Flight Logger 1.12.0: A Redesigned App, Flight Briefing and Landing Analysis

Version 1.12.0 of the Flight Logger is available. It is the largest update the app has had so far. The interface has been rebuilt, the flight workflow has changed, and a long list of flight-logging issues has been fixed. If you already have the logger installed it will update itself the next time you open it, and it can also be downloaded from the Flight Logger page.

A redesigned app

The Flight Logger has a new look and feel, based on modern EFB and airline operations software. The interface is cleaner and more focused on the flight itself, with navigation, flight status, simulator connectivity and the next required action visible at a glance. The Home screen has been rebuilt around your next booked flight, with upcoming flights and the latest operational news alongside it.

A new flight briefing

Booked flights now open into a full flight briefing before you start logging. The briefing brings your route, weather, fuel, aircraft, flight readiness and SimBrief information together in one place, and a new preflight check makes it clear whether everything is ready before the flight starts. SimBrief routes can now be viewed inside the logger, and airport photography has been added throughout the app, including your next flight, the briefing and the logbook.

Logbook and landing analysis

You can now see your recent JetStream Virtual flights inside the Flight Logger. The new Logbook includes career statistics and detail for your most recent PIREPs: block time, distance, fuel used, aircraft and landing rate.

The post-flight report now shows where you actually touched down on the runway. It gives your distance from the threshold, your distance from the centreline, and your touchdown position on a runway diagram. Landing-rate figures are now consistent across the flight, the post-flight report and the filed PIREP.

Cabin announcements and airline safety demonstrations

The announcement system has been overhauled. Crew voices are more natural, announcements sound closer to a real aircraft PA system, and the wording now varies between flights instead of repeating the same script every time. Multilingual crews have been improved so English announcements sound natural while keeping the character of the airline's home country. Boarding music, safety demonstrations and cabin announcements now run through a new audio system, which resolves several cases where audio could fail to play, and safety demonstrations have their own volume control.

Airlines can now have their own safety demonstration audio, recorded in the style of the real carrier. The first airlines in the programme are Aegean, Air France, American Airlines, Avianca, easyJet, GOL, KLM, Lufthansa, Ryanair, Southwest Airlines, Transavia, TUI fly and Vueling. More are being added automatically over the coming days, so you will hear them appear across the network as they arrive.

Navigraph charts

We are working with Navigraph to bring their charts into the Flight Logger in an EFB-style view. Pilots with an active Navigraph subscription will be able to open airport, departure, arrival and approach charts directly inside the app, without leaving the flight. The integration has been built and is currently awaiting Navigraph API approval and credentials.

Operations news, settings and quality of life

The Operations section now supports images, proper article formatting and a cleaner layout, and is available from the dashboard or from the dedicated Operations screen. Smaller additions include an always on top option, a one-click Open Logs Folder button, a separate safety-demo volume control, improved simulator connection diagnostics, better loading screens, clearer error messages, and improved support for reduced-motion accessibility settings.

Demo mode

A demo mode has been added for our own testing. It can simulate a complete flight from pushback through landing without a simulator connected, while still running the real flight-state system, ACARS, cabin announcements and scoring. It gives us a better way to test new features before they reach you.

Fixes

• Aircraft selection. Flights can no longer start with an invalid or incorrect aircraft. This fixes the common "The aircraft doesn't exist" error and the cases where the wrong aircraft type was recorded.
• Flight time. Timing from a previous flight could leak into the next one and produce extremely long block times. This has been fixed.
• Landing rate. The rate shown during the flight, after the flight and in the filed PIREP is now calculated from the same touchdown event.
• Takeoff flaps. The logger no longer penalises pilots for retracting flaps during the initial climb, and the Fokker 70 and Fokker 100 are correctly excluded from the takeoff-flaps check.
• SimBrief weights. Flight plans using kilograms are now handled correctly, so fuel and aircraft weights display correctly whichever unit your SimBrief profile uses.
• Remaining flight time. Captain updates now announce the estimated time remaining rather than the total planned flight time.
• Seatbelt scoring. Temporarily disabled for aircraft where simulator data can be unreliable, to prevent false penalties.

Starting and filing flights is also more reliable when our server is responding slowly. The logger now retries temporary failures instead of preventing the flight from starting, and when something does go wrong, server errors are shown in much clearer language.

Feedback

Feedback and bug reports can be sent straight from the Flight Logger, which files them with us directly, or you can raise them with us on Discord. Both reach the same place, and the reports we received on earlier versions are a large part of what went into this one.