Scott IPC iPadOS application version history is below, with fixes, improvements, and new features listed.
Version 3.3.4 - September 25, 2024
- Fixed: Critical fixes added for iPadOS18 support
- Fixed: Corrected several CPDLC logon addresses
- Fixed: Various other bug fixes
Version 3.3.3 - July 9, 2024
- Fixed: Resolved a login issue affecting AAA app users
- Fixed: Resolved a crash for the day/night view when using the flight plan view
Version 3.3.2 - June 25, 2024
- Fixed: Stability improvement around the use of customized checklists
Version 3.3.1 - June 11, 2024
- Fixed: Corrected an issue where "Continue as Guest" was not working as intended (subscription users were not impacted)
- Fixed: Removed a duplicate link to Dist/Speed/Time Calculator in the toolbox menu
Version 3.3.0 - May 25, 2024
- Improvement: Route editing is now available from the horizontal waypoint list while viewing the chart
- Improvement: Undo and redo functionality added to route editor
- Improvement: Option to capture a record of the original routing in Journey Logbook when checkmark is selected
- Improvement: Ability to automatically change a route when importing an updated flight plan in the Preflight Wizard while preserving existing data
- Improvement: The Plot ETPs step of the Preflight Wizard has been moved to directly after the Build Route step of the Preflight Wizard for an improved workflow
- Improvement: Updates to the Scott IPC Checklist are automatically downloaded to the device
- Improvement: When using the Navigation Search function on the chart or during a route edit, there is now an option for 'Exact Match' to streamline searching for specific airports, navaids, waypoints, and airways
- Improvement: NAT/PAC track updates are now available inflight by tapping the refresh button when viewing the track details
- Improvement: Additional flight plan format support for automatic ETP extraction has been added
- Fixed: Resolved an issue where ICRH annotations and/or bookmarks would sometimes not be saved to the user account
Version 3.2.5 - March 20, 2024
- Update: The Scott IPC Oceanic Checklist now reflects the NEW Oceanic Clearance Removal Procedures
Version 3.2.3 - February 19, 2024
- Improvement: DUAL XGPS position tracking when the app is in the background has been improved
- Various bug fixes
Version 3.2.1 - January 20, 2024
- Fixed: The Dead Reckoning tool no longer incorrectly assumes your Next endpoint.
Version 3.2.0 - January 17, 2024
- Improvement: The Scott IPC Oceanic Checklist has been upgraded to v2.0, which has an abbreviated and expanded checklist capability.
- Improvement: The Dead Reckoning tool has been improved to offer better course estimation accuracy and ease of use during navigational disruptions.
- Improvement: The Dead Reckoning tool has been redesigned to allow for the tool to be used in a training environment.
- Improvement: Bad Elf Flex Mini now supported
- Improvement: Number of satellites and battery status information now provided for Bad Elf and Stratus units.
- Improvement: The Sync feature will automatically reconnect the secondary to the primary's GPS location in the event of a sync disconnect.
- New Feature: A Distance, Speed, and Time Calculator has been added to Scott Plot.
- Fixed: The AT time passing a fix now automatically records correctly when using certain GPS devices.
- Improvement: A checkbox has been added to the Journey Logbook to indicate which FMS is the Master Clock for the flight.
- Improvement: Compass headings can now be recorded in the Journey Logbook.
- Improvement: Several new ETP formats are now supported.
- Improvement: Several new flight plan formats are now supported.
- New Feature: Subscription status information can now be found within the settings icon popup.
- New Feature: In_app banner alerts for expiring subscriptions within 30 days now show to prevent service interruption.
- New Feature: Additional protections are now in place to recover current or previous Journey Logbooks in the event of iPad damage or operating system issues.
- Improvement: A new countdown timer has been integrated into the sync connection process to indicate the time left to establish a sync connection.
- Update: The North Atlantic and NAT Surveillance airspace has been updated and now has individual layer controls.
- Improvement: ETP alternate airport labels now stand out better.
- Improvement: ETP arrows are now slightly larger.
- Improvement: Off-route warnings now include an option to accept and silence.
- Fixed: Other various bug fixes.
Version 3.1.5 - September 29, 2023
- Update: NAT Surveillance Airspace Updated.
Version 3.1.4 - September 8, 2023
- Fixed: The sync connection button is now only exposed for the Plotting Chart.
Version 3.1.3 - August 17, 2023
- Fixed: Resolved an issue where unintentional chart, flight plan, and ICRH annotations could be placed while in touch mode.
Version 3.1.2 - August 10, 2023
- Fixed: Added a “Done” button to the waypoint position report allowing simultaneous interaction of position report and flight plan PDF.
- Fixed: Resolved an issue that would periodically interrupt Bad Elf GPS Pro, Pro+, and DUAL 150/160 connections.
- Fixed: Various other stability improvements.
