully indexed and searchable)
- Oceanic Tracks (for the North Atlantic, Pacific and Australia)
- SID / STAR selector
- Display of ownship on SIDS and STARS
- Highlighting improvements
November 21, 2016
This release corrects an issue with the enroute themes not showing as expected.
November 7, 2016
Jeppesen Mobile FliteDeck 2.9 introduces a control bar that more aligns with your workflow. You no longer need to switch first between the Terminal Charts View and the Enroute View before you interact with the information you need most. The integrated design of the control bar provides you with direct access to your terminal charts for the active flight, as well as identifies the enroute theme that will display when you switch to the enroute map by tapping the button.
The refreshed design also includes a new location of the Present Position button which is now on the enroute map itself. As always, tapping the Present Position button re-centers the map over your aircraft position whenever you have panned away.
Mobile FliteDeck 2.7.4 addresses the following issues:
Unresponsiveness:
•Addressed an issue where the app could become unresponsive when upgrading from a previous version or while updating data
Performance: Under certain circumstances, Mobile FD 2.7 exhibited slower than expected performance. To help improve performance, the following modifications were made:
•Disabled the "Show at all Scales" advanced filters feature
•Optimized display of enroute map objects when panning and zooming
•Improved overall start up time of application
•Improved display time of operational notes
•Adjusted dynamic filtering of the enroute terrain layer
General:
•The selected enroute map theme may not display as expected after the application upgrade. Upon switching themes the issue will clear. This limitation only occurs upon first launch of the updated application.
•Added additional communication details (CPDLC, SATCOM, INMARSAT)
•Added additional check conditions for the "Auto-switch to Taxi" feature
Mobile FliteDeck 2.7.3 addresses the following issues:
Unresponsiveness:
•Addressed an issue where the app could become unresponsive when upgrading from a previous version or while updating data
Performance: Under certain circumstances, Mobile FD 2.7 exhibited slower than expected performance. To help improve performance, the following modifications were made:
•Disabled the "Show at all Scales" advanced filters feature
•Optimized display of enroute map objects when panning and zooming
•Improved overall start up time of application
•Improved display time of operational notes
•Adjusted dynamic filtering of the enroute terrain layer
General:
•Added additional communication details (CPDLC, SATCOM, INMARSAT)
•Added additional check conditions for the "Auto-switch to Taxi" feature
Mobile FD 2.7.2 addresses the following issues:
There is a known issue that could cause the app to appear unresponsive after upgrading from a previous release or while updating data. A patch will be released soon to address this issue. If you are experiencing this behavior after waiting enough time to complete an update, force-quitting and restarting will clear it up. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Performance: Under certain circumstances, Mobile FD 2.7 exhibited slower than expected performance. To help improve performance, the following modifications were made:
•Disabled the "Show at all Scales" advanced filters feature
•Optimized display of enroute map objects when panning and zooming
•Improved overall start up time of application
•Improved display time of operational notes
•Adjusted dynamic filtering of the enroute terrain layer
General:
•Added additional communication details (CPDLC, SATCOM, INMARSAT)
•Added additional check conditions for the "Auto-switch to Taxi" feature
Jeppesen FliteDeck 2.7.1 is being released to address reported issues impacting the application.
FliteDeck 2.7.1 will not require new data as long as you are upgrading from FliteDeck 2.7.0!
In addition to various stability improvements this release resolves the following issues.
• Terms & Conditions Popup on Subsequent Launches
• Enroute Weather Issues
• FIR and UIR Boundaries Could Be Disabled
• Battery Consumption Through Network Activity Indicator
• Latitude/Longitude User Waypoint Anomalies
• Boundary Line Inaccuracies
• Automatic Switch to Taxi Diagram
• Ownship Extreme Location Changes
• Boundary Labels Reversed
• Ownship Appearing with Cellular Service Only
Special considerations are associated with updating from Mobile FliteDeck Version 2.6 to Version 2.7.1. If you never updated to FliteDeck 2.7.0 the following information applies to everyone going from 2.6 to Version 2.7.1.
