mechcounter5.5.2 - App Store

See the time remaining, flight plan (when available), landing time, altitude, ground speed, times at origin and destination, and your plane on a map.

Version History - Alertness Now: advice shows the next few things on one side of the next
sleep only
- Live notification follows the map's live session instead of a stalled snapshot.
- PBS website extension 5.5.2 2d ago Bug fix: Manually added trips store even when imported calendar is corrupt. More accurate gate retrieval for night time departures. 5.5.1 Sep 10 Direction chevrons (> > > > ) along the outbound (gray) and inbound routes.
- Your own aircraft leaves live breadcrumbs during flight (not just
nearby/inbound planes).
- Inbound popover fixed: in-flight shows flight + NXT; parked shows NXT on top
/ LAST on bottom; always shows a to–from (the AAL660 "no route" case).
- Wind particles now match the METAR direction/speed over origin and
destination airports (0 kt → particles stop). 5.5 Sep 1 Better inbound aircraft tracking. 5.4.1 Aug 27 Wind particles and storm cell vectors + bug fixes 5.4 Aug 19 Adds delay reason when available. 5.3.2 Aug 11 Trips & cross-device sync
- Cross-device sync: Sign in with Apple enrichment
- Better handling of return-to-gate scenarios
- Add-flight search reworked.

Inbound-aircraft tracking
- Identify the inbound airframe by tail and follow it through its whole rotation; always-on breadcrumbs

Timeline
- Min-width taxi time spans, same-flight-number rotation safeguards
- Flight number shown always in timeline;

Disruptions
- Cancelled/diverted flights surfaced on cards, timeline, and search; local notifications on enrichment transitions plus the push handler

Map
- Simplified airplane-annotation policy and route-drawing fixes; hidden airplane stays hidden through tap/track/pan/zoom; route centering fits the strip between status bar and timeline; cancel button on the loading screen

Weather
- Turbulence switched from a tile layer to contour polygons for faster loading on slow internet.

Housekeeping
- Legacy Panasonic WISP/SSE code fully removed; project restricted to iPhone/iPad; YX airline-code fix (Republic, not Midwest);
radiation-store cleanup for deleted flights; a UTC-parsing fix. 5.3.1 Aug 8 Updates runway coordinates for July 2026 5.2 Jul 16 Bug fixes and adds cosmic radiation exposure tracking and departure runways. 5.1 Jul 15 Inbound aircraft info for American Airline flights. Delta Airlines and United Airlines Flight schedules. Manually add and save flights or have them read automatically off your calendar. 5 Jun 24 Visual bug fixes. 4.3 Apr 11 Nearby aircraft button. 4.2 Apr 7 Fixes access to Panasonic systems. Adds expected runway (available in the last 15min-30min of flight). Creates more realistic descent and ascent curves for the timeline based on estimated and scheduled air time. 4.0.1 Mar 21 Turbulence Tile System - Added new higher resolution turbulence map.
FAA Airspace Flow Programs on Map - NAS Status with polygon and polyline data when NEXRAD layer is enabled
METAR Remarks Decoder - full METAR remarks decoder with ~30 remark types
Arrival​Weather​Service - fetches METAR/TAF for destination airport
ACARS Messages - fed from airframes.io
Apple Watch version has more efficient rendering to save battery
Live status widget and dynamic island content that receives ground based data from FAA every 60 seconds. 4.0 Mar 19 Boeing Alertness Model for fatigue tracking. Airplane following on the map. 3.0 Feb 16 Better tile loading on the airplane. 2.92 Feb 1 Adds weather radar and turbulence models to the iOS map. 2.9 Jan 26 Lowers the flight info field to not interfere with the iPhone camera. 2.8.8 Jan 6 Adds flight plan when available to iOS version. 2.8.7 12/17/2025 Thicker flight plan line 2.8.6 12/15/2025 Fixes airplane icon heading on viasat aircraft. 1.8.5 11/25/2025 Bug fixes. 1.8.4 11/21/2025 Bug fix 1.8.3 08/27/2025 Bug fix. 1.8.2 08/20/2025 Bug fixes. 1.8.1 08/18/2025