For testing pruposes only. Not recommended for event use until tested more thoroughly!
Warning
PureTrack does not offer any monitoring service. Pilots need to have event organisers using PureTrack, or organise their own safety crew or buddies to watch them using PureTrack.
Watchlist & Safety Tracking Admin Guide
PureTrack can keep track of pilots, to help you identify who has landed out, needs a retrieve and more.
Saftey tracking is made up from the following PureTrack features:
State tracking. Is someone flying, moving, landed out, missing or home safe? A state can be set manually (e.g. 'need retrieve') or automatically (e.g. 'landed out').
Zones. Set up zones e.g. 'home'. Zones defined areas to mark people as 'landed out' or 'home' depending where they land.
Groups. Set up the rules to watch people flying in groups. The rules define when a pilot's state is changed.
Watchlist. The page to start/stop watching pilots and monitor their states.
Nofifications. (coming soon!) Automatically notify when pilot's state changes e.g. to landout.
All users can see the state of all pilots. Configuring zones, groups and notifications requires PureTrack Pro.
Configure an event
Configure the rules for when to be alerted at the start of the event.
Create a group, and invite everyone into it. Invite links can be found on the groups dashboard page.
Go to manage your group, and the 'Watch rules' tab.
Under "Set state to 'missing'...", select how long to wait to be alerted when no tracking data has been received.
Set up your 'non-landout' zones. Anyone who lands outside of these zones will be marked as 'landed out'.
Set up your 'home' zones. Anyone who lands or enters these zones will be marked as 'home'. If they start flying again, they will change to 'flying' and will have to re-enter the home zone to be marked as home again.
Make clear to competitors in your event what is expected of them. If they should use the PureTrack states if they land out or not.
Now the rules are configured, but they won't actually do anything yet. Next start watching individual pilots from the 'Watchlist' page.
Configure each day
Pilots have to be 'watched' to generate alerts when they land, or go go missing from the tracking system. Watching a pilot lasts 12 hours once started.
Go to the groups admin page and select the 'Watchlist' tab.
To watch an individual pilot, click the 'watch' icon on each row.
To quickly watch all pilots, click 'watch all' button. This will only watch pilots who have been on tracking in the last 24 hours.
You can un-watch individual pilots by clicking the watch button again. Handy if you click 'watch all' but then want to remove a few pilots not flying that day.
Most pilot states are reset automatically after 12 hours e.g. 'home' or 'landed out'. But others like 'SOS' or 'Medical help needed' never change automatically. Use the 'reset' option in the state menu for each row, to ensure they will change to 'flying' automatically when they start flying.
Any new pilots added to the group during the day will need to be manually watched.
The time remaining for a pilot being watched is displayed next to the
By default, anyone not seen on tracking in 24 hours will not be shown on the list. Untick 'Hide inactive' to see all group members.
To watch for longer time, stop and start watching again to reset the 12 hour counter.
Using the watchlist during the day
PureTrack provides several views to see the state of pilots. The goal is to get a board of green, with everyone back 'home' or 'safe'.
The map 'state circles' layer.
The map list view, with the optional 'state' column.
The watchlist page table view
The watchlist page grid view. A great way to watch a large number of pilots
During the day:
Mark people as 'home' once they make it back home. If you've set up your watch rules, and have started watching your pilots, they can automatically be set to 'home' when they are in the home zone.
Watch for orange states. They need action.
Watch for red states. They are emergencies.
At the end of the day, click 'Stop watching all' to stop all alerts. They will also automatically stop after 12 hours. You can re-start watching if pilots are out longer than 12 hours.
In either list view, sort by state to put orange/red states at the top.
The orange states to watch for:
Missing: This means they haven't been seen on the tracking for x amount of time. You can mark them as 'safe' if you manually make contact. If new data arrives, they will automatically go out of 'missing', and start flying/moving again.
Outlanded: Set automatically (or by event admin), but nothing heard from pilot yet. They need to specify 'safe' if they don't want a retrieve, or 'need retrieve' if they do. If they phone in, an event admin can set the appropriate 'safe' or 'need retrieve'.
Need assistance: The pilot has set this, and needs help. You probably want to make contact.
Need retrieve: The pilot has indicated they need someone to collect them. Once a retireve is underway, the event admin can optionally use the blue retrieve states to say someone is on their way.
The red states to watch for:
Need medical help: means the pilot has injured themselves.
SOS / Emergency: should engage emergency services immediately. Check the state history to see who initiated the emergency state (see below).
Checking a pilots state history
States can change anytime, automatically, the pilot themselves, or by different users. PureTrack keeps a complete state history for each pilot, so you can see what changed when, and who did it.
To see the state history:
From the map: Click a pilot, open the info panel, fold down 'state history'.
From the watchlist: Click the chevron fold down icon on the left of the pilot name.
Important notes about safety tracking
PureTrack can only work off the tracking data available. Take off and landing detection requires accurate altitude data. Some reasons data may not be accurate enough for tracking:
Some devices may not have good GPS reception e.g. cell phone in a pocket.
OGN IDs may conflict and jump around between multiple pilot locations.
Mis-configuration may cause problems.
Some devices, such as SPOT may not include altitude data, and won't be used for take off/landing detection
In such cases, contact pilots and see if they have an alternative tracking system, or reconfigure their devices to avoid conflict.
