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3.2.2 - Wednesday, 29 January 2025
3.2.1 - Monday, 27 January 2025
Scott IPC iPadOS Application Version History
Version History - 3.3.x
Maintenance:
- Critical fixes added for iPadOS18 support
- Corrected several CPDLC logon addresses
- Various other bug fixes
Maintenance:
- Resolved a login issue affecting AAA app users
- Resolved a crash for the day/night view when using the flight plan view
Maintenance:
- Stability improvement around the use of customized checklists
Maintenance:
- Corrected an issue where "Continue as Guest" was not working as intended (subscription users were not impacted)
- Removed a duplicate link to Dist/Speed/Time Calculator in the toolbox menu
Improvements:
- Route editing is now available from the horizontal waypoint list while viewing the chart
- Undo and redo functionality added to route editor
- Option to capture a record of the original routing in Journey Logbook when checkmark is selected
- Ability to automatically change a route when importing an updated flight plan in the Preflight Wizard while preserving existing data
- 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
- Updates to the Scott IPC Checklist are automatically downloaded to the device
- 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
- NAT/PAC track updates are now available inflight by tapping the refresh button when viewing the track details
- Additional flight plan format support for automatic ETP extraction has been added
- Resolved an issue where ICRH annotations and/or bookmarks would sometimes not be saved to the user account
Version History - 3.2.x
Update:
- The Scott IPC Oceanic Checklist now reflects the NEW Oceanic Clearance Removal Procedures
Improvements:
- DUAL XGPS position tracking when the app is in the background has been improved
- Various bug fixes
Maintenance:
- The Dead Reckoning tool no longer incorrectly assumes your Next endpoint.
Improvements:
- The Scott IPC Oceanic Checklist has been upgraded to v2.0, which has an abbreviated and expanded checklist capability.
- The Dead Reckoning tool has been improved to offer better course estimation accuracy and ease of use during navigational disruptions.
- The Dead Reckoning tool has been redesigned to allow for the tool to be used in a training environment.
- Bad Elf Flex Mini now supported
- Number of satellites and battery status information now provided for Bad Elf and Stratus units.
- The Sync feature will automatically reconnect the secondary to the primary's GPS location in the event of a sync disconnect.
- A Distance, Speed, and Time Calculator has been added to Scott Plot.
- Subscription status information can now be found within the settings icon popup.
- In_app banner alerts for expiring subscriptions within 30 days now show to prevent service interruption.
- Additional protections are now in place to recover current or previous Journey Logbooks in the event of iPad damage or operating system issues.
- The AT time passing a fix now automatically records correctly when using certain GPS devices.
- A checkbox has been added to the Journey Logbook to indicate which FMS is the Master Clock for the flight.
- Compass headings can now be recorded in the Journey Logbook.
- Several new ETP formats are now supported.
- Several new flight plan formats are now supported.
- Other various bug fixes.
Version History - 3.1.x
Update:
- NAT Surveillance Airspace Updated
Maintenance:
- The sync connection button is now only exposed for the Plotting Chart.
Maintenance:
- Resolved an issue where unintentional chart, flight plan, and ICRH annotations could be placed while in touch mode.
Maintenance:
- Added a “Done” button to the waypoint position report allowing simultaneous interaction of position report and flight plan PDF.
- Resolved an issue that would periodically interrupt Bad Elf GPS Pro, Pro+, and DUAL 150/160 connections.
- Various other stability improvements.
Maintenance:
- Resolved an issue with Bad Elf GPS Pro, Pro+, and DUAL 150/160 connections being dropped
New Features:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The ICRH now has a completely new and enhanced user experience, with customizable page view options, along with better notes, highlighting, and bookmarking tools.
- All ICRH bookmarks, notes, and highlights are stored locally and on the cloud for easy future retrieval.
- Enhanced user experience with chart and document annotation tools.
- Support has been added for 2LE ETPs for three-engine operations.
- Medical ETPs are now blue on the chart, and "Other" category ETPs are now black.
- Preflight Wizard workflow has been streamlined for more intuitive use.
- FIR names are now also included on the boundary lines.
- The font sizes for enroute GS, ETE, and LEG DIST REM have been increased for better readability.
- Additional data protection and stability improvements made.
Version History - 2.x
Maintenance:
- Added a check during the journey logbook creation step to prevent closeout with no data.
- Stability improvements
Improvements:
- Additional support added for Universal Flight Plan ETPs.
Maintenance:
- Resolved issue where flight plans over 50 pages will not include annotations in the Journey Logbook output.
Maintenance:
- Resolved an issue with the app update notification text from the App Store overflowing on the screen.
Improvements:
- Further automatic ETP parsing support was added to support additional flight plan formats.
