Claim your competition pilot profile

Use the organiser's claim link to move your competition pilot profile, flights and scoring history into your own Gaggle account.

Default Layout

Set up the default recorder screen, including orientation, map, font size, glass effect, Lift Assist guidance and which instruments show.

Explore

Learn how to search nearby places, open map results, and browse explore tools.

Home

Learn what appears on the Home tab and how to use the main cards.

Onboarding

Follow the pilot or spectator onboarding flow from the first launch to your Home screen, step by step.

Recording Flights

Learn the current recorder start flow, required permissions, sharing controls, and Recorder Settings.

Redeem a partner offer

Redeem a free Gaggle subscription period from a partner QR code or link, including the terms, queued offers and what the status messages mean.

Settings Reference

Find the app settings for units, the main navigation button, language, panel style, notifications and search visibility.

Sign in and create an account

Sign in to Gaggle with Google, Apple or email, create an account, and sign in from Home, Profile or onboarding.

Airspace Widget

Viewing airspaces in flight with the airspace widget.

Altitude

Use the altitude widget and current altitude settings, including QNH, QNE, presets, and takeoff references.

Audio Cues

Configure Gaggle's spoken announcements, interval callouts, and related in-flight audio tools.

Contribute Power Lines (OSM)

Map power lines in OpenStreetMap so Gaggle can warn you about lines ahead when flying low.

Custom Recorder Layouts

Create custom recorder layouts, arrange screens and widgets, and use them during a flight.

Default Layout

Set up the default recorder screen, including orientation, map, font size, glass effect, Lift Assist guidance and which instruments show.

Flight Recorder Controls

Learn the current in-flight control tray, stop flow, and route/time widgets.

Friends

See when the nearby-friends widget appears and what you can do from its in-flight context panel.

Fuel Level

Understand when the fuel widget appears and what the current fuel detail view shows.

Ground Speed & Compass

Understand the current ground-speed widget, compass direction, and related lower-screen flight information.

Map View

Use the live map, switch terrain styles, and understand the current long-press route and waypoint actions.

Recording Flights

Learn the current recorder start flow, required permissions, sharing controls, and Recorder Settings.

Routes, Waypoints, and Take-off Location Widget

Use the in-flight route widget, long-press waypoint tools, and the default route back to takeoff.

Stopwatch and Calculator

Time laps with the in-flight stopwatch and work out distance, time or speed with the calculator on the competition flight screen.

System Warnings, Power Lines Radar and Windsock

Read the System Warnings list during a recording, and set up the Power Lines Radar and Windsock instruments, including muting a cableway for one flight.

Thermal Assist

Set up Thermal Assist, read the lift field and rising column, and understand core guidance and thermal history while paragliding.

Variometer

Set up climb and sink tones, early lift cues, binaural directional sound, and climb rate smoothing for paragliding.

Watch Support

Use Gaggle's current Apple Watch and Wear OS companion features during a live recording.

Wind Speed & Direction

Read the current wind widget and understand how Gaggle presents direction and speed in flight.

Choose or Scan a Task Before Takeoff

Pick the task your flight is scored against on the record start screen, or scan an XCTrack task QR code and fly it.

Competition Flight Screen

Use the competition flight screen, with its map, limited readings and tools, and learn how Reveal my position works and what it costs you.

Custom Recorder Layouts

Create custom recorder layouts, arrange screens and widgets, and use them during a flight.

Flight Logs

Learn how to open your flights, add manual logs, import files, and export recordings with the current app flow.

Flight Recording Flow

Learn how to prepare the recorder, start tracking, stop a flight, and open the saved recording.

Flight Replay

Learn how to open the replay viewer, scrub through a flight, and switch between the 2D and 3D views.

Linked Recordings

Overlay your friends' flights on your own recording to compare how you flew the same sky.

Missing Flight Data

Why a recording can have gaps on Android and how to stop battery saver from cutting your recorder.

Recording Flights

Learn the current recorder start flow, required permissions, sharing controls, and Recorder Settings.

Shared Flights

See what you can view when another pilot shares a flight with you, including stats, replay and where it scores.

XContest and PureTrack

Connect XContest and PureTrack, upload flights, turn on live tracking and fix a failed upload.

