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Beta 4.0.981 (20MAY2022) - New tiers

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Dear aviators,

EasyVFR's goal is to give both beginner and advanced pilots peace of mind when planning and navigating VFR adventures.

 

New tier - The essentials for free

This beta release introduces a tiered structure for the EasyVFR 4 mobile app licenses. With these, EasyVFR 4's reliable quality information and tools become accessible and affordable for all European VFR airspace users. Bringing:

  • EasyVFR Essential >> Forever free.
  • EasyVFR Live >> from €3.99/month paid yearly.
  • EasyVFR Pro >> from €5.99/month paid yearly.
  • Monthly subscriptions for these tiers.

More about these new licenses during the coming weeks when we work on the new onboarding, documentation, public release, and press releases. Below is a summary of the new pricing and plans.

 

EasyVFR Essential (Forever free)
Essentially a better version of the VFR paper chart

  • Clean and up-to-date VFR chart for two countries in Europe of your own choice
  • Easy navigation tool
  • Essential weather: METAR, TAF
  • Graphical NOTAMs
  • Airport procedures and frequencies

 

EasyVFR Live (€3.99 per month if paid yearly, or €6.99 per month if paid monthly)
Explore Europe with live traffic and SmartMap

EasyVFR Essential plus:

  • SmartMap, showing real-time active airspace activations
  • NOTAM filtering
  • Live Traffic through GDL90
  • .. for the whole of Europe!

 

EasyVFR Pro (from €5.99 per month if paid yearly, or €8.99 per month if paid monthly)
Everything in the EasyVFR toolbox for mobile use.

The same as the familiar EasyVFR Standard.

 

Frequent Flyer Membership (€150 per year)
The FFM license remains as it is. EasyVFR Pro plus: EasyVFR for Desktop (that's macOS and Windows), flight plan filing, on all personal devices, and AeroData for your EFIS.

 

Furthermore in this release
Several use-case and workflow improvements are included. The search button was added to the bottom button bar, in favor of the Map Interest Timespan menu button which was moved to the Map Layers menu. The styling of the buttons in the bottom row is lifted to our new 2022 design, their position remains the same. See the rest notes below for the rest of the work done.

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So, what do you think of our latest efforts? We will get back to you soon with more updates. And if you have any feedback feel free to write them below of send us an email.

Cheers,
Team EasyVFR 4

 

 

Release notes

  • NEW: New license tiers for the EasyVFR 4 Android and iOS app:
    • EasyVFR Essential (forever free >> successor of EasyVFR Basic NK and UK).
    • EasyVFR Live (small fee >> unlocks GDL 90, SmartMap, NOTAM filtering, and VFR Plates).
    • EasyVFR Pro (successor of EasyVFR Standard).
    • Frequent Flyer Membership stays as it was.
    • See https://easyvfr4.aero/#pricing-and-plans
  • NEW: Monthly subscription added for EasyVFR Live and EasyVFR Pro.
  • NEW: For iOS in-app purchases via Apple added for EasyVFR Live and EasyVFR Pro.
  • NEW: New users can create an EasyVFR 4 account within the app. Going to the website is no longer needed.
  • NEW: New styling for buttons on the bottom bar.
  • NEW: Beta updates for Android: via Google Play, now you can also download beta updates via Google Play. Tap "Join beta" on the EasyVFR 4 aap page within Google Play.
  • IMPROVED: When running EV4 on a laptop that connects to multiple screens, EV4 will now auto-adjust magnification levels when screen switching occurs.
  • IMPROVED: Vertical profile path on VPV is now based on calculated vertical speeds.
  • IMPROVED: Comms & airspace information window in various Denmark areas.
  • IMPROVED: On startup of EV4, it now checks in the background if maybe new plate subscriptions are found, so the user no longer has to check account settings first.
  • IMPROVED: Route Totals now use current groundspeed for the active leg, and planned values from the selected aircraft profile for all upcoming legs to calculate time to destination (ETA).
  • IMPROVED: Route label now includes the degrees symbol to avoid MT getting understood by the user as "meter" instead of "Magnetic Track".
  • IMPROVED: When the user calibrates the AGL altitude via the Status Card the second confirmation popup stating the AGL altitude is reset is removed, it was a double confirmation dialog.
  • IMPROVED: The search button is moved to the bottom button bar to be quickly accessible.
  • CHANGED: The Map Interest timespan button is moved to the Map Layer menu.
  • FIXED: On Essential and Live tier: When tapping Open Pro Route Options the pop-up reported that an EasyVFR Live license was needed as a minimum, while it should have been Pro.
  • FIXED: Plan(e)station reset to defaults did overwrite all last download times for METARs, TAFs, NOTAMs, etc, causing these to get downloaded immediately after such a reset.
  • FIXED: There could be a small difference between the magnetic track value for a course displayed in the Route Planning menu and displayed as a route leg label on the moving map.
  • FIXED: When the Route Planning menu was docked to the left, then the application window was resized smaller causing the Route Planning menu to reduce in height, then when the application window was resized bigger the Route Planning menu would forever stay small and grow in height anymore.
  • FIXED: TAF Decoding on Quick Info Whether window skipped first part before first timegroup element.
  • FIXED: FLARM decoding issue with uAvionics SkyEcho2.
  • FIXED: When airspace is activated by NOTAM the link to the corresponding NOTAM was not visible.

 

Downloads

Apple iOS & iPadOS

  • Minimum requirements:
    • 64-bit and 2GB RAM. Effectively:
      • iPad Air 2 and higher.
      • iPad Mini 4 and higher.
      • iPhone 6S and higher.
    • The iPad Mini 5 and iPad Pro perform extremely well.
  • Download
    1. Install the Apple TestFlight app via the Apple AppStore.

    2. Go to the following URL to download the latest version of EasyVFR 4 via TestFlight:
    https://testflight.apple.com/join/Zxbi0Hof

Android

Windows desktop

macOS High Sierra and up

    • IMPORTANT:
      • Intel macs on Big Sur and Monterey need to have the latest macOS version 11.6.1 or 12.0.1 or higher installed.
      • M1 macs can download via the iOS AppStore.
    • Minimum requirements:
      • Most 64-bit macOS versions. E.g. High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina. BigSur 11.6.1 and Monterey 12.0.1 and up.
      • M1 macs can download via the iOS AppStore.
    • Download:
    • Installation instructions:
      1. After downloading the DMG file, open it and drag the EasyVFR 4 icon into the Applications folder. EasyVFR 4 is now available via Launchpad.
      2. When you get the message "EasyVFR4.app can’t be opened because it was not downloaded from the App Store" choose [Open in Finder] from that popup, then right-click on EasyVFR4.app and choose open. Now the same popup will appear, now with a [Open] button.
      3. From there on you can launch EasyVFR 4 from the launchpad without this warning.
      4. With every update, you need to redo step 2.
This topic was modified 2 years ago 3 times by Nosegear

   
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Hi Tim, great meeting with you last weekend!

I really like the new styling, nice and clean.

Under EasyVFR Live you write: "VFR Approach plates*". The asterisk suggests a footnote or disclaimer. I assume it's the German maps but don't see this in a footnote?

Kind regards,

Rob


   
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Posts: 452
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Hi Rob,

The pleasure was all mine. Thank you for your compliment on the new styling. I'll take that any day 😀 With every app update we will lift one more tool and workflow towards the new design system and style.

I indeed forgot about the footnote. You were correct on what it should say. I have now edited the post.

*Included are (georeferenced) VFR plates from the public AIP. Paid plates from DFS, Pooleys, and SkyGuide are available as an add-on.

 

Cheers,
Tim


   
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