Version 2.2.0 brings a major expansion to SimCommand Station, including a completely redesigned Home screen, advanced weather controls, VATSIM text messaging, a rebuilt radar map and numerous improvements across the entire application. ## NEW FEATURES **NEW HOME SCREEN** - Completely redesigned Home screen with local clock, date and Zulu time. - Quick access to EFB, Docs, Settings, Network, Weather, Spawn, Cabin and Stream. - Smart weather card automatically displaying conditions at your parked airport, SimBrief origin or destination when airborne. - Custom wallpaper for each connected device. - Optional automatic return to Home after inactivity. - New SimCommand NOTAM notification system with acknowledgement. - Licence status and Discord shortcut. **ADVANCED WEATHER CONTROLS** - Active Sky integration supporting Live, Historic and Custom weather. - Set custom METAR conditions at an airport using Active Sky. - Display turbulence and wind shear effects at the aircraft. - X-Plane 12 real weather toggle and 9 weather presets. - Full X-Plane 12 weather control including wind, visibility, QNH, temperature, rain, turbulence, runway conditions and three cloud layers. - New SimCommand weather package for selecting MSFS weather presets without Active Sky. - Install the MSFS weather package from Settings > Integrations. - New simulator time and date controls for MSFS and X-Plane. - Time presets, exact time, date selection, season shortcuts and real-time synchronisation. - Real-time indicator turns green when simulator time matches real time. **VPILOT / VATSIM TEXT MESSAGING** - New vPilot integration available under Comms > TEXT. - Read private, frequency, broadcast and SELCAL messages directly from your EFB. - Reply privately or send messages on the active frequency. - Callsign mentions are highlighted with an audible notification. - ATC picker with Nearby, Departure, Arrival and On Route categories. - Install the vPilot plugin from Settings > Integrations. **WEIGHT UNITS – KG / LBS** - Switch between kilograms and pounds throughout the application. - Applies to Weight & Balance, fuel, OFP, performance and logbook. - Display-only conversion; values sent to the simulator remain unchanged. **RADAR MAP – NEW FEATURES** - New GPU-accelerated map engine for smoother performance. - New Chart basemap with airport taxiways, aprons and terminals. - 3D terrain support. - Gate and stand information for over 1,550 airports. - Departure, arrival and alternate airport stands automatically preloaded. - New VOR layer with frequencies, DME channels and additional information. - Low and High airway layers with minimum levels. - Enroute fixes using simulator navigation data. - Animated weather radar showing precipitation movement. **NEW KNEEBOARD NOTES** - New aviation-style kneeboard forms. - Separate Departure and Arrival ATIS sheets. - Clearance, Taxi and Approach forms. - Blank squared notes page. - Automatically remembers the last selected page. **FLIGHT LOG ENHANCEMENTS** - Actual off-block and takeoff times with early/late comparison against the flight plan. - New Add Delays feature using standard aviation delay codes. - Distribute delay minutes across multiple codes. - Delay information included in saved flights and CSV exports. - Saving a flight log automatically clears the same flight form on other connected devices. **FUEL, PAYLOAD & OFP** - New FINRES + ALT fuel figure. - Warning when the SimBrief aircraft differs from the aircraft loaded in the simulator. - Performance calculations now use the aircraft actually loaded. - Flight date displayed in the OFP header. **STREAM OVERLAYS** - New OBS Route Card overlay alongside the existing Flight Progress overlay. - Custom background colours and transparent background support. - Live previews for both overlays. **PC & NETWORK CONTROLS** - Launch PC applications with custom command-line arguments, such as vPilot -host. - Close applications using file name, Task Manager process name or window title. **SIMBRIEF ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT** - New SimBrief alias popup with a direct link to the SimBrief account page. ## IMPROVEMENTS **RADAR** - Completely rebuilt map rendering engine for smoother performance with large traffic volumes. - Faster loading of airport gates and stands. - Improved ATC coverage transparency. - ATC coverage automatically fades when zooming into airports. **COMMS & ATC** - Improved enroute ATC detection on short flights and between waypoints. - ACARS now uses one shared session across the entire station. - ACARS notification badges clear across connected devices. - New pill-style source selector. - Filters and search moved to a dedicated row. - Full-height message lists for easier reading. **FLIGHT OPERATIONS** - Improved