All the data. None of the guesswork.
iPhone app coming soon
Bring your flights from the apps and varios you already fly with
One app for both halves of every flight. Just started? The briefing works from your first day, and the rest grows with every flight.
The forecast runs through an engine calibrated to how expert pilots read the sky, and comes out as a clear read: what kind of day it is, the wind on your launch, how strong the thermals get and when to be there, with AI to put it in plain words and every source shown.
Today's wind, climb and height set against your own flights at that launch. The more you fly, the more it's yours.
Drop a tracklog and it flies again in 3D over the real terrain, with the save, the best climb and the longest glide marked.
Every season counted, every wing with its hours and trim reminders, and the trophies you earn along the way.
Everything in the app, laid out on the web: today’s briefing, every flight as a card, and your whole logbook. One account, always in sync.
Drop your tracklogs in and your season builds itself: hours, sites, records, the story. Read right here in your browser, from your real tracks. Free.
Your whole season in one go: on xcontest.org → My flights, select them all and download the tracklogs. Drop the one .zip here.
Pilots flying the Alps, and anyone flying elsewhere in Europe. Whether you bring ten years of XContest history or you're in your first season, Paraguide reads the day at your launch in plain words and keeps every flight in a logbook the read is set against. Every flight you add sharpens the picture.
It is built for the Alps: Switzerland, France, Italy, Austria, Germany and Slovenia, where the föhn gap, the valley winds and the local models all come together. It also reads launches in Spain and the UK, about 4,000 in all. Each read uses the best local model: MeteoSwiss ICON-CH1 in Switzerland, Météo-France AROME in the French Alps, the Met Office UKV in the UK, DWD ICON elsewhere. Live stations join where they stand within 40 km. Switzerland is deepest, with station history, parcel tops and BAZL airspace, and every read names what answered, so you always know how much sits under it.
Yes. Every read names the model that answered for that point, and the föhn read covers the whole Alpine arc, not only Switzerland: Turin to Geneva for Annecy and Chamonix, Bolzano to Innsbruck for the Tyrol, Klagenfurt to Salzburg and Ljubljana to Trieste, with the Pyrenees and the Mistral read the same way. Two things stay Swiss for now: the airspace ceiling, from the federal BAZL map, and the station history your launch wind is read against. Every read says what it had to work with.
Nothing. The whole product is free: every flight, the 3D replays with their key moments and the debrief, the full Briefing with your history at the spot and the week ahead, your wings with their service clocks, your Wrapped. Ask is grounded in your own flights and metered at 3 questions a day, which is the one thing that costs us money per question.
No. What is free today stays free. If a paid layer ever comes it is added on top, never carved out: comparison against everyone's flying once a region has the density to be honest, what pilots fly where you are heading, how your wing measures up across the fleet.
Don't move. Sync. XContest is the league; Paraguide is the debrief. Import your XContest history in one zip and every flight arrives read, your league account untouched.
No files and no retyping. Connect FlySkyHy or XCTrack to Paraguide once, and after a flight it's one tap in the app to send it over: the flight arrives with its track, site and stats. Any IGC file from any instrument works too.
Every wing you fly gets its own page, built from your logbook: hours and kilometres, the maker's own service intervals counting down, trim reminders, and your review when you're ready to give it.
Paraguide is free because your flying builds it: every flight and wing you add feeds the comparisons, planning and insights that no single logbook can produce. You keep ownership of your data. Your logbook visibility is separate from its contribution to the platform. Our privacy policy explains these uses and your choices.
Yes: Paraguide is live and free on the web today, and the iPhone app is coming soon. Sign up on the web and your account carries straight into the app the day it lands. The reads are still being honed with a first cohort of pilots and real instructors, and pilots flying with us now get a say in what we build next.
