Free for MSFS 2020 and 2024

Your flight. Every detail. One screen.

Glidepath reads your flight straight from Microsoft Flight Simulator and puts it live on your iPad, phone or second screen. When you park, you get a real debrief of the takeoff, the approach and the landing.

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  • Free
  • Windows 10 and 11
  • MSFS 2020 and 2024
  • iPad, phone, PC
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Thursday 5 November

Demo replay

Built on open data: OurAirportsSimBriefVATSIMIVAOaviationweather.govOpenStreetMapSentinel-2

Everything on one screen

Built for the hour you spend at FL360, and the thirty seconds before touchdown.

Every timing, the way airlines keep them

Off block to on block, scheduled against estimated against actual, with local times from your SimBrief plan.

OUT1001Zoff block
OFF1006Ztake-off
TOC1018Ztop of climb
TOD1020Zest
ON1037Zest
IN1041Zest

From the demo flight

Satellite map with your trail

Sentinel-2 imagery or six street styles. Your route, your trail, and VATSIM, IVAO and SayIntentions traffic around you.

A copilot that talks like one

When do we start down?

CopilotTop of descent in about 12 minutes, around 1020Z. Plan on 2,000 fpm for a 3° path at this groundspeed.

Fuel?

Copilot5,480 kg on board. At this burn we land with about 5,380, 130 above plan.

Answers from the demo flight. Works with no AI service at all; hook up a free model on your PC for open questions.

Glance mode

Prop your iPad on the desk. Big numbers, screen kept awake, and spoken callouts from 2,500 ft down to 10.

Everyone else in the sky

Switch on the networks you fly with. Each gets its own colour on the map.

  • VATSIMHuman ATC and pilots
  • IVAOHuman ATC and pilots
  • SayIntentionsPilots on AI ATC

A logbook that keeps itself

Every flight saves itself when you park. Your hours, your average landing, your records, and a year of flying at a glance, on every device you sign in to.

Hours flown41h 20m
Flights23
Average landing168 fpm
Airports17
  • EGLL → EGCCA320, 168 nm, 0h 45mSmooth140 fpmA+
  • OMDB → OOMSB738, 182 nm, 1h 05mFirm310 fpmB
  • EGKK → LPFRA20N, 1,040 nm, 2h 51mNormal205 fpmA

Example numbers to show the layout. First logbook row is the demo flight; the other two are examples.

The debrief

Park at the gate and find out how it actually went.

Glidepath measures your takeoff from the roll to 1,500 ft, checks your approach at 1,000 and 500 ft, and describes your touchdown in the words pilots use. Drag the slider to feel the difference.

Touchdown Smooth
140fpm

Smooth touchdown at 140 fpm. Exactly what you want.

The same wording the app uses after every landing.

From the demo flight

Good flight. Tidy from start to finish.

A smooth takeoff and a smooth landing at 140 fpm on 23R.

  • ✓Smooth rotation at 2.7° a second, right where it should be.
  • ✓Climb attitude of 15°, in the normal 12–18° range.
  • ✓Stable at 1,000 ft: 140 kt, 699 fpm down, gear down.
  • ✓In the touchdown zone, 1,671 ft in, on the centreline.
TakeoffSmooth, by-the-bookA+
Climb and cruiseWithin limits✓
ApproachStable✓
LandingSmooth, 140 fpmA+

When it goes wrong, it says so

  • !You snatched the rotation at 7° a second. That's how tail strikes happen; pull steadily, about 2–3.5° a second.
  • !Pitched up too far after lift-off, 24° nose up. Follow the flight director, normally 12–18°, or the speed bleeds away.
  • !Not stable at 1,000 ft: gear still up. Most airlines would call a go-around there.
  • !Hard landing at 720 fpm. Beyond about 600 fpm (10 ft/s) most airliners need a hard-landing inspection.

Real lines the engine writes for flights we generated to be rough.

Demo

Heathrow to Manchester in two minutes.

This is the real flight engine running over a synthetic test flight we generated to test it. Watch it spot each phase, predict the top of descent, and grade the landing. The live card on the phone above follows along.

Altitude against distance flown, from London Heathrow to Manchester. The flown path is drawn as the replay advances.
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    Your month, in your inbox

    A short email on the 1st about how you flew.

    Hours, landings, your best flight, how it compares with last month, and the one thing worth working on. Written from your own flights, sent to the email you signed up with. Turn it off any time.

    • Sign in on as many devices, and as many accounts, as you like.
    • Signed-in devices find your PC on your Wi-Fi by themselves.
    • Only flight summaries go to your account. Live telemetry stays on your PC.
    GlidepathYour October in the air: 1h 30m, 2 flights
    GLIDEPATH · OCTOBER 20261h 30m2 flights, 336 nm

    You flew 2 flights in October, 1h 30m block to block over 336 nm.

    Your landings averaged 140 fpm, which is smooth. The best was 140 fpm into EGCC, graded A+.

    Longest flight0h 45m, EGLL to EGCC
    Most flownA320, 1h 30m
    Landings by feelSmooth 2

    Written by the real email code from two test flights.

    Set up in two minutes

    No account. No Community folder. Your flight stays on your Wi-Fi.

    1. 1

      Run the Bridge

      Run the installer on your sim PC, then open Glidepath Bridge from the desktop. It finds Microsoft Flight Simulator by itself.

    2. 2

      Type the code

      Open the Glidepath app on your iPad and type the 6-digit code shown on your PC. That's it: you're connected over your Wi-Fi.

