XC Guide’s free flight traffic now also integrated into SafeSky.

XC Guide and SafeSky platforms have agreed to exchange their respective air traffic. This bilateral traffic exchange completes traffic visibility for all pilots, contributing to the much-needed harmony among all sky users.

Photo Credit: Phil Russman, Pilot Indy, Jocky Sanderson.

What you need to know.

• Free flight pilots are often vulnerable and unnoticed.

• SafeSky has been making paramotors’ and paragliders’ traffic more visible to other sky users.

• XC Guide – the popular Android paragliding app for guiding and tracking - was missing from our integration list.

• With its strong user base, it is expected to bring a significant influx of new traffic to the SafeSky network.

• With this integration, most hardware and software used by paramotors and paragliders are now compatible with SafeSky, and vice versa.

• This is traffic that no other traffic awareness system but SafeSky provides.

SafeSky traffic visible in XCGuide.

Tristan FILY, CEO SafeSky: "We often hear feedback from pilots that there are too many navigation and traffic awareness systems on the market. That’s why we want to complete the ‘See and Avoid' principle in an interoperable and affordable way by aggregating air traffic from different sources. XC Guide was probably the last popular missing free flight integration".

XC Guide App developer Indy: “30+ years ago when I learned to fly them, Paragliders had little interaction with other aircraft. Now, however, their performance allows high altitude, long duration cross country flights. General Aviation may encounter paragliders unexpectedly, at great distance from their launch points. Paragliders can fly hundreds of kilometres, navigating airspace, at any altitude from near ground to cloud base, but they are very slow, difficult to see, and offer no radar signature. With the advent of busier skies, pilotless commercial drones and pressure on free airspace, the need for Electronic Conspicuity has never been greater.

With this latest integration, pilots using the XC Guide App (~ 20 thousand downloads) can ‘be seen’ and benefit from improved situational awareness using SafeSky’s aggregating platform. SafeSky’s lightweight and highly efficient API places a small resource burden on a mobile tablet. This is important as cockpit real estate is strictly limited in paragliding.”

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Good to know:

In addition to the app-generated traffic by our community of over 75,000 pilots, SafeSky aggregates data from partnerships and ground stations. Today, we provide 30+ air traffic information sources from all aircraft types, available for free across our app, free and PREMIUM.

Check out the full list here: SafeSky Pilot Playbook