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Short, practical guides with real screenshots: from your first upload to a shareable flight video and your next XC route.

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Intermediate7 min8 steps

Plan your next XC route

Pick a takeoff, a goal and a day, and let XCviewer find the route and its climbs. Then, if you want, go further in Advanced mode: compare valleys, plan an FAI triangle, check every leg and send the route to your instrument.

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Beginner3 min4 steps

Find where to fly

Compare the valleys around you, pick the best day and zone, and launch from one of its takeoffs.

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Advanced4 min3 steps

Plan a Hike & Fly route over several days

Let the optimizer mix flying, walking and relaunches, X-Alps style, and shape the route to your plan.

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Intermediate5 min3 steps

Read thermals, valley breezes and foehn

Use the thermal model, the valley breeze model and the foehn layer to understand the air before you fly.

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Beginner5 min5 steps

Improve your flying with the pilot coach

Analyse a flight in 3D and on the map, then follow your technique and safety habits across all your flights.

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Beginner3 min4 steps

Customize your glider

Add your wing from the catalogue, design its colours and pattern, enter its polar and watch it fly in 3D.

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Beginner3 min4 steps

Upload a flight and replay it in 3D

Import your IGC files, find them in your logbook and relive the flight over real 3D terrain.

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Intermediate5 min4 steps

Analyze your flight like a pro

Use the dashboard, track colors, the thermal map and the measuring tool to understand what really happened in the air.

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Beginner4 min4 steps

Create a video of your flight

Turn any flight into a cinematic 3D video in a few clicks, ready for Instagram, TikTok or YouTube.

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Beginner3 min4 steps

View your XCTrack flights in 3D

Get the IGC file recorded by XCTrack, open it in XCviewer and replay and analyze your paragliding flight over real 3D terrain.

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Beginner3 min5 steps

How to open an IGC file (computer, Mac or phone)

What an IGC file is, where to find it on your vario, in XCTrack or on XContest, and how to open it online to replay your paragliding flight in 3D.

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