Avoiding aircraft - SAFESKY - The flying app for Electronic Conspicuity

The passion behind the development of this application is beyond words. Tristan Fily is the CEO of company SAFESKY who have designed a very user friendly application to allow all fliers to see other Electronic Conspicuity (EC) users. It takes existing technology, uses some very clever programming to create a flying community application to keep you safe in the sky.

The SAFESKY Team are not trying to replace other applications such as FOREFLIGHT or SKYDEMON, in fact they are working with them to help all fliers.

How does it work
The phone or tablet does not pick up the surrounding traffic, it is not a radar!

SafeSky is a mobile application that provides traffic information wherever you are. Thanks to the GPS chip in your mobile device, the SafeSky application sends your position to our servers, which is then transmitted in the same way, but in the opposite direction, to other users of the application. This way, you can share your location with the SafeSky community at any time.

My aircraft:
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​My PeaBee radio and communications set up is:
ICARO Solar X Helmet with MicroAvionics PM100 Bluetooth (Vlog modified by MicroAvionics)
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My Airband radio ( I have the appropriate Licence) is :

GPS
NAVITER OUDIE 5 PRO with FLARM

Electronic Conspicuity device
SkyEcho 2

Camera and Microphones:

Flight Briefing room
Video Camera 4K Camcorder ORDRO WiFi Ultra HD Vlog Camera and a ICE BLUE microphone

Flying cameras
GoPro 3+, GP6 and 7 with audio adaptor.

Flying Clothing:
FlyKandy Jacket and trousers
OZEE flying suit and 30seven gloves
Sealskin mittens

Editing software
Adobe Premier elements

[Bexxy]

Thanks Giles for sharing this. It was interesting to hear the technicalities of how it works and the result of low latency. I am already a user of SafeSky, I have it running next to my oudie in my paramotor flight deck, works well. The only thing I am disappointed with is the audio alerts, I wonder if the audio gain is too low in SafeSky as I can never hear the alerts in my micro-avionics headset even when my phone and headset volume is full volume. The audio aside the screen does catch my eye when it starts flashing black and white on the radar to grab my attention which is great.

[kevchilton]

Sounds very impressive, Giles. Tristan was impressive himself! 👌

[steelpix]

I'd love to hear you do a talk on what you say on your aircraft radio before you fly. Slow your speech down and give us examples of the norm nomenclature before, during and while landing. This would be handy for us flyers. Keep up the good work.

[martinwise]

Good info, thx. Downloaded and will share with fellow PM pilots.
Heads up - Lift your soft box 12 inches to avoid it reflecting in your left glasses lens

[sarachapero]

Brilliant video ! Now.... time for someone to cross the channel in a Peabee.... That’s what we need.

[NatJB]

Giles this was brilliant, what an application. Another great insight in to keeping us all safer in the air.

[adrenalinemonkey]

Brilliant Giles! I loaded the app about 2weeks ago I’ve not had chance to fly with it yet but it’s answered a lot of questions. Thanks😊

[ShortField]

Great interview Giles and Safesky looks awesome I'll deffo be giving it a go.

[flyskiride]

Another great interview and a great app I downloaded it a while ago but have yet to use it in the air.

[BrianTurboT]

'FAB STUFF ... already got the 'beta' ... not had chance to actually fly with it yet (it's on my spare/ 'other', more up to date android version phone) ... BUT will take it up next time ;-)

[tiggerzroadhawgz]

Great interview Giles, I heard him mention it will be coming to the USA. Any idea when it will be coming to us on the other side of the pond?

[NicholasStreet]

Really interesting video.👍 I’ve used it a couple of times and it works very well. Didn’t know about the “fellow pilots” feature, have sent a request to you.

[chrsfrwll]

Integrated with SkyDemon. Excellent, downloading it now

[patrickmckowen]

Excellent 👍
But only as good as the adoption.
Even during my training period I have had a couple of relatively close cases where this would have been great.
With Bluetooth for audio to helmets being more and more popular, the audio portion of this is great.
Cheers

[edwalker]

Looks pretty cool but unavailable yet in the US. We don't have nearly as strong of an ultralight community as the UK. I'm still looking for an adsb transponder that will communicate with ATC, and uses a tablet for control.

[MrLister]

Great to hear these innovators are collaborating to share information. The use of UDP over mobile network has convinced me safe sky bring something complementary to earn an install. With multiple potential sources for the same traffic, the privacy slant means lack of unique identifier could lead to duplicates? I'll need to test, but also presume SkyDemon currently can't process two concurrent GDL90 sources. I'd also be interested to know if they're exploring air-to-air but I presume power and lack of spare radio (assuming WiFi taken with local network to SkyEcho etc) make it unfeasible.

[tangoadvance]

Thanks for the video Giles, I’m still not sure who can see what when using this app mind.
If I use FLARM the app can see me as long as I have contact with a FLARM base station?
Or if I’m just using FLARM can I see and get a warning from the FLARM device from someone using just the app?

[DougBow]

Watching with great interest 👍😎
Bummer not available in my country 😔

[sundownsolutions]

Hi Giles. Hope you had a good xmas... I have been trying to work out which conspicuity device to get... I fly a paramotor mostly and free fly sometimes. so far im at either a Skyecho or a XCtracer max although i did think about a Air3 What do you think. Sky echo or Max? Cheers

[halfrhovsquared]

I do like his implementation of the “radar view”, although PAW’s implementation is possibly a little easier to read as it is based on colour and shape. I don’t have to look at two different parts of a screen to determine if the aircraft is above, below, or at the same altitude. I simply glance at the “radar” and it gives me all of the information I need. However… When workload is high, I find myself wondering “is a circle or a diamond above, or below?”. However, all I really need to remember is that I can pretty much ignore it unless it is red. Again, although his implementation is nice, he’s re-inventing the wheel.