Vulture

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.
* 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.
* Review optimized distance, release point, maximum altitude, and much more.
* Add searchable remarks to saved flights, mark contests, and keep your favorites.
* Compare flights side by side 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.

Try every feature free during the trial. One subscription covers iPhone, iPad, and Mac — keep flying with Vulture by choosing a plan whenever you're ready.

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