In October we introduced FAI championship support, rebuilt group, meetup and competition pages around a live map, and added a flyability view to Explore and Home, alongside faster maps, reworked airspace advisories, and more reliable recording and flight alerts.
FAI Championships and Competitions
- Run multi-stage championships with stages, tasks you can drag between stages, a Final per stage, and a Stages view on phones.
- Hidden navigation gates and waypoints, reporting points, timing declarations and obstacle-course scoring, including stage races and economy tasks with fuel doses.
- Competition maps for navigating by landmarks, with map-styled satellite imagery, power lines, an official map scale, a scale bar, annotations, measuring tools and offline downloads.
- Course photos for pilots, with a pre-flight viewer and an in-flight finder that works offline, scored on the results.
- Dedicated competition devices with a competition flight layout, stopwatch and calculator, language and units set from the pilot’s nationality, and pilot location masking during the event.
- Reveal my position in flight, with hold to confirm, the exact moment stored and scored with a configurable penalty.
- Marshal tools for weigh-ins, judged tasks and forms, with a scale keypad and full-screen capture pages.
- Pilot import with visual column mapping, samples, warnings and a pilot preview, keeping each pilot’s wing and engine.
- Competition notices translated into each pilot’s language, shown in flight when a push never arrives, and results notices per task.
- Pilots can raise a query about any score, and organisers answer it with penalties, DNS and outlanding checks.
- Score sheets in the app, with proper file names and event branding.
- Scan an XCTrack task QR code from the briefing and fly it like a leaderboard task.
New Group, Meetup and Competition Pages
- Rebuilt group, meetup and competition pages as panels over a single live map with obstacle courses and live pilots.
- Each type of group is built with unique home screen cards, that switch based on event phase.
- Meetups now have notices that can be sent to all pilots, read out over audio cues while flying.
Flyability on Explore and Home
- The Explore map now shows how flyable each site is, with a time bar to look ahead.
- New Flying Sites card on Home showing five days of flyability for your favourite sites, with weather reasons, the best window and who is going.
- Sites are now ranked by recent pilots and flights.
Recording and Navigation
- Customise your own map marker: style, size, colour (including your wing’s colour), a heading cone and the next waypoint pointer.
- New reporting points on maps, route planning and in flight for Adventurer subscribers.
- Improved knock detection with the phone in a pocket.
- Reduced battery and GPU use while recording.
Maps and Airspace
- Rebuilt the map tile cache: satellite maps load about three times faster, failed tiles retry, and memory use is lower.
- Rebuilt airspace advisories: notices only show near where they apply, large regional notices are listed separately, and a new upper altitude limit setting.
Live Tracking and Replay
- Live spectators now see each pilot’s aircraft type and climb rate, and tied scores share a rank.
- Flight alerts arrive on time, and tapping an alert or a flying pilot reliably opens them.
- Replay and the recording view show times on the flight’s own clock.
Chat and Other Improvements
- New Panels setting to draw solid panels instead of glass, used automatically on less powerful devices.
- Block users from chat, and delete a private chat for yourself.
- Group chat rooms are limited to accepted members, and chat mute settings are respected.
- New Connected apps API for third-party apps, with developer docs linked from Settings.
- Equipment and flight totals now show hours and minutes.
Notable Bugs Fixed
- Additional tweaks to recording hardening.
- Fixed a power-line retry loop that could stall recording.
- Fixed a crash when tapping outside the stop recording sheet after landing.
- Fixed group join notifications for older profiles and showed an error when a join request answer fails.
- Fixed Bluetooth devices not being removed after closing the page.