    3. 3

      Fly

      Recording starts when you push back. When you park, your debrief is waiting.

    No black box

    A landing grade you can check.

    Sink rate alone doesn't tell you how good a landing was. Glidepath scores seven things against limits for your type of aircraft. A factor without data is left out rather than guessed, and a hard landing caps the grade however good the rest was.

    Scoring for a narrow-body jet such as the A320 or 737, straight from the engine.
    FactorFull marksWeightDemo landing

    Aircraft

    Which aircraft work, honestly.

    Every aircraft gives Glidepath its position, altitude, speeds and attitude through the simulator's standard data, so tracking and the landing debrief work with all of them. Add-on extras are listed separately. Nothing here is marked tested until it has been flown.

    AircraftTracking and debriefAdd-on extrasNotes
    Default MSFS 2020 / 2024 aircraftBuilt, testing nowNone neededUses the standard simulator data directly.
    Fenix A319 / A320 / A321Built, testing nowEFB and MCDU in Cockpit tools: built, not yet triedFuel is read from the standard data; Fenix may report it differently.
    FSLabs A321Built, testing nowEFB in Cockpit tools: built, not yet triedUses port 23032 by default; another port can be added in the app.
    FlyByWire A32NX / A380XBuilt, testing nowMCDU through SimBridge: built, not yet triedStart SimBridge for the MCDU.
    PMDG 737Built, testing nowCDU on iPad: plannedNeeds PMDG's SDK switched on in its options file.
    PMDG 777Built, testing nowCDU on iPad: plannedSame as the 737.
    iniBuilds A350Built, testing nowNone planned yetStandard data only.

    Tested flown and checked · Built, testing now written against the documentation, first real flights under way · Planned not built yet

    Honest status

    What works today, and what doesn't yet.

    Glidepath is early. If something isn't built, or hasn't been tested with a real simulator, this list says so.

    Built and tested

    • Flight phases, from preflight to on blocks, including pauses, bounces and go-arounds.
    • Debrief of takeoff, handling, approach and landing, in plain words.
    • Landing grades from seven factors, aircraft-aware, all thresholds published above.
    • Every timing, scheduled against estimated against actual.
    • Copilot answers, alerts and spoken callouts.
    • Recording and logbook on your PC, resumed after a sim restart, with career totals.
    • The app on iPad, iPhone, Android, Mac and PC, in dark and light mode.
    • Glideslope messages at each stage: cruise reached, top of descent, approach, touchdown.
    • Connecting by code: type the 6-digit code from your PC into the app.
    • Flight replay of any recorded flight, on the map and in 3D, with speed control.
    • Checklists for Airbus and Boeing style flying, the right one opening for your phase. Simplified for sim use, not copied from any manual.
    • Badges earned from your own logbook: butter landings, long haul, night landings, airports visited and more.

    Built, waiting for real-world testing

    • Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 and 2024. Written against Microsoft's documentation; first real test flights are happening now.
    • The Windows app. Packaged and checked, not yet run on many PCs.
    • SimBrief, weather, VATSIM, IVAO and SayIntentions traffic and ATC, rain radar, METAR weather dots, aircraft photos. Built against each service's published format; VATSIM, IVAO and radar checked against the live feeds.
    • Cockpit tools: Fenix and FSLabs EFBs, the GSX remote and FlyByWire SimBridge, opened from your PC. Built on each add-on's documented address, not yet tried with every add-on.
    • Airport maps with taxiways, gates and stands, and a 3D chase view over real terrain.
    • Lights messages and reminders (beacon, strobes, landing lights at 10,000 ft). Work with aircraft that use the simulator's standard light switches; some add-ons, like Fenix, run their own and may not report them.
    • Sharper satellite map from Esri World Imagery near airports and cities, with roads and airport markings on top.
    • Accounts: sign up, sign in, several accounts per device, flights synced between devices. Built on Cloudflare and tested locally; live once the service is deployed. The monthly email needs an email service on top.

    Not built yet

    • Native iPhone and iPad app with a Lock Screen Live Activity.
    • PMDG 737 and 777 CDU on your iPad, through PMDG's SDK.
    • Remote control of your aircraft, and X-Plane.

    Glidepath Bridge for Windows

    For 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 or 2024. Free.

    Download the installer Try the app first, no install
    Version
    —
    Size
    About 30 MB
    Installs to
    Program Files, with Start menu and desktop shortcuts. Uninstall from Settings › Apps.
    SHA-256 (installer)
    —

    Prefer no installer? Download the zip (its SHA-256). Open source: read the code on GitHub.

    Installing, step by step

    1. Run the installer. Windows asks for permission once: the installer lets your iPad reach the Bridge through Windows Firewall.
    2. If Windows shows “Windows protected your PC”: that's SmartScreen. It appears for new apps that aren't code-signed yet (signing is coming). You can check the file first: its SHA-256 should match the one on this page. Then choose More info and Run.
    3. Open Glidepath Bridge from the desktop. It shows a 6-digit code.
    4. On your iPad, open the Glidepath app and type the code.
    Something not working?
    • The iPad can't connect: make sure it's on the same Wi-Fi as the PC. If the code isn't found, tap Type my PC's address instead and enter the numbers from the Bridge window, or open glidepath.local:4810 in Safari.
    • The sim isn't found: start MSFS and load into a flight, then run Test MSFS connection from the Start menu and send the report.
    • Anything else: Start menu › Glidepath › Bridge logs, and send the newest log file.

    Sign in to download

    One account for the download, your logbook on every device, and the monthly email.