Hike and Fly Mode • Brand new Hike and Fly mode: a single recording for a whole day of walking and flying • The day is always available to open, with alerts only firing when you are actually airborne • Replay counters and a flowing Hike and Fly banner • Demo now shows the day so you can preview the flow Pilot Notes • New Pilot Notes system with in flight reminder widgets • Text to speech that follows your phone voice settings • Reusable note sets for different types of flight • Turnpoint approach triggers with tuned speech timing • Mirroring to ActiveLook smart glasses • Restyled note editing with an audit pass on races and speech lifecycle Traffic • FLARM and FANET traffic from the vario now shown on the flight map Airspace Alerts • Progressive vertical airspace warning that scales with climb rate Tasks • Import a task from a QR code image via the file picker • Task editor: clearer task times layout with a start block and optional takeoff open fix • Optimized crossing near a turnpoint is now solved again so line and countdown stay exact Cockpit • Edge linear bars always render white outlined labels for readability over any background • Tile info popup no longer swallows taps while it is showing Performance • Per fix cost of the rolling flight metrics reduced • One great circle distance, on one sphere, across the app • Narrower rebuild scope, cached radar label layouts and a const sweep Pilot Manual • Manual now covers 1.8.0 Under the hood • Package updates and dependency upgrades • Stability and reliability improvements

Flight Radar • Goal lines are now drawn on the Flight Radar • New corner metrics: thermal average, current L/D and required L/D • "Target shortest" phrasing for cleaner readability Task Radar • Goal line angle and a tighter fit for the overall layout • Line now starts at the start cylinder for a cleaner geometry • Direction chevrons on the optimised line • Line solve restarts from the start when needed, with wider corner values Task Study • Reliable point gestures for placing and moving turnpoints • Faster drags • New app bar shortcut Maps • Added the Terrain map style, ported from the website Layout Editor • Resize handles pulled in from the screen edges so they no longer conflict with system gestures Tile Labels • Show full wording when there is room, and initials when there is not, so tiles stay readable at every size Pilot Manual • Flight Radar chapters updated in all locales Under the hood • Stability and reliability improvements

Map Fonts • Restored missing map fonts so labels on the map render correctly again • Added Noto Sans Italic and Noto Sans Devanagari font packs so more scripts display properly Under the hood • Package updates • Stability and reliability improvements

Flight Radar • The thermal assistant tile is now the Flight Radar • Bigger fonts and stronger cylinders for readability at a glance • Core box sits on the actual thermal core • Target aims at the route crossing, with a calm edge only indicator • Target cylinder uses the map's rim fade fill for a consistent look • Configurable corner values with an optimized line target colour and smoother cylinder rim • Choose value placement: corners or on the arrows • Vario corner now labelled, preview honours the tile units setting, 0.1 zoom steps Task Radar • Brand new Task Radar tile • Thermal map layer on the Task Radar Map • The map itself is now a tile you can delete or arrange like any other Task Engine • Route now solves once per fix (or once per leg where possible), and only when shown, for smoother in flight response • Shortest line to the target displayed on the map and in the cockpit Speed to Fly • Fixed polar collapse • Fixed wind correction • Fixed auto McCready behaviour Thermal Maps • Switched to XYZ addressing, so downloaded thermal maps now work offline Cockpit • Airspeed now shown even without a task and without a device heading Replay • Orientation aware layout fallback and a new layout picker • Fixed the overlay race when scrubbing a replay with a task Pilot Manual • New in depth Pilot Manual as a static site • Editions in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese • Chapters cover the new Flight Radar, Studying a task and much more Under the hood • Package updates • Stability and reliability improvements

Layouts • Alert and info banner size is now adjustable per layout page, so you can fine tune the cockpit to your screen and your style Reliability • Fixed repeated sign outs when an XC token expires • Fixed the flight UI getting stuck on "Waiting for GPS fix" while the track was already recording • Fixed iOS tracks recording a launch height below ground • Fixed replay task window logic when display times were flagged as UTC • Competition Live Ops gating, GPS warm up, Auto End and end flight fixes Under the hood • Package 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