Audio Cues

Configure Gaggle's spoken announcements, interval callouts, and related in-flight audio tools.

Live Air Traffic

Use SafeSky to see live air traffic around you.

Recovery Driver Mode

Use Recovery Driver Mode to see nearby pilots who are flying, message them and navigate to them when you drive a retrieve.

Airports

Find airports on the Explore map, open an airport page, and see runways, frequencies, reporting gates, chat and alerts for an airport.

Airspace Advisories

Learn what airspace advisories are, where to find them, and how to filter what appears on your map.

Airspace Gallery

Learn how to download and add airspaces to your device

Airspace Widget

Viewing airspaces in flight with the airspace widget.

Community Airspaces

Learn how to install community airspace packs, open the Community Hub, and contribute edits

Configure Airspace Display

Learn how to configure how airspaces are displayed in the app

Personal Airspaces

Learn how to create and add your own airspaces

Reporting points

What airport reporting points are, how to show them on maps, and how to add one to a route (Adventurer plan).

View All Airspaces

Learn how to use the airspace viewer to see airspaces around you

Account details

Change your name and photo, adjust Stats Override, and update your sign-in email.

Achievements

Review your badge progress, switch between Year and All Time, and open your personal bests.

Ask Gaggle

Chat with the in-app Gaggle assistant about the app, your flights, flying sites and other pilots.

Connect Gaggle to your AI assistant

Let an AI assistant such as Claude or ChatGPT read your flights and stats, choose what it sees, and disconnect it at any time.

Connected apps

Let a logbook, coaching tool or other app read your Gaggle data, choose what it sees, and disconnect it at any time.

Conversations

Open your conversation list, jump into pilot, group, and site chats, and understand current message access.

Delete your Gaggle account

Steps to remove your account and understand what happens to your data

Emergency contacts

Set who Gaggle contacts if something goes wrong on a flight, choose the triggers, and send a test notification.

Equipment

Manage wings, engines, aircraft, and Bluetooth devices from Equipment.

Friends and Followers

Learn how to open your follower lists, manage following preferences, and use friend-based privacy controls.

Incoming Integrations

Copy your integration credentials, choose sharing scope, and select the wing or motor used for incoming data.

Privacy & Security

Choose who can find you, see your live location and recordings, and manage blocked users.

Profile

Open your profile, review stats and settings, and navigate to the current account-management tools.

Redeem a partner offer

Redeem a free Gaggle subscription period from a partner QR code or link, including the terms, queued offers and what the status messages mean.

Settings Reference

Find the app settings for units, the main navigation button, language, panel style, notifications and search visibility.

Sign in and create an account

Sign in to Gaggle with Google, Apple or email, create an account, and sign in from Home, Profile or onboarding.

Subscription

See your plan, manage or restore your subscription, and find where to cancel it.

XContest and PureTrack

Connect XContest and PureTrack, upload flights, turn on live tracking and fix a failed upload.

Airports

Find airports on the Explore map, open an airport page, and see runways, frequencies, reporting gates, chat and alerts for an airport.

Contribute Power Lines (OSM)

Map power lines in OpenStreetMap so Gaggle can warn you about lines ahead when flying low.

Explore

Learn how to search nearby places, open map results, and browse explore tools.

Explore map

Browse flying sites, airports, routes, points of interest and airspaces on the full Explore map, switch the base map, search, and add a site or point of interest from the map.

Explore map flyability

See which flying sites look flyable on the Explore map for each of the next five days and each hour, and what the verdicts, wind numbers and small marks mean.

Flying Sites

Learn how to browse sites, create a site, and use site details in Gaggle.

Points of Interest

Learn how to browse, create, share, and manage points of interest.

Reading the site forecast

What the numbers, colours, lines and bars on a flying site's weather forecast mean, including the red wind shear lines, the Columns and Visualisation views, and the hour and day strips.

Reporting points

What airport reporting points are, how to show them on maps, and how to add one to a route (Adventurer plan).

Routes

Learn how to browse routes, create a route, and prepare it for navigation.

Reporting points

What airport reporting points are, how to show them on maps, and how to add one to a route (Adventurer plan).

Routes

Learn how to browse routes, create a route, and prepare it for navigation.