Version 3.1.1 - July 26, 2023
- Fixed: Resolved an issue with Bad Elf GPS Pro, Pro+, and DUAL 150/160 connections being dropped
Version 3.1.0 - July 15, 2023
- New Feature: A night mode has been added to the Scott IPC App; the chart, flight plans, ICRH, and uploaded documents can now be viewed in either a day or night mode theme.
- Improvement: The ICRH now has a completely new and enhanced user experience, with customizable page view options, along with better notes, highlighting, and bookmarking tools.
- Improvement: All ICRH bookmarks, notes, and highlights are stored locally and on the cloud for easy future retrieval.
- Improvement: Enhanced user experience with chart and document annotation tools.
- New Feature: Split screen is now available in the Scott IPC App, allowing the Scott IPC App to be used side by side with other iPadOS applications.
- New Feature: A notepad has been added to the Scott Plot chart, allowing for easy note-taking while enroute on the chart; all notes added to the notepad will be reflected in the notes section of a journey logbook.
- Improvement: Support has been added for 2LE ETPs for three-engine operations.
- Improvement: Medical ETPs are now blue on the chart, and "Other" category ETPs are now black.
- Improvement: Preflight Wizard workflow has been streamlined for more intuitive use.
- Improvement: FIR names are now also included on the boundary lines.
- Improvement: The font sizes for enroute GS, ETE, and LEG DIST REM have been increased for better readability.
- New Feature: Flight department administrators can now manage their aircraft/tail numbers along with pilot assignments from the App portal.
- Fixed: Additional data protection and stability improvements made.
Version 3.0.5 - January 25, 2023
- Fixed: Resolved an issue with DUAL XGPS160 showing incorrect ground speed and oceanic flight reminders.
Version 3.0.4 - December 19, 2022
- Fixed: Improved Scott IPC app performance and iPad battery life when using DUAL XGPS160.
Version 3.0.3 - November 22, 2022
- Fixed: Support added for the latest Bad Elf GPS firmware update.
Version 3.0.2 - November 18, 2022
- Fixed: Resolved an issue where the Sync functionality was not working when both iPads were running iPadOS 16.
Version 3.0.1 - November 16, 2022
- Fixed: Resolved an issue where a custom checklist with extensive text could prevent journey logbook closeout.
Version 3.0.0 - October 12, 2022
- New Feature: The Sync System ability has been added to Scott Plot, which allows synchronization of oceanic plotting information between two iPads.
- Improvement: A much larger selection of flight plan formats is now supported for route and ETP parsing.
- Improvement: App brightness is now connected to the OS brightness in the settings.
- Improvement: Journey logbooks on closeout now default to automatically upload to the department portal with the option to disable automatic uploads available.
- Improvement: The position report form is now lighter to reduce brightness setting changes at night.
- Improvement: ETP diversion airports are now always visible after plotting the ETPs.
- Improvement: Airports are now visible at a lower zoom level.
- Improvement: Custom keyboard layout is more familiar with FMS look and feel.
- Fixed: Custom keyboard no longer covers the position reporting screen while in landscape on smaller iPads.
- New Feature: PDF documents can now be associated with the active journey logbook from the flight bag and from outside the Scott IPC app.
- Improvement: The journey logbook oceanic track output format has been improved.
- Improvement: Journey logbook entry fields for IRS data has been added under the new Navigation Systems Initialization/Verification section.
- Improvement: Custom checklists can now be downloaded from the Preflight Wizard.
- Fixed: Resolved an issue where the app would lock up and close during the flight closeout process when using certain older iPad models.
- Fixed: Stability improvements
Version 2.5.5 - June 11, 2022
- Added a check during the journey logbook creation step to prevent closeout with no data.
- Fixed: Stability improvements
Version 2.5.4 - March 17, 2022
- Improvement: Additional support added for Universal Flight Plan ETPs.
Version 2.5.3 - March 1, 2022
- Fixed: Resolved issue where flight plans over 50 pages will not include annotations in the Journey Logbook output.
Version 2.5.2 - February 3, 2022
- Fixed: Resolved an issue with the app update notification text from the App Store overflowing on the screen.
Version 2.5.1 - February 1, 2022
- Improvement: Further automatic ETP parsing support was added to support additional flight plan formats.
- Fixed: Correct a bug that would prevent the ICRH update UI from displaying correctly.
Version 2.5.0 - January 30, 2022
- Improvement: Automatic ETP parsing from flight plans has been improved to read more flight plan formats and support more providers.
- New Feature: The Plot ETP planning view can now be sorted by type, order, or direction of flight.
- Improvement: Photos can now be added to additional sections of the Journey Logbook, just snap a picture and add photos for the following sections: (DEP ATIS, DEP CLR, OCEANIC CLR, ARR ATIS, NOTES).
