Live Tracking#

The dashboard shows every active tracker’s current position on a Leaflet map, with a plane marker per tracker and a status card per aircraft along the top of the page.

Polling#

Wingbeat polls each tracker’s Garmin MapShare feed on a Cron Trigger that runs every minute, throttled per-tracker to roughly Garmin’s own ~2-minute transmission rate. The dashboard also polls in the browser while it’s open, so position updates arrive without a manual refresh. A manual Refresh button is available too (throttled to once per 30 seconds).

Because polling runs on a schedule independent of anyone having the dashboard open, takeoff/landing/gap notifications (see Notifications) still fire when no one is watching.

Aircraft status bar#

Each active, non-deleted tracker gets a card showing:

Tail number (or tracker name, if unassigned)
In Flight / On Ground
GPS freshness (“3m ago”)
Current location label, when available

Cards lay themselves out to avoid truncating text — single-line, two-line, or stacked, depending on how many cards fit the screen width. When even the narrowest layout doesn’t fit, cards become a horizontally scrolling ticker. Tapping a card opens the location popup for that tracker (coordinates, a Google Maps link, and — if you’re near a landmark — a “X km NW of Y” label resolved from the region’s named points).

Flight list and filters#

The sidebar lists flights, most recent first, filterable by date range, tracker, aircraft, and pilot. Filter state persists locally per device.

Day view#

Clicking a date shows every flight from that day simultaneously, with numbered stop markers. When more than one tracker is present, each tracker gets its own color and its own stop numbering (restarting at 1), plus a map legend.

Hover and point picker#

Hovering (or tapping, on touch devices) a flight track shows a tooltip with that point’s speed, altitude, and time. The map pin tool lets you click anywhere on the map to read off coordinates and a Google Maps link, snapping to a nearby flight point when you click close to one.

Bulk flight editing#

Admins can bulk-reassign aircraft and/or pilot across many flights at once — filter by date/aircraft/pilot, select flights, apply one assignment to all of them. Useful for backfilling assignment history after adding aircraft/pilot tracking to a tenant that already has flight data.