17 Sep 2026
A new look, and a sharper designer
Every page of hangarflying.com has a new look: one clean layout, plain wording, and the same headings and cards everywhere. Your designs, your account and your subscription are exactly as they were.
In the Panel Designer
- Zoom and scroll. Zoom from 50% to 400% with the buttons beside the tools or Ctrl/Cmd and the mouse wheel, and scroll the canvas for fine placement. The template and every instrument stay locked together at any zoom, and when you resize your browser window. Premium.
- Snapping that follows the panel. Instruments snap to the template's edges, to other instruments, and to construction lines at their edges and center. There is no grid any more. Premium.
- Construction lines, made usable. Hidden until you show them, new lines start at the center of the panel, they are easy to grab, click anywhere to deselect, and Delete removes them. Premium.
- Undo and redo, fixed. Undo now brings back exactly what was there, whatever you searched for or zoomed to in between. Premium.
- Keyboard. Delete removes the selection. Arrow keys nudge the selected instruments a hundredth of an inch, a tenth with Shift. Premium for the arrow keys.
- Instrument center readout replaces the cursor readout when an instrument is selected.
- One-row instrument search at the bottom, with a wider search box and taller results.
- Export, equipment list and CAD request open at once, save your design first, and the picture export always comes out the same size.
Help and problems
- The Help button at the bottom right of every page searches every help article and answers questions. Every article has been rewritten for the new designer.
- Report a problem: the bug icon at the right end of the designer's tool row. Tell us what happened; a picture of your canvas and the details we need come with it, and we reply by email.
Panels made for you
- CAD, Cut, Paint & Label in the designer's menu bar sends a finished design to our shop to be drawn in CAD, cut, painted and labeled. The shop prices it; you accept, ask for changes or decline on your own request page.