- Improvement: iPad camera flash state is now remembered to reduce the time needed to add photos to the Journey Logbook.
- Improvement: Journey Logbook GPS failure stamps now include the name of the failed GPS.
- Improvement: Aircraft SELCAL code can now be stored on the Portal once for each tail and the app reads it automatically for position reports.
- Improvement: The “AT” time is now automatically populated for position reports.
- Improvement: Wind drift correction stamps now support decimal and L/R characters.
- Improvement: Wind drift correction stamps are slightly reduced in size to improve chart readability.
- New Feature: The horizontal waypoint list now has a special icon to denote which waypoints include pilot-entered notes.
- Improvement: Flight Plan text box annotations are now adjustable for font size.
- Improvement: ICRH updates are now distinguished by an amber badge on the settings gear for easier updating.
- Improvement: The Flight Bag side menu now defaults to open to improve usability.
Version 2.4.4 - November 19, 2021
- Fixed: Resolved an issue where duplicate and incorrect Journey Logbook aircraft information was displayed when there was more than one of the same aircraft manufacturers in a profile.
Version 2.4.3 - November 14, 2021
- Fixed: More stability improvements added for Journey Logbook Closeout process.
- Fixed: Resolved an issue where too many images or PDFs attached to a Journey Logbook would cause a crash, there is now a limit in place of 12 images attached and 10mb for each PDF attached.
Version 2.4.2 - November 4, 2021
- Fixed: Resolved an issue where the GPS enable/disable state would not persist when putting the app into the background.
- Fixed: Resolved an issue where ETP formats on some flight plans may cause issues.
- Improvement: Oceanic Flight Reminders have been improved.
- Fixed: Resolved an issue where PDF files did not always import.
- Improvement: Performance improvements for opening PDFs
- Improvement: Route parsing tool has been upgraded.
Version 2.4.1 - October 13, 2021
- Fixed: Resolved an issue where flight related chart elements are not automatically displayed and captured on the Journey Logbook pdf.
- Fixed: Resolved an issue where the routing magnifier on drag and drop was not correctly showing the underlying chart elements.
Version 2.4.0 - October 11, 2021
- Improvement: Journey logbook flight closeout is now available through the Flight Bag page.
- Improvement: Flight closeout guidance enhanced to ensure the most recent flight data is captured prior to the next flight.
- New Feature: Scott Plot can now automatically read and build your flight plans equal time points while still supporting manually ETP editing and creation.
- Improvement: ETP arrow size and placement improved.
- Improvement: Oceanic flight reminders now include the option to toggle off automatically displayed reminders to prevent interruptions by the popup. The popup itself no longer interrupts user tasks.
- Improvement: Oceanic reminders table size is now configurable and can be moved around the screen to the more convenient locations to better support portrait and landscape views.
- Improvement: Oceanic track details can now be manually refreshed from the Track details popup to ensure the latest information has been downloaded and displayed.
- New feature: Flight plan pdf file names can now be changed by pressing and holding the file in your Flight Bag.
- Fixed: DIR TO a waypoint NOT on your route is now supported before you have passed the first waypoint on your route.
- New Feature: Appareo Stratus 3 GPS now supported.
- iOS 15 tested and supported.
Version 2.3.3 - July 1, 2021
- Fixed: Resolved a case where annotating on the flight plan might cause the app to crash.
Version 2.3.2 - June 8, 2021
- Fixed: Resolved a case where position report data was not saving after cycling through position report tabs.
Version 2.3.1 - June 6, 2021
- Improvement: Added checkbox back to the summary table and position report form views to indicate and document a completed 10-minute check.
- Fixed: Resolved an issue where upgrading from v2.2.3 to v2.3.0 could result in an incorrect flight plan selection.
- Fixed: Resolved an issue where airway labels were drawn incorrectly on the build routes page.
- Fixed: Resolved an issue where ETPs RTN and CONT airports were not being picked correctly on polar routes.
- Fixed: Resolved an issue where oceanic flight reminders triggered incorrectly on polar routes.
- Fixed: Resolved an issue where the MCI under route details might display incorrectly on polar routes.
- Fixed: FIR reminders crash fix and stability improvements.
Version 2.3.0 - May 25, 2021
- Improvement: Position report form workflow.
- Improvement: Oceanic flight reminders now include an option to hide/display automatically.
- Improvement: Refined airport information layout.
- Improvement: Bad Elf GPS Pro and Pro+ now displayed as GPS source when connected to the iPad.
- Improvement: More custom keyboard optimizations.
- Improvement: Preflight Wizard nav data now displays effectivity status colors.
- Fixed: Track up Lat/Long labels display orientation.
- New Feature: Flight plan overlay view available when opening a flight plan over the chart.
- Improvement: General chart and flight plan annotation behavior improvements.
- Improvement: Apple Pen support now better for chart and flight plan annotating.