Routes, Waypoints, and Take-off Location Widget

Use the in-flight route widget, long-press waypoint tools, and the default route back to takeoff.

Challenges

Browse challenges, earn badges, attempt a challenge from a start point you choose, and see your result on the leaderboard.

Community

Learn how to use the Community tab to open groups, followers, meetups, challenges, and the activity feed.

Competition Devices and Location Masking

Sign pilots in on competition devices with a one-time QR code, sign them out, and turn location masking on or off for an event.

Competition Manager

Open the competition manager from the group home, see which sections you get as an organiser, scorer or marshal, and use the Overview to see what needs attention.

Competition Maps and Offline Maps

Choose the map layers on a competition map, measure on it, and set up offline map downloads so pilots can fly an event without a connection.

Competition Notices

Post a notice to every pilot in a competition, pick its kind, pin it, link tasks to it and take it off the board.

Competition Pilots

Add competition pilots, import them from a spreadsheet, send claim invites, assign trackers and import IGC recordings from the competition manager.

Competition Roles and Registration Fields

Give members the Scorer, Marshal or Team leader role, and choose the registration fields pilots answer when they sign up for a competition.

Competitions

Follow a competition from its home page, with your entry, the programme, the latest results, notices, and where to find standings, queries and flights.

Conversations

Open your conversation list, jump into pilot, group, and site chats, and understand current message access.

Economy Leaderboards

Set up an economy leaderboard that scores how well pilots spend a fuel load, with a course, gates, landing and scoring formula.

Flight Details on Leaderboards

Open the flight profile of a leaderboard entry, replay the flight, and for organisers read the scoring log and control when hidden gate and waypoint scores are released.

Flight Recording Sets and Activity

Choose which recording counts as official for each competition pilot, delete bad candidate recordings, and read the competition's activity log.

Flymaster Tracking for Competitions

Follow Flymaster trackers live in a competition, connect the Flymaster account, check tracking health, and fix gaps, mappings and IGC matches.

Friends and Followers

Learn how to open your follower lists, manage following preferences, and use friend-based privacy controls.

Group Chat

Chat with the members of a group, meetup or competition, turn its notifications off, and see what admins can delete.

Group Flights

Browse the flights shared with a group or meetup by day or month, filter by pilot, open a flight, and manage flights as an admin.

Group Leaderboards

Create, configure, and follow group leaderboards from the current Community flow.

Group Members and Invites

See who is in a group, invite people with a link or QR code, approve join requests, and make admins or remove members.

Groups

Browse your groups, find and join public groups, create a group, and use the group home page and its settings.

Hall of Fame

Open the Hall of Fame view for a group and understand how yearly recognition cards are presented.

Hidden Gates and Waypoints

Add hidden gates and waypoints to an obstacle course, attach photos for pilots to find, and control when hidden scores and locations are published.

Live and Replay Commentary

Turn spoken commentary on or off while you watch a live competition or a replay, choose its language, and see what the status messages mean.

Live Tracking

Learn how to open live tracking for nearby pilots, groups, and followed pilots.

Marshal Entry

Record judged task results and economy weigh-ins as a marshal, with the task list, the pilot list and the number keypad.

Meetups

Create and join meetup events with pilots, then follow the pilots who take part

Obstacle Course

Build, edit, and manage obstacle courses from the current group task editor.

Recovery Driver Mode

Use Recovery Driver Mode to see nearby pilots who are flying, message them and navigate to them when you drive a retrieve.

Run a Championship

Create a championship, set up its classes, stages, tasks and rules, publish results, cancel a task or day, and manage paragliding competition tasks as an organiser.

Spectator Course, Standings and Scored Panels

What the tabs on the spectator panel show when you watch an obstacle course live or in replay, and how to follow a pilot from the standings, the course or the activity feed.

Timing Declarations

Declare the time you expect to take for each gate of a timed obstacle course task before you fly, and see how organisers manage declarations.

Watch a Live Competition or Meetup

How to open the live view of a group, meetup or competition, switch between Live Tracking and a leaderboard, and what the waiting, sign-in and access screens mean.

Watch a Replay

How to play, scrub and follow pilots in the replay of a meetup or competition, and what the replay options do.

