Airspace violation
Boundaries and ceilings on the map, offline, with your live AGL against the terrain rather than pressure alone.
Activities · Aviation · Skill 2–5 · Moderate to extreme risk
Airspace is not advisory.
Paragliding, paramotoring, hang gliding and skydiving share a hard constraint the ground sports do not have: a legal ceiling and a legal boundary, both invisible. NavTrax puts airspace, wind and launch sites on the same offline map as the terrain you are flying over.
01 / By the numbers
1–3hTypical flightLonger for cross-country
4Layers auto-enabledAirspace, weather, wind, topo
240mAGL shown liveTerrain-relative, not pressure-only
0Airspace busts by accidentThe boundary is on the map before launch
02 / What the app enables
Pick the activity. The map configures itself.
These layers switch on together, because they are the set this activity actually needs. You can change any of them; the point is that the default is not a blank topo map.
- Airspace
- Class boundaries, ceilings, restricted and prohibited areas.
- Wind
- Forecast at altitude, and the ridge behavior the terrain implies.
- Weather
- Thermal potential, cloud base and the front you should not be under.
- Topography
- Because a landing field is a terrain feature before it is a plan.
- Launch and landing sites
- With site briefings and access notes where the community has supplied them.
03 / Failure modes
The ways this actually goes wrong.
Every activity in NavTrax carries a documented failure-mode list, and each entry names the feature that addresses it. Not a disclaimer — a design input.
Flying into rotor
Wind at altitude plus the terrain that makes it. The topo and the wind layer are read together.
Engine out on a paramotor
Landing-field options are terrain features on the map, identified during planning rather than during the glide.
Weather surprise
Multi-model forecast with cloud base, and an alert when the trend crosses your limits.
Tree or water landing
Terrain and land cover on the same offline region, so the out-landing options are known before you need one.
04 / Practice
What the app assumes you already do.
- Weather limits, written down
- And checked against the forecast automatically.
- Site briefing
- Community layer carries access and hazard notes.
- Progressive rating
- The app records flights; the logbook is the evidence.
- Reserve parachute
- Not an app feature. Repack it.
05 / Curated kit
The gear list, scoped to this activity.
Pulled from the activity's own equipment profile and matched against the in-app store catalog. Nothing here is a generic recommendation.
WingGliderRated to your level
SafetyReserve parachuteIn date
InstrumentsVario and GPSAirspace loaded
CommsRadioSite frequency
ProtectionHelmet and harnessCertified
NavigationPhone with airspace layerOffline region pinned
RecoveryHook knifeReachable
CommsSatellite messengerFor a walk-out from an out-landing
06 / Under the hood
On-device inference in the air
Know the ceiling before you find it.
Airspace, wind and terrain layers are on Pro, and they render with no connection.