- New Feature: Miscellaneous PDF documents imported into the app are now able to be annotated on.
- New Feature: PDF document sharing expanded to allow importing of PDFs from file management apps such as; Apple files, Box, Dropbox, and Egnyte.
- Improvement: Freshwater bodies of water added to the chart.
- Improvement: Equal Time Points are now able to be deleted directly from the chart.
- Fixed: Numerous additional performance and bug fixes.
- Fixed: Now able to perform a Direct To to waypoints outside of the set Coast Out/In
- Fixed: Wind drift correction symbol size in track up mode corrected to match what is displayed in north up orientation.
- Fixed: Corrected some rare cases/routes where ETP lines drawn from the aircraft when tapping an ETP may not have drawn to the correct airport.
- Improvement: Journey logbook now better captures aircraft track.
Version 2.2.3 - March 29, 2021
- Fixed: Resolved a crash when closing out a flight in landscape view with the FMS box selected in the journey logbook.
Version 2.2.1 - March 16, 2021
- Fixed: Journey Logbook add aircraft field for model and tail number now displays correctly with the iPad in both light mode and dark mode.
Version 2.2.0 - March 12, 2021
- Improvement: Chart and flight plans now further optimized for Apple Pencil, generic stylus, and finger annotating.
- Improvement: Journey Logbook now auto-populates PIC, Operator, Date, A/C Tail #, A/C Typebasic information from the flight plan and user profile (i.e., Name to increase user efficiency.
- Improvement: Journey Logbook portrait and landscape keyboards optimized.
- Improvement: Journey Logbook now includes Fuel & Time Actuals, FMS ground coordinate verification, Altimeter checks (Ramp, TOC, Coast Out, Coast In), Clearances, and more.
- New Feature: Added ability to attach additional pdf documents to the final Journey Logbook file.
- Improvement: Thumbnail view now available for Flight Bag user guide and Journey Logbook pdfs.
- Improvement: Latitude & Longitude format fields will now display the format required for entry.
- Improvement: Support added for write with stylus and move the page with a finger for flight plan and chart annotations.
- Improvement: Custom checklists created will now automatically save to the portal for recovery or assignment to another pilot.
- Improvement: Route parsing will no longer remove the DEP and DEST airports from the route plotted.
- Improvement: Flight Bag and Journey Logbook UI layout has been improved.
- Fixed: Clearance text from journey Logbok now populates on pdf output correctly, and a failsafe has been added to ensure all Journey Logbook pages are present on the pdf output.
- Fixed: Journey Logbook entries text no longer displays too dark with iPad in light mode.
Version 2.1.0 - January 20, 2021
- Improvement: Chart annotation gestures now allow moving around the chart while the pencil tool is selected through a tap and long press.
- Improvement: Preflight Wizard step Flight for Record has been renamed to Journey Logbook to be more consistent with the rest of the app.
- Improvement: Alert text that notifies when Coast Out/In must be reselected now stands out more.
- Fixed: Direct-To functionality now enabled when no route is active.
- Fixed: Ground speed will now display when no route is active.
- Improvement: New ETP label layer setting.
- New Feature: Photos from the iPad camera or library are able to be added to the Journey Logbook.
- Improvement: Subsequent visits to a checklist return you to the last position.
- Improvement: GPS connectivity screen refactored to accommodate different GPS sources; such as Satcom Direct and flight simulators.
- Improvement: Oceanic flight reminders are now presented in a table format, can be accessed from the chart, and have an audio chime associated with them. Appropriate reminders also link directly to the checklist and returning to the checklist returns you to the last position.
- Removed: Plot Position by Lat/Long or by GPS has been removed and replaced with a Pin-Position tool.
- New Feature: A Pinned-Position Note tool has been added with the ability to plot by Lat/Long or by GPS, along with the ability to add notes to the position.
- New Feature: Support has been added for Track Up and North Up chart orientation.
- New Feature: Support has been added for connecting to Satcom Direct's SDR or SDR Gateway equipment for use as a GPS source.
- Improvement: Individual checklist items can now be deleted or added to a custom checklist, uncheck all buttons are now able to be added, and custom checklists can now be deleted from the iPad or accessed via the Flight Bag page in the app. A new checklist created from either the default checklist or from a custom checklist will now automatically be saved and uploaded to the app portal as will any subsequent changes made to the checklist from that point. These saved custom checklists can be accessed or downloaded from the Flight Bag Checklist section.
- Improvement: Date picker added to Journey Logbook page.
- Improvement: Added the ability to quickly toggle back and forth between a checklist and the flight plan through icons underneath the checklist.
Version 2.0.3 - November 11, 2020
- Fixed: The ICRH now displays the correct page count.
Version 2.0.2 - November 10, 2020
- Fixed: ICRH table of contents now displays appropriately.
- Fixed: Support added for latest ICRH content updates.