beyondXC · For your time in the air
Discover new routes, plan your next XC flight and replay the moments that helped you go further. beyondXC brings your flying experiences, maps and analysis together – from a first look at the route to your personal flightbook.
All features are free to use during the beta, as long as I can fund the platform myself. About the beta & funding
This is beyondXC: real views of real features. Open the images for a closer look – or try the tools yourself.
Explore public flights, launch sites and routes. Flight photos, route maps and key figures show what is possible in an area – and inspire your next day in the air.
Explore public flightsSet turnpoints, explore terrain and the elevation profile, and view airspaces along your route. The example route lets you try the planner straight away, without an account.
Try the example routeView your route and altitude profile together. Replay the flight and take a closer look at climbs, glides and speed. Turn flight data into insights for your next day in the air.
Explore the 3D replayTRA INFO HUB at tra.airspace.at primarily supplies TRA times to XContest. This can prevent unnecessary airspace infringement reports when correct activation data is available promptly.
There is also a freely configurable widget for a vario, XCTrack or smartphone. It shows TRAs, Air Use Plan and relevant military NOTAM airspaces such as LOXZ, LOXA and LOXT. It is most useful in regions where you need to know during flight whether an area is active or inactive.
In the AUP archive the Air Use Plan information showed an activation from 10:00 to 16:00. At the same time, a NOTAM deactivated the period from 08:00 to 10:00. From midday, another NOTAM extended the activation from 16:00 to 22:00.
Changes like these happen regularly: TRAs close earlier, or other airspaces are opened or extended at short notice. Once you are on your way after your ground briefing, there is little chance of seeing these changes without tools like this. TRA INFO HUB also supplies this data to vario manufacturers; XCTrack already receives it additionally through XContest.
beyondXC has been in beta since April 2026 and grows with ideas from its community. You can already explore the flightbook, route planning, replay and analysis. Your feedback helps shape improvements around what you actually need when flying.
Design and smartphone usability continue to improve. The current focus is deliberately on building the functions pilots and clubs actually need.
BeyondXC connects flightbooks, airspace checks, contests, live tracking and analysis. This creates evaluations that tell you not just how far you flew, but why a flight went well and where there is room for improvement.
BeyondXC turns an IGC track into more than a line on a map.
Clubs get better tools for their community, contests and transparent evaluations.
Flight schools can support training, progress and real flights more effectively.
TRA INFO HUB shows you which TRAs, military areas, AUP activations and relevant NOTAM airspaces currently matter. You can configure the widget so your vario, XCTrack or smartphone shows exactly the information relevant to your route.
If XContest reports a GPS airspace infringement, you can check your flight using barometric altitude. You can paste the evaluation link into the XContest message field so reviewers can assess whether the flight is valid according to barometric altitude.
BeyondXC is building a more modern logbook with statistics, stories, pictures, a blog-style presentation and better evaluations. Your flights should do more than sit in storage: they should eventually tell the story of what you flew.
Alongside traditional XC evaluations, a level system, personal overviews, club rankings and contests such as XC or glide contests are being developed. Clubs can use them to organise their own competitions and rankings more easily.
Nobody has to upload flights automatically. You can analyse IGC files manually and add them to your flightbook. Vario providers such as Naviter are also involved in discussions about direct uploads after flight.
When you connect XContest, BeyondXC automatically adds only flights from the last 24 hours to your personal flightbook. This helps you build your own statistics and also makes a huge contribution to development, because real flight data reveals which evaluations are missing in practice.
Register on BeyondXC for free. You can upload flights manually and do not have to enable automatic transfer if you do not want it.
Open registrationJoin the “beyondXC” group on XContest and enter the UUID shown there in your BeyondXC profile. Only flights from the last 24 hours will then be added to your flightbook automatically.
Open XContest groupOn XContest World, download “Download IGC” at the bottom of the flightbook list for each year — importantly, not “All IGC”. Also download CSV or JSON. Then import each year separately using batch upload with the ZIP plus CSV or JSON.
Open batch uploadIf you fly in regions with TRAs, military areas or AUP activations, build a widget for your device. It helps you stay informed in the air about whether airspaces are active or inactive.
Open widget builderI’m Markus, the person behind beyondXC. I currently develop and fund the platform myself, without sponsors. During the beta, all features are free to use for as long as I can cover the running costs myself.
As our community grows, so do the costs of servers, storage and development. If I can no longer cover these costs without enough support, some features may become paid in the future. This would help keep beyondXC running and improving for the long term.
If anything changes, I will let you know clearly and well in advance. Until then, take a look around, try the features and help shape beyondXC with your feedback.
Also in the legal noticeA great deal of work has gone into TRA INFO HUB and BeyondXC, but the platform should be developed with the community in mind. If something is missing or unclear, or if you have an idea, please get in touch directly. User requests are implemented wherever possible.
It is particularly important to me that the airspace widget is used where airspaces such as TRAs, military areas or Air Use Plan activations matter. And I appreciate every XContest connection, because it brings flights into the flightbook automatically and improves development through real data.
