Updraft vs Rate My Skate

You can fly a glider solo at 14 — years before you can drive. Updraft is the logbook and coach for everyone learning to. Put your phone on the coaming and press Record. Updraft finds your launch and your landing by itself, so there is nothing to remember while you fly. When you land, you get the whole flight back: how high you got, what every climb was worth, how your circuit compared to the last one you flew. No vario to buy. No wiring. No signal needed — every airfield is already on your phone. FREE, AND STAYS FREE • Unlimited recording. Never capped, never blocked, never on a trial timer • Height, ground speed and climb rate while you fly • Your flight path, and a summary the moment you land • The IGC flight file for anything you fly — yours to keep and to share • Your three most recent flights in the logbook • Today's soaring conditions at your home field, on a Home Screen widget UPDRAFT PRO • The full instrument panel — turn coordinator, thermal assistant, glide ratio, G meter and more • Your whole logbook, with totals and currency, plus IGC import and manual entries • Replay your track over real terrain at 1×, 8× or 60× • Instructor debrief: record what your instructor says and get it back as a went-well / work-on list. It is transcribed on your phone and never uploaded • Thermalling coach: the bank you held and what centring was worth in each climb • The three-day soaring forecast, and outlook and logbook widgets UPDRAFT MAX • Everything in Pro, plus the advisory live in-flight layer and an airspace check after you land — a review of what happened, never a clearance Subscriptions are optional. They renew automatically unless cancelled in your Apple Account subscription settings. You can change plans or cancel in Updraft under Customize > Account and plan. WHAT IT WILL NOT DO Updraft uses the sensors in your phone. It shows ground speed, not airspeed. It is not a certified instrument and must never be used to fly the aircraft. Look outside and follow your instructor. Built for club juniors, cadets, university gliding clubs and anyone learning to fly. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://ethanpaschkes.github.io/updraft-app/privacy.html

Every skatepark in the UK, in one place. Rate My Skate lists 2,477 skateparks across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland — from the Isles of Scilly to Shetland. Find the ones near you, see what they're actually like, and say what you think. FIND SOMEWHERE TO SKATE Parks nearest you first, with the distance to each. Search by park or by town. See them all on a map and tap any pin. KNOW BEFORE YOU GO Every park shows its real size, measured from the shape it's mapped as — so you can tell a couple of ramps in a car park from a full concrete plaza before you drive there. Where we can, we'll also tell you how far it is to the nearest car park and public toilets. Useful if you're bringing kids. RATINGS THAT MEAN SOMETHING Rate a park out of five in one tap. If you've got a moment, score the four things that actually decide whether a park is worth a trip: • Surface — how it rides. Cracks, grit, whether it drains. • Features — the range and quality of ramps, rails and bowls. • Upkeep — whether it's looked after. Damage, litter, glass. • Vibe — how welcoming it is, and whether beginners get a fair go. SAY WHAT IT'S LIKE Pick from a set of short phrases — smooth concrete, good for beginners, easy parking — and add a note of your own if none of them fit. Comments are anonymous. Anything you write in your own words is read by a person before it appears. PHOTOS AND CLIPS, CHECKED BY A PERSON Add a photo of a park, or a ten-second clip, so others can see what they're getting. Clips are silent, and of the park rather than the people in it. Every one is looked at by a real person before it appears — and anything you add, you can delete whenever you like. LESSONS Where a club or a coach runs sessions at a park, you may see a link at the foot of its page. Those are added by hand, by us. Nobody else can post one. BUILT FOR SKATERS AND THE PEOPLE DRIVING THEM Free. No adverts. No tracking. Ratings are anonymous — your name is never shown. Signing in with Apple simply stops one person rating the same park fifty times. Your phone checks photos for faces before anything is sent, and offers to blur them. It checks clips the same way, and won't send one with a recognisable face in it at all. Skateparks are full of kids, so we don't publish recognisable faces. Park locations come from OpenStreetMap contributors.