Comps, clubs and takeoff pages • Comps. Compete with your friends and club members. We now have three competition modes: XC tasks, hike&fly and areacontest. All can be single day or last for a longer period. • Clubs. Find and create your home club for those you fly with. pgpilot provides a club page, chat, the local takeoffs and comps between your friends. • Takeoff pages. New site pages with weather forecast, description and site statistics. • Home feed. We have redesigned the home feed to be better, cooler and more intuitive! • Black on light. The only new flying feature: black on light gives better contrast. Choose it under Screens and widgets in the Menu. • Tag a pilot. Type @ in a chat or the forum, and they get a notification. • Faster start, and pgpilot links open in the app. • Thermal assist. Faster activation. • Low battery warning for connected devices. • Plus a pile of minor bug fixes.

Live thermals, map editor and smooth long flights • Live thermals. See nearby pilots' live thermals on the map. The thermal dot is where you will enter the thermal if you glide straight to it. Perfect catch-up visualization! • Map editor. Add takeoffs, landings, obstacles and bivouac spots on the flight map. • Your glide line. Learned from your own wing. • Regional forecast (beta) on the map. • Long flights. Smooth through 10 hours in the air. • Flight recording. More reliable saving and steadier altitude. • Plus a pile of minor bug fixes.

Calmer map, InReach messages and lower battery use • Calmer map. Fewer overlapping pilots, and smaller icons for landed and hiking pilots. • InReach messages. Texts from your InReach reach your group and ground contacts, and can set your status. • Thermal assist. Clearer colours on every map style. • Lower battery use. A lighter battery saver map and less work in the background while you fly. • Add flight. Upload both multiple IGC files and manual entries if you did not track. • VHF radio. Your saved radio connects by itself when you switch it on. • Comms. Voice off keeps you in your group, and your group is kept across restarts. • Plus a pile of minor bug fixes.

Tutorials, bitmap battery saver map and add takeoffs • Tutorials. We have started on some tutorials to explain how to use pgpilot. More will come, and feedback on these first ones is welcome! • Bitmap battery saver map. We have made a low-energy map you can use in battery saver stage 1. • Edit map. You can now add your takeoffs, landings and obstacles to the app. • VHF radio. Improvements and fallbacks, especially when the phone can't send voice over both the radio and a headset at once. • Steadier Bluetooth connections, and less battery and data used in flight. • Plus a pile of minor bug fixes.

• Community forum. Share trips and ask questions. • Global weather forecast with GFS. • Essentials. A simple preset page to help you get started with pgpilot. • Activity detection. Smarter detection of hikes and flights. • Status and SOS. Clearer controls and local emergency numbers. • Local chat, voice, VHF, connected devices and background tracking. Local now requires live tracking. Plus a pile of minor bug fixes.

Your language, direct messages and ground contact SOS • Your language. German, Spanish, French, Hindi, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese and Turkish. It's currently machine translated, but please help us improve! • Direct messages. Message any pilot, with photos and voice. • Ground contact SOS. After landing, tell your group and ground contacts you are safe, or send an SOS with your position. • Messages with no signal. With a FANET or Meshtastic radio, messages and status go out over the radio. • Cleaner VHF. Clear overs, also with several radios in one group. • Bir airspace. The Bir-Billing community zones on the airspace map. • Radio fixes. Steadier link and better connection handling. • Plus a pile of minor bug fixes.

pgpilot goes multi-sport • Multi-sport. Many of you use pgpilot for other things than paragliding, so we support it directly: paraglider, speedwing, hang glider, paramotor, glider, parakite or powered aircraft on your wing, and the feed filters on it. • FANET states in the app. A pilot who is down shows as walking, in a vehicle, landed, needing help or SOS. An SOS raises a safety card with Navigate to. • Explore or Latest. Weighted picks or a plain timeline, with sport chips on the same row and a lift for your buddies. • FANET weather stations. A station your radio hears joins the map as a wind station. • Transmit switch. Listen only on a SoftRF radio, from its device sheet. • Comms. Back returns a thread to the inbox, heard voice is not unread, chat works the moment a group is created. • Bluetooth devices. Omni varios report their altitude, SoftRF and FANET radios keep every tracking message, and a T-Echo flashes from Meshtastic to SoftRF inside the app. • Battery instrument reads on iPhone. • Map. A long press picks the exact spot, not the nearest takeoff or landing. • Offline flights sync when you are back online. • Livetrack. A claimed FLARM or XContest ID places you for your friends even with the app closed. • Shorter preflight. Permissions first, then pilot info. • Plus a pile of minor bug fixes.

