Flight Report

Get a Post-Flight Summary Without Leaving the Field

After a flight, you want to know what happened. How high did it go? How fast? Did the chutes deploy where you expected? AltosUI will soon generate a formatted flight report directly on your phone — no laptop needed, no file transfers, no waiting until you get home. Long-press on a tracker and get the story of that flight.

What You'll See

A clean, readable report covering everything the telemetry captured:

Flight Identity — Date, callsign, rocket serial number, device type, and flight number. Everything you need to know which flight you're looking at.

Peak Performance — Maximum altitude, maximum speed, and maximum acceleration. The headline numbers from your flight, displayed in your preferred units.

Recovery Profile — Where the rocket launched from, where it landed, total drift distance, and drift bearing. At a glance, you can see how far the wind carried it and in which direction.

GPS Track Data — Pad coordinates, landing coordinates, and the great-circle distance between them.

The report is generated as a formatted document you can view right in the app. A share button lets you export it as a PDF — send it to your email, save it to Files, AirDrop it to a friend at the launch site, or post it to your club's group chat.

How to Use It

1. On the Map tab or the Recover tab's map view, find a tracker annotation
2. Long-press on the tracker
3. Select Flight Report from the menu
4. View the report — tap the share button to export as PDF

The same action will also be available from the tracker list view.

When It Works Best

Right after a flight, while you're still at the pad. The data is fresh, everyone wants to know the numbers, and you can share the report immediately. No more scribbling max altitude on a notepad or trying to remember the numbers later.

It's also useful for flight logging. Export a PDF for each flight and you'll build an archive over the season — motor performance trends, chute descent rates, drift patterns for your regular launch site.

What's Coming Next

The initial report covers the summary data that's already tracked for every flight. Future versions will dig deeper into the telemetry packet stream to extract:

• Burn time and motor performance profile
• Drogue and main descent rates
• Deployment altitudes and timing
• Stability data from IMU-equipped flight computers (TeleMega)
• Actionable recommendations — chute sizing, deployment altitude suggestions, stability warnings
• An altitude-versus-time profile chart showing the full flight arc with phase annotations

What You Need

• A completed or in-progress flight with GPS telemetry
• The associated .telem file stored on the device (saved automatically during live flights)

Works with all GPS-equipped Altus Metrum flight computers: TeleMega, TeleMetrum, and TeleGPS.

This feature is in development. We're building it for real-world usefulness and would value your input on what flight data matters most to you at the launch site.