Flight Recording & Archive
Every flight, captured forever
You’re on a long-haul to Tokyo. Twelve hours of north-pacific routing, ice fields, the spine of Hokkaido at sunrise. With Skyty, that whole journey becomes a recordable, replayable, exportable artifact.
Two ways to record
- Manual — hit record before take-off, hit stop after landing. Simple.
- Auto-Recording (Premium) — Skyty watches GPS. When you cross 3 000 m and 200 km/h, it starts a recording automatically; when you descend below 500 m and 100 km/h, it saves and stops. Take off, sleep, wake up. The flight is in your archive.
Background tracking samples at ~30 s while the app is in the background, balancing accuracy against battery.
What gets recorded
- Full GPS polyline drawn on the map in real time
- Altitude profile chart (Swift Charts) — see your climb, cruise plateaus, step climbs, descent
- Statistics: duration, distance, max altitude, max/avg speed, departure and arrival cities
- Course-over-ground and vertical-speed time series
Archive and sync
Every flight goes into a local archive that you can browse, rename, share. With iCloud enabled, your archive syncs across devices through your private iCloud container — Apple can’t read it, and neither can we.
Export anywhere
Tap export to get a standards-compliant GPX file. Drop it into Google Earth, Strava, Garmin Connect, FlightAware’s IGC tools — anything that speaks GPX. Your flight, your file.