On Friday, May 9, 2014 10:37:03 AM UTC-5, jfitch wrote:
On Friday, May 9, 2014 6:44:18 AM UTC-7, Paul Remde wrote:

Hi,







This looks interesting - maybe.



https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...6395347&type=1



SeeYou Recorder is free logging software for iPhone and Android devices..



Naviter recently added the ability for SeeYou Recorder to use the



LiveTrack24 service for life tracking of the flight. LiveTrack24 service is



available for a few dollars a month.







http://shop.livetrack24.com/cart.php?a=confproduct&i=1



http://www.livetrack24.com/store/index



http://www.livetrack24.com







One big question is how high you can go before your cell phone loses



reception and the live tracking stops. I wonder whether the service is



useful for soaring. Does this type of thing have potential to replace the



tracking features of SPOT and DeLorme inReach units? It certainly can't



replace the emergency remote communication capabilities offered by those



devices.







In the past I tried a free gliding tracking app for iPhone. I don't



remember the name of it. I didn't test it in flight but it worked fine on



the ground. It didn't offer the cool 3D tracking that LiveTrack24 offers.







It would be cool if a low cost service and free app made it easy for our



friends to follow us live with 3D views on a PC or Mac. SPOT and InReach



can't do that.







Information on the free SeeYou Recorder app is available he



http://www.naviter.com/products/seeyou-recorder/







In not ready to sign-up for the service yet. Does anyone else want to give



it a try and report back here? Or is there no potential due to limited



coverage at altitude?







Best Regards,







Paul Remde



LiveTrack24 has worked on Butterfly's iGlide app since about day one. Coverage may depend on where you fly, but out here in the western desert I would think worst case, and I have always had cell coverage at altitude.

a friend uses it on iGlide and in the flat middle of the country, cell service is pretty lousy above, say, 4 or 5000 feet. We tracked him at Region 10 South last year and only knew when he was low or on final glide. If we couldn't see him, we didn't worry, because he was too high to get a cell signal and that was a good thing! Definitely not a replacement for the other tracking systems the much faster update rate is pretty cool.