Changelog

Skybus Ops Dashboard — release history

v3.1.1 16 Oct 2026 Latest
  • New
    Your flights from the old crew center are in your logbook under Archived flights.
  • New
    Ops and admins can browse and search every archived flight from the PIREP review page.
v3.1.2 16 Oct 2026
  • Fix
    Dispatching now opens SimBrief straight away. Browsers were blocking the SimBrief tab as a pop-up on the new crew center address.
  • Fix
    Waiting for SimBrief no longer fills the logs with errors while you generate your OFP.
  • Fix
    The phpVMS import skips two pilots with the same email instead of stopping, and never writes a password hash to the logs.
v3.1.0 15 Oct 2026
  • New
    Training has its own section in the top bar: your courses, the training library, your training record and checkrides, with instructor and management tools for those who need them.
  • New
    Every pilot has a training record showing their checkrides, line checks, exams, courses and onboarding in one place.
  • New
    Training Managers: a new flag on the user page lets someone run training — exams, content, courses, grading sheets and assignments — without being an admin.
  • New
    Line checks. Instructors grade them on a sheet of satisfactory/unsatisfactory items, optionally against a flight report, and each pass is valid for 12 months.
  • New
    Line-check currency: pilots are reminded 30 days before their line check is due, and grounded once it is more than 14 days overdue until an instructor schedules or records it.
  • New
    Training library with YouTube and Vimeo videos and PDF documents. A video counts once it has been watched to the end; a document once you confirm you have read it.
  • New
    Courses: ordered steps of videos, documents and exams that unlock one after another. Start one yourself from the Library.
  • New
    Training Managers can write new exams, and checkrides can be graded on a sheet too.
  • New
    Training can be assigned to pilots with a due date, by hand or automatically by rules (all active pilots, trainees, a type rating, or a hub). Courses can repeat every year or on any interval.
  • New
    "Assigned to me" lists your training and its due dates, with email reminders before and after the due date.
  • New
    A training overview for Training Managers: who is grounded and why, what is overdue, what is due soon, and how each course is going.
  • Change
    The onboarding checklist, exams, checkrides and checkride review have moved under Training. Old links still work.
  • Change
    A course can be set to ground pilots once it is overdue past its grace period. Every booking screen and ACARS say exactly why.
  • Fix
    The top bar no longer overlaps on tablet and small-laptop screens; below 1024px it switches to the menu button.
v3.0.8 13 Oct 2026
  • New
    Pilots now join by applying on skybusva.com. An accepted application creates the crew account on its own and emails the new pilot their welcome link.
  • New
    Applicants answer a written interview before anyone decides on them, and their answers travel with the application.
  • New
    New pilots start on an onboarding checklist: set a password, choose a hub, add a SimBrief name, connect ACARS, then sit the exams.
  • New
    Indoc exam covering Skybus procedures. Questions are drawn at random from a pool, and the pass mark, pool size and retake cooldown are all editable per exam.
  • New
    A systems exam for each aircraft family, sat before that family's checkride.
  • New
    Checkrides. Book a set route for your family, fly and file it as normal, then an instructor passes or fails it. A pass grants that family's type rating and credits the hours.
  • New
    Instructors are flagged per aircraft family and review checkrides from their own queue, with notes required on every verdict.
  • New
    Admin screens for exam questions, checkride routes, onboarding progress, and pilots whose type ratings still need setting.
  • Change
    A trainee cannot fly the line until a checkride has been signed off. Pilots who were already flying are unaffected.
  • Change
    Public sign-up is closed. Pilots join through an accepted application, or an admin adds them by hand from the Users page.
  • Change
    Email now sends through Resend, and every message has a plain-text version.
  • Fix
    Flight and maintenance notes require a login to read. They were readable by anyone who knew the URL.
  • Fix
    Pages built from many components no longer re-read the settings table once per component, which was costing a query per row on list-heavy screens.