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Meet FlightLab, a new online home for your flights.

The (coming back soon) AltimeterThree can save them automatically to the cloud, where you can review, compare, share, print, and even add flights from other altimeters. It’s free for everyone who owns an AltimeterThree. Sign in with the same email you use in the AltimeterThree app and your flights are already there.

It’s launching soon, but until then, here’s a quick preview.

Your flights, synced

Your phone will grab flights from your AltimeterThree and save them to FlightLab automatically. or you can import or manually enter flights from other altimeters. FlightLab shows them in one list you can search, filter, sort, and mark as favorites. Rockets, gliders, drones, kites: whatever you fly.

FlightLab My Flights page listing rocket flights with altitude and duration — My Flights. Search by name, notes, location, or altimeter.

A closer look at each flight

Open a flight for the full picture: altitude, speed, and acceleration charts, with burnout, apogee, ejection, and descent rate marked for you. These analyses are done automatically, but you can add your own markers and drag labels wherever you like.

FlightLab flight detail page for an F50 rocket flight showing stats and an annotated altitude chart — An F50 flight at NASA Ames in 2015, with Chute Release opening at 200 feet.

Compare flights

Pick two or more flights and overlay them on one chart, with the numbers side by side. Shift a flight in time to line up the liftoffs. Save the comparison to come back to it later.

FlightLab altitude chart overlaying five flights of the same rocket on different motors — One rocket, five motors. Bernard Cawley’s Estes Cosmic Cargo flown on two C12s, a C6-5, a B14-5T, and a B6-4. Apogees run from 346 to 1,097 feet.

Share and work together

Select a handful of flights and create a set link to share them. Create a group for your club or classroom and invite members by email.

FlightLab Groups page showing a rocketry club group and a contest group — Groups for clubs, classrooms, and contests.

Reports

Print a flight report, a comparison, or a log of your flights as a PDF. It looks the same on every screen and every printer.

A printed one-page FlightLab flight report held up in a classroom — A one-page flight report.

Your data, your way

Download any flight as a CSV file, or download a complete backup of your account as JSON.

Import from other altimeters

Have flights from other altimeters? FlightLab reads files from PerfectFlite, Altus Metrum, MicroPeak, Eggtimer, Featherweight, MissileWorks, FlightSketch, Altimeter Cloud Nano, and ZetaPost, so everything can live in one place.

FlightLab Import Flight File dialog with a drop zone for altimeter files — Drop in a file and FlightLab figures out the format.

AltimeterOne and AltimeterTwo, too

AltimeterOne and AltimeterTwo don’t download data, but you can log their flights by hand. The AltimeterTwo form follows the review screen on the device, so you type in the numbers in the same order you see them.