Improvement

We've tweaked how aircraft slot grace periods are displayed and made it easier to recover your aircraft, ensuring you're never locked out of accessing your own assets.

A Clearer View of Grace Periods

Previously, it was difficult to tell when an aircraft's grace period in a slot was about to end or what happened after it expired. We've introduced a new set of clear, color-coded badges to give you at-a-glance status information.

When an aircraft is on an active grace period, you'll see an orange badge with a countdown timer. This shows you exactly how long you have until the aircraft is automatically moved to storage.

If the grace period ends and there's no available hangar or stand space, the aircraft will remain in the slot. This is now indicated by a red badge, letting you know that the slot is blocked because there was nowhere for the aircraft to go. This helps you quickly identify and resolve storage conflicts at your airports.

Recover Your Aircraft from Anywhere

Losing access to a partner's facilities no longer means losing access to your aircraft. If a partnership ends or facility access changes while your aircraft is parked in a location you can no longer use, you can now always open the agreement panel to retrieve it.

This ensures you can always manage and move your assets, even if they are located in a hangar or stand that has become restricted. You will have just enough access to view the facility and remove your aircraft, guaranteeing you never get locked out.

Other improvements

• Aircraft slots can no longer be shared publicly; access is now restricted to either your own company or members of a partnership. This provides greater control over your facilities and ensures a more accurate count of available slots.
• When access rules for a partnership change, aircraft using a partner's facilities are now automatically and correctly removed to prevent them from getting stuck.

Job Market Performance Overhaul

We’ve completely overhauled the underlying query system for the job market, making it significantly faster to find and filter flights.

Previously, if you had contracts with multiple companies, the job search could become slow as the system checked every possible flight against your pilot constraints. We've rebuilt this logic from the ground up to be far more efficient. The system now intelligently filters jobs based on the companies you can fly for before evaluating complex aircraft and route constraints, dramatically reducing the processing load.

You'll notice the biggest improvements when searching broad areas or when you hold many active pilot contracts. The job list and map view now populate much more quickly, getting you in the air faster.

More Reliable Live Flight Map

We've resolved an issue that could sometimes cause the Live Flight Map to appear empty when you first opened it.

This was caused by a race condition where the map would occasionally try to draw aircraft before their data had been fully loaded. The map now waits for all data to be ready and displays a clear loading indicator, ensuring you always see a complete picture of active flights.

Other improvements

• Fixed a bug that could incorrectly schedule major, restricted maintenance services (like C and D checks) to run automatically, causing the whole automatic maintenance job to fail. These services will now always require manual sign-off.
• Owner salary payments in your transaction history now include the company name, making them easier to identify if you own multiple companies.
• Improved the visual styling of partnership badges in the job list for better readability.
• Fixed an issue that could prevent owner salary payments from being processed correctly at the end of the month.

We've completely overhauled how aircraft are handled on the ground, making maintenance and storage seamless and automatic. You can now focus more on your operations and less on shuffling assets around the airport.

Previously, moving an aircraft into a service centre required you to first manually take it out of its hangar or stand. When the service was complete, you then had to remember to go back and store it again. This is now a thing of the past.

You can now send an aircraft for maintenance or modification directly from its current location, whether that's a hangar or a stand. We'll handle the logistics of moving it to the service centre for you.

The biggest improvement comes when the work is done. Once your aircraft's service is complete, it won't just be left on the tarmac. The system will automatically find an available hangar or stand you have access to at that airport and move the aircraft there, ready for its next flight. If no space is available, you'll be notified so you can make arrangements.

All new agreements, such as airport slots and stands, are now billed upfront. This means the first payment is taken as soon as you sign the agreement, securing your access for the upcoming period from day one.

Previously, all recurring payments were charged at the end of a billing cycle. Now, you pay for services like slots at the beginning of each cycle. This provides more predictable cash flow, as the cost is covered immediately rather than being a future liability. The payment will appear in your finance log right after you sign the agreement, clearly marked under the new "Agreement" category.

Other improvements

• Improved the layout of the company finance log for better readability.
• Fixed an issue where the minimum term for an agreement was not always correctly enforced.