The update process FROM FLITEDECK 2.6 TO 2.7.1 requires that you redownload enroute and cultural data, as well as any selected manuals. The time necessary to download and perform the enroute data update depends on the speed of the Internet connection and the size of your coverage area.
Ensure that you have the necessary time and bandwidth to complete the update before you begin the update procedure.
FliteDeck 2.7 ENHANCEMENTS
In addition to being compatible with iOS 9, Jeppesen Mobile FliteDeck 2.7, released October, 2015, introduced the following new functionalities and enhancements:
• Display of a VFR Enroute Theme
• Filtering of Enroute Map Objects
• New and Improved Cultural Data
• Support App to App sharing with AVPlan, Rocket Route, FlightMan & FltPlan.com
• Display of ATC Clearances
• Enhanced Flight Plan Integration with JetPlanner.com, JetPLan.com & Jeppesen Flight Plan Online
• Improved User Waypoint Interaction
• Flight Plan Integration
• Simplified Mid-Cycle Chart Revision Interaction
• Improved Access to In-App Help Information
• Improved Pan and Zoom Interaction
Why Jeppesen FliteDeck?
•Best data and charting available; quality checked and rechecked for accuracy.
•Import and interlace your company charts with Jeppesen charts and access them from a single point.
•Ability to import routes from a flight planning system and share flight information.
•FliteDeck is easy to learn and use, because of its intuitive design—it just makes sense.
•It is a complete solution—quality charting and data, tested user experience, training, support and services designed to help you be completely mobile.
•Airport Diagram – it is comprehensive. All of the information needed including obstacle departure procedures are all organized in one place where you need it and when you need it.
•SIDs/STARs – it’s on the chart ! Only Jeppesen will draw these complicated SIDs/STARs onto the Enroute Moving Map specific to the runway departing or arriving to.
•Night Mode. Only Jeppesen has night mode for both en-route charts and all plates. No other app has that.
•A single chart view. Jeppesen add value by representing on a single chart features of both IFR and VFR charts where they can add or remove features from a single chart view. Others only have imagery of specific chart types.
Special considerations are associated with updating from Mobile FliteDeck version 2.6 to version 2.7.
The update process requires that you redownload enroute and cultural data, as well as any selected manuals. The time necessary to download and perform the enroute data update depends on the speed of the Internet connection and the size of your coverage area.
Ensure that you have the necessary time and bandwidth to complete the update before you begin the update procedure.
In addition to being compatible with iOS 9, Jeppesen Mobile FliteDeck 2.7, released October, 2015, introduced the following new functionalities and enhancements:
• Display of a VFR Enroute Theme
• Filtering of Enroute Map Objects
• New and Improved Cultural Data
• Support App to App sharing with AVPlan, Rocket Route, FlightMan & FltPlan.com
• Display of ATC Clearances
• Enhanced Flight Plan Integration with JetPlanner.com, JetPLan.com & Jeppesen Flight Plan Online
• Improved User Waypoint Interaction
• Flight Plan Integration
• Simplified Mid-Cycle Chart Revision Interaction
• Improved Access to In-App Help Information
• Improved Pan and Zoom Interaction
Why Jeppesen FliteDeck?
•Best data and charting available; quality checked and rechecked for accuracy.
•Import and interlace your company charts with Jeppesen charts and access them from a single point.
•Ability to import routes from a flight planning system and share flight information.
•FliteDeck is easy to learn and use, because of its intuitive design—it just makes sense.
•It is a complete solution—quality charting and data, tested user experience, training, support and services designed to help you be completely mobile.
•Airport Diagram – it is comprehensive. All of the information needed including obstacle departure procedures are all organized in one place where you need it and when you need it.
•SIDs/STARs – it’s on the chart ! Only Jeppesen will draw these complicated SIDs/STARs onto the Enroute Moving Map specific to the runway departing or arriving to.
•Night Mode. Only Jeppesen has night mode for both en-route charts and all plates. No other app has that.
