Free Flight Tools

Live wind station readings

XCTrack Windmap

Wind stations near you, drawn where they actually are. Speed, gust and direction for each one, so you can tell a valley-floor reading from a summit reading before you commit to a glide.

Reads on your XCTrack map, without leaving your nav screen
Tap any arrow for the last few hours at that station
Old readings go red rather than quietly looking current

Open Windmap

A phone running XCTrack. Wind arrows sit on the terrain around Interlaken, each labelled with speed, gust and station altitude, and a panel at the bottom shows one station's last few hours. — The widget over XCTrack’s own map, in flight.

HX airspace phone directory

HX Call

Swiss HX airspaces have no fixed hours. They can switch on at 30 minutes’ notice, and where one publishes a number you are allowed to check its status by phone. This finds the right number for wherever you are.

No XCTrack needed: the app runs in any browser, iPhone included
Needs no data connection, only enough signal to dial
8 of the 13 Swiss HX zones publish a number to call
A re-check clock per zone, because one call is not enough

Open HX Call

A phone running XCTrack. Two chips float at the bottom of the map, Emmen Buochs Alpnach and Meiringen, each with its phone number and the words IN RANGE. — Both zones in range, with the number ready to dial.

Made for

One hand, in gloves Big targets, no menus, and nothing to scroll past to reach what you opened it for.
Bright sunlight High contrast, and every colour has a number printed beside it. Colour is never the only thing carrying a reading.
A battery that has to last Nothing polls faster than the data actually changes.

The small print

Your position stays on your phone. Windmap asks winds.mobi which stations are in the area around you, and that is the only thing either tool ever sends. No accounts, and no profile of you anywhere.

These three pages count visits. This one and the two setup pages use Cloudflare Web Analytics: a tally of page views and the country they came from. No cookies, no identifier, nothing stored on your device, and no way to follow you anywhere else. The tools themselves never do this. The list and the widget you fly with make no such request at all.

The wind readings are not ours. Windmap draws what winds.mobi serves, which aggregates MeteoSwiss, SLF, Holfuy, OpenWindMap and others. The measurements belong to those networks.

Unofficial, and no warranty. These show measured facts. They are not forecasts, and never a verdict on whether a flight is safe. Only the official publications have legal validity, and you are responsible for your own flight preparation.