flight log synchronisation across devices. - Performance calculations now use the aircraft loaded in the simulator rather than the SimBrief aircraft. **SETTINGS & INTERFACE** - Settings reorganised into clearer sections with shorter labels. - Improved number keypad behaviour: entering a new value now replaces the previous value instead of appending to it. ## FIXES - Fixed missing enroute controllers on certain routes, including short flights such as EGNT–EGPH. - Fixed aircraft inside radar approach zones not being selectable. - Fixed FIR labels not being correctly centred. - Fixed approach labels overlapping airport locations. - Fixed the header shadow introduced by the recent iOS/iPadOS update. --- Thank you for your continued support and feedback! **SimCommand Station – Your flight. Your cockpit. Your command.**

**FlyByWire A320neo and A380X — fuel and payload now load** Both aircraft manage their own loading internally and ignored anything sent from outside, so "Load to Aircraft" appeared to do nothing. Fuel and payload now load correctly on both, straight from your SimBrief plan. **Automatic aircraft detection** The app now recognises which aircraft you have loaded in MSFS and selects the matching profile by itself — FlyByWire, iFly and Fenix are recognised, including airline liveries. An aircraft it doesn't recognise falls back to your flight plan, then to Default, and you can still pick manually at any time. **Aircraft list** The profile actually in use is now highlighted, however it was chosen. The list is sorted by aircraft name, so each manufacturer's aircraft group together. **Fixed** - A380 was loaded roughly 10 tonnes over plan — passengers were counted twice, once in the cabin and again in the holds - Weight & balance plotted the aircraft in the wrong place on the envelope for FlyByWire aircraft; it now uses the aircraft's own centre of gravity figure - Takeoff time could be recorded during taxi and then couldn't be corrected. It now requires sustained flight above 40 kt - SimBrief plans larger than 100 kB silently failed to save. The import reported success while the app stayed on the previous flight — the cause of stale takeoff times and auto-detect not re-arming - Landing runway ignored the planned runway and could pick its reciprocal, so crosswind was calculated against a runway facing the opposite way - B737 payload profile used the wrong units, putting 85% of the load in the holds **Also** - Chronograph keeps its time per device across refreshes - Target runway is remembered and applied from the plan, with a manual pick taking precedence - Aircraft profiles show which add-on they were verified against - Network tab rebuilt with Launch/Close columns and Power in the header - Renamed: Voice → Cabin, PC → Network, "This PC" → Master - New traffic-pattern spawn picker with clickable positions - Weight & balance chart now fits a tablet screen > **A380 note:** if your SimBrief airframe's empty weight doesn't match the > FlyByWire A380X (300,007 kg), planned and actual weights won't agree and block > fuel will be under-planned. Worth checking your airframe profile. **Weather** - QNH and visibility are shown in the units the reporting station actually publishes — hPa or inHg, metres or statute miles — instead of being converted to one style. A UK field reporting 9999 no longer appears as "10 sm" - All three of your plan's airports refresh in the background every 10 minutes, whether or not the Weather tab is open, and are loaded as soon as you import a plan - A failed fetch no longer wipes good weather off the screen - Clearer "Fetching weather…" state and a longer timeout for slow sources **Navigation** - A new plan is recognised reliably, so only a genuine re-import keeps your recorded times - Off blocks can fill itself in automatically, triggered by the aircraft first moving rather than by engine start **Other** - Cruise announcement needed only three seconds of level flight to trigger — now three minutes - Fuel reserves breakdown: taxi, trip, final reserve, alternate, extra and block total - Licence and update buttons combined into one - Portrait layout fixes across Takeoff, Landing, Comms, Notes, Calculator and Spawn **Navigation** - Importing a new flight plan now clears the previous flight's recorded times - A schedule difference beyond 12 hours reads "Not from this plan" rather than a meaningless number **Times** - Everything flight-facing is now Zulu, so the station PC and a tablet elsewhere always agree **GSX** - Connects reliably when the app starts before the sim, recovers from a Couatl engine restart, and retries faster **Weather** - METAR results cached for five minutes, with Refresh bypassing the cache - The panel now refreshes when opened rather