Flight upload

New or old flight, traffic pattern or 1000 kilometers, every flight is welcome on WeGlide. Pictures taken or a small comment will help beginners and friends understand your flight.

Any number of flights can be uploaded and edited at the same time.

Can I upload flights directly from my LX?

Yes, you can add WeGlide as a service in LXNav Connect and the upload directly to WeGlide from your flightbook.

Participation in the competition

Each flight automatically takes part in all eligible competitions. For competitions like the DMSt you have to have a club in your profile.

Evaluation

WeGlide automatically determines the highest possible number of points for the individual competitions. It can happen that you get more points with a free route than with your too cautiously declared task. In the detailed view of the flight you will find detailed information on how the points for a competition were calculated.

Aircraft detection

As far as possible, aircraft are automatically read from the flight file. If you change the aircraft, WeGlide will remember this for the next flights with this logger.

How the aircraft type is inferred

WeGlide tries to find the matching aircraft in the following order:

1. Aircraft you selected manually. If you pick an aircraft during the upload, that choice is always used.
2. Your last flight with the same logger. If a previous flight used the same recording device, WeGlide reuses the aircraft, registration and competition ID from that flight. This is why a correction you make once is remembered for the next upload.
3. The glider type written in the IGC file. As a last resort, WeGlide reads the glider type from the file header (the HFGTYGLIDERTYPE field your logger writes) and looks for the closest matching aircraft in our database. If no name is present, it falls back to the registration.

Why the wrong aircraft is sometimes detected

The glider type in an IGC file is just free text that the pilot or logger entered, so there is no exact one to one mapping to our aircraft list. WeGlide compares the text against every aircraft name and picks the most similar one. Because many aircraft share very similar names, the closest match is not always the right one. Common reasons for a wrong detection are:

• Variants within the same family. A file that says LS 8 could mean the LS 8, LS 8-18, LS 8e neo and so on. WeGlide cannot tell the variant apart from the name alone and picks one of them. For motor and FES gliders the detected engine type is used to narrow this down, but the exact variant can still differ.
• Abbreviations, typos or unusual spellings in the file (for example Ventus2cM or ST.CIRUS) that do not closely match the official aircraft name.
• An empty or generic glider type (for example Default or a blank field), in which case no reliable match is possible.

If the detected aircraft is wrong, simply change it during the upload or on the flight afterwards. WeGlide remembers your correction for future flights recorded with the same logger, so you usually only need to fix it once.

Scoring window

WeGlide automatically recognizes the evaluation windows and displays them depending on the selected aircraft type and engine. The prerequisite is that the correct aircraft is selected when uploading. Please check the scoring window before you press save.

Engine runs

If an aircraft with an engine is selected during the upload, the engine run appears in the barogram and WeGlide takes into account the detected engine runs for the evaluation window. This recognition does not work in exceptional cases, but the scoring windows can be adjusted manually.

Airspace

WeGlide shows airspaces that you have crossed. Even for old flights, the current airspace is assumed. We have no information on older airspaces or current releases / inactivities. We do not know or check if you have had any clearances, if any airspace was incactive or if the airspace did not yet exist at the time of the flight.