Changelog

• Simmers Companion [closed beta]: Connect your simulator to bring flight tracting into Simmers. Heading, speed, altitude, and many other aspects of your aircraft are now ingested and shown in the radar.
• Advanced voice recognition and generation [closed beta]: Better, more natural and fluent voices are now being tested and will be opened to all users as paid features.
• Cockpit Radio: The redesigned radio panel now gives you independent VHF1 and VHF2 radio, active and standby frequencies, clearer radio/audio controls, and suggested station to tune at every flight phase.
• Cockpit Shortcuts: Interact with Simmers cockpit using keyboard shortcuts for push-to-talk, calling ATC or your First Officer, radio selection, frequency swaps, and more.
• Smarter ATC & First Officer: Ask for flight and approach briefings by voice, request local or generic ATIS through your First Officer, hear more natural ATIS pacing, and enjoy more reliable radio conversations and checklist guidance.
• Cabin Audio: Pushback and landing now have chimes, while airport-local timing makes cabin announcements feel more at home wherever you fly.
• News: The News section brings a categorized aviation feed to Simmers, constantly updated with the latest headlines from trusted sources.
• Hangar & Checklists: The aircraft catalog grows with the Airbus A380 and Boeing 777 family, alongside their tailored checklists.
• Handbook: New guides and interactive demos cover AI ATC, the AI First Officer, Airport Information and ATIS, and Cabin Audio.
• General improvementds: Better shared-link previews, more resilient audio and voice handling, and many cockpit, logbook, and map refinements.

• Live traffic: Watch VATSIM and IVAO pilots flying worldwide alongside Simmers pilots on the radar. Togge each network on or off, tap an aircraft for its details, and watch its recent flown path with trail and replay controls.
• Map: The map is now the main protagonist on most pages, and changes depending on the hub section. An optional mode was added to see the regions, countries, states, and airport labels.
• Direct Messages: React to messages with emoji, reply directly to a specific message, and get rich preview cards for pasted links.
• ATC & First Officer: Some flights won't require ATC or First Officer, you can now turn then ON or OFF from the cockpit.

• Route Discovery: Discover your next flight with Today Mode, or explore Community Routes where pilots propose and vote on new destinations.
• Boarding Pass: Share a no-login boarding pass, get an auto-generated preview image, or download a ready-to-post PNG.
• Logbook: Completely redesigned with richer flight cards, country flags, weather icons, and support for up to 10 screenshots per flight. Switch between card and list views or log flights manually.
• Career Mode: An optional pilot progression system. Earn ranks from Cadet to Senior Captain, unlock certifications, join airlines, and complete daily assignments for bonus XP, without restricting how or when you fly.
• Live Flight: Start a live flight from your Hub or any route, then progress through every phase from preflight to shutdown.
• Cockpit: Your all-in-one live flight workspace, bringing together flight phases, checklists, ATC, your First Officer, Cabin Audio, airport information, charts, calculators, and more.
• Airport Information: View real-world METAR and VATSIM ATIS, hear spoken briefings, and get a wind-based runway recommendation without leaving the Cockpit.
• Charts: Connect your ChartFox account to access real-world airport charts directly inside the Cockpit.
• Checklists: Follow aircraft checklists tailored to each flight phase, with completion tracking and full voice control to pause, resume, repeat, skip, or acknowledge items hands-free.
• Calculators: Use practical in-flight tools, including the descent calculator, without leaving the Cockpit.
• Crew Flights: Fly together with human or AI pilots, invite your crew, share a public join link, and follow everyone’s live flight phase from a shared crew board.
• ATC: Practice realistic radio phraseology with NATO callsigns and readback verification that checks whether you correctly repeat pushback, taxi, takeoff, and landing clearances.
• AI First Officer: Choose a co-pilot personality that follows your flight phase and ATC conversation, then coaches you in character on what happened and what to say next.
• Cabin Audio: Hear realistic cabin crew announcements generated for every phase of your flight, from boarding to final approach.
• Airlines: Create your own airline, manage fleets, publish scheduled routes, configure operating days, or join real-world airlines from an ever-growing catalog.
• Hangar: Personalize your aircraft with custom photos and explore an expanded aircraft catalog.
• Pilot Profile: Completely redesigned to showcase your world map, flight statistics, favorite aircraft, achievements, and logged flight time.
• SimBrief Integration: Link your SimBrief Pilot ID to import your latest OFP into live flights, logbook entries, or routes. Flight number, route, fuel, alternates, and more carry across automatically.
• Airports Database: Search a complete database of real-world airports by ICAO or IATA code, save favorites, and explore detailed information for any airport.
• Weekly Challenges: Complete 12 curated routes every week across short-haul, medium-haul, and long-haul operations.
• Achievements: Unlock over 130 achievements throughout your flying journey.
• Internal Chat: Direct message your crew with rich link previews for routes, airlines, aircraft, pilots, and crew flights.
• OBS Overlays: Stream-ready overlays including status bar, briefing, boarding call, route reveal, ticker, timeline, captain’s note, next phase, and airport board. Every overlay works through a private no-login link.
• Live Traffic: See human and AI pilots flying in real time, discover their routes, publish your own live flights, and get discovered. AI traffic can be disabled in Settings.
• Referrals: Invite friends with your personal referral link. As soon as they join, you’re automatically connected as crew.
• Notifications: Stay updated with connection requests, crew flights, achievements, and other important events from your Hub.
• Map: Switch instantly between Map, Satellite, and Airspace views.
• Settings: Redesigned with a cleaner layout and additional customization options.
• Global Search: Find anything instantly with ⌘K on macOS, Ctrl+K on Windows, or from the search bar in the top navigation.

• Routes: initial catalog of 2k+ routes. Favorite routes, route discovery, community routes, voting.
• Boarding passes
• Logbook
• Hangar
• Public pilot profile
• World map with user flights

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