In September we introduced a completely rebuilt variometer, more custom instruments, alongside improvements to recording reliability, audio cues, and flight replay.
New Features
- Completely rebuilt the variometer with multiple tone profiles, spatial audio, and more.
- Added Lift Assist, with Thermal Assistant, Thermal Rising Column, and Ridge Assist custom instruments.
- New Windsock custom instruments that includes your current heading.
- New Power Lines Radar custom instrument with configurable range and orientation.
- Extended power lines advisories to include overhead cableways, passenger lifts, and zip lines, with an option to mute them for the current recording.
Recording and Instrument Improvements
- Improved wind estimates across altitude changes and smoothed the displayed wind direction and speed.
- Added smooth heading animations to all custom radar instruments, including the heading compass.
- Improved label spacing for small metric and wind instruments.
- Improved recording start and stop when offline.
- Improved elevation loading and cache recovery.
- Improved terrain processing when elevation data is unavailable.
- Improved power-line coverage loading and recovery during retries.
Audio and Airspace Improvements
- Improved iOS audio session management for voice cues, variometer tones, spectator commentary, and music playback.
- Fixed Android voice cues leaving music volume reduced.
- Restored spoken chat notifications while recording on iOS.
- Fixed airspace vertical-limit announcements when lower or upper limits are missing.
- Update airsapce advisory translations in the recorder settings.
- Added retries for airspace update downloads.
Flight Sharing and Replay Improvements
- Made flight imports more reliable, including handling malformed IGC files, repeated import attempts, and storage permissions.
- Added retries for temporary XContest upload ticket failures.
- Fixed group-shared recordings and live flights not appearing for friends.
- Improved replay timeline performance.
- Fixed replay time displays and linked-flight timing when recordings contain gaps or different start times.
- Fixed live spectator pilot camera tracking and smoothed distance-ring animations.
- Fixed spectating groups without a leaderboard.
Other Improvements
- Added a Glider Category column to leaderboard exports and support for importing glider categories from competition pilot lists.
- Refreshed subscription cards and Unlock prompts with consistent styling and feature-specific mascots.
- Open chat preview links in the external browser, and legal documents in the in-app browser.
- Fixed a spatial audio startup crash on older iOS versions.
- Fixed the selected language reverting to English when opening Ask Gaggle, and localized its text selection toolbar.
- Fixed unsupported device languages causing forecast formatting errors.
- Fixed stale achievement and personal-best statistics.
- Fixed aircraft equipment flight lists showing unrelated recordings.
- Fixed Android back navigation in nested settings.
- Fixed subscription sheets selecting the wrong initial plan and Apple introductory offers appearing for ineligible accounts.
- Prevented stationary tracks covering less than 100 metres from consuming trial flights.
- Corrected aircraft categories reported by GDL90 and FLARM traffic sources.
- Fixed side-view instrument rendering in small custom layouts.