Comms is completely rewritten, FANET and Bircom devices for the India season, and pgpilot upgrades to a two-liner for Coupe Icare! • Comms. We have completely rewritten how group comms work. This was dearly needed to handle the increased usage. Comms is also more like a messenger app now, with an inbox and chats, ready for new features down the road! • Bircom and FANET. An India safety feature: the great community in Bir (thanks Jigish, Ketan and Vlad) runs its own LoRa based tracking and messaging system, Bircom. We now support these devices, and FANET devices too. Still new, and we release it to test on a larger scale! • Hiker. On the ground, pilots are way cooler now. • pgpilot goes two-liner. We are going to Coupe Icare next week (will you?!) and needed to order merch, which ended up in a redesign. Thanks to Jan and many others for input! • Loads of stability and other improvements, like usual :)

Live tracking on one connection, and buddies from everywhere • Live tracking, leaner. Your position, your buddies, the notices your ground contacts get and the thermals pilots around you share all travel on one connection, so there is less to go wrong on a weak signal. • Buddy tracks. Tap a pilot on the live map and see their flight drawn in full, whether they are still up or already landed. It keeps its detail as the flight grows, and it costs very little data. • Last known position. A friend who runs out of coverage stays findable: their row in your buddy list says when and where they were last seen, and one tap puts that position back on the map. • External buddies. Add a friend who is not on pgpilot by their FLARM/OGN address or XContest login, straight from your buddy list. They show up on the map wherever they are, with a track, under the name you gave them. • One pilot, every source. Track with the app and a satellite tracker and you are one pilot on the map, and the networks you broadcast to are fed from whichever source is freshest. XContest live is one flight, start to finish. • Flight detail, deeper. Tap a phase, a glide or a task leg and see exactly where it happened, on the map and on the barograph. The map opens fullscreen, the track holds its detail as you zoom in, and the timeline follows your day, so a glide stops at the landing and time on the ground gets a row of its own. • Task stats. A flight records the task you flew it against and draws the course on its map, with turnpoint splits, elapsed time, and a ranking across everyone who flew the same course. • Livetrack in one place. Map settings shows which source is driving your live track, with the FLARM relay and mesh radio switches beside it. Switch live tracking off and nobody sees you, and you see nobody. • Mesh radios (experimental). Pair a Meshtastic radio over Bluetooth and pick its profile, Bircom, Europe or one of your own, and the app writes the settings to the radio for you. The pilots it hears then arrive as their own map layer, under their own names, with no phone coverage at all, and the FANET pilots a SoftRF radio hears over Bluetooth join them. This one is early days: the firmware updater is not offered yet. • Live map. A position going stale turns grey and ages off the map, so a marker you can see is one you can fly by, and panning keeps you on the fast live connection. • Airspace and obstacles. Only a complete download is kept, your phone refreshes the coverage it stored on the first launch after this update, and retries are spaced out so a busy launch site stays light on the server. • Screen orientation. Portrait and Landscape lock the phone screen, not only the instrument grid. • Map. Glide range is free for every pilot, lightning covers the whole of a big storm, and the thermal map loads more steadily. • Competition and tasks. A start gate moved after the gate has opened takes the countdown with it, the unfinished triangle counts the closing leg you have yet to fly, and a shared layout lands on the page you picked. • Buddies. Your list is on the phone before the network is, and an add that does not take says why. • Flights. The analysis covers your whole day, including a recording you picked up again mid-flight, editing your own flight and the photo gallery sit where you expect them, and photos and videos stay light on mobile data. • Plus a pile of minor bug fixes.

Live tracking, rebuilt • Live tracking, rebuilt. More robust and more scalable, and better in patchy reception. • Thermal assist, sharpened. Engages inside the first turn. • Live map. Full tracks on long flights. • Map. Better contrast for buddy tracks. • Airspace. NOTAMs follow the airspace fill setting. • Buddies. Removals apply immediately. • Plus a pile of minor bug fixes.

Competition, Area Contest, and a Bluetooth makeover • Competition. A big competition pass: start gates, map, audio cues for starts and a bunch of comp widgets. • Area Contest. Now an Updates tab saying who conquered what land the last day, and an Opportunities map showing you where to fly to conquer more land. pgpilot.app/areacontest • Bluetooth redo. One thing you don't see, but a big Bluetooth makeover under the hood for better reliability of varios, glasses and radio. • Group boards. Possibility to only show your group on the livetrack map. • Preflight updated. Preflight and demo tour got an update to simplify and better reflect today's reality. • Connect Google or Apple to guest accounts. • Radio. Clearer transmit audio and steadier links. • XC distance. Keeps climbing through long flights, and costs the phone far less. • Forecast, wind, map and Area Contest fixes. • Plus a pile of minor bug fixes.

