Climbing
Whether you out-climbed the pilots sharing your thermal, how long you took to find the core, how high in the day's band you topped out, and whether you left good lift or milked it until it died.
Same air. Same task. See where the race was really won.
GlideComp compares every track flown on the day — who climbed better, who glided smarter, whose decisions paid off — so you can see exactly what the fast pilots did differently and take it to the next comp. Scoring comes built in: GAP or open distance, in your browser, every point explained.
Free · Scores and analysis are public — no account needed to read them
Pilot's GAP scores explained
GlideComp explains why your pilot scored the way they did. Distance points, time points, all explained in plain English.
- Every start-cylinder crossing, and which one scored
- The day's validity — how many points were on offer at all
- Distance split into its linear and difficulty halves
- Why the time points were zero
Click any score to open that pilot's report card.
GAP & open-distance scoring
Field analysis across every pilot
IGC files from any instrument
XCTrack task import (.xctsk)
Public audit log
Nothing to install
For pilots
Everyone flew the same air. Why were they faster?
The scores tell you who won. GlideComp's analysis tells you what separated the field — by measuring every track flown on the task against every other one.
From Corryong Cup 2026, Task 1 — 32 pilots. Names are shortened to letters here, in finishing order.
Gliding
Speed between climbs, glide angle against the rest of the field, how far you drifted off the course line, and whether you pushed harder when the next climb was stronger.
Decision-making
How low you were willing to go before committing to the next climb, the low saves you dug out, distance covered between thermals, and how much of the race you spent hunting.
Gaggle
Time spent flying with others, climbs you joined on someone else's marker, and how often going it alone actually paid off.
Race craft
How long after the gate opened you started, where race time went leg by leg, how far behind the leader you reached ESS, and what height you had left when you got there.
The day itself
Wind and climb strength hour by hour, drawn from the field's own tracks and read against the weather model — because half of what looks like skill is really the day you got.
Every metric is ranked by how strongly it actually separated the field that day, and checked across the comp's other tasks — so you can tell a real lesson from a quirk of one day's weather. Each pilot's score comes with the same treatment: a plain-English timeline of the flight, on the map and in 3D. See the report for Corryong Cup 2026, Task 1 →
For organisers & scorers
The scoring runs itself
No software to install, no spreadsheet to babysit, and nobody waiting on the scorer at the end of the day.
Set the task
Import or build the task in the browser, then share it — pilots scan a QR code to load it straight into XCTrack, Flyskyhy or SeeYou Navigator.
Pilots upload their own tracks
IGC from any instrument, submitted by the pilot or by you on their behalf. Scores recompute as tracks land, and every task page is public the moment it exists.
Every point explained
GAP to the CIVL formulas or a simple open-distance format, with penalties, corrections and task edits all recorded in a public audit log. Nobody has to take the numbers on trust.
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Questions?
A browser. Sign in, create the competition, add a task, and share the link. Pilots upload their IGC tracks, and GlideComp scores them automatically. There is no software to install and no spreadsheet to maintain.
With the GAP formulas that FAI competitions use: distance, time and leading points. A new competition gets the official defaults, and you can change the advanced parameters when you need to. There is also an open-distance format for club XC days. The scoring guide explains both in detail.
Where your day went, against every pilot who flew the same task. GlideComp measures each pilot's climbing, gliding, decision-making, gaggle flying and race craft from the track logs. It then ranks those measures by how strongly they separated the field, so the report starts with what was important on the day. Read it beside your own report card, and you have something specific to work on before the next competition.
Anyone who follows the competition. A track submitted for scoring becomes part of the public record of that task. That record is what makes the comparison possible, and every pilot in the field accepts the same terms. A flight that you analyse privately, outside a competition, stays yours.
Not to follow a competition, because competitions, tasks and scores are public pages. To submit a track, sign in with Google or with a one-time code sent to your email. An organiser can also upload tracks for a pilot.
Yes. Tasks import and export as .xctsk, and waypoints download in standard formats. Pilots can scan a QR code to load the task or the waypoints directly into XCTrack, Flyskyhy, SeeYou Navigator and most other flight apps. Any instrument that produces an IGC file works for scoring.
Apply a penalty with a reason, and the scores recompute immediately. A public audit log records every change that can move a score: penalties, re-uploads and task edits. Pilots can therefore always see why the numbers changed.
GlideComp is free to use, and Tushar Pokle sponsors it. It is an open project, and the source is on GitHub.
Fly it, score it, learn from it
Create a competition, import your task, and have the standings — and the day's analysis — waiting before the retrieve gets back.
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