Share Studio • New map style and task toggles in the share studio map capture, for finer control over how your shared image looks Fixes • Fixed ungrabbable edge and linear metrics in the layout editor • Fixed a blank screen that could appear after changing a setting and going back on a fresh install

Cockpit Design Language • A refreshed visual identity across the app: new theme, fonts, Material 3 navigation, motion and haptics • The first step in a wider design update rolling out over the next releases Offline Maps v2 • Freeform 1 degree cell selection lets you download exactly the area you need • Live size estimates so you know how much storage each selection will use Social Share Studio • Brand new share studio for publishing your flights • Build clean, on brand social cards straight from the app XC Scoring • XC scoring now matches the website end to end • New whole flight speed and XC speed metrics • Share card uses your XC speed to highlight the best XC distance Final Glide • Smoother, calmer final glide numbers thanks to an asymmetric arrival glide ratio smoothing that reacts fast when things get worse and slower when they get better Layouts • The flight layout editor map is now seeded with your last known position, so you can build your layout on the terrain you actually fly

Cloud • Cloud backup and restore of app settings Airspace • Persistent class enable and disable that survives across sessions • Bulk chips for prohibited, restricted and heliport zones • Disabled airspaces now shown in their own section so they can be re enabled at any time • Recognise the REST elevated goal encoding and colour turnpoints accordingly Photos • In flight photos are now geotagged and pre selected for upload Flight HUD • Manual recenter button on the flight HUD • Fixed iOS follow suspension • Fixed flight puck and follow loss on layout, style and orientation changes • Drop shadows removed from linear gauges and metric tiles for a cleaner look Map Styles • Consolidated map styles to Topo, Dark and None with local sprites and glyphs • Refined Topo and Dark styling: hillshade order, contours and town labels • Removed unused 3D terrain Zoom • Auto zoom range is now configurable • Base zoom is driven by speed only Remote • Remote bindings now accept any HID keyboard key, not just 0 to 9 • BLE logger clear log tooltip shortened across locales Tasks and Layouts • Loaded tasks are associated with the website task id for live tracking • Shrunk flight layout share QR to a single compact page Localisation • Cleaner user facing language across all locales Reliability • Fixed race conditions and async safety across recording, uploads and I/O • Armed flight cancel is now non blocking so back never freezes • Enabled async safety lints and removed dead code • Hide Start Flight hint when the button is active Under the hood • Package updates • Stability and reliability improvements

Make the cockpit yours • New wing and pilot marker designer with a full colour picker for line and background • Customisable flight puck: choose between dot, arrow or paraglider • Glide line colour is now customisable and toggleable • Configurable optimized line colour that matches the web palette • Flight tiles: custom labels, units toggle and target rename • Target tile: dynamic rotating arrow with outline New metrics • AGL at target metric that follows the active turnpoint on the rim • Arrival height metric and aligned Arrival tiles • Value dominant tile layout, with enlarged values for faster reading in flight New task tools • Task study map: distance ruler measure tool • Per leg distance labels on both the optimized line and the study line Buddies and Web Integration • Show trail button for flight buddies on the live map • Support the app button and sheet • Website auto login is now reused for profile, buddies and logbook links Weather • Wind and gust label below the arrow • Weather arrows now sit above airspace so they stay tappable Replay • Orientation lock for a steadier replay view • Faster altitude graph Reliability and Security • Flaky flight ending fixed by reverting lifecycle serialisation • Hardened input parsing against malformed airspace and sensor data

Flight and Home UX • Auto start recording: your flight begins on its own when you launch • Flight time is now anchored to actual takeoff time, not when recording started • Richer active flight card on the home page Wind and Trail • Wind course is now derived from GPS positions instead of device heading, for more reliable wind in all conditions • New vario coloured flight trail • Simplified thermal assistant core box PureTrack Live Tracking • Live tracking is now mirrored to puretrack.io in parallel with the existing live tracking • A unique device code is generated automatically • Callsign and aircraft type are no longer required in the flow Side View • A short press opens a summary of the configured metrics Map • Thermal maps overlay no longer re renders while disabled, saving battery and frames Battery • Navigation emit lowered to 3 Hz • Sensor routing poll relaxed • Internal dead code removed Airspace Sheet • Chart bars are now selectable • Same colour highlights are denser and easier to read at a glance Reliability • Fixed end flight races by serialising service lifecycle commands • Fixed a UNIQUE crash under fast GPS by making track point insert idempotent

