Planning Portal

Previous release archive

Planning Portal Version 3 and the original release history from 2020 to 2025.

This archive preserves the Version 3 change history followed by the earlier changelog. Historical entries are shown as originally recorded.

VERSION 3 · 4 AUGUST 2026

Version 3 rebuild

The principal changes delivered during the Version 3 rebuild.

Scheduling and planning

Rebuilt Schedule and Planning pages with consistent editors, time formatting and responsive tables.
Added operating dates, aircraft conflict validation, default aircraft preferences and overnight-flight handling.
Added Plan All, today selection, live queue progress, retryable individual planning and schedule-adjustment replanning.
Added Create Tour for generating consecutive aircraft sectors from an ordered ICAO list.
Added taxi-source selection using preferences, historical airport data or a custom value.
Added taxi-aware schedule status, turnaround suggestions and automatic schedule adjustment.

SimBrief integration

Moved aircraft weights, equipment, capacities and airframe configuration from user preferences to each aircraft.
Added the SimBrief standard-aircraft catalogue, saved-airframe IDs and optional local aircraft-data overrides.
Added unit-aware weight editing while preserving SimBrief's required submission units.
Added CIRRUS historical contingency statistics, corrected legacy duration parsing and advisory fuel output.
Added a global planning audit containing the resolved request, masked URL, timeline and imported result.
Made imported planning data available from the portal's durable briefing archive.

Teams, fleets and aircraft

Added personal and shared-team workspaces with one owner, invitations and workspace-aware data isolation.
Added fleet management, aircraft defaults, FICO fleet codes, serviceability and per-aircraft activity maps.
Added global aircraft checkout, custody, model and situation versioning, flight history and manual flight recording.
Added reusable global model imports, operator recognition, airline metadata and permanent administrator deletion.
Added airport-gate catalogues and workspace crew management with free-text compatibility.

Tech Logs and aircraft state

Moved Tech Logs to individual aircraft with active defects, resolved history and serviceability control.
Added aircraft-aware BACARS malfunction reconciliation using the PSX registration.
Separated automatic PSX malfunctions, manual circuit-breaker actions and record-only defects.
Added confirmation for opening and resolving defects, plus confirmed history clearing.

FICO operations

Added a browser FICO terminal styled after the original operational system.
Implemented aircraft location, general fleet, aircraft tours and daily flight schedule displays.
Added FIG and FT flight-information displays based on the supplied FICO manual and reference output.
Shared command processing with BACARSHoppieStation while retaining Hoppie wrapping and pagination.

BACARS V10

Introduced the modern PSX.NET.BACARS operations console and removed the legacy Metro interface.
Added portal authorization, aircraft file synchronization, state upload and clear cloud diagnostics.
Moved BACARS database operations to the authenticated portal API with idempotent event submission.
Added DLH flight-plan wind conversion and recoverable uplink failure handling.
Made all supported BACARS configuration available in the modern Settings page.

Briefings and EFB

Rebuilt the Briefings page around archive-backed packs, document actions, route presentation and clear generated and expiry dates.
Added a searchable Airport Briefings library with an in-page PDF.js viewer.
Rebuilt the iPad web EFB around a touch-friendly cockpit shell while retaining the existing web features.
Refreshed Fuel Order and Event Schedule to use the current portal interface.

History, statistics and administration

Rebuilt Previous Flights, Landing Scores and Crew Statistics with filters, summaries, paging and CSV export.
Added shared route maps for flight history and individual fleet aircraft.
Corrected mixed legacy fuel units, compact duration parsing and crew-name presentation.
Added administrator navigation, global API request auditing and SimBrief planning diagnostics.
Modernised portal navigation, homepage, Preferences, Live Flight and management pages.

ORIGINAL CHANGELOG

Versions 2.0.2 to 0.1.0

2.0.2 07 September 2025

Auto Taxi Times now supported, 744ER type fixed, data validation added on STD and STA, and extra fuel made more user friendly.

2.0.1 06 September 2025

Updates for BACARS Version 8, arrival gate setting restored, and eFuelling and live flight data added in beta.

1.0.0 26 February 2024

Many updates for the event booking system.

0.9.7 04 January 2024

Horgy bug fix.

0.9.6 09 October 2023

Bug fixes and updates for World Flight.

0.9.5 30 September 2023

Updated for World Flight 2023.

0.9.3 15 August 2023

Fixed VATSIM prefile after external changes stopped it working.

0.9.2 04 May 2023

Fixed cargo ZFW.

0.9.1 01 April 2023

Added CLX.

0.9.0 15 February 2023

Added JAL and DLH and fixed cargo MLW.

0.8.0 22 January 2023

Added public World Flight functions.

0.7.3 27 January 2022

Added .route download button for Mac users.

0.7.2 20 December 2021

Added MSR Egypt Air.

0.7.1 10 December 2021

Added code for new BACARS INIT DATA REQ logic.

0.7.0 03 November 2021

Added CAL, fixed pounds and added the 2021 World Flight RIM.

0.6.0 01 October 2021

Added Flight Board and Previous Flight information.

0.5.0 21 August 2021

Variant culture updates.

0.4.0 15 August 2021

Updated to use en-GB in line with SimBrief.

0.3.0 09 July 2021

World Flight 2021 preparation.

0.2.8 28 April 2021

Minor tweaks to cargo MZFW.

0.2.8 22 April 2021

Minor UI tweaks.

0.2.8 18 April 2021

Added 744 Cargo and fixed several UI and invalid-schedule crashes.

0.2.7 10 February 2021

Fixed a taxi-fuel issue.

0.2.6 27 November 2020

Added RYR.

0.2.5 01 November 2020

Fixed date-format issues that prevented briefings from showing.

0.2.4 26 October 2020

Updated Simfest displays to show crew names rather than codes.

0.2.3 26 October 2020

Bug fixes; added B763, TOM1VB, B788 and B772; added the EFB-without-BACARS preference.

0.2.2 26 October 2020

Reinstated A332 and non-744 EFB support.

0.2.1 26 October 2020

Landing Competition link changes and iPad updates.

0.2.0 26 October 2020

Added iPad EFB.

0.1.9 25 October 2020

Reliability fixes.

0.1.8 23 October 2020

Added World Flight route option, corrected Schedule timings and improved reliability.

0.1.7 01 October 2020

Updated SID/STAR handling and the World Flight 2020 schedule.

0.1.6 01 October 2020

Corrected STA, rehosted on Azure and updated RIM.

0.1.5 26 September 2020

Added Landing Competition.

0.1.4 16 September 2020

Added ACA airline.

0.1.3 01 August 2020

Added close control to the SimBrief popup.

0.1.2 26 July 2020

Fixed cargo and passenger figures and added ATC route to the Brief page.

0.1.1 19 July 2020

Fixed the grey window issue.

0.1.0 18 July 2020

Initial release.