RELEASE NOTES / LLOYDPILOT.COM

What changed,
and when.

Version numbers live here rather than in the interface. Each entry is taken from the site's commit history; the game at play.lloydpilot.com keeps its own version.

1.2.0

Shared navigation, a hero you can act on, and My Hangar

  • One header and footer for every page. Play, Aircraft, Meet Lloyd and My Hangar, grouped into a single Menu on phones. Destinations that are not built yet are simply absent rather than shown as “coming soon”.
  • Homepage hero. Three real actions at the top: the featured aircraft lab, today’s challenge and the arcade. A short line on who makes the site, with Meet Lloyd one link away.
  • Today’s challenge. One question a day from the Sunday Brief collection, chosen by the date so everyone gets the same one, answered with the same explanations and pilot’s perspective as the briefs.
  • My Hangar replaces My Flightbook. Brief progress and Aircraft Atlas progress in one panel, plus optional preferences (explanation depth, favorite aircraft, mission interests), a saved-plans list, and export, import and delete for everything the site stores in your browser. Existing progress is kept as it was; nothing syncs between devices or with the game.
  • Aircraft Atlas, multi-aircraft. Pretty routes at /atlas/<aircraft>, an aircraft switcher in the header, per-aircraft identity and fact tables with a Sources & provenance drawer, and a page, poster and share image per aircraft. The Cherokee 180 remains the default.
  • This page. Release notes, linked from the footer.
1.1.0

The Aircraft Atlas

  • An interactive 3D Piper Cherokee 180 at /atlas: six systems and 64 parts to pull apart, isolate and inspect, with guided tours and short checkrides.
  • Works without WebGL. A text and schematic atlas with the same content when 3D is unavailable, and deep links for every system, part, tour and view.
  • Progress in your browser. Atlas exploration and checkride results are recorded on the device and shown on the homepage as well.
  • Homepage. An Atlas section with linked system chips, a share card rendered from the model, responsive hero image sizes, asset caching, structured data and a branded “off course” page.
Open the Aircraft Atlas
1.0.0

The homepage, as served

  • The Sunday Brief. A three-minute learning brief each week from a collection of twelve, with “I’m curious” and “I fly” explanation levels and a link to its source.
  • My Flightbook. Completed briefs and revisit reminders, kept in the browser with no account.
  • The Hangar, Time Back and the cockpit. Beechcraft Baron 58P and Piper Cherokee 180 stories, the door-to-door travel time comparison, and a Piper cockpit explorer with instrument questions.
  • Field notes, sources and follow-ups. Heritage features, photography and source credits, privacy notes, an RSS feed, a Sunday calendar reminder and links to the game.

Dates are the commit dates of each release in the site repository. Sources for the educational content are listed under Photography & sources; to suggest a correction, say hello on Instagram.