Tips & shortcuts

The controls and features that aren't obvious at first. On a Mac, ⌘ works wherever Ctrl is shown.

Keyboard

/: Search for a place or airport.
← →: Step the forecast an hour back or on (with only the live radar or satellite showing, their frames).
On the timeline: ← →: Step 15 minutes; with Shift, an hour. Click the timeline first.
Ctrl + Z: Undo: the last change to your XC task or flight route, or the layer you switched to.
Esc: Close whatever is open (a menu, a popup, measuring, a final glide); in 3D, then back to the 2D map.

Shift + ← →: Turn the view.
Shift + ↑ ↓: Tilt the view: up looks more straight down.
⌘ / Ctrl + ↑ ↓: Raise or lower the view in altitude, 1,000 ft a press. Leaving 3D and coming back starts from the usual view on the ground.
⌘ / Ctrl + ← →: Slide the view sideways.
Right-drag: Turn and tilt with the mouse (or hold Ctrl and drag). On touch: two fingers dragged up or down tilt, twisted turn.
Side view: Cuts the air open in front of you, like a cross-section; Cut at brings the cut (and the altitude pole) nearer or farther. Cut thermals cuts them open too.
Cycles: Thermals and cumulus live through the hour: columns rise, break off and drift, clouds form and decay. ▶ plays the day; the slider sets the minutes.
Lift over, Show up to: Hide the weaker lift, or everything above a height, to see what you'd actually use.
Terrain ×1, ×1.5, ×2: Exaggerate the terrain's height (and the air's with it).
Time tags on a route: Tap one to move the timeline to the time you'd be there.
Pull down for notes: The 3D panel's handle opens notes on what each shape and color means.

Right-click or long-press: A spot's menu: glide lines from it, a final glide to it, start or add to an XC task (or a flight route), suggested tasks from it, measure from it. Its coordinates are at the top, ready to copy.
Right-click a turnpoint: Delete it (undoable).
Glide Range layer: Right-click or hold anywhere for that spot's glide lines; again on the same spot to clear them.
Glide to Airport layer: The way to the airport is drawn from the crosshair as you pan; tap the map to lock it from that spot in the bottom bar, tap again to free it. On a computer, hover for any point.
Tap the start: While planning an XC task, closes it back to the start (out-and-return, triangle).

Right-click or long-press a layer: Pin it to the top bar (or use its pin icon); right-click a pinned one to unpin it.
Tap the legend's unit: Change that layer's units (kt, m/s, ft, m …) without going to Setup.
Swipe the legend right: Hide it; its tab brings it back.
Drag the edges: The menu's edge, the side panel's and the timeline's grip resize them; double-click a grip to reset it.
Scroll wheel: Over the days scrolls them; over the radar row, steps the radar frames; over the point forecast, scrolls its hours.
+ Save view: Saves the place, zoom, layer and 3D view; Edit stars the one to open by default.
Model pins: Open the model details (the arrow beside the model switch) and unpin the models you don't use.
Save for offline: In the XC planner, keeps the day's forecast over your task's area on the device, for flying with no signal.
Release number: In Setup, opens what's new in this release.
Take the tour: In Setup → About, walks through the main controls again.