Getting started
3The dashboard
The signed in area at /profile: the status band at the top, the grouped sidebar, and what every single tab is for.
One page, many tabs#
Everything you own on the site lives behind /profile. It is a single page with a sidebar on the left and one panel at a time on the right. Each panel has its own address, so /profile#sk-tracks opens your flight log directly and can be bookmarked.
Which tabs you see depends on two things: your membership, and what you have been given access to. A free account sees fewer tabs than a Pro account, and the scoring tab only appears if you are scorer on at least one competition.
The status band#
Across the top of the dashboard sits a row of instruments summarizing your flying, calculated from your uploaded flights.
Next to the instruments, Public profile opens your own public pilot page in a new tab, so you can see exactly what other pilots see. Members on a paid plan also see a storage bar showing how much of their quota the uploaded files use.
The sidebar#
The sidebar is grouped. The groups come from the modules installed on the site, which is why a club site and a competition site can look different.
| Group | Tabs |
|---|---|
| My profile | My profile, Delete Profile, Logout |
| Profile | My Tracks, Flight Profile, Live Tracking |
| Management | Competitions, Tasks, Waypoints, Files, Organizations, Competition Scoring, Flight History Import |
| XC | XC |
| Classified Ads | My Ads, Favorites, Inbox, Saved searches, Notifications |
| Forum | My discussions, My posts, Following, Messages, Notifications, Forum settings |
What each tab is for#
The short version, with the chapter that covers each one in full.
| Tab | What you do there | Chapter |
|---|---|---|
| My Tracks | Upload flights, filter and search your logbook, edit or delete a flight, bulk update a whole season | Your flight log |
| Flight Profile | Your pilot details, FAI record details, wing and pilot designer | Pilot profile |
| Live Tracking | Follow pilots, manage buddy groups, invites, API key and external trackers | Live tracking |
| Competitions | Create a competition and open its manager | Creating a competition |
| Tasks | Create, import, duplicate and publish tasks | Tasks |
| Waypoints | Waypoint groups and the waypoint editor | Waypoints |
| Files | Shared files: briefings, local rules, waypoint packs, airspace | Organizations |
| Organizations | Create a club, invite members, set branding | Organizations |
| Competition Scoring | The scoring workspace for competitions you score | Scoring |
| Flight History Import | One time bulk import of an IGC archive from another platform | Uploading flights |
| XC | Your saved routes, challenges, leagues and personal records | The XC hub |
| Classified Ads | Your ads, favorites, buyer and seller conversations, saved searches | Classified ads |
| Forum | Your discussions and posts, what you follow, private messages, notification preferences | Forum |
Note
If a tab you expect is missing, it is almost always a membership gate. The tab itself is replaced by a short line naming the plan that unlocks it, for example Task manager is available from SkyTrackLight.