than showing whatever it had at startup **Radar** - Aircraft icons render consistently and have their drop shadow back, with larger tap targets - Runway compass pairs runway ends correctly — 487 airports previously drew one runway as two, and parallel runways now both show - Switching ATC airspace on no longer tints every aircraft **Layout** - Weather and Voice panel overlap fixed on tablet widths

**27.09.2026** ### Radar - Real Approach Airspace - Approach and departure sectors are now drawn as their **actual published shapes** rather than range circles. Press a sector to view its frequency, controller and ATIS. - IVAO now uses the same sector shapes, and IVAO **centre controllers** display their real FIR polygon. Previously, most appeared as just a dot. - Approach positions whose facility isn't in the dataset now fall back to a dashed **37 nm estimate**, the median size of a real approach sector, instead of the controller's declared radar range, which is commonly left at the 150 nm default. - Airport markers now show staffed positions beneath the airport code: **A** ATIS, **D** Delivery, **G** Ground and **T** Tower. ### Radar - Everything Else - Rebuilt aircraft popup showing route, pilot, aircraft type, filed vs actual level and speed, squawk, and the aircraft's flight path directly on the map. - New airport and ATC popups showing frequency, controller, airport name and real ATIS. - Aircraft are now drawn as plane silhouettes on a single shared canvas instead of approximately 2,400 individual map markers, making Radar significantly smoother to pan and zoom and aircraft easier to select. - Radar now loads in the background from app startup instead of waiting until the Radar tab is first opened. - Traffic is briefly cached on the server, allowing additional devices opening Radar to receive traffic data much faster. - Added a **Refresh** button directly to the map. ### ACARS / CPDLC - New **Initial Report** button automatically builds an initial contact message using your live altitude and speed. The message is loaded into the send box so it can be edited before transmission. - **HANDOVER** and **NEXT DATA AUTHORITY** messages now provide a one-press **Logon to XXXX** option for the next controller, together with Dismiss. - Station name handling has been corrected and longer sector callsigns are no longer cut short. - Alert sounds now have three options: **OFF / THIS DEVICE / MASTER**. MASTER plays the alert through the station PC, useful when a tablet cannot be heard over the simulator. - A flashing indicator now appears in the top bar when an ACARS message arrives while you're using another tab. Opening ACARS clears the indicator. - Fixed the message chime sounding on every browser refresh or playing twice. - Fixed filed flight levels being interpreted incorrectly, including FL360 appearing as 360 ft and F3000 as 300,000 ft. - Fixed altitudes such as 9,960 ft incorrectly displaying as FL100. ### Faster Connections - One live connection now carries NAV, Checklists, Voice, ACARS and SimBrief instead of eight separate connections, reducing browser connection usage. - Improved startup order: **SimBrief first, then Comms / NAV / Voice, with Radar last.** - Much less waiting when the simulator isn't running. Requests that previously waited for their full timeout now fail quickly and retry. ### Comms - **ALL** is now the default view alongside DEP and DEST. Selecting an airport narrows the display to that airport plus enroute positions. - The airport box is no longer pre-filled. - Larger text added to the network selector. ### Weather & Settings - **SayIntentionsAI** added as a weather source. During a SayIntentions flight, this displays the weather actually injected into the simulator and used by its ATC. - Settings have been reorganised. **Integrations** now contains SimBrief and all API keys, moved out of Network. - Fixed buttons overflowing their settings blocks. ### Notes - Added **Clear All** to wipe every notes page at the start of a new flight. - Drawing with a finger no longer highlights the page instead of writing. ### GSX - Status readouts have been moved onto the title row as compact pills. - The GSX menu has been tightened so a full menu can fit on screen. ### OFP - The flight plan document now uses a **dark appearance** matching SimCommand Station instead of displaying as a white page. ### Other Improvements - Checklist section headings are now displayed in capitals. - NAV and Schedule timing colours improved: green is only shown when you have time in hand, while late timings progress from orange to red. - Menu categories are easier to scan, with the active item shifting to the right for clearer identification. - Consistent faded placeholder text throughout the application.