•A single chart view. Jeppesen add value by representing on a single chart features of both IFR and VFR charts where they can add or remove features from a single chart view. Others only have imagery of specific chart types.
Fixes and adjustments in support of iOS 8
- This release requires iOS7+
- iOS 7 redesign
- Conventional Navigation elements including: Change Over Points, Signal Gaps, Waypoint Formations, Distance Between VORs
- Improved enroute map search
- Ability to name and search for user-defined waypoints
- Display of SID and STAR transitions when a runway is associated with the SID or STAR
- Flight Sharing between two devices running FliteDeck Pro
- Flight Sharing between two apps on the same device
- Redesign of the Updates Screen to better depict data currency
- Support for Radial DME
Bug fixes, flexible multi-vendor registration, performance improvements, customer requested enhancements.
Bug fixes, flexible multi-vendor registration, performance improvements, customer requested enhancements.
• Display of aircraft position on geo-referenced approach procedures
• Improved terminal chart navigation with two finger swipe between selected charts, chart preview, full display of long chart titles
• Saved Flights
• Custom keyboard that supports night theme and extended characters
• Automatic Switch to airport diagram based on user configured speed settings
• Distance measuring tool
• Optimized Wx downloads
• NEXRAD Wx
• Multiple alternates - supporting origin, destination and enroute alternates
Fixed an issue dealing with mid-cycle terminal charts where the current chart was not available, and the application was only displaying the future effective chart.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Jeppesen Mobile FliteDeck is highly recommended for iPad 2 and later. If you are using iPad 1 with this application, it is highly recommended that the terrain data layer be turned off within the application filters for optimal use.
✈ Smaller Application Download. In previous versions, worldwide terrain and cultural data were bundled with the application increasing the size of the initial download to 700MB. Now, there is only a small subset available in the initial download to support the DEMO mode. Worldwide terrain and cultural data will be downloaded initially and when an update is available when checking for Updates.
✈ Cancel button added when downloading data. The Cancel button allows you to cancel your download if you think the update will take too long for your current availability. You will then be able to continue using the data that is already installed. The Cancel button will only be available if you are updating already existing data. The Cancel button will not be available if this is the first time downloading the data (an initial download), if required data is missing from the app, or if you are in the unpacking stage of the install process.
✈ View mid-cycle terminal chart changes 24 hours before the effective time. The expired chart will still be available for viewing up to 24 hours after it is expired. Terminal charts that have a mid-cycle change will display "2>" in the terminal charts list where you can select the chart you want to view. An alert sash will display on the terminal chart if you are viewing a chart that is not effective.
✈ Display an upcoming enroute cycle by going to the Updates window, and tapping the "2>" to display the slide-out window. An alert sash will display on the enroute chart if you are viewing an enroute database that is not effective.
✈ Terminal Charts: Zoom level is persistent between sessions. Chart zoom levels are now persisted within a session and when the app is force quit. Their state is maintained along with the rotation and highlighting information. It resets to the default zoom level when the chart changes from a Terminal Chart update.
✈ Updated the terminal chart categories. Terminal Chart Categories were updated to match those of customer feedback.
✈ Downloading Individual Weather Types. In the weather pop-up, there are selection buttons available allowing you to choose the types of weather you want to download.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Jeppesen Mobile FliteDeck is highly recommended for iPad 2 and later. If you are using iPad 1 with this application, it is highly recommended that the terrain data layer be turned off within the application filters for optimal use.
✈ Smaller Application Download. In previous versions, worldwide terrain and cultural data were bundled with the application increasing the size of the initial download to 700MB. Now, there is only a small subset available in the initial download to support the DEMO mode. Worldwide terrain and cultural data will be downloaded initially and when an update is available when checking for Updates.
✈ Cancel button added when downloading data. The Cancel button allows you to cancel your download if you think the update will take too long for your current availability. You will then be able to continue using the data that is already installed. The Cancel button will only be available if you are updating already existing data. The Cancel button will not be available if this is the first time downloading the data (an initial download), if required data is missing from the app, or if you are in the unpacking stage of the install process.