- Correct a bug that would prevent the ICRH update UI from displaying correctly.
Improvements:
- Automatic ETP parsing from flight plans has been improved to read more flight plan formats and support more providers.
- The Plot ETP planning view can now be sorted by type, order, or direction of flight.
- 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).
- Stability improvements.
Version History - 2.4.x
Maintenance:
- 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.
Maintenance:
- More stability improvements added for Journey Logbook Closeout process.
Maintenance:
- Resolved an issue where the GPS enable/disable state would not persist when putting the app into the background.
- Resolved an issue where ETP formats on some flight plans may cause issues.
- Oceanic Flight Reminders have been improved.
- Resolved an issue where PDF files did not always import.
- Performance improvements for opening PDFs.
Maintenance:
- Resolved an issue where flight related chart elements are not automatically displayed and captured on the Journey Logbook pdf.
Improvements:
- Journey logbook flight closeout is now available through the Flight Bag page.
- Flight closeout guidance enhanced to ensure the most recent flight data is captured prior to the next flight.
- Scott Plot can now automatically read and build your flight plans equal time points while still supporting manually ETP editing and creation.
- ETP arrow size and placement improved.
- 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.
- Oceanic reminders table size is now configurable and can be moved around the screen to more convenient locations to better support portrait and landscape views.
- Oceanic track details can now be manually refreshed from the Track details popup to ensure the latest information has been downloaded and displayed.
- Flight plan PDF file names can now be changed by pressing and holding the file in your Flight Bag.
- Appareo Stratus 3 GPS now supported.
- iOS 15 tested and supported.
- DIR TO a waypoint NOT on your route is now supported before you have passed the first waypoint on your route.
Maintenance:
- Resolved a case where annotating on the flight plan might cause the app to crash.
Maintenance:
- Resolved a case where position report data was not saving after cycling through position report tabs.
Improvements:
- Added checkbox back to the summary table and position report form views to indicate and document a completed 10-minute check.
- Resolved an issue where upgrading from v2.2.3 to v2.3.0 could result in an incorrect flight plan selection.
- Resolved an issue where airway labels were drawn incorrectly on the build routes page.
- Resolved an issue where ETPs RTN and CONT airports were not being picked correctly on polar routes.
- Resolved an issue where oceanic flight reminders triggered incorrectly on polar routes.
- Resolved an issue where the MCI under route details might display incorrectly on polar routes.
- FIR reminders crash fix and stability improvements.
Improvements:
- Position report form workflow.
- Oceanic flight reminders now include an option to hide/display automatically.
- Refined airport information layout.
- Bad Elf GPS Pro and Pro+ now displayed as GPS source when connected to the iPad.
- More custom keyboard optimizations.
- Preflight Wizard nav data now displays effectivity status colors.
- Flight plan overlay view available when opening a flight plan over the chart.
- Miscellaneous PDF documents imported into the app are now able to be annotated on.
- PDF document sharing expanded to allow importing of PDFs from file management apps such as; Apple files, Box, Dropbox, and Egnyte.
- Track up Lat/Long labels display orientation.
- General chart and flight plan annotation behavior improvements.
- Apple Pen support now better for chart and flight plan annotating.
- Freshwater bodies of water added to the chart.
- Equal Time Points are now able to be deleted directly from the chart.
- Numerous additional performance and bug fixes.
- Now able to perform a Direct To to waypoints outside of the set Coast Out/In.
- Wind drift correction symbol size in track up mode corrected to match what is displayed in north up orientation.
- Corrected some rare cases/routes where ETP lines drawn from the aircraft when tapping an ETP may not have drawn to the correct airport.
- Journey logbook now better captures aircraft track.
Maintenance:
- Resolved a crash when closing out a flight in landscape view with the FMS box selected in the journey logbook.
Maintenance:
- Journey Logbook add aircraft field for model and tail number now displays correctly with the iPad in both light mode and dark mode.
Improvements:
- Chart and flight plans now further optimized for Apple Pencil, generic stylus, and finger annotating.
- Journey Logbook now auto-populates PIC, Operator, Date, A/C Tail #, A/C Type basic information from the flight plan and user profile (i.e., Name) to increase user efficiency.
- Journey Logbook portrait and landscape keyboards optimized.
- Journey Logbook now includes Fuel & Time Actuals, FMS ground coordinate verification, Altimeter checks (Ramp, TOC, Coast Out, Coast In), Clearances, and more.
- Added ability to attach additional pdf documents to the final Journey Logbook file.
- Thumbnail view now available for Flight Bag user guide and Journey Logbook PDFs.
- Latitude & Longitude format fields will now display the format required for entry.
- Support added for writing with stylus and moving the page with a finger for flight plan and chart annotations.
