• The show path option in the view menu.
• The flight replay module.
• The freeze mode.
• The exported flight path data.

Path and replay:

The flight path of each glider is always shown on the map in two dimentional form, however you can display the flight path for the glider you control in three dimentional form inside the scene also by choosing the show path option from the menu.

This is particularly usefull when the flight replay is displayed, as you can analyze and replay the flight along it's path, you can even choose the be inside the cockpit or outside while replay is in progress and examine the control inputs you made as the replay is in progress.

To show the flight replay panel, select the flight replay from the menu.

While replay is shown the glider is in replay mode, you can move the replay slider and watch every frame along the replayed flight.

The maximum length of the saved replay is 256 seconds.

While replay is active you can change the point of view using the F1 or F8 buttons, however if you detach from the glider using F2 button, the glider returns to normal flight and the replay is stopped.

If you close the replay window before the replay has reached it's end, the replay is lost and flight resumes from the current replay position.

The freeze mode:

At any moment in flight you can use the freeze mode, this mode freezes all moving objects in the scene but still allows you to move freely inside the scene, change gliders, assign waypoints and tracks and more.

It is particularly usefull for postioning gliders for a race and examining a maneuvers in progress.
Flight path can be shown also during this mode to give you a clear view of the maneuver.

The exported data:

The track of each glider and the track recorded by the GPS is saved at the end of every flight and resumed at the next time you enter the program.

The maximum length of a recorded track is 10240 lines, each line containes the (x,y,z) position of the recorded object.

For gliders the path is recorded in land size units, for GPS the path is recorded in meters.

The glider paths are saved as files with (.pt#) extension, and the GPS path is saved with (.pth) extension.

If you require to process the flight data with any external tool such as Microsoft Excell the recorded path can be quickly imported and displayed as it is a simple ascii text file.