Free for MSFS 2020 and 2024
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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Built on open data: OurAirportsSimBriefVATSIMIVAOaviationweather.govOpenStreetMapEsri World ImageryRainViewer
Everything on one screen
Off block to on block, scheduled against estimated against actual, with local times from your SimBrief plan.
From the demo flight
Every taxiway named, every runway numbered, from OpenStreetMap. Zurich, as the app draws it. Plus sharp satellite imagery, your route and trail, and VATSIM, IVAO and SayIntentions traffic.
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.
Prop your iPad on the desk. Big numbers, screen kept awake, and spoken callouts from 2,500 ft down to 10.
Switch on the networks you fly with. Each gets its own colour on the map.
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.
Example numbers to show the layout. First logbook row is the demo flight; the other two are examples.
Remote control and live camera
Set the autopilot, flick the lights, start the engines and watch the cockpit from your iPad, phone or laptop. No subscription, nothing locked.
Your sim PC shares its screen, and your iPad watches it over your Wi-Fi, device to device. Switch between cockpit, outside and drone views from the couch.
Glidepath checks the simulator's own data after each tap. You see Done only when the sim actually changed, and a plain warning when an aircraft ignores a control.
Uses the simulator's standard controls. Default aircraft respond to all of them; PMDG, Fenix and FSLabs run their own systems and may ignore some. Built and checked on our side; first tests in the sim are happening now.
Gate to gate
The real wording the app uses. Shown on screen, read out loud if you like, and as notifications when Glidepath is in the background.
The debrief
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.
Smooth touchdown at 140 fpm. Exactly what you want.
The same wording the app uses after every landing.
From the demo flight
A smooth takeoff and a smooth landing at 140 fpm on 23R.
When it goes wrong, it says so
Real lines the engine writes for flights we generated to be rough.
Demo
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.
Your month, in your inbox
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.
GlidepathYour October in the air: 1h 30m, 2 flights
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+.
Written by the real email code from two test flights.
Set up in two minutes
Run the installer on your sim PC, then open Glidepath Bridge from the desktop. It finds Microsoft Flight Simulator by itself.
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.
Recording starts when you push back. When you park, your debrief is waiting.
No black box
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.
| Factor | Full marks | Weight | Demo landing |
|---|
Aircraft
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.
| Aircraft | Tracking and debrief | Add-on extras | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Default MSFS 2020 / 2024 aircraft | Built, testing now | None needed | Uses the standard simulator data directly. |
| Fenix A319 / A320 / A321 | Built, testing now | EFB and MCDU in Cockpit tools: built, not yet tried | Fuel is read from the standard data; Fenix may report it differently. |
| FSLabs A321 | Built, testing now | EFB in Cockpit tools: built, not yet tried | Uses port 23032 by default; another port can be added in the app. |
| FlyByWire A32NX / A380X | Built, testing now | MCDU through SimBridge: built, not yet tried | Start SimBridge for the MCDU. |
| PMDG 737 | Built, testing now | CDU on iPad: planned | Needs PMDG's SDK switched on in its options file. |
| PMDG 777 | Built, testing now | CDU on iPad: planned | Same as the 737. |
| iniBuilds A350 | Built, testing now | None planned yet | Standard data only. |
Tested flown and checked · Built, testing now written against the documentation, first real flights under way · Planned not built yet
Honest status
Glidepath is early. If something isn't built, or hasn't been tested with a real simulator, this list says so.
No plans, no tiers
Other companion apps keep remote control, history and the good bits behind a monthly fee. Glidepath doesn't have a paid version.
Made for
Cook dinner during a 9-hour cruise. Top of descent and ATC alerts find you; the camera shows the flight deck from the kitchen.
Every controller and pilot on the map, live boards for your airports, and a message when your centre comes online.
Seven-factor grades with the thresholds published, a touchdown diagram and a replay of every approach.
Put the iPad next to your yoke: map, autopilot, engines and checklists without alt-tabbing.
Questions
Yes. There is no paid version and nothing is locked. Glidepath runs on free services, and your flight data stays on your own PC and devices.
No. Open the app link in Safari on your iPad or iPhone and add it to your Home Screen. It also works in any browser on Android, Mac and PC.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 and 2024. X-Plane isn't supported yet.
Partly. Glidepath uses the simulator's standard controls. Default aircraft respond to all of them; study-level add-ons run their own systems and may ignore some. Every button tells you whether the sim actually changed.
Not yet. Today everything runs over your home Wi-Fi. Watching over mobile data needs a small free relay server and is next on the list.
No. The Bridge talks to the sim through SimConnect, which is built into Microsoft Flight Simulator.
Live telemetry never leaves your network. If you make an account, only flight summaries are stored, so your logbook follows you between devices. Delete your account in the app and it's all gone.
Windows shows that for new apps that aren't code-signed yet. Check the file's SHA-256 against the one on this page, then choose More info and Run. The code is open on GitHub.
For 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 or 2024. Free.
Prefer no installer? Download the zip (its SHA-256). Open source: read the code on GitHub.