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How ASLT Works: The Big Picture

New to Air Sports Live Tracking? This page explains the handful of ideas that everything else is built on. It takes about five minutes, and it will make every other guide easier to follow.

The building blocks

Term What it is Example
Contest The event: a name, dates, a location and a group of people. It holds everything else. “Spring Precision Cup 2026”
Route A reusable flight path made of waypoints, gates and turns. A route lives on its own, outside any contest, and you draw it in the route editor (an “editable route”). “Mountain triangle, 38 NM”
Navigation Task One flown event inside a contest: a route plus a scoring ruleset (a scorecard). A contest usually has several tasks, one per flight. “Saturday morning: Precision”
Team The people and aeroplane that take part: pilot, optional co-pilot, aircraft registration. A team registers once per contest. “Anna + Ben in LN-ABC”
Contestant One team flying one navigation task, with a start time. This is “a flight”. “Anna + Ben, Saturday morning, start 09:42”
Series A cup or championship: several contests ranked together, where a team’s places in the contests are added up. “Norwegian Cup 2026”
Squadron A group of people (a club, a national team, friends) that you can share private contests with, so you do not have to add them one by one. “LN national team”

How they fit together

How contests, tasks, teams and contestants fit together A route and a scorecard are copied into a navigation task. A pilot and an aircraft form a team. The task and the team both belong to a contest. A team that books a start time on a task is a contestant: one flight. Optionally, a series ranks several contests together, and a squadron is a group of people who may open a private contest. CONTEST the event: dates, place, people Route reusable flight path Scorecard the scoring rules Navigation Task one flown event Team registers once Pilot + aircraft people and plane Contestant a team on a task: one flight Series ranks several contests Squadron may open a private contest copied into form a books a start time How contests, tasks, teams and contestants fit together A route and a scorecard are copied into a navigation task. A pilot and an aircraft form a team. The task and the team both belong to a contest. A team that books a start time on a task is a contestant: one flight. Optionally, a series ranks several contests together, and a squadron is a group of people who may open a private contest. Route flight path Scorecard scoring rules Pilot + plane form a team CONTEST the event Navigation Task one flown event Team registers once Contestant a team on a task: one flight copied into books a start time Series ranks several contests Squadron may open a private contest
Solid boxes are what every contest has; dashed boxes are optional.

Three rules of thumb:

  1. A route is a blueprint. Many tasks, in many contests, can be created from the same route. Each task gets its own copy of the route and scorecard, so you can tweak a task without touching the original.
  2. A team belongs to a contest, a contestant belongs to a task. Register your team once; then book a start time for each task you want to fly. Each booking creates one contestant.
  3. Scores belong to contestants. The contest results add up the contestant scores across tasks.

If you are a pilot

  1. Create an account at app.airsports.no and install the mobile app. Use the same email in both.
  2. Open the contest and click Register team. If the organizer has already added you, you will see your flight straight away.
  3. For each task, click Book start time and pick when you want to start. Your flight order (maps, photos and times) is emailed to you.
  4. On the day, open the app and press Start tracking. Your flight shows up under My flights on the website, with the results afterwards.

See the Contestant Guide for details.

If you are an organizer

  1. Click Become an Organizer on the platform (it is instant).
  2. Create a contest. Contests are private until you change the visibility in the contest settings.
  3. Draw or import a route in the route editor (Route editor in the navigation bar). Save it.
  4. Create a navigation task inside the contest: pick a task type, pick the route, check the details.
  5. Add teams, either yourself, by import, or by letting pilots register. Then schedule start times, or turn on self-management so pilots book their own.
  6. Generate flight orders and share the contest link.

Two optional tools you can ignore on your first contest:

  • Squadron: if your contest is private and a group of people should see it and fly in it, put them in a squadron and share the contest with it.
  • Series: if several contests together make a cup or championship, rank them in a series. A single event with several tasks is one contest, not a series.

A good first step is to make a private “Test Competition” with one route, one task and one test team, and walk through it before your real event. The Contest Manager Guide and Route Creation guide cover each step in detail.

Common questions

Why can’t I see my flight? The website matches you to your flights by email address. If the organizer registered a different email than the one you log in with, ask them to correct it.

Why can’t pilots see my task? For self-registration, the contest must be visible to the pilot (public, or shared with them directly or through a squadron), the task must be public, and Allow self-management must be on.

Can I change a route after creating a task? A task keeps its own copy of the route, so editing the original does not change tasks that already exist. Use Edit route on the task to change that task’s copy.

Last updated: April 2024

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