- Custom checklists created will now automatically save to the portal for recovery or assignment to another pilot.
- Route parsing will no longer remove the DEP and DEST airports from the route plotted.
- Flight Bag and Journey Logbook UI layout has been improved.
Improvements:
- Chart annotation gestures now allow moving around the chart while the pencil tool is selected through a tap and long press.
- Preflight Wizard step Flight for Record has been renamed to Journey Logbook to be more consistent with the rest of the app.
- Alert text that notifies when Coast Out/In must be reselected now stands out more.
- Direct-To functionality now enabled when no route is active.
- Ground speed will now display when no route is active.
- Photos from the iPad camera or library are able to be added to the Journey Logbook.
Maintenance:
- The ICRH now displays the correct page count.
Maintenance:
- ICRH table of contents now displays appropriately.
- Support added for the latest ICRH content updates.
11E - ICAO Region North American (NAM) Caribbean (CAR) New York West OCA
Objective:
- Identify the Flight Information Regions (FIRs), Oceanic Control Areas (OCAs) that make up the NAM, CAR including the New York Oceanic FIR
- Identify the Communication, Navigation and Surveillance requirements for operations in the NAM, CAR including the New York Oceanic FIR
- Identify and follow Contingency Procedures unique for the NAM, CAR including the New York Oceanic FIR
Reference Documents (current editions):
- State AIPs
- ICAO DOC 4444
- ICAO DOC 7030
- AC 91-70
- U.S. Chart Supplements
- NAV CANADA Designated Airspace Handbook
Elements:
Note: Based on the structure of DOC 7030. Each item may not be required
Note: Based on the structure of DOC 7030. Each item may not be required
- Flight Rules
- Airspace Structure
- Flight Plans
- Required entries in Item 10 and 18
- Communication
- VHF
- HF
- SATVOICE
- CPDLC
- Position Reporting
- Prior Notification Requirements
- Navigation
- Route System Canada
- Preferred Route Systems
- RNP/RNAV requirements
- RVSM
- Surveillance
- Transponder
- ADS-C
- Airborne Collision Avoidance System (ACAS)
- Air Traffic Services
- Lateral Separation in Canadian domestic airspace
- Longitudinal Separation in Anchorage Arctic FIR
- Safety Monitoring
- RNAV
- RVSM monitoring
- Air Traffic Flow Management (A-CDM, Slots)
- Special Procedures
- Change of TAS or MACH
- Navigation Capabilities change
- Contingency Procedures
- SLOP
- Oceanic Clearance New York Oceanic FIR
- Phraseology
- Search and Rescue
- Meteorology
- Volcanic Activity
- Aeronautical Information Services
- Terrain Avoidance / Awareness
- MEA, MOCA, Grid MORA
- Descent Planning
Completion Standards:
After completion of this module the participant will be able to identify CNS equipment and operational requirements to operate in this airspace. The participant will be able to recite the contingency procedures for contingencies where an ATC clearance has not been received and the procedure for weather deviation without an ATC clearance.
After completion of this module the participant will be able to identify CNS equipment and operational requirements to operate in this airspace. The participant will be able to recite the contingency procedures for contingencies where an ATC clearance has not been received and the procedure for weather deviation without an ATC clearance.
Module #18A ETPs & PSRs
Objective:
- The participant will be able to explain and differentiate between the following: Equal Time Point (ETP), Point of Safe Return (PSR), Point of no Return (PNR), Suitable Airport, and Wet Footprint.
- The participant will be able to analyze, calculate and plot the ETPs and use this information as part of the decision-making process.
Elements:
- Definition and Purpose
- Plotting Chart – Recording Formats
- ETP Basics
- The Decision-Making Process
- Operational Considerations
- Flight Plan Format familiarity
- Fuel Considerations
- Scott Plot ETP Auto build
- Plotting Chart Method
- Point of Safe Return
- Flight Plan / FMS Gotchas
Completion Standards:
After completion of this module, the participant will be able to use and explain the different decision tools utilized for operations over the oceans or remote continental airspace.
6D - SAFA Made Simple
- Who is responsible for the Program? Role of EASA in SAFA
- Inspection standards
- Chief areas of concern
- Inspector authority
- Where would I expect a SAFA check?
- Checklist overview by Annex SARP
Articles
- CZQX OCR Procedure Update
- Mitigating Flight Plan vs. Clearance Errors
- Comprehensive Ramp Inspection Program implemented in Mexico
- OCR Gander Update
- The Importance of Following Annex 6 Fuel Guidance
- Oceanic Clearance Removal Procedures
- French CPDLC Mandate
- Transponder Code 2000 Changes in the NAT HLA
- Space-based ADS-B Mandate coming to Canadian airspace
- EASA SAFA Ramp Inspection Manual Update