Reading the map

Everything in SoarScope is one map. Around it are the controls that decide what the map shows.

Choose a day

The date bar above the map shows the day you are looking at. Step a day forward or back with the arrows, or open the calendar to jump.

Choose a layer

The menu on the left lists the layers in groups:

• Soaring: the soaring day itself, such as distance, speed, climb and working height.
• Cloud: whether cumulus forms, where its base is, and the cloud higher up.
• Weather: rain, wind, temperature and the rest of the weather around it.
• Observed: satellite pictures of the real sky.

A layer that is not forecast that far ahead shows a dash. You can still open it.

Choose an hour

The slider under the map moves through the day. Slide from morning to evening to see where the thermals switch on, where they peak and when they fade. Times are shown in the local time of the place you are looking at.

Read the legend

The legend at the bottom gives the colours their meaning, with the unit at the end. Every layer has its own steps, so always read the legend: the same colour means a different value on a different layer.

Where the forecast has no data, nothing is drawn. An empty place on the map means “not known”, never “zero”.

Open the forecast for one spot

Click or tap anywhere on the map. A panel opens with that place’s whole day, hour by hour: the climb by height, cloud base, wind at height and how far you could fly. Your favourite airfields are marked on the map, so they are one tap away.

Share what you see

The address in your browser always describes the map as it is: the day, the layer, the hour, the place and the zoom. Copy it to share exactly that view. A shared link also carries the glider it was made for, without changing your own settings.