Vulture vs SkyTrackPro

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

SkyTrackPro is a complete flight companion for pilots, whether you fly big XC lines, FAI competitions, hike and fly, or a Sunday thermal with your friends. We care about the basics that make a flight go well: accurate tracking, a cockpit you can read in the air, honest navigation and tools that help you learn from every flight. Everything else has to earn its place. What SkyTrackPro helps you do Precise flight tracking • Reliable GPS recording from launch to landing • Barometric and GNSS altitude recorded as two independent references • IGC export and detailed replay • Offline capable, built to save battery on long days A cockpit built for you • Freeform flight layouts with movable buttons and resizable tiles • Ten ready to fly built in screens, including portrait radars • Flight Radar, Task Radar, Next Airspace, Side View and many more tiles • Refreshed Cockpit design with flat tile cards, uppercase labels and values that lead • Customizable flight puck, glide line and a wing and pilot marker designer Live tracking and sharing • Public live tracking, or private with a personal link • Live photos and short clips sent to the live map as you fly • PureTrack mirroring in parallel • Flight presence outside the app, with a live view on your lock screen Competition pilots • Load tasks via QR code, file or shared link • On final glide banner with wind corrected arrival margin • FAI Section 7 compliant goal line and elevated goal • Competition messenger with race direction chat, push notifications and an urgent alert siren • Retrieve in the chat with driver cards and send my location • XC Guide with routes, challenges, leagues, records and a live feed Hike and fly • A single recording for a whole day of walking and flying • Hike and Fly race day with land and sign turnpoints and GAP style competitions Soaring • Wagga mode for a dedicated touch and go session on a fixed screen Airspace and weather • Airspace v1.5 with NOTAM activation windows and section based colours • Progressive vertical airspace warning that scales with your climb rate • Weather with live wind stations in Switzerland, Austria, Spain and Slovenia Maps • Topo, Terrain, Satellite and Dark map styles • Offline Maps v2 with freeform 1 degree cell selection • Thermal maps overlay and obstacle warnings Hardware integrations • ActiveLook smart glasses from Engo Eyewear • Vector Vario and Calypso Ultrasonic over BLE • FLARM and FANET traffic shown on the flight map Thirteen languages English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese for Portugal and Brazil, Czech, Polish, Japanese, Korean, Turkish and Slovenian. The complete Pilot Manual is included in each language. For every kind of pilot • Competition pilots • XC explorers • Hike and fly pilots • Soaring pilots • Club and school pilots • Recreational flyers • Anyone learning and improving If you want precise tracking, a cockpit you can trust and tools that keep up with how you fly, SkyTrackPro fits right in.