Download igc file from xctrack

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Subscribe To Posts Atom. Livetracking sends your positions every 60 seconds to a server and obtains the positions of other pilots 20 km away. If you want to see a track from another pilot using Livetracking, you can select a flight and then you get the track from another pilot and its position when the server obtains his data.

You can send messages to other pilots. An internet connection is required to have the livetracking features working. Make sure that the data of your SIM card are working correctly by opening a browser and check if you can get internet webpages you may need to enter the Access Point Name APN of your internet provider.

Use the standard SIM card size and insert it in portrait mode. Alternatively, you can share your internet connection provided by your phone wifi, bluetooth or USB ethernet but this method is more complex to setup. Enable livetracking to use the livetracking features. By enabling livetracking, a new Livetracking menu appears to access the livetracking features while flying. If Livetracking is enabled, next time you will start XCTrack, a new window will appear, asking if you agree to share your position.

Sharing your position is obviously required for the Livetracking to work. However, the Livetracking menu will still be available, in order to select pilots to see on the map, or to send a message. Once you have activated Livetracking, you also have the possibility to enable automatic claim of your flight 1 minute after landing.

The flights are analysed by the server and only real flights will be claimed. You can easily delete, edit them or create new ones. Set your aircraft will be indicated within your flight when you upload your flight on Xcontest.

Note that these two settings will be taken into account for the computation of different information during the flight. Read more details about the influence of these parameters in the XCtrack Pro widgets manual. Example: Mark glide distance in the Map configuration of the XC map widget of the Xcontest subsection , Side view widget of the Navigation subsection , Mark glide distance in the Map configuration of the Task Map widget of the Competition subsection , Altitude over goal widget in the Competition subsection.

Set the XC parameters to determine how to determine if a triangle is closed or not and the multiplicative factor in case of flat triangle or FAI triangle. Note the multiplicative factors of Xcontest World here. This section allows you to set the QNH for all barometric altitude widgets.

With the Pro version, you can automatically set the QNH from internet. XCTrack syncs at start and then tries to sync every hour. If there is no signal, XCTrack tries more frequently until it gets the data. Once the QNH is correctly set, the barometric altitude of the take-off should correspond to the known altitude. GPS altitude is known to not be as accurate. It is therefore recommended to set the QNH either from internet or manually. Some competitions require the use of GPS altitude instead of Flight Levels for airspace infringement check.

With a high QNH, such Flight Level should be considered at a higher gps altitude and therefore allowing pilots to fly higher than m if the FL was considered as pressure altitude. More information regarding airspace can also be found in the XCTrack Pro widgets manual. Read details about Airspace proximity in the Navigation subsection. In order to know if a given prohibited zone is active or not, the pilot is supposed to read information in the AIP and check the Notams.

This is fully automatic, but as any "robot", it may contain errors. Read more details about the Openair2Air3 here. The Web tab lists all the countries for which you can get airspace information from airspace.

At each start of XCTrack, you will get the updated information downloaded internet connection required. Otherwise, XCTrack will fail to automatically update the airspace info.

When the airspaces are not updated often enough, XCTrack switches to failsafe mode and displays all the airspaces as if they were all active. This will bring up a new window, containing the validity period on top. Click on the one you want to activate to enable it. You can import an OpenAir file into the right folder by clicking on the Import Openair Files button on top. The Activate tab lists all the different airspace zones either downloaded from the Web tab or provided by the Openair file activated in the files tab.

By default, all zones are set on Automatic. For airspace zones coming from airspace. The airspace is shown on the map read below explanations about color code when it is active or will be active in the near future, hidden when it is not. If you need to change the status, choose between disabled for today or permanently or active for today or permanently.

You will get a warning 15, 10 and 5 minutes before the airspace is activated if you happen to be just inside it. This zone will be greyed when it will be activated in the near future see explanations above.

The orange zone warning is only shown on the map and the Side view widget but not in the Airspace proximity widget. There is no schedule available with Openair files. As indicated in the Main features page , you can also reach the Airspace zones directly on the map, through the contextual menu.

Note regarding zone activation: as indicated in the Web tab info, when the airspaces are not updated often enough, XCTrack switches to failsafe mode and displays all the airspaces as if they were all active. If you disable this option, you will only get straight lines to determine the limits of the airspace zone. When you are close to it, it might be difficult to identify on which side of the line is the zone.

