OzRunways/Apple temporary glitch (and workarounds).

[Garfly]

I came across this glitch today (apparently iOS specific) and emailed Support about it.

I post the exchange here in case it saves others the bother.

 

Subject: 'Set as Plan Origin' crashes app.

Date: 28 October 2025 at 12:09:50 AEDT

To: [email protected]

 

Dear Support,

this is a strange one. Today, I noticed [on iPhone 15 Pro Max (iOS 18.6.2)] that when selecting airports to ‘Set as Plan Origin’ the app crashes to the device’s home screen. This happens most of the time, though there seem to be a few (random?) airports that it accepts normally.  And it seems to remember those few favourites on reboot. However, for most places, it quits as soon as they're selected as Plan Origins and continues to do so on subsequent tries.  Have you come across this before? Has anything changed in the code that might have caused it?

It doesn't seem to be happening with my iPad mini nor with my older standby iPhone.  Of course, I've tried restarting the device, and altering any parameter I can think of but nothing seems to fix the problem.  I've even tried in Simulator mode where position info is being supplied by X-Plane (in case it was a device gps glitch) but the same thing happens in the virtual universe. Any advice would be appreciated.

... BTW, a workaround I've found that seems to do the job is to make a new User Waypoint and move it to the location of the desired (but glitchy) airport and use that for the plan instead.  

All the best, 

Gary.

 

From: OzRunways Support <[email protected]>

Subject: Re: 'Set as Plan Origin' crashes app.

Date: 28 October 2025 at 14:12:52 AEDT

Reply-To: OzRunways Support <[email protected]>

Hi Gary,
We've fixed this up for the next app update which will be available soon, I expect in the next couple of weeks.
 A workaround in the meantime is to plan using Quick Plan instead of tapping on the map. The Quick Planner is covered in the first part of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPb1rHAgX6M - please excuse the old style layout, the Quick Planner still functions the same!
 Cheers
Jake