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Masterclass SeeYou: debrief & figure out the moment you failed...

When pilots talk about flight analysis, the name "SeeYou" pops out immediately, as Naviter SeeYou was here from the beginning to help pilots dig up into their performances, to make them better. SeeYou is definitely not just a flight planner.



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SeeYou tools for connectivity provides you a e-logbook with IGC traces you can immediately analyse.

SeeYou is a software offered through an annual plan licence which I definitely think is worth the investment if you want to "know better" about your performances and also the ones from the pilotes around the world.


In adition to the analysis function, SeeYou is flight planner and optimiser. Designing you first 300km FAI triangle avoiding airspaces issues, optimising your next 500k to maximise your chance to make it, attempting a 750k, SeeYou is here to help. Notably, during the last seasons, SeeYou has became more "connected" with other services like weather forecast providers (Topmeteo or Skysight) so you can even more optimise your tasks and flying adventures, and perhaps avoid more than before the issue of outlanding.


Yes I love SeeYou, and for a long time now, and the Naviter team made a huge jump last season by developping a version of SeeYou as web application, so now if you are a Mac user or use a simple tablet or your smartphone, you can use SeeYou!

Moreover these App makes you able, just out of the cockpit, to get access to your flight trace online for a direct debrief with the other pilots (use the App SeeYou Navigator on your smartphone or any LX80xx LX90xx instrument with WiFi and LXNAV Connect enabled).


Ok so I can potentially analyse more easy than ever my flights but what to do? The easy way is always to look at the trace on the map, but this does not indicate what is behind the trace : your decisions! To help you figure out where perhaps a bad decision was made, there is an easy tool in SeeYou : the graphical display of the evolution of your average speed on task! This graphic will show you basically up and down as a roller coaster of your decisions and actions in the cockpit.



Your graphical display of average speed on task looks like that. Source SeeYou for PC.

Forget any altitude on this graph. Instead, on the horizontal axis you still get the timeline, but on vertical axis it is your average speed on task. You will normally get this kind of peaks'n'deeps typical of a day where you glide (average speed will go up) and stop to thermal (average speed will drop).

If you are not making any mistake, you can draw 2 lines hitting almost all the peaks and all the deeps. These lines are made by you, your glider, on this day in these weather conditions. It shows normally a tendency of what expected final average speed you will perform. These lines can get some "kinks", usually when you turn a waypoint and change from tailwind to nosewind for example. So still normal result, no magic.



Base and Toplines hitting Peaks and Downs are defined by the weater of the day. Source SeeYou for PC.

On the contrary, any mistake, bad choice from you, will generate in the following minutes a deeper peak, which again could be a "low point" in the flight but marks also the fact that you take more time to reach again the good altitude (so can be also a weaker thermal). Each of these mistakes will make the lowest of these 2 lines going down, so your baseline of average speed is going down, influencing the final result.



Last day during French Nationals 2018 club class. Mistake at the end of the day. Source SeeYou for PC

What to do out of this? Question one : was it possible to avoid this consequence by making a different decision/action? So if yes how? Always the answer of the "where was the bad decision taken" will be upstream of the recording of the drop in average speed, probably in the 10-20 minutes before this drop of average speed. Our sport is made of anticipation, analysis of what will "probably" occur, this is our game.

This can be a "one day mistake" but if you analyse more of your flights, perhaps you will figure out it is more "part of you", so a pattern of your behaviour in the air you could fix.



The next step is to display 2 pilots traces on same task same day to figure out where was made the difference, in fact more "when" than "where".



World Championship last race : one decision during last minutes made a huge diffrence... Source SeeYou for PC.

You want to become better pilot? Even not for competition but for easier XCountry? Know you better! Use SeeYou!

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