A snappier arrow, and many smaller improvements • Heading with gyro. The map arrow now also uses the phone's gyro to set the heading, making it much snappier when you turn in lift. • Forecast on flights. See the forecast on the day you flew. Good for future planning. • Terrain color auto-adjust. The terrain height color now adjusts to the region you are flying, so you get better contrast instead of a fixed color scheme for the whole world. • Live tracking every second, by default. Your buddies see you move smoothly across the map. • Live tracking, redesigned. One menu: a master switch, one update rate, and a toggle for each network you broadcast to - pgpilot, OGN, XContest, PureTrack and LiveTrack24. Switch the master off and nothing leaves your device, on any of them. • Airgram, richer. Sun, rain and gusts all on the chart! • Battery saver warning. If your phone's power saving is throttling GPS, the status bar now says so, because that is what garbles a track. • Offline maps. Download a pack for your area and fly with the full map, labels and all, and it stays with you across app updates. • Local. Voice follows the range you pick in Comms, so you hear the pilots around you rather than the whole world. • Radio. Cleaner VHF audio, steadier push-to-talk when several pilots key up at once, and settings that show what the radio applied. • Forecast and lightning. Coverage across the rest of Europe, and satellite strikes from France and Italy to Spain, Austria and Morocco. • Thermal forecast and cruise wind. More accurate lift, and a steadier estimate that holds back when confidence is low. • Hike and fly. Sharper automatic detection of what was a flight, what was a hike, and what was the gondola. • Account. Forgot password on the sign-in screen, and guests can keep their flights by adding an email. • Live count in the top bar, one tap from the live map. • Map. Contours at every zoom and in every style, plus airspace display and accuracy improvements. • Imports and flight stats. Steadier logbook and XContest syncing, and more accurate distance and speed on long flights. • Varios. Bluetooth varios feed the instruments at their full rate, and an XC Tracer's own wind solution is used when it sends one. • More wind stations. Monte Grappa and Bassano, alongside a fuller takeoff list. • Flight pages. See who gave kudos, your own flight titles lead their cards, and the blog reads in the app. • Area Contest. The map shows you the way in, and flights you import score straight away. pgpilot.app/areacontest • Android. Fixed a crash on launch right after installing, and a faster wait when a long flight finishes processing. • Plus a pile of minor bug fixes.

Ground contacts, Area Contest, and hike-and-fly • Ground contacts. Add safety contacts for when you fly. They can follow you live on the map, and get notified for takeoff, landings and ending your trip. Other pgpilot users and email are supported now, more integrations coming. • Area Contest. Fighting over land is as old as civilisation itself. Claim your ground on pgpilot.app/areacontest! • Hike and fly. We now segment your activities into hikes and flights automatically. Start pgpilot on the ground and track the hike up! Strava upload is coming. • Realtime livetrack. Track at 1 second resolution, for when you are NOT FLYING INSIDE CLOUDS with friends. • Flight sharing. New templates to share your flight: flight track, relief maps and more. • Floating comms button. Use pgpilot in the background and keep talking to your buddies. • AI assistant (early preview). Connect pgpilot to your favourite AI agent and do post-flight analysis. • Radio and device names. Pick your VHF channel width, and give your radios and varios names you actually recognise. • Radio fixes. Cleaner audio, better connection handling. • Airspace. Class error off by one. • XContest, LiveTrack24 and PureTrack fixes. • Instrument fonts. No more number clipping when system font was above normal. • Plus a pile of minor bug fixes.

The radio goes wireless • Your kv4p radio now connects over Bluetooth. No cable, no adapter, just pair it like any other device. • You can flash the radio's firmware straight from the app, in one tap. No computer, no holding tiny buttons. • Lightning now shows on the map. Strikes from the ground network and from satellite, so you can see a storm building before it finds you. • Everything voice now lives in one place under Settings: the agent, your channels, the radio, and which microphone you're actually using. • One channel at a time by default, like a real radio. Pick a channel and it leaves the last one. Turn on multi-channel in settings if you'd rather listen to several. • Navigation says what it's doing now: Direct, Route, or Competition. And your task edits finally stick, including renames, radius changes and reordering turnpoints. • PureTrack is now a connected service. Switch it on and your live track shows up there too. • Muting a channel actually silences it. Muting Local used to look muted and keep playing, sorry to everyone who hit that at a comp. • Your radio connects to your radio, not whichever one answered first, and it always unmutes again after a transmission. • Clearer radio audio in both directions, and the mic closes when nothing needs it instead of sitting open all flight. • A barometer hiccup at startup could quietly cost you altitude data for a whole flight. Fixed. • The map no longer goes blank mid-flight. We found two ways that could happen. • Your top speed and best climb no longer get thrown off by the odd GPS glitch. • Takeoff names on your own flights show up and stay put, and flights that got cut short still get a map preview. • Live tracking to XContest stays one flight now, instead of splitting when the app restarts mid-air. • Editing a competition start gate no longer overwrites the field while you're typing in it. • Group leaders can finally delete their own groups. • Preflight no longer tells you location permission is missing when it isn't. • Faster airspace and obstacle warnings, and lighter weather downloads.

