8The flight page

How the page is laid out#

The flight page is one big map with a transport bar under it, an action rail down one side, and a barogram that slides up when you want it. Everything else is a panel that opens over the map, so you never lose your place.

Replaying the flight#

Press play and the flight runs. The marker is your wing in the colors you chose in the wing designer, and the pills at the top of the map read out altitude, height above ground, speed and vario at the cursor.

The map also has a 3D mode with terrain, which turns the replay into a flight over the actual valley rather than a line on a flat map. The camera follows the glider, holding its position through a thermal and swinging back behind the wing on a glide.

Flight and pilot details#

The first panel on the rail holds the flight's identity: title, date, takeoff, glider, and the pilot behind it with their avatar, flag, license and civil ID where they have filled them in, plus their flying since and style badges. Any pilot comment written on the flight is shown here too.

The original IGC file can be downloaded from this panel. You have to be signed in to download one: You need to be logged in to download this file.

XC and statistics#

The XC panel is the analysis of the flight. At the top, pills switch between the four scored variants and the map redraws the scoring shape for each one:

For the selected variant you get the distance, the points it scores, the average speed during the scored window, the legs, and the time it took. Points are the distance multiplied by the type factor, so a flat triangle and an FAI triangle of the same length are not worth the same.

Below that sit the flight statistics, computed from the raw fixes:

• Flown distance, duration and average speed.
• Maximum altitude, maximum height above ground and total gain.
• Maximum climb and sink.
• Time circling against time flying straight, and the split between left and right turns.
• Start time, sunrise and sunset for the day and place.

Hike and fly days#

A hike and fly day is one flight page for the whole day. The map paints the walked stretches brown and the flights in the usual climb colors, every flight gets numbered takeoff and landing markers, and the barogram shades the walked stretches.

The statistics sheet opens with a Hike and fly day panel: flights, airborne time, longest flight, flight distance, hiked distance, hiking time, ascent and descent on foot and the recording frame, followed by one block per flight with its times, duration, distance, altitude and XC. The XC panel scores the best flight of the day.

The competition panel#

If the flight is attached to a task, an extra panel appears with the task drawn over the track: the start, every turnpoint cylinder, the end of speed section and the goal, with how much of the task you completed. That panel is hidden entirely on a free flight.

Attaching a flight to a task is done at upload time or from Edit in your flight log. Scoring a competition is a separate process, described in Scoring a competition.

Comments, reactions and photos#

Signed in pilots can comment on a public flight and reply to each other. The flight owner gets an email for every new comment.

Reactions are the quick version. You can pick up to two per flight:

Photos attached to the flight appear as a fan along the bottom of the map and open full size in a lightbox.

Flight buddies#

If other pilots flew the same day from the same place, the buddies panel lists them. Select them and their tracks are drawn over yours and replayed in sync, which is the fastest way to understand why someone else got away and you did not.

Buddies here are found from the flights themselves, not from your buddy groups. If nobody matches you see No flight buddies found for this flight.

Sharing a flight#

Share builds a share card: a picture of the flight with its map, the key numbers and your name, ready to post. You can copy the plain link instead if you just want to send someone the page.