Plan the drop, follow the team in real time and review every flight in detail afterwards. The app on your phone, the live picture and playback in the browser.
Planning, tracking and debriefing work the same way in training, in operations and on a club jump day. What changes is the scale and the requirements.
Drops where every second and every metre is planned in advance.
From a student's first canopy flight to an experienced team's debrief.
Exit point, run-in, wind and target. The organiser shares the plan with the group and the jumpmaster navigates by it.
Altitude, speed and phase for every jumper. A lost signal shows at once.
The whole load in 2D or 3D, events and numbers in one view.
In new groups the position is encrypted on the phone with the group key. The server only receives a check value from which the key cannot be derived.
Here a good jump day often just means the weather is not too bad. Wind, cloud, cold and poor visibility are everyday conditions, so the plan, the team picture and the debrief have to hold up when there is no room for guesswork.
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We explain capabilities and use. Calculation methods, source code and internal interfaces are not published.
DropVector is an operational workspace for parachute planning, live situational awareness and post-flight playback. It connects the before, during and after phases of a jump so the same operational picture can be used for planning, tracking and debriefing.
DropVector is designed for organizations and teams that plan, conduct and review parachute operations. The workflow can support military parachuting, training, sport skydiving and other operations where shared planning, live position awareness and recorded flight data are useful.
PLAN is used to prepare the operational picture and routes, LIVE provides situational awareness while the jumps are running, and PLAYBACK is used to review recorded tracks afterwards in 2D or 3D.
The current system combines a web workspace with an Android mobile application. The web side is used for functions such as planning, Live and Playback, while the mobile application can record and transmit participant data during the jumps.
No. DropVector is built around groups, their loads and controlled group access so participants can be connected to an operation without every person needing to manage the full web workspace.
DropVector can support shared map-based planning for drop lines, steerable-canopy routes, exit and reference points, wind information and other user-defined operational parameters. The purpose is to keep the relevant planning context visible in one place.
DropVector uses available wind information together with user-defined operational parameters to support drop planning. Wind data can be obtained from public weather sources and may be supplemented or replaced with locally measured data, including balloon sounding. Exact calculation methods, formulas and implementation details are proprietary.
Yes. Locally measured wind information can be used to supplement or replace public-source wind data. This includes layered measurements produced by methods such as balloon sounding.
Yes. DropVector can use wind information available from public sources as part of the planning picture. Users can also use their own measured information when local data is more appropriate for the operation.
Yes. PLAN includes a glide-planning workflow for steerable-canopy operations. It can present the relevant points, routes, wind context and reach information on the same map used for the rest of the jump.
The planning interface supports commonly used coordinate formats including DD, DDM, DMS and MGRS so operational points can be entered in the format appropriate to the user and task.
No. Exact algorithms, formulas, coefficients, calibration values, source code and other implementation details are not part of the public product documentation. DropVector can describe what information a feature uses and what operational result it provides without exposing the proprietary implementation.
LIVE provides a shared situational picture of participants who joined the group. It is designed to make current position, altitude-related information and team state easy to follow while the operation is in progress.
Yes. LIVE is designed around team operations and can display multiple active participants within the same group or load rather than treating every recording as an isolated track.
The mobile application can use device positioning and supported sensor data to create a flight record and, when Live is enabled and connectivity is available, contribute to the shared live picture. Available sensor data depends on the device.
Live visibility depends on network connectivity, but local recording is designed to remain a separate capability. A temporary loss of Live connectivity therefore does not have to mean that the local flight record is lost.
Yes. DropVector provides both map-based and 3D views so users can choose the presentation that best supports the current task and available screen space.
PLAYBACK turns recorded flight data into a debriefing view. Users can move through the recorded load, inspect tracks, compare participants and anchor the discussion in what was actually recorded rather than memory alone.
Yes. Playback can present a recorded load in 2D and 3D, allowing the user to review the same flight from different perspectives.
Yes. A load can be reviewed as a group so several participant tracks can be compared against the same timeline and operational context.
DropVector organizes work around groups and their consecutive loads. This keeps planning, participants and recorded tracks connected to the operational event rather than leaving recordings as unrelated files.
Public data provides a readily available planning baseline. Local measurements can be used when the team has more representative information from the operating area. DropVector is designed so the planning picture can use the source that is appropriate to the task.
Yes. Layered wind measurements from a balloon sounding can be used as locally measured wind information in planning instead of relying only on public-source data.
No. DropVector is a planning and situational-awareness tool. It helps combine relevant information into a usable operational picture, but it does not replace official weather products, organizational procedures, required calculations or the judgement of qualified personnel.
DropVector is designed to protect operational data in transit and at rest and to limit access to the people who need the relevant group. Security is treated as part of the product architecture rather than an optional presentation layer.
Access is intentionally tied to the relevant account and group. The goal is to give authorized users the information they need without making operational data broadly public.
DropVector does not publish source code, internal API details, database structures, exact algorithms, formulas, calibration values, security-sensitive configuration, internal prompts or implementation-specific identifiers. Public documentation focuses on capabilities, inputs at an operational level and user-visible results.
Yes. DropVector includes planning and review workflows intended to support personnel parachuting, including the use of wind information, drop-line planning, shared operational points and recorded participant tracks.
Yes. The planning model can also be used for drop-line based material-drop planning where the relevant operation parameters and wind information are provided by the user or available data sources.
DropVector includes a steerable-canopy glide-planning workflow that can support high-altitude parachute planning. The exact operational procedures, limits and approvals remain the responsibility of the organization conducting the activity.
No. The same core workflow can also be useful in sport skydiving and training environments where teams want shared planning, live awareness or evidence-led playback of recorded flights.
No. DropVector supports planning, situational awareness and debriefing. It does not replace the procedures, authorizations, safety responsibilities or professional judgement required by the organization conducting the operation.
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Groups are created in the app. Live and playback open in the browser without installing anything.