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0.4.65 · Hub 0.4.31

Section titled “0.4.65 · Hub 0.4.31”

Fixed

  • The Hub could close as soon as it opened. Fixed.

Improved

  • If a Hub is already running, a second one says so and offers to close the first, so your iPads and iPhones connect to the one you see.
  • The Hub’s activity list shows its start-up messages, such as another program using its port.

0.4.64 · Hub 0.4.30

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New

  • One cockpit, several devices. Set something once and every iPad and iPhone on the Hub follows (One cockpit, several devices):
    • the panel lighting, the transponder, the units, the realistic needles, the alerts and training failures, the aircraft and the navigators’ setup
    • the flight plan: load or edit it on one device and the others show the same route and the leg flown
    • the checklists: tick an item on one device and it’s ticked on the others
    • each group can be turned off per device in Settings → Connection → Shared with the cockpit
  • The Hub’s Cockpit page sets the lighting, transponder and units for every device at once, and shows the shared flight plan, the checklists’ progress and the connected devices.
  • Citation CJ4: a known aircraft, with its V-speeds, engine limits, engine strip, checklists and weight and balance.
  • A 6 × 4 grid on a tablet, for a large iPad’s whole panel on one page, with a ready-made Full Panel page for every aircraft.

Improved

  • The Hub’s window has a new, cleaner design.

Fixed

  • A device that connected just as the Hub started could get no data.
  • Two devices restored from the same backup could disconnect each other.

0.4.63 · Hub 0.4.29

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New

  • Headingstar has a new name. Everything you had keeps working: the app updates in place with your purchases and settings, the Hub updates itself, and the MSFS package installs from the Hub as before.
  • Send to Sim on MSFS 2024 reaches the aircraft’s own avionics and the EFB. In flight, Activate Leg and Direct-To move the avionics’ active leg too, and the app tells you what the simulator accepted.
  • Vision Jet: its own engine strip and systems on the PFD and the Status page.
  • A reference page for every instrument on the website.

Improved

  • iPhone: a standing instrument fills the page (the Evolution 1000-style PFD, the MD302-style standby, the 172’s trim wheel).
  • Gauge picker: pictures instead of live displays, so it’s quicker; every face of an instrument can be picked on a phone, and Show all faces lists them.
  • Apple Watch: larger type, and NO DATA on the HSI when there’s none.
  • The C152’s clock and the KA 134-style audio panel now work like the real ones.
  • Jets show N1 and ITT on the engine gauges, and the volts come from whichever bus has them.

0.4.62 · Hub 0.4.28

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New

  • NEXT navigator, split view: on a tablet held sideways, every app opens beside the map.
  • NEXT Status app: the aircraft from above with its gear, flaps, doors and engines, and the systems.
  • New instruments: electronic attitude and standby displays, more autopilots and audio panels, course indicators, more NAV/COMs, COMs and transponders, a DME, and a free avionics rack where you choose the units and their order.
  • The C152’s own instruments: clock, suction gauge, hour meter, flaps lever, marker beacons, fuel shutoff and switch panel.
  • More controls: prop control, cowl flaps, rudder trim wheel, MP / FF gauge, fuel pressure, TIT, the parachute handle and a LEFT / RIGHT / OFF fuel selector.
  • The doors, canopy, carb heat, propeller lever and cowl flaps now come from MSFS and X-Plane.

Improved

  • NEXT flight plan in a flight planner’s order: origin, departure, route, arrival, approach, destination.
  • Procedures: easier to load from an empty plan or another airport; arrivals and approaches join without flying back.
  • NEXT map: drag the route to change it, as on the real unit, with Undo.
  • VOR heads test themselves when the avionics come on.
  • The magnetos’ START is held as long as you hold the key.

0.4.61 · Hub 0.4.27

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New

  • X-Plane 12’s 172: its own instruments: the vacuum gyro, the audio panel, the transponder, the autopilot, the clock and the attitude indicator.
  • The 172’s pedestal: the trim wheel and the fuel selector with its shutoff, working in X-Plane and MSFS.
  • Switch panel: magnetos, master, fuel pump, lights, pitot heat, avionics and parking brake, set in the simulator.
  • Engine gauges 4 in 1: the 172’s round engine gauges, larger and easier to read.
  • Night lighting: a glareshield light, each instrument’s own light, and five dimmers.

Improved

  • X-Plane: the aircraft is recognised, temperatures use the aircraft’s units, and the annunciator test, engine hours and turn rate come through.
  • HDG pushed also syncs the directional gyro to the compass.
  • MSFS 2024: the avionics power follows the aircraft’s circuits.

Fixed

  • Synthetic vision could look to the side in X-Plane.
  • The G5-style display showed AHRS ALIGN after power-up.

0.4.60 · Hub 0.4.26

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New

  • Any aircraft: one Headingstar doesn’t know flies as a generic piston, twin, turboprop, jet or helicopter, with its own engine pages and outline on the map; Use as… picks its profile by hand.
  • Remote: on an iPhone, a touch controller for the navigator beside the iPad.
  • Phones: every view laid out for an iPhone held upright.
  • New maps: free base maps (Night, Day, Terrain), offline packs and SafeTaxi on the map.
  • NEXT: traffic, waypoint search, favorites and user waypoints, Direct-To, and engine pages.
  • Apple Watch and the Live Activity (beta, Pro).

Improved

  • Synthetic vision: more detail, lakes, hillshade, topographic colors, painted runways, and faster.
  • V-speeds checked against the handbooks.
  • The demo flies a real flight, from takeoff to landing.

0.4.59 · Hub 0.4.23

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Improved

  • G1000-style displays: the PFD’s pitch scale, autopilot modes and synthetic vision; the MFD’s engine pages, checklists, traffic map and weather; the radios and audio panel.
  • NEXT: airspaces with their altitudes and frequencies.
  • GNS 430 / 530-style navigators: the screen and bezel as the real ones, keys and knobs only, and OBS and SUSP sent to the simulator’s GPS.
  • Notebook: an open notebook in landscape, a kneeboard pad in portrait.
  • Weight and balance: each aircraft’s envelope, and the CG as fuel burns.
  • Settings → Pages: a picture of each instrument in the previews.

0.4.58 · Hub 0.4.22

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New

  • Checklists that tick themselves: items the simulator can see are ticked and marked SIM.
  • Notebook: a nav log printed from the flight plan, the ATIS page filled in from the METAR, pages shared as PDF.
  • Navigator: auto zoom, calibrated charts on the map, VFR arrivals, winds aloft and the next frequency.

Improved

  • G1000-style displays: colors and screens as the real ones.

0.4.57

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New

  • Synthetic vision: taxiways and runway markings in 3D, the taxi route on the ground, your runway outlined on the approach, traffic, and your waypoints on flags.

0.4.56

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New

  • SafeTaxi in Airport Info, and taxi routes to a runway, a clearance or a gate.
  • NO DATA FROM THE SIMULATOR when the data stops.
  • The flight log shared as a logbook CSV, and each flight’s track as GPX and KML.

0.4.55

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New

  • One menu for the whole app, the same on the panel and the EFB, hidden while locked.
  • Customize your pages; Settings in sections, with search.