App version 1.7.2

Pilot ManualSkyTrackPro for iOS and Android

Everything the app does, explained in order: recording flights, building your own cockpit, task and competition flying, live tracking, offline maps and airspace safety. Each chapter shows where a setting lives, what it changes, and whether it needs an internet connection.

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This manual covers SkyTrackPro 1.7.2. It is written for pilots, not for developers. You can read it front to back, or jump straight to a chapter from the list below. Press / anywhere to search every chapter, section and setting.

New to the app
Read Introduction and Install and first run, then Preparing a flight.
Flying today
The flight screen and Recording a flight cover everything you touch in the air.
Going somewhere without coverage
Offline maps and Internet connection tell you exactly what to prepare.
Flying a competition
Tasks, Competitions and Live tracking.
Flying cross country
XC Guide for the air, and XC routes, challenges and leagues for planning and league tables.
Looking for one setting
Appendix B lists every option in the app with its default.
Stuck on something
Ask in the SkyTrackPro forum. Questions, ideas and help from other pilots and from the developers.

Tip

Every chapter header carries a connectivity badge. It tells you at a glance whether that feature works with no signal, needs a connection, or needs a one time download before you fly.

Getting started

1
Introduction
What SkyTrackPro is, the four ways pilots use it, how the app and the website fit together, and how to read this manual.
2
Install and first run
Installing the app, working through the permission screens, creating an account or signing in, and what the app asks for later.
3
Pilot profile
Your pilot details, your avatar, and the Wing and Pilot designers that decide how you appear to other pilots on live maps and on your tracks.
4
Gliders
Adding the wings you fly, setting glide ratio, trim and max speed, and what McCready does with them.

Flying

5
Preparing a flight
The Flight tab: choosing a layout, a glider, an optional route or task, the quick start checklist, and starting the flight.
6
The flight screen
A guided tour of everything on the screen while you fly: the map, the tiles, the status chips, the banners and the flight menu.
7
Recording a flight
Starting and ending a flight, takeoff and landing detection, and how the app treats the screen and the battery in the air.
8
Tiles and the map area
How tiles work, what the map area does, the linear edge bars, the side view and the flight radar.

Building your cockpit

9
Flight layout editor
Building your own screen layouts: adding, moving, resizing and styling tiles, linking portrait and landscape pages, and sharing layouts.
10
Testing your cockpit on the ground
Debug mode, the demo flights and the simulators. How to fly your own layout through a synthetic XC or task flight before you trust it in the air.
11
Maps
Map styles, orientation, the glide line, auto zoom, touch gestures, the compass rose and the seasonal thermal maps.
12
Offline maps
Download map regions at home so the flight map still works where there is no coverage. Covers how regions are selected, the size limits, the detail levels, and what still needs a connection.

Navigation and safety

13
Airspaces
Installing airspace datasets and your own files, choosing which classes matter, and tuning the warnings you get in the air.
14
Obstacles
Cables, wires and other obstacles: installing the official set or your own files, and setting the warning distances.
15
Weather data
Live wind observations from ground stations shown on the map, and what the station sheet tells you.

Flight computer

16
Vario and sound
The vario audio, the custom tone profile, connecting a Bluetooth vario, and choosing which sensors the app trusts.
17
Thermal assistant
The predicted core marked on the map while you circle, the Flight Radar tile, and the simulator you can practice with on the ground.
18
Final glide, ESS and goal
Arrival height, required glide, speed to fly and McCready, plus the banner that appears when you are on final glide.
19
XC Guide
Free flight cross country guidance: plans, modes, the guidance card, sectors and the custom target point.

Tasks and competitions

20
Tasks
Creating, editing, importing and sharing tasks, waypoint lists, and studying a task on the map before you fly it.
21
Competitions
Finding and following competitions, their tasks, files and news, and the pilot identification QR code.
22
XC routes, challenges and leagues
The XC tab: planning routes on the website and flying them, entering challenges, ranking in leagues, chasing records, and following what other pilots are doing.

Live and after the flight

23
Live tracking and buddies
Publishing your position while you fly, following other pilots, level messages, pilot status and the post flight retrieve request.
24
Logbook and replay
Your recorded flights: statistics, the detail page, replaying a track, and importing or exporting IGC files.
25
Uploading and sharing flights
Uploading a flight with photos, publishing to XContest, and building a share image of your flight.

External hardware

26
ActiveLook glasses
Pairing ActiveLook glasses, choosing and editing the screens they show, and adjusting brightness and position.
27
Remote controls
Using an AeroRemote or a Bluetooth keyboard remote, and assigning actions to its buttons.

App settings

28
Appearance, power and diagnostics
Theme, app language, screen and battery behavior, diagnostics and log sending, and deleting your account.

Reference

29
Internet connection
The complete picture of what needs a connection, what works offline, what degrades, and how to prepare for a flight with no coverage.
30
Troubleshooting
Symptoms, likely causes and fixes for the problems pilots hit most often.
31
Privacy and data
What the app stores on the phone, what it sends to the servers, who can see it, and how to delete it.
APPENDIX A
Metric tile reference
Every tile you can put on a layout, explained in full: what it means, where the number comes from, how it is worked out, and what it does when the inputs are missing.
APPENDIX B
Settings reference
Every setting in the app, with its location, its options and its default value.
APPENDIX C
Remote control actions
Every action that can be bound to a remote control button, and where each one is worth using.
APPENDIX D
Glossary
The abbreviations and terms used in this manual and in the app.