First stripe
Most pilots earn it in their first year. Your first hours, first new places and first countries are worth the most, so the first rung comes with flying, not waiting.
SkyTribe
Connect, inspire, develop
SkyTribe pulls your flights together from the apps and devices you already fly with. Understand your flying, share what you achieve, and climb the ladder as a paramotor pilot.
Free to use. iOS first. Coming shortly on the App Store.
Four stripes, one ladder
Know where you are and what comes next
Every pilot climbs the same ladder of four stripes, worn beside your name on every flight. Scoring rewards early exploration and gets harder as you grow, and each stripe asks for double the last.
Second stripe
The capable pilot. You may fly a lot or a little, but you fly it well.
Third stripe
The serious, committed pilot. You fly amazing adventures, and you have likely helped many pilots along the way.
Fourth stripe
The legends of the paramotor world. True all-rounders who fly epic cross countries, inspire and assist others, and can carve out acro manoeuvres.
- Experience: hours, distance, new ground and higher takeoffs
- Adventure: mountains, cross country, new countries and ground nobody has flown
- Skills: how well you fly, measured from your manoeuvres
- Wingman: other pilots thanking you for mentorship, support or inspiration
The Scoring screen explains every metric and shows the points to your next stripe.
Expand your horizons
See where the tribe flies, then go further
Explore is the tribe's public flying, drawn as heat across the world, with your own flights as a layer on top. Search a place, switch to satellite, and plan the flight that takes you somewhere new.
Community heatmap
Public flights from paramotor pilots everywhere, on one map. Earn your first stripe and the whole world opens up.
Search any place
Type a valley, a coast, a country. See at once whether the tribe has flown it, or whether the ground is untouched.
Adventure counts
Mountain kilometres, cross countries, new countries and ground nobody has flown all build your Adventure score. The first of each is worth the most.
Find the next step
Fly the manoeuvre and get a score
SkyTribe's integrated acro analyser records your manoeuvres in flight at high fidelity, from the phone in your pocket, and scores them so you can refine what you fly. Skills is one of the four ways to climb, and acro is part of what makes a fourth-stripe pilot.
Four manoeuvres
Wingovers, barrel rolls, swoops and figure 8. Wingovers are scored 0 to 100 by a grader built from real acro data. Barrel rolls, swoops and figure 8 are recorded and analysed.
A voice in your pocket
Start above 2,000 ft (600 m), follow the voice prompts, and finish with a straight glide above 1,000 ft (300 m). Swoops end when you land and stop. No screen needed.
Told why, not marked down
A run that cannot be graded says why: too few swings, or not enough bank. You know what to change on the next flight.
Journeys worth following
See what other pilots make possible
The feed is real flights from real pilots: a fjord in Norway, a first cross country, a long day over the mountains. Photos and clips ride along with each flight, so you see the flying, not just the numbers.
Real flights, real places
Every card is a flight someone flew, with the track, the numbers and their stripes beside their name.
Photos and clips
Add photos and video clips up to 15 seconds to your flights. The fjord from the seat, the launch field at sunrise, the landing that went to plan.
Follow who goes further
Your feed leans toward the pilots you follow, your close friends and flying near you. Follow the ones who stretch your idea of what a paramotor can do.
Connect with pilots, inspire others
Fly with people, and thank the ones who helped
Paramotoring is learned from other pilots. SkyTribe gives you a way to find them, follow them, and give something back.
Follow
Follow the pilots you learn from. Their flights lead your feed, and their profiles show their stripes, their totals and their best flights.
Close friends
A one-way list you control, with nothing to accept. Share the flights you keep for close friends only.
React and comment
Like, celebrate, fire, wow or support any flight. Comments for the questions you would ask at the field.
Say thank you
Thank a pilot for mentorship, support or inspiration. Each thanks builds their Wingman score, which is how helping others counts toward stripes.
All your flights, together
Bring your flights in from wherever you fly
SkyTribe does not replace your flying app. It pulls your flights in from wherever you already log them, so they get a title and start counting toward your stripes.
Garmin Connect
Link your account on Garmin's own sign-in page. Flights from your watch, StuFLY included, arrive on their own after each sync.
Any flying app
Share any .igc, .gpx or .fit file from your favourite flying app, zipped Garmin originals included.
xcBrain
Link your xcBrain device with a code from the app.
Tidy by default
The same flight from two sources is spotted and kept once. Every flight gets a title from where and when you flew.
Fly it again
Watch your flight over real terrain
Every flight replays in 3D over real elevation and satellite imagery. It is a nice way to relive a day, and the easiest way to show a friend what that fjord run looked like.
Real terrain
Elevation and satellite imagery draped over the ground you flew, so the valley looks like the valley.
Chase camera
Follow your own wing from behind, with your height above ground as you go.
The numbers
Distance, duration, altitude, speed and climb, computed for every flight.
Yours to share, or not
You decide who sees each flight
Being part of a tribe does not mean showing everything. Every flight has its own visibility, and your launch field can stay yours.
Three settings
Public, Close friends or Private, per flight, with a default for new uploads.
Heat without your name
Public flights join the community heatmap without your name attached. Private flights appear nowhere but your own account.
Hide the field
Hide the first and last five minutes of a flight from others, so your launch and landing stay off the map.
Your profile
Your profile carries your name, photo, bio and home base, with your stripes beside them.
Questions pilots ask
The short answers
Straight answers, no small print.
Is SkyTribe free?
Yes. SkyTribe is free to use.
Does SkyTribe log my flights?
No. Keep flying with your favourite app or your Garmin watch. SkyTribe pulls those flights together to help you understand your flying, share it with the tribe and develop your capabilities. The one thing SkyTribe records itself is acro, through the integrated analyser.
How do my flights get into SkyTribe?
Straight from the apps and devices you already fly with. Link Garmin Connect and watch flights arrive automatically after they sync, or share any .igc, .gpx or .fit file into SkyTribe, zipped Garmin originals included. If the same flight arrives twice, one copy is kept.
How are stripes earned?
Your stripes are one number, 0 to 4, from your total score across Experience, Adventure, Skills and Wingman. Early flying scores fastest and every metric has a ceiling: the first hour is worth four times the four hundredth, and the first new country four times the last. Each stripe takes double the points of the last, so a fourth stripe in practice needs more than one way to climb. That is why four-stripe pilots are all-rounders. The Scoring screen shows exactly where you stand.
How does a Skills session work?
Climb to 2,000 ft (600 m) above ground or more and press Start. Secure your phone, glide straight, then fly your sequence when told. Glide straight again above 1,000 ft (300 m) to finish, or land and stop for swoops. Wingovers are scored 0 to 100.
How do I thank a pilot who helped me?
Open their profile and thank them for mentorship, support or inspiration. It shows on their Scoring screen as gratitude, and it is how the tribe recognises the pilots who bring others along.
Who can see my flights?
You decide. Each flight is Public, Close friends or Private, and you can hide the first and last five minutes so your launch field is not shown.
Is it for paragliding too?
SkyTribe is built for paramotor pilots. The ladder, the acro analyser and the community are all designed around powered flight.
Which phones does it run on?
SkyTribe is an iPhone app.
Metric or imperial?
Both, plus an Aviation preset. You can also set distance, altitude, speed, vertical speed and area one by one.
Can I log my gear?
Yes. Add your wings and paramotors, props included, and tag them on each flight.
Nobody gets a fourth stripe alone.
Your next stripe is out there
Bring your flights together, see where the tribe flies, and start climbing. SkyTribe is free, and full of surprises.
Free to use. iOS first. Coming shortly on the App Store.