How it works
- (1) vertical menu giving access to drawing and saving functions.
- (2) button that allows to display a route saved with Logfly or another application like Flyxc
- (3) allows you to display one or more tracks which can be used as a basis for the development of a route
- (4) load air spaces
- (5) Information bar on the length of the route and the score
- (6) The layer control
Vertical menu
Five buttons :
draw the route. See Drawing the route
add markers. See Markers
delete current route and markers
save the drawing. See Save
measure on the map
centre the map on the whole route
Display a route
A saved route can be loaded and displayed with the Route button.The route can come from another application.
Logfly displays the following formats:
- GPX
- SeeYou (cup)
- Google Earth (kml)
- XCtrack
- GPSDump (wpt)
Display a track
A track or tracks saved in IGC or GPX format can be displayed on the map.
The important thermal points will be drawn in yellow.
It's possible to activate/deactivate the display of the track.
It's possible to activate/deactivate the thermal points.
Download airspaces
The filter window allows you to choose the airspaces to display.The default values are the most common and the most used.
The most important parameter is the ** search radius **.
The reference point of this radius is the center of the map. If your project is large, do not give up to use the button which centre the map around the route project.
Distance and scoring
The information bar displays the total distance of all segments and the duration provided for a default speed at 20 km/h.
The speed of 20 km/h can be modified by the buttons - and +.The update is immediate.
By default, route scoring is activated. It is possible to deactivate it by clicking on the check box next to the word Scoring.
The scoring is computed according to the chosen rule: FFVL, XContest, FAI and XCLeague. For more details on the rules of scoring, see the page scoring.
The scoring is immediately updated. By clicking on the last point, and moving it to the yellow circle, the score will change. We will go from a free distance to a triangle. The colored sectors that appear display the possibilities of FAI triangle. Move the triangle’s peaks to these sectors to update the scoring.
Layer control
With the layer control located at the top right of the screen, you can change the type of card displayed (OpenStreetMap, IGN, etc.). You can add overlay layers. Thanks to analysis work on the site thermal.kk7, we can display all the thermals in the area. Check thermal.kk7.ch.