Notifications, flight sharing, and a big stack of fixes • An in-app inbox: get notified when someone gives kudos or comments on your flights, right from the bell up top. • Share a flight to your Instagram story - a ready-made image with your track and stats - and add your Instagram handle to your profile. • Your flights now split themselves into segments - hike, fly, gondola, drive - so a hike-and-fly reads as what it actually was. • Steadier wind while ridge and coastal soaring - it no longer flips around to point downwind. • Smoother, more accurate vario on devices with a built-in barometer. • Exiting a replay can no longer start a phantom recording, and your group never sees the replayed position as yours. • XContest live tracking now works for every connected pilot, shows you as a single dot, and your auto-upload choice sticks across devices. • Sturdier map: rare error loops now recover on the spot, and auto-zoom works with a single tap on a fresh install. • Side View no longer freezes waiting on a GPS fix, and the sea now draws at sea level. • Task navigation: the goal cylinder stops glowing after you've reached goal, and the WP Arr / Task Alt colors are back. • Voice messages start faster, NOTAMs are more complete, and My Flights no longer shows other pilots' flights. • Tidier Home: your flights live on your profile now, and the feed is one simple list. • Bluetooth varios that share hardware with PTT buttons are recognized correctly again.

Small bugfixes • Map stability • Auto-zoom • XContest login

Meet the pgpilot agent, a new Home, and better replays • Meet the pgpilot agent - a voice assistant for the whole app. Ask it to zoom the map, navigate somewhere, or catch you up on the last messages in the chat, all hands-free. It's brand new and still learning, so let us know how it does for you. • Better analysis and replays. Every flight now has an analysis page - your climbs, glides, and how the flight really went - and the photos and videos you grab in the air show up on the map as you replay, right where you took them. • A new Home screen. We've split the non-flying features out from the flying ones and built a Home screen. We've got big plans for it going forward - for now it's your flights feed, who's in the air, and your season at a glance. • Support mode. I've spent countless nights on this project and I never expect it to make me rich, but if you like it, you can now show some support by backing it with a coffee a month. It'll be highly appreciated 3 • Another big round of performance work - the flight screen stays smooth and light on the battery, even with a lot of traffic and a long track on the map. • Steadier altitude while you fly: the app now trims your QNH continuously instead of locking it once at takeoff. • Small camera improvements: pick the front or back camera per shot, and set a cover photo for a flight. • Replays now show thermals properly - yours and your buddies' - and the altitude widget no longer dips below the ground. • Fewer car and bike trips get logged as flights by mistake. • A proper light mode for flying in bright sun, plus easier-to-read text in dark mode. • Bugfix for a rare map crash.

In-flight camera • New in-flight camera: tap once to grab a short clip from the front and back cameras at the same time, or snap a photo - all without leaving your flight screen. It runs off to the side so your vario and sensors keep humming. • Live preview with a 3-2-1 countdown before each shot, so you can see the cameras have framed and focused before it fires. • Set how long each clip runs right on the camera widget, and your clips and photos save straight to your phone's gallery with the selfie view tucked into the corner. • Terrain side-view now shows on the flight summary page too. • Wind estimate is steadier and more accurate while you're cruising between thermals. • Obstacle and airspace warnings now come up reliably even in the first moments after launch. • Live tracking to XContest only kicks in once you're actually airborne - no more 0 km ground flights. • Battery-saver no longer blanks the screen while you're rearranging your instruments.

