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Thanks for the tip. I went to your link and don’t see altitude stats but I uploaded to Strava this time using SeeYou Navigator instead of directly from my Garmin watch and it worked. Now I have altitude in the stats. flight from yesterday. altitude gain 25,000’
Strava. By now you can just copy the hiking format and name it Free flight and an icon of a paraglider. You will see how many members will be added to your community. Downside is that when uploading from an external app we don’t get the workout statistics the smart watches provide.
At least now I know that Strava would store the altitude fine if I upload it.
How is the battery life with SeeYou? Would it have a watch companion? I use it mainly to record my sailing and don't need the display while I record so the watch is a great way for me to achieve that without draining my phone's battery.
One thing I really like with Strava on my watch is that it's very good with battery life on the watch, and it's easier to start/stop it while sailing and flying without having to pull out the phone or keep the phone in a reachable location.
SeeYou navigator is an iphone/android app. Battery life is descent. +6 hours in an Iphone 15 no problem and that is with the screen at full brightness since I use it for navigation and stats (speed to fly, L/D to Goal, Wind direction, Altitude etc.)
No watch companion so I found that SeeYou navigator is the only app that will send correct altitude to Strava, See you is specifically for free flight. When I record using my Garmin Forerunner then the altitude matches or is very close to the terrain altitude (thinking I am hiking or mountain biking or Kitesurfing where the altitude above ground is minimal (I'll call minimal under 300' from the surface so those epic kitesurfers who send it high don't think I am minimizing their high jumps)
I would love to have this added as well! I am currently using a ski/snowboard activity and use the elevation profile from my GPS to get is kind of working.
Hello and thank you to everyone who has taken the time to add your votes and comments to this request.
We want to let you know that we do not intend to add more activity/sport types to Strava in the foreseeable future, and this feature suggestion will be moved to a status of not currently planned.
We appreciate and understand this is not the answer you were hoping for. We strive to be as transparent as possible and provide updates to our Community when they become available.
Please remember that we receive a large number of idea submissions, and even some popular ideas may not make it to the implementation stage. The number of votes an idea gets is one factor among several that’s considered when our product team develops the roadmap.
Additionally, a status of not currently planned does not mean this feature suggestion goes away. It will remain open to votes and comments, and may be revisited at some point in the future.
Lastly, we sincerely hope you will continue recording and uploading your activities to Strava. Here is a list of the Sport types that we currently support. It’s always an option to set your activity to sport type “workout” and indicate more specifics in the activity name.
Last response I got. No need for me to renew my Strava subscription. Worthless for me without this feature.
"Hello and thank you to everyone who has taken the time to add your votes and comments to this request.
We want to let you know that we do not intend to add more activity/sport types to Strava in the foreseeable future, and this feature suggestion will be moved to a status of not currently planned."
I ask that to Strava by support request once a year since 2021. All sport watches have a paragliding mode, when synchronized with Strava, tracks type fall back to Workout sport type and elevation is ignored : the flight track is flattened on the ground, which might be quite dangerous for anyone who would follow it by foot or any other mean than flying ! Strava remains totally silent about that since 3 years
Paragliding is at the intersection of (i) relatively large, (ii) fitness-centric, and (iii) GPS route/track-centric. Most - if not all - paragliders are currently tracking their hikes & subsequent flights, and it's a sport/community very focused on measuring and comparing pilots' performance via those tracks. XContest is the primary platform for that currently, but with the death of Ayvri last year, there's an opportunity to claim some market share as it relates to visualizing tracks in 3D, especially with the work Strava has put into the Flyby feature (a perfect fit for "I saw another glider in the air and we flew together for a while, I wonder who that was!"). Paragliding also - unlike some other air sports (speedflying:hiking, speedriding:backcountry skiing, etc.) - does not currently have a good substitute activity to use, hence some folks' complaints about other activity types 'flattening' their paragliding tracks, etc. It makes a lot of sense to add Paragliding as an activity, which could also be used to encapsulate several of these other sports as catch-all for hike & fly (speedflying, speedriding, hang gliding, BASE, etc.).
Just saw the comment from @Jane above... let's get enough votes here that they reconsider. It's pretty hilarious that activities like Velomobile, Handcycling, and Badminton have categories but these sports - especially paragliding - do not.
Bummer to see they moved this to "not currently planning" I like many others use the hike function to track my hike & flys but recently they started to get flagged as speedflying down a mountain is obviously way faster than hiking. With the community growing so much and with the addition of fatmaps that already tracks this hope it gets reconsidered - as I cant imagine sports they already have like badmitton, elipitical, stairstepper, etc get much use.
