SkyChart Patch Notes v0.6.101.2 -> v0.6.101.14

v0.6.101.14: Casey's QoL Clipboard

• Bulk Replace: Select All and Deselect All buttons. Casey got tired of clicking 47 checkboxes one by one.

• Engine and modification picker now shows absolute stats alongside the percentages. 'Range: 5,200 km (+6%)' beats '+6%' when you're trying to reach Honolulu.

• Tutorial step dots are clickable. Jump forward or backward through a chapter without restarting. Casey approves of skipping the parts you already know.

• Swapping to a different aircraft now rescales your cabin layout. Your 20% business / 80% economy split carries over to the new airframe instead of reverting to all-economy.

• Crew Wage Boost gets a bulk-apply button. Set it on one route, then apply to every route flying the same aircraft type.

v0.6.101.13: Casey Reads the Suggestion Box

• Route creation wizard now shows a region filter. 532 cities sorted by region. Casey reorganized the filing cabinet.

• Estimated monthly profit appears during route setup. Green means money, red means turbulence. Pick your aircraft and both cities to see it.

• AddedStrategic Advisornew Settings toggle to hide multi-stop routes by default. One less thing between you and your point-to-point empire.

• Financial History charts added to the Market Dashboard. Cash, profit, and revenue plotted across every quarter since your airline's founding. Casey's been keeping the receipts.

• Eastern Bloc aircraft rebalanced. The Il-14, Il-76, Tu-204, Il-114, Tu-204-300, V-100, and L-410 had prices that made your CFO cry. Seven price corrections bring Soviet iron closer to their Western equivalents.

• Aircraft Catalog gains a 'Hide retired' checkbox. No more scrolling past biplanes to find your next widebody.

• Route Manager search bar. Type a city name, IATA code, or aircraft name to filter your routes instantly.

• Demand formula documented in the Help Guide. Now you can see exactly how economy, population, era propensity, and your demand slider combine.

v0.6.101.12: Casey Fixes the Price Tag

• Custom Order Spec now updates the Aircraft Info panel. Previously, saving a custom build (MTOW-C, extended tanks, premium seating, etc.) showed 'Pending custom spec' but kept displaying stock values for price, ETOPS, delivery time, and order totals. Casey found the spec sheet was reading from the wrong clipboard.

• Order totals, max affordable count, and the PLACE ORDER button all reflect your custom spec price. A $8.7M custom 707 no longer pretends to cost $4M on the receipt.

v0.6.101.11: Casey Teaches the Rivals to Read a Balance Sheet

• AI rivals now pay down their emergency loans instead of drowning in interest forever. Previously, a rival that borrowed $5M would bleed interest until the heat death of the universe. Now they chip away at the principal when they can afford it. Casey has explained the concept of 'amortization' to several board members.

• Leased aircraft can now be re-leased. When a profitable route's lease expires, and the rival can't afford a full buyout, they renew the lease instead of losing the route. Casey found three airlines closing their best routes because the paperwork said 'lease expired' and nobody thought to call the leasing company back.

• Rivals stop stockpiling aircraft when they're broke. Legacy carriers used to speculatively buy aircraft into their hangars even when they couldn't make payroll. Now they hold off until cash is above $2M. Casey confiscated their catalogs.

• Monthly emergency route pruning. When an airline's cash drops near the bankruptcy line, they now close their worst route immediately instead of waiting for the quarterly review. Three months of bleeding can be the difference between survival and receivership.

• Fleet size caps have been raised and now scale with era. Late-game AI can field bigger fleets on popular routes, especially at greater difficulties. A 1990s airline running widebodies on London-New York shouldn't be capped at 6 planes while you run 20.

• Smarter pricing. AI now recognizes monopoly routes and charges a premium. Raises are bigger on full planes, cuts are faster on empty ones. Rivals that lose money despite decent load factors will raise prices instead of accepting the bleed.

• Struggling airlines now cut costs proactively. When cash drops below $1M, rivals downgrade all maintenance, shed fleet on under-loaded routes, and liquidate hangar stock. Previously, they just watched the bank account drain while doing nothing about it.

v0.6.101.10: Casey Paves the Runway and Opens the Terminal

• Runway Extension investments now work in the modern era. Previously, your investment bonus was capped at the airport's real-world runway length, which meant spending millions on extensions at a late-game airport did nothing. The bonus now adds on top of the natural runway. Casey found the old construction crew stopped pouring concrete at the property line. They have been given a stern talking-to.

• Airport Browser now has a search field. Type any city name or airport code and hit Enter. If the airport has a detailed profile, you get the full infrastructure view. If not, it opens the City Panel so you can buy a hub and invest. Previously, you could only browse the 37 authored airports from the dropdown.

• Hub Investments panel gains an 'Open any airport' search bar. Type a city name or code to jump straight to its City Panel for hub purchases and investment management. No more hunting for dots on the map.

