About Hot Air Balloon Pilot
The Hot Air Balloon is an app that keeps track of all your flight information and navigation so you can focus on the flight. Includes everything for navigation, tracking and logging. The app also features advanced...
The Hot Air Balloon is an app that keeps track of all your flight information and navigation so you can focus on the flight. Includes everything for navigation, tracking and logging. The app also features advanced wind-mapping with integrated wind data sharing and map-processing such as overlays of sensitive areas and import of competition maps.
Features
- Flight instruments: Speed, Variometer, Bearing and Altimeter, using barometer if present!
- Track: Records your flight path and altitude
- Logging: View, interact and share recorded tracks. Upload you logs to Drive/Dropbox or share by email
- Network: Your data can be shared in real time with anyone on the same network code. The retrieve vehicle can see your position, targets etc and wind data is integrated from multiple ballons.
- Maps: Navigate with the standard Google Map or with terrain/satellite mode
- Overlays: Import map details such as powerlines or sensitive areas in open formats such as KML, (windmaster) XML, JPG or PNG.
- Waypoints and Geometry: Add markers and targets on the fly. Even geometries such as projection lines, areas or circles!
- WindMap and Projections: The app keeps track on direction and velocity of winds in all altitudes you have been to, visualized as projections on the map!
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Hot Air Balloon Pilot since it was posted on our website on 2019-10-26 00:28:36.
The latest version is 5.5.6 and it was updated on 2024-04-22 13:16:07. See below the changes in each version.
Hot Air Balloon Pilot version 5.5.6
Updated At: 2023-09-22
Changes: Network Feature and startup crash fixes
NOTE: App uses internal storage now: Android/data/eu.paamand.hotairpro/files
BACKUP before clearing app data or you may lose flightlogs.
Can't find your old logs? - You need to move them from the old storage location to the new internal storage.
Hot Air Balloon Pilot version 5.5.4
Updated At: 2023-09-12
Changes: v5.5.4: HotAir Network feature now working!
You can control which info you share to each individual subscriber.
+ Crash fixes
NOTE: App uses internal storage now: Android/data/eu.paamand.hotairpro/files
BACKUP before clearing app data or you may lose flightlogs.
Can't find your old logs? - You need to move them from the old storage location to the new internal storage.
Hot Air Balloon Pilot version 5.5.3
Updated At: 2023-08-27
Changes: HotAir Network feature now working!
You can control which info you share to each individual subscriber.
+ maplayer ordering fixes
+ Crash fixes
NOTE: App uses internal storage now: Android/data/eu.paamand.hotairpro/files
BACKUP before clearing app data or you may lose flightlogs.
Can't find your old logs? - You need to move them from the old storage location to the new internal storage.
Hot Air Balloon Pilot version 5.4.1
Updated At: 2023-07-09
Changes: Crash-fixes(!) and improved layers.
Layers can now be converted and exported in KML. Imported layers are kept in original data formats.
NOTE: App uses internal storage now: Android/data/eu.paamand.hotairpro/files
BACKUP before clearing app data or you may lose flightlogs.
Can't find your old logs? - You need to move them from the old storage location to the new internal storage.
Hot Air Balloon Pilot version 5.4.0
Updated At: 2023-07-03
Changes: Bug-fixes and improved layers.
Layers can now be converted and exported in KML. Imported layers are kept in original data formats.
NOTE: App uses internal storage now: Android/data/eu.paamand.hotairpro/files
BACKUP before clearing app data or you may lose flightlogs.
Can't find your old logs? - You need to move them from the old storage location to the new internal storage.
Hot Air Balloon Pilot version 5.3.3
Updated At: 2023-05-04
Changes: KML colors fix: If you re-import a KML file it now has colors (and more)!
NOTE: App uses internal storage now. BACKUP before clearing app data or you may lose flightlogs.
Old user maps will have to be re-imported. New import location is Android/data/hotairpro.paamand.eu/files
Hot Air Balloon Pilot version 5.2.1
Updated At: 2023-03-01
Changes: Fix for Android 13!
New android version broke some features - this update should fix this. Some features were rolled back a bit, but I am working on it.
Please take note:
- App now uses internal storage. This means that user maps will have to be re-imported. New import location is Android/data/hotairpro.paamand.eu/files
- Permissions: Background location must be manually enabled for track saving to work.
Next steps will be adressing many good points of feedback.
Thanks - and happy flying.
Hot Air Balloon Pilot version 5.1.6
Updated At: 2021-08-10
Changes: All altitudes are now handled internally as feet. Please report any altitude errors!
Re-wrote how the windmap data is stored and visualized.
Updates to kml support.
I am working on iOS version ;)
Hot Air Balloon Pilot version 5.1.4
Updated At: 2021-07-01
Changes: Fixing tracking issues and adding projection-control as a map layer.
Fixing GPS accuracy filter.
Thanks for all the great feedback - you guys are the best! :)
Note: The app was not available in the Play Store recently due to Google policy changes. If you can read this, the problem is solved.
Hot Air Balloon Pilot version 5.0.8
Updated At: 2020-11-16
Changes: Welcome to the new HotAir!
Almost every aspect of the app has been improved based on your massive feedback, and with the help of very dedicated beta-testers. Please consider leaving (or updating) your review.
5.0.8: Fixed KML colors (but no icons for now).
Fixed AIP support and GPX filenames.
Fixed crashes when re-importing maps.
Thanks to all the passionate pilots around the world - keep flying safely and hope to see you in the air!
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