Flight tracking and logbook

Your aircraft on the map

WhereMap while X-Plane runs; Settings > Appearance > Your aircraft symbol.

• Your aircraft is one clear airplane, or helicopter, symbol with its callsign, flight level and speed next to it. It keeps the same size at every zoom level, from the whole globe to the taxiway.
• Pick the size (small, medium, large; large for 2K and 4K monitors) and the colour (white, magenta, orange) under Settings > Appearance. Online traffic stays green and cyan.
• In flight the symbol casts a shadow on the ground that drifts further away as you climb, and the label shows an arrow while you climb or descend. Show altitude turns the shadow off.
• Center on the Flight Strip keeps the aircraft centred and reads Following while it does. Dragging the map stops following; press it again to resume.
• Launch X-Plane from X-Dispatch, or open X-Dispatch while X-Plane is already running. Either way it connects on its own, and reconnects after an X-Plane restart.

Flight recording

WhereSettings > Flights.

• Record flights logs every flight on its own from first movement to parking while X-Plane is connected. Taxi out and the entry appears in the logbook as In progress.
• Flight trail draws the recorded track behind the aircraft, coloured by altitude. The same switch is in the Layers panel.
• Flights are stored as files in the X-Dispatch data folder. Open flights folder shows them.

Landing report

WhereCard on the map right after touchdown; Settings > Flights > Landing report.

On touchdown a card slides in with the touchdown rate counting up, the runway, a rating from Butter to Very hard landing, and the details: peak g, pitch, flare (very good, a little early, too late), float time, bounces, nose-down rate, and where you touched down: metres past or short of the threshold and left or right of the centreline. Rating bands follow LandingRate for FlyWithLua, so the numbers compare with what you know.

• Zoom to touchdown moves the camera to the runway when the report appears.
• Landing notification sends a system notification when you land while the app is hidden.
• Copy as image puts a shareable card on the clipboard. Show on map frames the touchdown point. Logbook opens the flight.
• A bounced landing lists every contact. The card also shows the vertical speed X-Plane reported at contact, which is often different from the touchdown rate the recorder measures.

Logbook

WhereLogbook button in the toolbar.

• Totals at the top: flights, block and air time, distance, landings, average and best touchdown.
• Each flight: departure and arrival, aircraft, block and air time, distance, max altitude and ground speed, fuel burned, landings, track points, and the landing report.
• Show on map draws the flight. Replay plays it back on the map with play, pause, speed and a follow switch. Copy as image makes the landing card.
• Edit changes a flight's date, airports, aircraft, livery, times, distance and landings; the track and landing report stay as recorded. Add flight enters one by hand, with no track. Delete flight removes it from disk.
• Launch history is the second tab: the last 10 launches with aircraft, livery, fuel, weather and start position. Load this setup starts the same flight again. The copy icon copies the launch JSON for a bug report.

Export and import CSV

WhereExport CSV and Import CSV in the logbook header.

1. 01

   Export CSV writes every flight to a spreadsheet file.

2. 02

   Import CSV reads one back and tells you how many flights were imported, how many were already there and skipped, and how many it could not read. Importing the same file twice makes no duplicates.

• Use an exported file as the template for flights you bring in from another logbook.