Preflight Settings - Live Tracking
Live Tracking
At this page you define all the things for the Live Tracking.
Live Tracking means using a GPS to determine your position and a
mobile network to send this position in real-time to a server, that other
people can see your exact position and track presented in a map just
in time. The tracking option needs the capability to connect to mobile
networking during flight with your used device.
If you switch on the Live Tracking at this page, the sending of position data
is started automatically, if a certain speed over ground is reached. The
start speed is adjustable on this page at the menu point
Autostart IGC logger. If you stand still for ca. 60s, the Live Tracking
is finished and closed automatically. Per flight there exists only one active
session. If all data of the previous session could not be transmitted to the
server, they will be removed with the start of a new Live Tracking session.
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Live Tracking on/off
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Here you can switch on/off the Live Tracking. You can do that at any time
also during the flight in the air. The switch off closes immediately an
existing Internet connection.
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Tracking interval
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Here you can define the time interval for transmitting of position updates
to your selected server in the Internet.
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Airplane type
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Define your used airplane type here. Further data are taken from your
selected airplain.
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Server
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Please select the service, which you want to use for Live Tracking. Several
variants are possible:
- www.livetrack24.com LiveTrack24
- test.livetrack24.com for test purposes with LiveTrack24
- livexc.dhv1.de LiveTrack DHV
- www.skylines-project.org SkyLines LiveTrack
Before you can use one of these services, a registration is required
at the web page of the service provider. That can you do over the following
listed links.
If your registration was successful you should have an user account with
a user name and a password.
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User name
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Enter your user name here. That is dependent on the service which you
want to use. For Livetrack24 and for Livetrack DHVyou
have to enter the Livetrack user name. SkyLines expects
a so called Live Tracking Key which can you find at their web
page under the menu point Live Tracking, if you have logged in
there. Enter this key as your user name here.
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Password
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Enter the password from your user account here. SkyLines expects
not really a password. Here you can leave the entry empty.
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Login Test
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If you press the button Login Test you can check if your entered
account data are accepted by your selected server. It is advisable to do
this check after each entry or change to ensure that you have no trouble
during flight.
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Session
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The last line shows you the current Live Tracking session state.
If the service is switch on and active you can see here the cached
and sent position packages to the server in the Internet. In case of
a high number of cached packages you should check the status of your
mobile data connection. On a stable connection there should be to see
only a small number of cached packages. If your mobile Internet
connection is down for a longer time (ca. 1h) the oldest route
package is removed from the cache during the entry of a new route
package to prevent a memory overflow.