Weather • Live wind stations now visible on the map (Switzerland and Austria) • Added Spain (AEMET) and Slovenia (ARSO) to the country list • Country list sorted alphabetically for easier picking • Weather sheet now shows rain over the last 10 minutes and a relative last update time • Weather data refreshes every 5 minutes Airspace and Obstacles • One unified airspace sheet with show on map plus disable and enable in a single place • Obstacles redrawn in magenta with lighter, thinner lines for better readability over terrain Layout and Map • Tile resize improved: map style edge handles, a free upper size and a longer hold for fewer accidental drags • Map can now resize on the cross axis too: width in portrait, height in landscape Under the hood • Stability and reliability improvements

Version 1.5.1 Fixes and Polish • Landscape sheet scroll is fixed • Airspace tap on the map works again after device rotation • Airspace settings reorganised: manual update check, visible last updated time and cleaner naming • New "What's new in 1.5.1" release notes highlight Still new in 1.5.0 ActiveLook Smart Glasses (Engo Eyewear) • Native integration with ActiveLook smart glasses from Engo Eyewear • Wave gesture to switch screens, with a screen name flash • Auto brightness with a configurable floor and a working brightness setting • Special auto screens with live info bands for alerts, competition and XC • Fixed grid editor with official style tiles, built for the glasses • Dedicated Screens page in settings with a card to edit flow Airspace v1.5 • Section based colours and edge labels for fast visual recognition • Tap sheet for quick airspace lookup on the map • NOTAM activation windows so only currently active NOTAMs trigger alarms • GeoJSON direct pipeline ready for the next generation of airspace data Flight Layouts • Thermal auto switch page so the cockpit follows the phase of flight • Per page zoom for finer map control across layouts • Instrument and linear tiles resizable via long press Live Tracking • Buddy info bottom sheet shows last update time per pilot Uploads • Plausibility warnings before sending suspicious flights • Benchmark flights blocked from being uploaded as real flights Under the hood • Pre 1.5 robustness audit and security hardening • Stability and reliability improvements

ActiveLook Smart Glasses (Engo Eyewear) • Native integration with ActiveLook smart glasses from Engo Eyewear • Fixed grid editor with official style tiles for the glasses • Wave gesture to switch screens, with a screen name flash • Auto brightness with a configurable floor, plus a working brightness setting and screen shift • Special auto screens with live info bands for alerts, competition and XC • Presence based info screens with consistent bands and reconnect handling • Glasses fed directly from position events, gated on enabled and connected state • Optimised rendering by updating only the changed value region per tick • Dedicated Screens page in settings with card to edit flow and safe areas Airspace v1.5 • Section based colours, edge labels and a tap sheet for fast airspace lookup • NOTAM activation windows so only active NOTAMs trigger alarms • Inactive NOTAMs skipped in altitude limit checks, with optimisations and hardening • GeoJSON direct path ready for the new airspace pipeline Flight Layouts • Thermal auto switch page so the cockpit follows what you are doing • Per page zoom for finer map control across layouts • Thermal assistant integrated into the page flow • Instrument and linear tiles are now resizable via long press Live Tracking • Buddy info bottom sheet now shows the last update time per pilot Uploads • Plausibility warnings before sending suspicious flights • Benchmark flights blocked from being uploaded as real flights Under the hood • Stability and reliability improvements

