Buddy Flying: Fly with your group – live on the map
Fly together, find the thermals together
Paragliding is best shared. With Buddy Flying you see your group’s live positions right on the map – who’s circling where, how high, how strongly they’re climbing and how far away they are. Stay together in the air and find the best lift as a team.
Your group live on the map
Every pilot in your group shows up as their own marker on the map – with a name, heading and a line connecting them to you. One glance tells you where your friends are flying. Each buddy carries the numbers that matter: current altitude, climb rate and distance to you. No radio, no scanning the sky – just look at the map.
Who’s climbing best?
Buddy Flying is a thermalling aid too. The member list is sorted by climb rate, and the pilot in the strongest lift is marked with a ★ – just head that way. Coloured rings tell you instantly who’s climbing better relative to you: green climbs stronger than you, yellow about the same, red weaker.
Private and secure
Buddy Flying is not a public tracking platform. You create a group and share the code only with the friends you want flying with you – if you don’t have the code, you’re not in. Positions are transmitted encrypted over a direct connection (AES-256). Leave the group or turn sharing off and it stops – no public flight history is created.
One team, all devices
Your group can be mixed: iPhone and Android share the same buddy group. Everyone flies with the device they have and still sees everyone else.
Buddy Flying is included in Vario One – all you need is a free Vario One account, no extra subscription.
Fly together now
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