Championship Penalties

See the penalties, warnings and disqualifications in a championship, inspect the flight behind an infringement, and how organisers add, waive and change them.

Championship Queries and Protests

Raise a query about a championship result, follow the answer, and lodge a protest if you disagree.

Championship Standings and Results

Read the championship standings, switch between pilots, teams and stages, open task result sheets and score breakdowns, and know what Interim, Provisional, Official and Final mean.

Choose or Scan a Task Before Takeoff

Pick the task your flight is scored against on the record start screen, or scan an XCTrack task QR code and fly it.

Claim your competition pilot profile

Use the organiser's claim link to move your competition pilot profile, flights and scoring history into your own Gaggle account.

Competition Devices and Location Masking

Sign pilots in on competition devices with a one-time QR code, sign them out, and turn location masking on or off for an event.

Competition Flight Screen

Use the competition flight screen, with its map, limited readings and tools, and learn how Reveal my position works and what it costs you.

Competition Manager

Open the competition manager from the group home, see which sections you get as an organiser, scorer or marshal, and use the Overview to see what needs attention.

Competition Maps and Offline Maps

Choose the map layers on a competition map, measure on it, and set up offline map downloads so pilots can fly an event without a connection.

Competition Notices

Post a notice to every pilot in a competition, pick its kind, pin it, link tasks to it and take it off the board.

Competition Pilots

Add competition pilots, import them from a spreadsheet, send claim invites, assign trackers and import IGC recordings from the competition manager.

Competition Roles and Registration Fields

Give members the Scorer, Marshal or Team leader role, and choose the registration fields pilots answer when they sign up for a competition.

Competitions

Follow a competition from its home page, with your entry, the programme, the latest results, notices, and where to find standings, queries and flights.

Course Photos

Look at the course photos before you fly and mark where you saw each one in flight, for automatic scoring.

Economy Leaderboards

Set up an economy leaderboard that scores how well pilots spend a fuel load, with a course, gates, landing and scoring formula.

Flight Details on Leaderboards

Open the flight profile of a leaderboard entry, replay the flight, and for organisers read the scoring log and control when hidden gate and waypoint scores are released.

Flight Recording Sets and Activity

Choose which recording counts as official for each competition pilot, delete bad candidate recordings, and read the competition's activity log.

Flymaster Tracking for Competitions

Follow Flymaster trackers live in a competition, connect the Flymaster account, check tracking health, and fix gaps, mappings and IGC matches.

Hidden Gates and Waypoints

Add hidden gates and waypoints to an obstacle course, attach photos for pilots to find, and control when hidden scores and locations are published.

Live and Replay Commentary

Turn spoken commentary on or off while you watch a live competition or a replay, choose its language, and see what the status messages mean.

Marshal Entry

Record judged task results and economy weigh-ins as a marshal, with the task list, the pilot list and the number keypad.

Run a Championship

Create a championship, set up its classes, stages, tasks and rules, publish results, cancel a task or day, and manage paragliding competition tasks as an organiser.

Spectator Course, Standings and Scored Panels

What the tabs on the spectator panel show when you watch an obstacle course live or in replay, and how to follow a pilot from the standings, the course or the activity feed.

Stopwatch and Calculator

Time laps with the in-flight stopwatch and work out distance, time or speed with the calculator on the competition flight screen.

Timing Declarations

Declare the time you expect to take for each gate of a timed obstacle course task before you fly, and see how organisers manage declarations.

Watch a Live Competition or Meetup

How to open the live view of a group, meetup or competition, switch between Live Tracking and a leaderboard, and what the waiting, sign-in and access screens mean.

Watch a Replay

How to play, scrub and follow pilots in the replay of a meetup or competition, and what the replay options do.

Bluetooth devices

Connect and manage Bluetooth flight devices from Equipment.

Bluetooth NMEA strings

Build a compatible Bluetooth device with example sentences, field order, units, scaling, and unavailable values for every NMEA format Gaggle recognises.

Engines/Motors

Add and manage paramotor engines from Equipment.

Equipment

Manage wings, engines, aircraft, and Bluetooth devices from Equipment.

Wings

Add and manage paragliding and hang gliding wings from Equipment.