SkyTrackPro

Welcome to SkyTrackPro 2.0.

New Server Maps
• Brand new server side map infrastructure with fresher data and better performance
• New Satellite map style joins the existing Topo, Terrain, Dark and None
• Full detail offline packs for the sharpest offline experience

Updates
• New in app update prompt so you always know when a new release lands

Capture Tile
• Live upload feedback on the capture tile: animated water fill inside the button, and an upload count on its corner

Battery and Service Lifecycle
• Ground tracking and a dedicated idle service now let the CPU sleep, for meaningfully longer battery life on long days
• Wake lock now comes from the jakweb fork for tighter control
• The flight service starts with the phone only when you have chosen always on tracking
• A flight service that nobody is using now stops itself, so it never runs quietly in the background

Under the hood
• Stability and reliability improvements

Pilot Notes
• New battery level trigger to alert you when your device is running low in flight
• Choose any emoji as the note icon for instant recognition at a glance
• Note sets have been removed for a simpler, cleaner setup
• Notes hide with the toolbar in the layout editor

Exports
• Save to device is now offered alongside Share for every export

Flight Data
• Barometric and GNSS altitude are now recorded as two independent references, for better analysis and IGC quality

Landscape
• Bottom sheets keep content reachable in landscape mode

Under the hood
• Go Router updated with icon updates
• Stability and reliability improvements

XC Hub
• New XC Hub in the app: routes, challenges, leagues, records and feed all in one place
• Discover new lines, follow challenges and see how your flights stack up

XContest Publishing
• Link your XContest account
• Opt in to automatic flight upload straight from SkyTrackPro

Competition Tools
• Live Ops for competition pilots: status messages, task stop alarm and acknowledgements
• Task and competition feedback for pilots
• Competition waypoint files: list, share and import into waypoint lists
• Competitions listing restyled in the Cockpit design language
• Listed externally badge for competitions hosted on other platforms
• Home page competition card hides internal and archived competitions
• XContest login moved into the logbook menu

Vector Vario Integration
• Native Vector Vario support over BLE
• Measured wind, airspeed and temperature streamed straight into SkyTrackPro

Reworked Thermal Assistant Tile
• Square layout with trail, core box, wind and target edge indicators
• Target cylinder shown in task colours with a glide line and a bigger pilot arrow
• Airspace boundaries and obstacles included with alert consistent filtering
• Vario readout and restored plus sign on climb values

Next Airspace Tile
• Brand new tile with a nearest airspace and obstacle lookahead and a split layout for at a glance reading

Obstacle Manager
• Improved Obstacle Manager and warnings

Auto End
• Windowed low motion detection so flights end when you actually stop
• Stale pause countdown to avoid premature endings

Freeform Flight Layouts
• Movable back and record buttons and banners
• No reserved HUD band, giving you the full cockpit for your tiles

Task Study Polish
• Task cylinders and airspaces rendered as border rings that fade inward
• Task study direction arrows are now resolution aware
• Fixed HUD proxies in the editor sitting below the toolbar in portrait

Battery and Performance
• 5 minute option for the battery safe mode idle timeout
• Low power background gated visual pollers
• Heavy parsing and scoring moved off the UI thread
• Spatial bbox prefilters for per fix obstacle and airspace geometry
• Throttled recording UI position pushes, redacted path tokens, bounded zlib imports
• BLE reconnect loops back off when instruments are unreachable

Reliability and Security
• Audit verification fixes: geometry correctness, XC race conditions, polish and cleanup
• Fixed edge linear bars growing too wide on landscape pages
• Fixed external vario position loss when re entering the flight page

Under the hood
• Package updates
• Stability and reliability improvements across the app

Live Tracking
• New live tracking buddies overlay on the flight page — see your friends and teammates in real time while you fly

Side View
• New side-view tile showing terrain profile, airspaces and a live glide line
• Automatically switches to big metrics while circling, and back to the full view when you leave the thermal

Layouts
• Redesigned standard flight layouts with a 2/3 map and a dedicated tile panel
• Layout editor: new help sheet and snap-to-grid toggle
• Linear tile now pins explicitly to a side instead of flipping across the centre

Flight Data
• Wind capped at a sensible 60 km/h to prevent extreme outliers
• Climb layers now visible on all vario tiles

Tasks
• Task deadline now defaults to 23:00
• Prompt before leaving a task with unsaved changes
• Remembers your last-used glider as the default for the next flight

Under the hood
• Stability and reliability improvements

• Multi-language support added
• English, Spanish, German, French, Italian
• Portuguese (Portugal) and Portuguese (Brazil)
• Password manager integration for the login form
• Added linear L/D and vario sidebar
• Audio alert when approaching turn point (200m)
• Redesigned bottom sheet on the Flight page
• Redesigned flight page load
• Added XC and Competition tags to layouts
• Added airspace and thermal overlay to Task Study page
• Improved remote control button mapping
• Reorder layouts with drag and drop
• Duplicate layouts with a single tap
• Added feature demo under Settings → Others
• Improved home page layout
• Fixed QR code import for goal line tasks
• Fixed task study line display
• Further layout improvements
• General bug fixes

• Rebuilt offline maps
• Faster offline map downloads
• New automatic daily airspace and obstacle check
• Improved Auto End (no accidental end on start)
• Flights without movement are no longer stored
• Remote control support (keys 0–9 or Bluetooth remote)
• Improved level messages for competitions
• Send level messages via Bluetooth remote
• Level message notification banner
• General bug fixes

• Advanced and easy-to-use XC Guide
• XC Guide support for straight, flat, and FAI triangles
• Compass rose around your position
• Rebuilt external vario with improved compatibility
• Smart switching between external and internal sensors
• Custom XC marker on the flight page
• Optimized task import and export
• Improved AGL and AMSL data
• Improved Replay Flight page with ground elevation
• Extended benchmark flights with XC Guide
• Improved Elevated Goal support
• General improvements and bug fixes
• Library updates and performance improvements

• Intuitive ESS / Goal / Elevated Goal info banner with color state (Green / Orange / Red)
• Elevated Goal support integrated
• KK7 Thermal Maps available online and offline
• Performance improvements with up to 50% less battery consumption
• New smooth tail line for flight track (additional ~3% battery savings)
• New statistics in the Flight Logbook
• Improved ground elevation lookup during task import
• Support for older hardware such as the Air3 Tablet
• Benchmark test flights available in Debug Mode
• ESS / Goal simulator available in Debug Mode
• General improvements and bug fixes

• New Competition area for pilots
• Personal competition QR code
• Competition news
• Competition tasks
• Competition files
• Competition information
• Profile and Glider moved to Settings
• Quick access to competition QR code on the front page
• Flight end now opens SkyTrackPro upload info sheet
• Package updates
• Performance improvements

• Thermal Assistant
• XC Tiles
• Glide ratio to ESS and Goal
• Study optimized line
• Improved Task Manager
• Improved debug and verbose logging
• Improved glider search
• Improved Flight page
• Further reduced battery usage
• Performance optimizations

• Manage waypoint files
• Create tasks directly from waypoint files
• Direction guide to the next turn point
• Import IGC files
• Export all flights as IGC
• Delete all flights
• New advanced Task Manager
• Study tasks with optimized line from SSS
• Automatic flight end detection
• Improved design and user experience
• Reduced battery consumption
• General performance improvements