Cockpit Customisation • Flight layout map is now freely movable and resizable • Side-view tile is freely resizable via long-press • Resize handles inset clear of OS edge gestures for cleaner interaction Wind & Stability • Stabilised wind direction — large changes are gated behind sustained confirmation, so the wind tile no longer jumps on a single noisy reading Tasks & CIVL Compliance • Elevated goal altitude now enforced to CIVL rule S7F: range 200–1000 m, default 300 m • Pre-SSS info banner moved to 15 minutes with a new 10-minute countdown notification • Pre-SSS status banner now shows an assist line 15 minutes before start Capture • Video capture added alongside photos via a bottom-sheet selector on the flight capture button Onboarding & Home • Quick Start help sheet on the home page with setup checks and announcements • First-launch app guide for new pilots • Edit shortcuts for glider and task directly from the home page • 1.4.1 announcement message and updated demo (10-minutes-to-go state added) • Removed the empty option from the profile gender dropdown Side View • Configurable circling metrics with custom order, taps and override • Altitude limit now works in the side view even without the tile placed • Metric chips reordered so the visual sequence matches the slots Maps & Flight • Glacier layer added to the outdoor topo map • L/D heading line hidden while thermaling for a cleaner view • Re-tapping the active flight tab refreshes again • External vario data path cleaned up Fixes • Thermal assistant bubbles and core ring no longer fail to appear on Android • Aligned Airspace + Cable benchmark launch altitude with the other scenarios Under the hood • iOS migrated from CocoaPods to Swift Package Manager • Updated Flutter, packages and Android toolchain • Stability and reliability improvements

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

FAI 2026 Compliance • Goal-line direction and crossing detection rewritten to match FAI Section 7 rules effective 1 May 2026 — pilots will see consistent goal-line behaviour across competitions Tasks • Turnpoint cylinders can now be defined down to 10 m segments, with a zero radius safely prevented • Fixed the Task V1 importer for legacy task files Under the hood • Updated libraries • Stability and reliability improvements

Wind • Rewritten wind estimator using a circling cosine fit, with an altitude-banded store for more reliable winds aloft • Redesigned wind tile with a rotating arrow and tighter padding • Tap the wind tile for per-altitude wind and thermal breakdowns Final Glide • Next-target preview in the minimised On Final Glide banner so you can see what's coming after the current leg Layouts • Removed the "Make public" option from flight layout slots Under the hood • Updated secure-storage library for better reliability

New • McCready speed-to-fly with an editable glider polar profile • On Final Glide banner replaces the old ESS/Goal cards — wind-corrected TTG, live arrival margin, status-coloured flag • Final-glide simulator to preview every glide state before you fly • Outdoor topo map style for terrain-rich flying • Share flight layouts with other pilots via QR code • Live ground-elevation crosshair on the task study map • Adjustable thermal-map overlay opacity (20–70%) Improved • Smoother GPS-derived vario that holds its last value across event gaps • Lower initial flight-map zoom for better situational awareness • Follow mode no longer forces auto-zoom • Redesigned Tiles tab with split metric / control grids • Unified turn-point actions into a single dropdown with drag handle Fixed • Permission handling and reactive glider list • Thermal-map spacing

• Replaced separate ESS and Goal banners with a smart “On Final Glide” banner • Added audio notifications for the “On Final Glide” banner • Improved elevated goal calculations with the new final glide system • Improved wind calculations for glide ratio • Improved language translations and phrases • Improved benchmark flights under Settings → Others → Debug • Improved Goal / ESS simulator under Settings → Others → Debug

• New puck line showing target reachability based on your height and glide ratio • Fixed early takeoff banner • Fixed airspeed display

• Extended flight layout customization • Choose map size instead of full-screen map • Layout options: 50/50 or 2/3 top/bottom split • Select background color • Predefine map style • Task Study map now shows flight direction arrows • Improved waypoint import (stores ID and name) • QR code sharing now includes ID and name • Improved benchmark flights with real thermaling • Up to 20% less battery consumption • Up to 30% faster performance • Fixed XC Guide not requesting GPS position

• 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

• New Power Save Mode (display dimming and reduced UI activity) • Up to ~2× longer usable flight time with Power Save Mode • Instant wake-up via touch or HID key input • Info and warning notifications remain active in Power Save Mode • No more restriction between portrait and landscape mode • Link portrait and landscape layouts for smooth device rotation • Improved waiting on launch in started flight mode • Improved live tracking session • Improved Auto End “Still Flying” detection • Collapsible XC banners

• 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