What's coming
Where Flight Map is going next. Plans change as testers tell us what matters, so the later columns are intentions rather than promises. Anything here that involves a network or a server will keep to the privacy policy: your position stays on your phone.
Now
In the closed test
Position, height, speed, arrival time in local time.
Downloaded before you board.
When the GPS drops out, with how sure it is.
Satellites, signal and what the app is doing.
Every flight, with export to a spreadsheet.
ProNext
Before the public launch
Whatever the closed test turns up comes first.
A one-off payment through Google Play: Unlimited £3.99, Pro £7.99 (£4.99 from Unlimited). Testers keep Pro free.
Tell us how your first flight went and get a second one free.
FreeWhich features are used and where the app struggles, with a switch to turn it off. Never your position, route or airports.
Once the test is done and Google approves.
Later
Planned after launch
Before take-off, fetch the airline's filed route, so the estimate follows the oceanic track instead of a straight line when the GPS drops out.
ProA small map and arrival time over a film or another app.
ProWith internet before you board: the planes around you, and where your own aircraft is on its way in.
ProYour routes in Google Earth and mapping apps.
ProArrival time and turbulence ahead on your wrist. Wear OS first.
ProOnce the Android app is settled.
Considering
Ideas we'd like your views on
Zone lines, and the local time where you are now.
Watch the route back after you land.
UnlimitedMark a point and add a note.
UnlimitedSend where you are when the plane has Wi-Fi.
ProYour recorded route against the aircraft's own broadcast track.
ProHow bumpy your flight was, measured by the phone's motion sensor while it's still: a score after landing, where the bumps were along the route, and records in the logbook.
ProOnly if it measurably improves it; in our tests the route mattered more.
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