Release 3.0

Last updated 2026-07-10

Released 13th July 2026 (102)

The Watch begins. FlatoutATC's biggest update yet. A full career campaign told in seasons, search and rescue woven into the story, a new airport, and a new way to unlock the game.

A career campaign, The Watch, with two seasons and fourteen episodes.
Charlotte (KCLT) joins the map.
The Logbook, a permanent record of every level you clear.
Career is now Ratings, with a cleaner path through your qualifications.
Smarter AI traffic that flies around the weather.

🎖️ The Watch: a career in seasons

Step into the tower as a new controller and earn your place one shift at a time. There is a full cast, a story that carries from episode to episode, and a debrief after every shift.

Season 1: First Watch. Seven episodes. Your first solo, your first radio failure, and your first engine-out, alongside Mac, Rosa, and Sam.
Season 2: The Incident Desk. Seven episodes built around search and rescue, including one cooperative multi-aircraft rescue.

Season 3, The Crossing, is coming soon. You will see it in the campaign with a "Soon" tag, and it will switch on later.

🚁 Search and rescue, now part of the story

The Special Ops and Rescue mechanic is woven into the campaign. Follow the survivor's signal, hold a steady hover to hoist, and beat the survival clock. One Season 2 episode even hands you a cooperative multi-aircraft rescue.

🛬 Charlotte joins the map

Charlotte Douglas (KCLT), a new level with real runways and published procedures.

📖 The Logbook

Every level you clear now writes a permanent record you can look back on. It is your career history in one place.

🎓 Ratings

Career is now called Ratings, with a cleaner path through your qualifications.

🌩️ Smarter skies

Uncontrolled traffic, the aircraft you do not command, now routes around thunderstorms instead of flying straight through them.

💳 In-App Purchases

3.0 changes how the game is unlocked. Here is the honest version.

Before 3.0 there was a single Full Game unlock. From 3.0 on there is a Base Game unlock plus optional seasons. The base game gives you the full airport catalog and free play. Each season of The Watch is a separate, optional purchase.

If you already own the Full Game, nothing changes for you. You keep everything, free, forever. The base game and every season, including future seasons, are yours at no additional cost. You do not need to do anything, and you will never see a prompt to buy something you already own. This also applies if you bought individual stage packs in the past. If you ever move to a new device, just tap Restore Purchases.

We made this change so we can keep building new seasons over time. It should never cost our existing players anything. Thank you for being here early.

🌍 Localisation

FlatoutATC plays in English, German, Spanish, French, and Italian, and The Watch campaign is fully translated in all five.

💬 As always

Thank you for playing, and for the notes you send from inside the app. The Watch is the biggest thing I have built for FlatoutATC, and there is more of it coming. If anything about your purchases or access looks wrong after updating, reach out from Settings and I will sort it out.

Craig