✈ View mid-cycle terminal chart changes 24 hours before the effective time. The expired chart will still be available for viewing up to 24 hours after it is expired. Terminal charts that have a mid-cycle change will display "2>" in the terminal charts list where you can select the chart you want to view. An alert sash will display on the terminal chart if you are viewing a chart that is not effective.
✈ Display an upcoming enroute cycle by going to the Updates window, and tapping the "2>" to display the slide-out window. An alert sash will display on the enroute chart if you are viewing an enroute database that is not effective.
✈ Terminal Charts: Zoom level is persistent between sessions. Chart zoom levels are now persisted within a session and when the app is force quit. Their state is maintained along with the rotation and highlighting information. It resets to the default zoom level when the chart changes from a Terminal Chart update.
✈ Updated the terminal chart categories. Terminal Chart Categories were updated to match those of customer feedback.
✈ Downloading Individual Weather Types. In the weather pop-up, there are selection buttons available allowing you to choose the types of weather you want to download.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Please do not download right before a flight until you have had proper time to review the changes and new workflow. Performance of weather is reduced on iPad 1. Application is recommended for iPad 2 and later.
New Capabilities
➣ New Framework. The application received a face-lift in response to customer feedback, and making room for new capabilities, such as weather. You are urged to spend some time with the new framework before flying.
➣ Optimized for iOS6 and high-resolution Retina display.
➣ Weather. With an Internet connection, the application can download Icing, Echo Tops, Lightning, Surface Observations, Turbulence and Winds Aloft.
➣ Display Route Mileage. Total flight distance is seen in the route drawer when a route is created.
➣ Night Theme. A true night theme was added to reduce the brightness of your screen. The setting is accessible on the brightness control.
➣ JeppFD v2.0 supports standard SID / STARs - ones that have a transition point as part of the SID / STAR. At this time JeppFD does not support, in general, any SID or STAR such as a Vector SID or some RNAV STARs that do not have a transition into or out of an airport.
➣ Navigate to Airport Diagram from the Airport Object Details. From the airport properties on the enroute chart, a selection was added to view the airport 10-9 chart immediately without having to do a search on the terminal charts view.
➣ In the Terminal Charts View, new chart selection were added to help you find your charts and set up your chart clip more quickly and efficiently than the previous 'favorites' model.
➣ Charts are filtered by "Recently Viewed" to help you find the charts that you access often.
➣ Rotate a Terminal Chart. A toolbar was added to the terminal charts view allowing you to rotate the viewed terminal chart by 90 degrees. The rotated chart will stay rotated through a force quit and restart.
➣ Highlighting on Terminal Charts. A highlight capability was added to the terminal charts view. Highlights are saved until an update is downloaded that changes the chart in some manner. Highlights are supported in Night Mode. Highlights are rotated with the chart.
➣ Import your active MyFlitePlan Online routes.
➣ WIFI flight plan to/from Aspen Avionics. JeppFD will communicate through Aspen Avionic’s WiFi systems allowing JeppFD to send routes back and forth to the panel mounted GPS that the Aspen unit talks to, and also gets the GPS location information from the GPS. In order for this feature to work, you need the following hardware:
✈ An iPad running JeppFD v2.0, which sends wireless requests to the GC100
✈ An Aspen CG100 wireless receiver, which receives the requests and passes them along to the Aspen EFD
✈ An Aspen EFD (1, 2, or 3 units) which validates the request, and sends or retrieves information from the panel mounted GPS
✈ A GPS (such as a Garmin 430/530) which contains routes, and has the current aircraft position.
Improvements
➣ Improved the terminal chart image quality.
➣ Updated the FIR/UIR/Comm sector altitudes for object details
➣ Runways of Approach charts now organized by runway
What is coming next? We have lots of plans for next year to improve upon the features and functionality of Jeppesen FD. We want to include more weather selections such as Nexrad, SIGMETS and AIRMETS. We are also researching additional weather providers to help make our application a more robust system. Some other capabilities include: VFR enroute theme, VFR manuals, ADS-B, TFR's and much more.
