This release was a long time coming! Today, version 0.9.5 was released to production. It includes some exciting new features:

• We now have limited support for flight plans in the United States and Australia. We are in the process of adding support for low level airways in Australia and United States.
• We’ve revamped the way flight plans are organized. They should be much more simple to manage and understand.
• A bunch of bug fixes (behind the scenes stuff), please continue to report them!
• We”ve updated our databases to include the latest navaids and airports.
• You can now plan your flight for any arbitrary date/time.

We’re working as hard as possible to get a 1.0 release this spring. We’re very appreciative of everyone with their bug reports. It’s going to help make this product better for everyone to use.
If you have any additional features you’d like to see, please let us know. In the works right now are:

• Printable ICAO flight plans. So you can fax them to NavCanada or leave them with your dispatcher.
• A “point and click” option for planning your flight. Use the map to click on your waypoints and hit “plan!”
• A “quick plan” option for planning your flight. You will be able to enter in your flight plan using the standard ICAO format, then hit “plan!”.

We’re currently looking for some Australian pilots to help test the software for plans within Australia. Please let us know if you can help out.

This past Monday we released version 0.9.4 of WFP for testing.
The majority of changes are behind the scenes as bug fixes, but there are some feature enhancements that the testers have requested that are now available:

• We’ve added the “google roads” layer to the map. This additional base layer may be helpful to VFR pilots to navigate around.
• A new map layer called “VFR Waypoints” is now available
• The navaid frequency (for tuning in a VOR or NDB) is now displayed in the nav log
• A warning is displayed if you are likely to fly through Class “F” airspace. At the moment there is no altitude defined for this type of airspace so even though you may be flying higher than it, it still gives you a warning.
• You can now choose how far back you would like pireps to display on the map. You can change this setting in your user preferences.

The testing from our beta testers has been invaluable! Keep sending in your feedback and suggestions!

We’ve just released version 0.9.3 yesterday as we make our way to version 1.0. This release covers a bunch of bug fixes and feedback from a few users. Here is a quick rundown of what has changed:

• A list of all the airspace, and it’s type is now displayed on the nav log page. You can see at a quick glance (without looking at the map) what types of airspace you may be flying through.
• You can now login using your email address instead of your username.
• A list of pireps within 25nm of your route is displayed in the nav log page.
• Fixed a bug whereby you had to type in all the identifiers in upper case. You can now use both upper case and lower case letters for identifiers.
• Incorporated some changed due to user feedback.

We still have a lot planned for the next version! So if you want to help shape the tool, submit your feedback and we’ll be sure to incorporate it into the next version.
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