ParaFlightBook gets 10 years old!

Incredible: the first beta releases went out to selected users 10 years ago. No one would have imagined that the program, which was meant for private use, would trigger such a tremendous demand. With 1.500 licenses and approx. 25.000 downloads of the free version ParaFlightBook has become a fixed mark in the scene. And despite…

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Version 1.8.051 with important bugfixes

The new version 1.8.051 fixes two bugs: Thermal analysis: functional again (was off since September 2017 due to startup performance improvements) SkyTraxx IGC export: filenames on the device now have a lowercase extension, thus allowing flightlog and statistics to find them. Trick: if you cancel the export, you get an option to verify/correct IGC files…

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Improved SkyTraxx-Support in version 1.8.048

Version 1.8.048 brings – besides some fixes – a new export functionality for SkyTraxx varios (2.0 and 3.0, automatic detection) . This allows the complete usage of the vario’s statistic and simulation features. Be careful not to import flights from a date range where you have exported flights with this function earlier. Due to the…

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Full speed with 1.8.044

Version 1.8.044 is online – and it’s fast! A 1.000 flights log loads up to 3 times faster than before if diagram mode isn’t set as default. The “Browser not compatible” problem with Google Maps has also been solved. Finally, the price has been increased the first time since 8 years. Yet incoming orders in…

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Critical fix for 1.8.040 online!

Warning: the recommended batch recalculation of yesterday’s version 1.8.040 can overwrite manually edited pilot/wing data with those from the IGCs.Version 1.8.041 is online and offers a Version 1.8.041 has a function “Extra / Pilot/Wing/Device <- Backup” to fix this from a recent backup. By starting it you will be prompted for one of the automatically…

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New flight calculations in Version 1.8.040

The calculation of peak values (ascent, descent, groundspeed) in flights has become thoroughly changed. These values are now averaged in a 4 second window around each trackpoint instead of simply integrating the previous ones. The new calculation also omits trackpoints outside manual borders, and it distinguishes high velocities in a limited area (like i.e. within…

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“Your browser is not supported by Google API”

Popups like this appeared recently in the map windows – even if the user claims to use Google Chrome! The reason is the internal use of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer control which sometimes isn’t liked very well by Google. Messages like these appeared in the past as well as the complete denial of map scripts. This…

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Version 1.8.038 online

A minor update with improvements covering XCSoar/XCTrack as well as an enhanced flight split function has been released.

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