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Everything the website does, explained in order: your account and pilot profile, uploading and reading flights, cross country challenges and leagues, task and waypoint planning, live tracking, clubs, and running a competition from registration through to official results.

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This manual covers the SkyTrackPro website. The phone app has its own manual: the two work together, but they are separate products. Anything you record in the app ends up here, and anything you plan here ends up in the app. Press / anywhere to search every chapter, section and setting.

New here
Read Introduction, then Your account and The dashboard.
Just landed
Uploading flights and The flight page cover everything from the IGC file to the finished map.
Flying cross country
The XC hub is the entry point. Challenges, leagues and records all score your public flights automatically.
Planning a task
Waypoints first, then Tasks. Both export to the app and to XCTrack.
Entering a competition
Competitions to find one, Entering a competition for registration, documents and payment.
Running a competition
Creating a competition, then Running a competition and Scoring.
Looking for one page
Appendix A lists every address on the site and what lives there.
Stuck on something
Troubleshooting collects the messages the site can show you and what each one means.

Tip

Every chapter header carries an access badge. It tells you at a glance whether the page is open to everyone, needs an account, or needs organizer or scorer rights on a competition.

Getting started

1
What the website does
The map of the whole platform: what lives on the website, what lives in the app, and which parts you can use without an account.
2
Your account
Creating an account, confirming your email address, signing in, resetting a password, changing your email, and deleting the account for good.
3
The dashboard
The signed in area at /profile: the status band at the top, the grouped sidebar, and what every single tab is for.
4
Your pilot profile
The pilot identity that travels with every flight you publish: your details, your FAI record paperwork, and the wing and pilot you draw for the maps.
5
Memberships
What Free, Light, Plus and Pro each unlock, how the checkout and coupons work, and what happens when a membership runs out.

Your flights

6
Getting flights onto the site
The three ways a flight arrives here, and every rule the upload applies: duplicates, the late upload window, the free yearly cap and the past year block.
7
Your flight log
The My Tracks tab: finding a flight among hundreds, editing what the parser could not know, and fixing a whole season in one go.
8
The flight page
The page a flight gets when it is published: the map, the replay, the barogram, the XC breakdown, and everything other pilots can do with it.
9
Public flights and rankings
The two public boards built from published flights: the rolling flight feed and the pilot ranking, and how a pilot's public page pulls them together.
10
Takeoff sites
The map of launch sites, what each site page tells you, and the flight hub that collects every flight ever flown from it.
11
Analyzing a day
The analyzer that rebuilds a day of flying from live tracking: who flew, where they went, and the IGC files to prove it.

Cross country

12
The XC hub
Where cross country flying lives on the site, how a flight turns into points, and which of the five XC pages you actually want.
13
The XC planner
Drawing a cross country route: turnpoints, FAI sectors, airspace, terrain and weather, then saving it, sharing it or turning it into an FAI record declaration.
14
XC challenges
Goal based competitions that score your public flights automatically: joining one, and creating one for your club.
15
XC leagues
Season ladders scored from your best flights, with configurable points per kilometer, for a country, a club or the whole world.
16
XC records
The record boards: the best flight ever logged for each category, scope and glider class, and what happens when you beat one.
17
The XC feed
A timeline of what the pilots you follow are doing: flights, records, challenge finishes, shared routes and who is airborne right now.

Tasks and waypoints

18
Waypoints
Waypoint groups, the waypoint editor, and the shapes that turn a coordinate into a turnpoint, a start line or a sector.
19
Tasks
Building a task: the editor, the rulesets, start gates and time windows, then publishing it so pilots can load it into their instrument.

Live tracking

20
Live tracking
The public live map, buddy groups and invites, the competition live view, and the live ops feed organizers use to run a retrieve.

Clubs and organizations

21
Clubs and organizations
Creating a club, inviting members and giving them roles, sharing files, and the public page every organization gets.

Competitions

22
Finding a competition
The public competition list and everything on a competition page: information, news, weather, tasks, the pilot list and the results.
23
Entering a competition
Registering as a pilot: what the form asks for, how documents are verified, what each status means, and the QR identity you carry at the event.
24
Creating a competition
Setting up an event: creating it inside your organization, filling in the settings, and deciding when it becomes visible to the world.
25
Running a competition
The competition manager, tab by tab: staff and their rights, the signup form, the registration lifecycle, selection, QR check-in, live ops, task days, results, news, files and event emails.
26
Competition analysis
The public day analysis: every pilot's track over the task, replayable side by side, with the scored numbers next to each name.
27
Scoring a competition
The scoring workspace: preparing a task, getting the flights in, running the score, reading the result, and publishing it from provisional to locked official.

Community

28
The forum
Reading and writing in the forum: tags instead of categories, live posts, reactions and mentions, and what moderators can do.
29
Classified ads
The second hand market: browsing and filtering ads, placing one, talking to a buyer or a seller, and the safety features around it.
30
Messages and notifications
Everything the site can send you, where each kind lands, and how to turn the ones you do not want off.

Reference

31
Troubleshooting
The messages the site can show you, what each one actually means, and the first thing to try.
32
Privacy and your data
What is public and what is not, how long live positions are kept, who sees the personal details you give a competition, and what deleting your account does.
APPENDIX A
Every page on the site
The full address list: what lives at each URL, whether it needs an account, and which chapter covers it.
APPENDIX B
Roles and who can do what
Every role on the site in one place: organization roles, competition staff roles, and the capability each tab of the competition manager needs.
APPENDIX C
Plan limits at a glance
Every number and every gate the four plans carry, plus the message the site shows when you meet one.
APPENDIX D
Glossary
The words this manual and the site use, in one alphabetical list.