• Global search results expanded from 10 to 25. Shorter search queries now show more matching cities and routes.

v0.6.101.9: Casey Tunes the Radio and Opens the Order Book

• Demand rebalanced across all eras. The 1940s and 1950s were quieter than a graveyard shift at a closed airport. Casey dug into the historical passenger data and built an era propensity curve. Early aviation is still niche, but the postwar boom through the jet age now fills seats the way it should. The year 2000 remains the baseline.

• Wartime events softened. D-Day now boosts demand instead of penalizing it. Pearl Harbor ends sooner. The Korean War and Berlin Blockade are shorter and less punishing. Casey reviewed the records and concluded the old numbers were grounding too many planes.

• Batch pre-orders are here. You can now pre-purchase 1, 5, 10, 15, or 20 aircraft at once, just like regular orders. Type a custom quantity or hit the quick-select buttons. Launch partner discounts apply automatically to your pre-order balance. Casey has been printing receipts all morning.

• Airport slot throughput documented. The Player Help Guide now explains exactly how airport operations capacity works: the formula, era scaling, how flights consume ops, and what happens when you hit the cap. Casey wrote it on the back of a napkin and then typed it up properly.

v0.6.101.8: Casey Secures the Hangar and Fixes the Order Desk

• Custom aircraft specs now stick. When you customize an order through the spec sheet and wait months for delivery, your avionics, seating, and cargo door choices are waiting on the tarmac. Previously, specs could get lost between ordering and delivery if you opened the customizer again for a different aircraft. Casey found the paperwork jammed in the wrong filing cabinet.

• Steam ownership verification added. Achievements, leaderboards, and cloud saves require a verified Steam copy. If you bought the game on itch.io, nothing changes for you. Casey just wants to know who has a boarding pass and who climbed in through the cargo hold.

v0.6.101.7: Casey Expands the Fleet and Adds Route Conversions

• Five new aircraft fill gaps in the roster. Pacifica Stormbird (1959 turboprop) bridges the piston-to-jet era. Bering 720 (1960) plugs the six-year hole between the 707 and 727. Volga V-100 (2011) brings a modern regional jet to the Russian brand. Shortland 360 (1982 turboprop) gives Shortland a second life past the flying boat era. Convex CV-340 (1952) shores up the 1950s lineup. Roster now at 206 aircraft.

• Scheduled routes can now be converted to air-taxi service and back. Small aircraft (under 50 seats) show a conversion button on the route panel. No need to close and re-create the route to switch modes.

• Changing a route's pricing strategy now pops a confirmation toast showing the selected strategy and its effect. Casey got tired of watching CEOs click buttons and wonder what happened.

v0.6.101.6: Casey Brings Three New Sandbox Tools

• ETOPS regulations are live. Twin-engine aircraft now face overwater restrictions based on real history. Before 1985, no twin crosses more than 60 minutes of open ocean. After that, your ETOPS rating (set by avionics and crew rest) determines how far over water you can fly. Tri-engine and quad-engine birds are exempt. Check the spec sheet for your aircraft's ETOPS clearance.

• New sandbox option: Randomize Rival Regions. Your AI competitors start in shuffled home regions instead of their usual countries. Keeps the early game unpredictable.

• AddedNew sandbox sliderDemand Level. Scale global passenger demand from 0.5x to 3.0x. Crank it up for crowded skies, dial it down for a lean challenge. Available in campaign setup and in-game settings.

v0.6.101.5: Casey Upgrades the Aircraft Catalog

• When a supply chain event restricts an aircraft, the catalog now tells you exactly why. Manufacturer on strike? Export ban? Parts shortage? The buy button says so, along with how many months you have to wait. No more guessing behind a generic 'Supply-chain restricted' label.

• Each decade header in the Aircraft Catalog now has a Ban/Unban button. One click bans every aircraft in the 1950s, or unbans the whole 1970s if you changed your mind. The count shows how many you have banned out of the total.

• New toggle in Settings under Banned Aircraft: 'AI Rivals Respect Your Bans.' Turn it on, and your rivals skip the same aircraft you have blacklisted. Handy for removing planes you find ahistorical or just plain ugly from the entire game. Casey filed it under 'market regulation.'

v0.6.101.4: Casey Patches the Catalog and Guards the Supply Chain

• Custom aircraft names now show correctly in the order summary and the upgrade view button. Previously, your lovingly renamed 'Lockheed Super Constellation' still read as 'Pacifica Skystar Plus' on the purchase receipt. Casey has words for whoever typeset those labels.

• Supply chain events (manufacturer strikes and export bans) can no longer lock out every available aircraft in the catalog. If only one manufacturer is left standing, the event quietly fizzles. Dawn of Flight players with two manufacturers will stop getting stranded for a year with nothing to buy.

v0.6.101.3: Casey Fixes 67 Percent Signs

• Sixty-seven UI strings were showing literal '%%' instead of '%' across tooltips, event descriptions, hub investment panels, and patch notes. Casey went through with a bottle of correction fluid and a very steady wing.

• All 29 translated languages recovered and corrected in the same pass. No translation was lost in the cleanup.