Changelog 2.0.7 → 2.0.8 New Log tab - new flight logbook panel. Docs tab - new documents panel. WXR: Custom METAR moved to a popup - no longer sits at the bottom of the Weather tab forcing it to scroll; now opens via a "Custom" button next to Departure/Destination/Alternate. Fixed Sluggish UI when the sim isn't connected Map follow and checklist reset behaviour UI/UX Proper internal scrolling throughout the app — the whole page no longer scrolls as one block; each panel (checklists, nav tabs, etc.) scrolls independently with thin, low-contrast scrollbars, and checklist scroll position is now remembered per checklist. Start-up launcher window: removed the redundant "On this PC" row (kept "Connect at:" LAN URL) Minor tweaks across Checks, Stream, Voice, Radar, and the stream overlay.

## SimCommand Station - Update v2.0.7 A new SimCommand Station update is now available with new integrations, improvements and expanded aircraft support. ### SayIntentions.AI Integration * New **SAY** tab alongside VATSIM and IVAO * Live AI ATC transcript * Quick ATC request buttons for pushback, taxi, departure, climb/descent and frequency changes * Free-text ATC requests * Live airport frequency board * One-click COM1 / COM2 tuning * Recommended SayIntentions frequency highlighted for your current flight phase * Live COM1, COM2 and transponder information directly from the simulator ### Redesigned Radar * New fullscreen radar * Vector, Street, Topo and Taxi map styles * Improved IVAO traffic visibility * Map now remembers your pan and zoom position * Improved Follow / Center behaviour * Spawn and reposition controls moved into the dedicated **SPAWN** tab ### Voice Announcements * Improved automatic flight-phase detection * Fixed Landing announcements triggering during takeoff * Loading a saved voice preset now automatically re-arms announcements * Smaller and faster-loading voice packs ### Checklists * Remembers your last aircraft group and checklist * Reset can now clear all checklists within an aircraft group ### PC Tab * Shortcut paths and process names are now displayed * Shortcuts can be edited directly * Improved support for shortcut files and protocol links such as `steam://` ### Airport & Runway Improvements * Major runway coordinate database fix * Improved spawn positioning * Missing runway coordinates can now be estimated automatically ### Other Improvements * EULA added to the installer * Expanded fuel, payload and weight & balance data * Improved Takeoff / Landing Performance timestamps * Improved real-time weather behaviour * IVAO API setup improvements --- ## Expanded Aircraft Support ### Airliners / Jets **Boeing** 737-700 · 737-800 · 737 MAX 8 · 767-300ER · 777-300ER · 747-8 · 787-9 **Airbus** A319 · A320 · A320neo · A321 · A330-300 · A340-300 · A350-900 · A380 **Other Jets** Embraer E175 · E190 · CRJ900 · MD-11 · DC-10-30 · Fokker 100 · BAe 146 / Avro RJ ### Regional / Turboprop ATR 72 · Dash 8 Q400 ### General Aviation Cessna 152 · Cessna 172 · Citation X · Piper Tomahawk · Piper Cherokee / Warrior · Diamond DA40 ### Enhanced Payload Profiles The **737 MAX 8, 737-700, A320neo and A380** now include custom passenger seat-station layouts for more accurate payload and weight distribution. Aircraft not specifically listed will still work using SimCommand Station's automatic **Piston / Light / Medium / Heavy** fallback profiles. More aircraft profiles and improvements will continue to be added.