Obstacle and airspace warnings • New obstacle and airspace warnings: a heads-up with a distinct sound when you're near a cable, mast or tower and low enough for it to matter, or approaching airspace. • New Sounds & alerts panel (Settings → Flying): every in-flight sound and pop-up on or off, mute all with one switch, and preview any. • Battery-saver mode can show bigger instruments where the map usually sits, instead of going black. Off by default - Kjell's idea. • The kv4p radio's physical PTT button now keys the mic and transmits. Thanks Christophe. • A quick tap on push-to-talk now wakes the screen and reconnects, so you're ready the moment you hold to talk. • Fixed the Offline Maps panel silently killing your GPS mid-flight. • Side view shows thin features like a river again, instead of collapsing to one color. • The app now records crashes so we can fix them faster.

Wind stations update in flight again • When you send a bug report, the app now attaches the last stretch of diagnostics on its own - much easier for us to track down what went wrong, and one less thing for you to describe. • Wind stations on the map update again while you fly. They were quietly freezing at their first reading until the screen was toggled - now they refresh every few minutes like they should. Thanks Kjell for the sharp report. • The same fix un-froze other live map details, so things like markers dimming as their data ages tick along properly again. • If you fly with a Bluetooth vario that reports position in two parts, speed and heading are smoother now - the app merges them into one clean update instead of two half-updates. • After a rare graphics hiccup the map no longer gets stuck flickering while it tries to recover forever - if it truly can't, it says so and lets you reload.

See the thermals • Thermals now show on the map - yours and nearby pilots'. Each climb draws from where it was entered to where it topped out, colored by how strong the lift was, and drifting with the wind so you aim for where the core is now, not where it was. • The side view shows them too: climbs appear as colored columns on the terrain profile, so you can see at a glance how high a thermal ahead of you went. Handy for coming back to a climb you left. • If you have the thermal hotspots overlay on, it now also shades the terrain in the side view. • The vario reacts quicker. We now blend the phone's motion sensor with the barometer, so it picks up lift the moment you hit it instead of a second later. Phones without a motion sensor keep working exactly as before. • Wind estimate while circling got a proper accuracy pass - it used to over-read light wind and under-read strong wind. Speed and direction should now track much closer to reality. Thanks Kjell for the report and the reference data. • Battery settings are simpler: pick a Normal, Saver, or Extreme preset instead of fiddling with sliders. Display settings that apply everywhere now sit at the top of the Pages panel. • In Plan mode, pressing push-to-talk no longer yanks the map back to your own position - you stay where you were browsing. • Tracked down another case of the app re-announcing itself over and over during flight - live positions and voice should hold up even steadier now.

Smoother push-to-talk and steadier live voice • Your connected radio and the app's group voice can now bridge both ways - what you say in the group can go out over the radio too, so radio-only and app-only pilots hear each other. Still fresh, so let us know how it holds up. • Push-to-talk is smoother. Keying up no longer causes a quick reconnect, so the very start of what you say comes through cleanly instead of getting clipped. • Live voice holds up much better on a flaky signal. We tracked down a loop where the app kept re-announcing itself and got throttled - it now stays connected calmly instead of dropping the first moment of a transmission.

Help us sharpen the vario • There's a new 'Benchmark logging' switch in your vario settings. If you fly with a Bluetooth vario, flip it on and your flights will quietly log both the phone's own sensors and the connected vario side by side. That lets us see how fast each one reacts and make the vario sharper for everyone. It's off by default and completely optional - but if you turn it on, it's a real help. • Tidied up the close and back buttons across all the slide-up panels - an X in the top-right to close, a back-arrow in the top-left to step back, the same everywhere instead of a mix of styles. • Map follow stays put when the map is rotated - the little dead-zone that keeps you centered only kicks in when the map is north-up now, like it should.

Vario reconnects on its own, and tidier instruments • Your vario reconnects on its own now. If the Bluetooth link drops mid-flight, the app keeps trying and picks it back up instead of going quiet until you notice and fiddle with it. • Instrument widgets can shrink all the way down to a single cell. Handy if you like to pack a lot onto one screen - the numbers auto-scale to fit instead of getting clipped. • Closing Settings snaps straight back to the map now, instead of hanging for a beat. • Rain radar no longer disappears when the map redraws itself - it stays on the map. • Pop-ups like the delete-account and input-learning dialogs now show up centered on screen instead of tucked off in a corner. • Side View labels stay crisp and upright when you resize the widget - no more squished text.

Clearer FAI triangle helper on the map • The FAI triangle helper on the map got a proper polish. The arcs showing where to fly to grow your triangle are clearer (dark outline so they read against any map background), the distance rings now thin out or fill in as you zoom, and it no longer flickers or jumps when you shift around - including when you scrub back through a flight. • Fewer brief disconnects from chat and live pilots. After a flaky signal the app could pile up reconnect attempts and briefly drop you; it now reconnects once, calmly.