A busy day in the Alps on Puretrack
A busy day in the Alps on Puretrack
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Masterclass: Puretrack with Tim Bromhead

Puretrack is a new free flight map app that brings all the trackers together in one place. In this 40-minute Masterclass developer Tim Bromhead explains how to use it

3 January, 2025, by Cross Country | Tim Bromhead

Puretrack is a way to “take the search out of ‘search-and-rescue” – a new mapping website for free flight, general aviation and gliding. Developed by Tim Bromhead it has been designed so no matter what tracker a pilot uses they can appear on the map.

This gets around the problem often associated with proprietary systems where different pilots in a group...

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