Complete Manual in 7 Languages, Flight Radar and Task Radar

Everything Up To Date: A Complete Manual in 7 Languages, Flight Radar and Task Radar

This is a full platform release. The website, the SkyTrackPro Pilot App and the STP Supporter App are all up to date, and for the first time the whole platform is properly documented: a complete manual in seven languages, free and open to everyone at skytrackpro.app/manuals.

In the air, the thermal assistant grows up into the new Flight Radar, a brand new Task Radar joins the cockpit, the map becomes a tile like any other, and the task engine now solves your route once per fix for a genuinely smooth in flight response.

The Manual, in Seven Languages

SkyTrackPro has grown fast, and until now the knowledge lived in videos, forum posts and my head. That is fixed. The new Pilot Manual is a fast static site, written in depth, with editions in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese.

• Chapters covering the new Flight Radar, studying a task, the cockpit, live tracking and much more
• A matching Supporter Manual, built into the Supporter App, in all seven languages
• Free to read, no account needed: skytrackpro.app/manuals

Meet the Flight Radar

The thermal assistant tile is now the Flight Radar, rebuilt for one job: telling you what you need to know in a single glance, with gloves on, in turbulence, at arm's length.

• Bigger fonts and stronger cylinders for readability at a glance
• The core box sits on the actual thermal core, not near it
• The target aims at the route crossing, with a calm edge only indicator
• The target cylinder uses the map's rim fade fill, so the radar and the map speak the same visual language
• Configurable corner values, an optimized line target colour and a smoother cylinder rim
• Choose your value placement: in the corners, or directly on the arrows
• The vario corner is now labelled, the preview honours the tile units setting, and zoom moves in 0.1 steps

Brand New Task Radar

Next to the Flight Radar sits an entirely new tile: the Task Radar. It keeps the task geometry in front of you while you fly, with the thermal map layer available right on the tile so you can see where the lift usually lives on your way to the next turnpoint.

The Map Is Now a Tile

The map itself has become a tile like any other. Delete it, resize it, move it, or build a layout without it. Your cockpit, your rules.

A Faster, Smarter Task Engine

The optimized route now solves once per fix, or once per leg where that is possible, and only when it is actually shown. The result is a noticeably smoother response in flight without draining the phone.

• Shortest line to the target displayed on the map and in the cockpit
• Solver work reduced to exactly what the current screen needs

Speed to Fly, Fixed Properly

• Fixed polar collapse
• Fixed wind correction
• Fixed auto McCready behaviour

Thermal Maps Now Work Offline

Thermal maps switched to XYZ addressing, which means downloaded thermal maps finally work offline. Load them at home, fly them in the valley with no signal.

Cockpit and Replay

• Airspeed is now shown even without a task and without a device heading
• Replay gets an orientation aware layout fallback and a new layout picker
• Fixed the overlay race when scrubbing a replay with a task loaded

STP Supporter App

The Supporter App gets its own share of the release, and it is aimed straight at the people on the ground.

• New in app Supporter Manual, available in all seven languages
• Live Ops: assign a retrieve driver to a pilot directly from the alert, instead of only acknowledging it
• The app now rotates, with full landscape support on phones and tablets

Website

The website ships the complete manual section together with a round of UI and UX improvements across the platform, plus the usual polish in the places you use every day.

Under the Hood

• Package updates
• Stability and reliability improvements across both apps

Get the Apps

SkyTrackPro Pilot App
Download on the App Store
Get it on Google Play

STP Supporter App
Download on the App Store
Get it on Google Play

Update both apps, read a chapter or two at skytrackpro.app/manuals, and take the new Flight Radar into your next thermal.