Vulture vs B4Takeoff

Vulture is a soaring planning and analysis app built for glider, paragliding, and hang gliding pilots. Plan a task on the day, fly it with live airspace and weather, then replay every thermal back on the airfield — on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Plan * Build a task from waypoints, or import one from a CUP file, WeGlide, or SoaringSpot. * Scan a task from a QR code, as shared by XCTrack and the other gliding tools. * Edit any task to fit the weather of the day, with custom observation zones per turnpoint. * Check the day with dozens of SkySight weather layers — thermals, cloud cover, storms, rain, wind, and wave — before you commit to a task. * Export a task as a CUP file or a FLARM declaration for your IGC-approved device. * Share a task through iCloud with the pilots you fly with. * Import OpenAir, CUB, and openAIP airspace files, pull sets from XCSoar, or show openAIP airspace live on the map. Fly * See airspace and optimized flight information in the air, and navigate to any waypoint. * Start recording from Control Center or the Action button, and follow the flight on the Lock Screen and Apple Watch. * Look up the nearest airfield and its frequency, provided by OurAirports. * Long-press the map to see the airspace above that point as a vertical profile, with your own altitude marked in flight. * Your sport is detected automatically, or set by you, with matching thresholds for thermals, takeoff, and landing. Analyze * Browse your logbook as a gallery, each flight and task drawn on a map. * Replay one or more flights with a barograph and detailed statistics as you scrub through them. * Overlay satellite cloud imagery and scrub the barograph to see the clouds at each moment of a flight (requires SkySight). * Drag the graph handle for a calculated wind estimate at any point in a flight. * Take a thermal apart — the climb over time, from above, and from the side — with a score for how well you centred it. * Debrief rates a flight out of 1000 and answers the questions pilots ask of it, each shown on the map. * Add searchable remarks to saved flights, mark contests, and keep your favorites. * Compare flights against a pinned one, with leader/leecher analysis — who found the thermals first, and who followed. * Browse Soaring Spot, WeGlide, Charron, and SkyLines in the app, and upload your flights to them. Everywhere * Sync flights, tasks, waypoints, airspace, and all settings across your devices with iCloud. * Hand a flight, a task, or the map over to another device with Handoff. * Import flights by drag and drop, from Files, or straight from the share sheet. * Open flights and tasks directly in Vulture from SoaringSpot and Charron using the Chrome extension. * Share a Soaring Spot results link and it opens even without Vulture — that day's scoreboard, and every pilot's flight on a map. * Preview flight, waypoint, and airspace files in Files before you import them. * Find flights and tasks from Spotlight on your home screen. * Widgets for the wind at your home base, tomorrow's launch window, and a flight from your logbook — on the Home Screen, the Lock Screen, and in StandBy. * Windows of their own for flights and tasks on iPad, keyboard shortcuts, pointer support, and dark mode. Vulture is free to download: keep your logbook, replay a flight and follow competitions. Vulture Pro adds the analysis, the planning and the flying, with a free trial to start. One subscription covers iPhone, iPad and Mac. Tell us how we can make Vulture better. Terms of use: https://vulture.aero/terms

B4Takeoff is your digital logbook with GPS flight tracking and license management for pilots of all categories. Thanks to a partnership with Vereinsflieger, flights can be easily transferred between both platforms. Key features at a glance: - Recording of flights using GPS, even when the screen is turned off - Automatic detection of airports and flight times - Post-flight viewing of the flight path on a map - Customizable logbooks with statistical evaluations - Management of license data and monitoring of training status - Support for digital checklists for safe flight operations - Monitoring of aircraft maintenance - Lufthansa roster import Access to all data and additional features is also available at www.b4takeoff.net Getting started is free and non-binding. All features can be extensively tested during the trial period. Afterwards, you can choose to subscribe to an annual plan or continue using the free version with reduced functionality.