NEW

- My Balloons. Build your own envelope — gore count, rows, crown shape, scoop,
  racer or round, a colour wheel with real shades, and your own logo — then fly
  that balloon in your 3D replay and in live 3D instead of a blue dot. The
  builder is the same on the phone and the web, so a design made in one shows
  up in the other.

- Surface winds from ground weather stations. Real stations on the map, not a
  model. Tap one for the last half hour of wind, pick whether the needle reads
  to or from, set the radius you care about, and fly to a station from the
  intro card. Credit to the Ambient Weather Network.

- Landmarks. Drop a landmark on pre-flight or in the air, choose its icon, and
  share it with the teams you pick — arrival banner included. They appear
  instantly on every device.

- Flying with friends. See every teammate who is flying, choose which of them
  pings you (all at once if you like), and watch their track, targets and
  scoring rings on your own map. Teammate vertical speed is measured against an
  anchor now, so it reads true.

- Live reactions. Anyone watching your flight can send a reaction and it floats
  up the map. The pilot sees it, and it reads from across a basket.

- Competition maps as .mbtiles. Import one directly, with a progress bar that
  actually moves, and the black padding trimmed off the sheet.

- Overlay folders. Make them, fill them, import into them, and collapse them on
  the pre-flight Map Overlays page. OziExplorer .plt and .wpt files import on
  the phone now, and Google Earth's cascading KML styles are read properly.

- Set a waypoint as a target. Tap a waypoint on any map overlay and make it a
  target, with the waypoint's own name on the card.

- Import a wind sonde on pre-flight, including columnar sounding exports that
  used to be dropped without a word.

- Lift calculator with real conditions for a place and a date, on the phone and
  the web.

- Heading chevron. Swap the position dot for an arrow that points where you are
  going.

- 30-day trial, no card. Start it from the dashboard; the countdown is on the
  home screen.

- CarPlay keeps up with the pilot you are chasing with the phone locked and in
  your pocket.

IMPROVED

- Big zone files pan and zoom smoothly, on the pilot's map and the crew's — the
  geometry now crosses to the map once instead of being rebuilt on every GPS fix.
- Crew stay on the pilot's map when their app is backgrounded, a parked chase
  vehicle stays put instead of vanishing, and the crew heartbeat is every 5
  seconds.
- Chase several balloons at once: the 2D frame breathes to keep them all in
  view, and 3D orbits the group.
- Target rings stop blinking, markers resize themselves, and the map no longer
  tilts into 3D because two fingers brushed it.
- Time to Target is smoothed over your choice of 5s, 30s, 1 min or 5 min, and
  uses the drift that actually closes on the target.
- An advisory explains why the HUD altitude and a Balloon Live Sensor can
  disagree, instead of leaving you to guess.
- On a phone, the task drawer is a tab on the target card rather than something
  that covers it.
- Zone alerts say "Clear of 500ft floor" when you are legal, and look it.

FIXED

- The onboarding loop that sent some pilots back to the signup form forever.
- Imported road lines no longer close into a loop across the map.
- The descent predictor no longer freezes the flight screen while you type.
- A web pilot no longer crashes when a native pilot is flying.
- Push notifications stopped arriving twice for the same launch.
- Push-to-talk plays the first transmission and no longer cuts long ones off.
- An Apple receipt expiring can no longer revoke a Stripe subscription.
- Crash reports now say which device, and count interruptions.

THANKS for flying with SkyBound.