When the scale of the map is large enough, you may want to disable this option for readability reason. Full filling may help you to make sure you can identify if you are vertically within the zone inside, below or above …. In order to improve the readability, you may set the opacity of airspace filling with the slider. For readability purposes, you may want to change what is displayed and for which map scale, vertical borders of airspace zones are displayed.

The second option is used to make sure you still get the vertical borders for temporary airspaces, even if it is supposed to not be displayed based on the option to only show the labels below a given scale. Otherwise, they will only be displayed for map scale below the set distance. Once you get close to an obstacle or a restricted airspace, you can trigger events and combine the event triggering with a warning display.

As indicated in the description of the Airspace proximity widget of the navigation subsection of the XCTrack Pro widgets manual , different colors color code are used depending on your proximity with the airspace zone.

If you cross a prohibited airspace zone, a purple warning event will be triggered Airspace crossed. If the pilot is below the airspace zone horizontal distance away from the border of the zone is 0 m , a red warning event will be triggered Airspace is really close once the vertical distance is m.

An orange warning will be triggered Airspace is close once the vertical distance is m. These vertical distance limits will decrease while you are away from the zone. For each warning event triggered, you can decide to show an event notification overlay and also suppress next possible event for a defined period. Set how far you want XCTrack to look for a nearby airspace. If your flight doesn't appear after 24 hours, you can try uploading it again. This will start a new upload.. If the problem persists, please write to support xcontest.

IGC is a special tracklog format used in aviation sports. It has. The IGC file contains basic information about your flight and recording equipment. At the end of the IGC file, there is a so-called G-record - one or more lines beginning with the letter G. The G-record is a digital signature of the entire tracklog and ensures that the data contained in the IGC file have not been tampered - ie. For some devices it is created only after downloading the tracklog from the device memory using the dedicated software, for example GPSDump.

However, the IGC file created in this way is not valid, the G-record is either missing or not a proper digital signature. If your XCTrack mobile phone reboots during flight and the tracklog is split into multiple separate IGC files, please email us all IGC files of the flight to support xcontest.

It must be files from one device. We reserve the right to refuse to merge tracklogs if we have a reason to suspect that the reason for splitting tracklogs may have been to circumvent the rules, i. It probably means that the tracklog has multiple spaces longer than 1 minute or longer than 15 minutes. The maximum possible segment, all parts together, is always offered first. If your flight actually corresponds to only one part of the tracklog, select the appropriate section.

Note: According to XContest rules, a valid part of a tracklog is only the one which contains a maximum of 2 gaps in the record longer than 1 minute and does not contain a gap longer than 15 minutes. As of May , this rule is not strictly required, but a flight that does not comply with this rule may be excluded or modified if there is a reasonable suspicion of a violation. If your flight has 0 points, your tracklog is considered as invalid.

It probably does not have a correct G-record or does not include it at all - it is possible that the G-record was not added if the device has shut down unexpectedly restart, operating system crash, shutdown when battery power is low, etc.

If problems persist, contact the manufacturer of your device or the developer of your navigation application. There are three reasons: you either claimed the flight as inactive or you set the flight as inactive later or you claimed your flight after the deadline. According to our rule in paragraph 3. After this time, your flight is only uploaded privately if you sign in from XCTrack or similar app.

This rule is set due to fairness, so that the ranking of pilots in each category does not change dramatically just before the end of the season. If you have intentionally registered the flight invisibly and still want to publish it within 14 days, you can do so by clicking on the "publish flight" button in the actions column. Such flight cannot be published subsequently. Primarily we do not deal with offenses of individual pilots.

Videos have been produced to explain the different features of XCTrack Pro. Check the videos tuto page to learn quickly how to use XCTrack Pro. When you click on a particular track IGC file , you get different information and options: stats, routes, Xcontest. You can also replay or delete the track directly with the 2 buttons on top. This mechanism is based on your Xcontest account that you had to create at the beginning see first steps and is linked to your Pilot details in Preferences.

By clicking on the menu 3 dots top right , you can share your tracklog you need to have installed a communication app such as Whatsapp, Gmail, Messenger, Google Drive, Skype, etc. Routes is giving info about the distance flown through 4 different types of route: direct from takeoff to landing, distance over 3 turnpoints, FAI triangle and Flat triangle.

XCTrack uses a faster, less battery intensive optimization of routes, compared with the route optimization calculated on Xcontest site once the track is uploaded on Xcontest site.