Meet SkyTrackXC, Live Ops, Task Weather Forecasts

This release is huge. SkyTrackPro is now home to SkyTrackXC, a full XC planning and league plugin. It also introduces Live Ops with retrieve driver management, brings weather forecasts to competitions and task planning, redesigns the entire profile cockpit, unifies competitions into one clean entity, and adds proper Task Stop handling for GAP 2025 and 2026 scoring.

SkyTrackXC: Plan, Fly, Compete

SkyTrackXC is our brand new plugin dedicated to cross country pilots. It gathers everything an XC pilot needs, from planning the next big flight to tracking your progress across the season.

• A full XC planner with on demand elevation and terrain profile
• Challenges, leagues and records for pilots and clubs
• A social feed that falls back to the global stream when your timeline is quiet
• Complete REST endpoints for the apps
• FAI record Task Declaration straight from the planner (v1.3)
• Season selector on the records REST endpoint

Proper FAI Triangle Scoring

XC scoring now follows the FAI Sporting Code:

• FAI triangle scoring per Sporting Code Section 7A
• Per type closure tolerance: 5 percent for FAI triangles, 20 percent for flat triangles
• Fixed FAI triangle detection when a start point sits on a leg

Live Ops: Real Time Competition Operations

Meet Live Ops, our new dashboard for competition organisers, staff and retrieve drivers.

• Retrieve driver assignments with a dashboard Live Ops tab and permanent history
• Pilot status messages with acknowledgements
• Redesigned live tracking sidebar with tabs and a wider desktop panel
• Stable competition live link that always resolves the current task of the day
• Public live tracking link for comp days, with an Open Class category
• New Driver staff role in SkyTrackComp for the retrieve service, with a staff edit button
• Live tracking: automatic 1 hour inactive pilot cleanup

Weather Forecasts For Tasks And Competitions

• New Competition weather forecast in SkyTrackComp 1.4
• Task planning now includes a forecast assisted editor and a wind profile viewer
• Global Weather lookup integrated across the platform
• Retries for transient forecast failures (top of hour 503s)

Redesigned Profile Cockpit

Your profile has been completely rethought. The new Cockpit style spans every profile tab, with a clean full width dashboard and a status band that keeps your key numbers always visible.

• Cockpit hero unified across all profile tabs
• Full width profile dashboard with cockpit status band
• Redesigned profile dashboard sections
• SkyTrackScore: scoring dashboard plus full screen workspace redesign
• SkyTrackComp: competition dashboard redesign
• Mobile drawer and create modal polish on the manage page
• Fixed public profile flight cards

Unified Competitions

Competitions have been simplified. One clean entity now replaces the old categories and public comps split, with a shared visual language across the whole site.

• One competition entity to rule them all
• New External (off platform) competitions support with refined presentation
• Public competitions list with a shared image tile design and smarter spotlight
• Detail hero now legible in light theme, plus Flight Deck tabs and chips
• Public front end only shows tasks actually assigned to a competition
• New task and competition pilot feedback with REST endpoints and share cards
• Fixed country selection

Task Stop For Competitions

SkyTrack now supports proper Task Stop handling for GAP 2025 and 2026 stopped tasks, complete with an automatic pilot message so nobody misses the call.

Obstacles, Archives And Public Comp Map

• Obstacles automated and improved
• New partitioned live archive with thinning: instant purge and about 60 percent smaller storage
• Public comp map: copy GPS coordinates for HQ, takeoff and landing pins

Keyboard Shortcuts And Manage Page Clarity

• Replay keyboard shortcuts on comp analyze and track detail: space to play/pause, arrows to seek and change speed, Home/End, B/L/F, R/F
• SkyTrackComp manage page: live toggle label sync, refreshed settings layout, live card and minified module
• Clearer competition manager task assignment: unassign keeps the competition link, dropdown lists tasks without a day, the list shows only day assigned tasks, plus a task planner button

Quality And Polish

• Improved map buttons in both light and dark theme
• Removed redundant curl close calls and other backend improvements

SkyTrackPro continues to evolve, helping pilots fly, plan, score and share their flying lives better than ever before.

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