How To Use History & The Flight Explorer Page

The History & Your Flight Explorer page contains a summary of tracks created across your fleet.

The flight summary table on the History Page enables you to:

• Review the activity history of visible aircraft over a period of time.
• Export tracking information - summaries, KML files and raw data.
• Drill into the Flight Report
• 3D Flight Replay is now integrated into the same page. There are controls enabling the selection of whichever panels you want to focus on (timeline, 2D, 3D, charts)

The History page table contains the following fields:

1	Aircraft Registration.
2	Flight ID (assigned by the Spider).
3	Start Time and Date the flight took place (time zone managed under user profile).
4	Duration of the track.
5	Distance covered within the track.
6	SOS Status.
7	Insights Data and 3D Flight Replay integration.
8	Engine On
9	Blocks Off
10	Take Off
11	Landing
12	Blocks On
13	Engine Off
14	Starts
15	Landings
16	Engine Time (hrs)
17	Blocks Time (hrs)
18	Air Time (hrs)

Please see Spider X - What Are Digital Flight Logs for more information.

Applying Filters

Several filters can be applied to the flight summary table to assist with identifying the subset of flights of interest. 

1	Filter by date range	Click in the date box and specify start and end dates. The default is 3 months.
2	Filter by aircraft	Multi-select the group of aircraft of interest. The default is all visible aircraft.
3	Filter short tracks	Hides tracks with zero duration (0 minutes; only one point).
4	Filter static tracks	Hides tracks with insignificant total distance traveled.
5	Filter by SOS status	Select to filter by tracks with Active or Closed SOS.

Individual filters can be removed by clicking 'Reset' within the filter. All filters can be reset by selecting the 'Clear Filters' button. 

 

Viewing Flight Reports

To view a single flight, click on the row of interest. This will take you to the Flight Report page, where you can review the track on a map, the track events in a timeline, and aircraft flight parameters in a chart.

To view multiple flights, (1) Select multiple rows (max 5 at once), then click on (A) View Flights. 

See History - Flight Report for more information on the Flight Report feature.

When any flights are selected, a summary of count, total distance and total time will be displayed at the top of the table.

Viewing Insights Data and 3D Flight Replays

The Insights Data and 3D Flight Replays page contains a summary of your flights in greater detail. created across your fleet.

1. Simply click the track you want to view.

The different sections are as follows:

1	Track Summary
2	Map View
3	3D Replay, this panel can display in track mode or Ribbon mode*. the map can be manipulated by holding the left mouse button on the map and rotating the view.
4	Altitude & Speed Events

*Ribbon Mode

 

The playback controls allow synchronised replay between all of the panels.

The panels are cross-linked, clicking on an event in the timeline will make the rest of the panels jump to that point. 

1	You can play the entire track, pause, rewind and forward to any point by using the media player controls.
2	You can drag the altitude and speed bar to any specific point in the track to view the track events, and 3D replay that took place.
3	You can use the media player slider to drag the track to a specific point.

The Chart now shows altitude AGL for all Spider X flights (once high-resolution data is offloaded over cellular)

Settings

1	Timezone	This will be applied to the whole page can be toggled from local to UTC.
2	Map Controls	Centre Map, Map view, Map Layers & Measure Tool.
3	Panel Toggle	You can Toggle between panels to increase the size of the panes. Each panel contains, Time, position, altitude, Speed and direction.
4	Events & Ribbon Toggle	Displays the 3D track in your preference.
5	Left Graph Axis Selection	Choose either Altitude or Speed.
6	Right Graph Axis Selection	Choose either Altitude or Speed.
7	Track Information & ID	Shows the track ID, Date, time, Distance and Flight Time.
8	Track Export	Download Flights - CSV Summary, CSV Detail File or KML File.

What if the 3D-FR option is not available?

The availability of high resolution data required to drive 3D-FR and detailed chart views is indicated on the History page under the INSIGHTS DATA column. One of the following statuses will be shown:

	Available	All high-resolution data for the flight has been uploaded to Spidertracks cloud and is available for review.
	Archived	This status indicates the data is > 6 months old. To restore access to this data, please contact [e-mail]
	Data upload incomplete	Some 3D data has been uploaded, but some are outstanding. The Spider X will continue uploading the remaining data when it next has power and a cellular signal.
	Awaiting upload	Data upload for this flight has not yet begun. This normally indicates either no cellular connection was achieved during the flight, or that the data is still queued behind earlier flights that were being uploaded.
	Not available	Either no data has been uploaded for this flight within 2 weeks of the flight, or data health checks indicate the dataset is unable to be completed or shown.
	Spider X required	Only Spider X supports high-resolution flight data. All other devices will always show this status. To upgrade to Spider X, please contact Spidertracks sales.

At least one spatial view must always be selected. Consequently, if 3D-FR is not available the 2D Map control cannot be disabled:

Downloading Flights

A link to Download information about any selected flight(s) is displayed at the top of the table.

Three download options are provided:

1	CSV summary file	Exports the values shown in the flight summary table (for selected rows), enabling this information to be conveniently incorporated into business operations and reporting.
2	CSV detail file	Exports position and event data for a flight as used to create the flight track in the Flight Report map view. The format is CSV.
3	KML file	Exports position and event data in an open file format used to display geographic data in an Earth browser such as Google Earth.

You can also export the tracks from the Flight Explorer page:

The limit per download is 200 flights.  

 

Deleting Flights

A link to Delete any selected flight(s) is displayed at the top of the table.

If you are an Administrator for your organisation, deleting a flight will delete it for all members of your organisation. 

If you are not an administrator, the flight will only be deleted from your account. Other members that had visibility of this track will continue to do so. 

If you have any further questions please contact [e-mail]