How does Fly the route work in the Android app?
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On any day, tap Fly the route. The camera flies the route in 3D on satellite imagery, with the wind at the hour you’ll be there, the climbs, and every 100 m of road checked. Drag along the profile to go anywhere, and use Layers to colour the route by wind, heat, climb or surface.
Open it
On a day, tap the teal Fly the route button. It’s on every day with a route, on the events you follow and your own, and it’s free. It opens full screen; tap X or use the back gesture to close it.
What you see
The camera flies along the route in 3D, on satellite imagery with the real hills. The card shows, at that point:
- How far along you are, for example “12.4 of 98 km”, and the time you’ll be there (“About 09:40”).
- The road: whether it’s tar, the road’s name and class, or “Not on a mapped road” with how far away the nearest one is.
- The wind: headwind, tailwind, side-on or calm, at the hour you’ll be there, with its speed, direction and gusts.
- Temp, Height, Gradient, Climbed and To climb.
- Forecast updated … ago. It refreshes when you open it and every 30 minutes while it’s open. If it couldn’t refresh, it turns amber and says “couldn’t refresh, no signal?”.
A day too far ahead for a forecast flies with the historic wind for that date, labelled HISTORIC WIND.
Controls
- Play and pause, with speeds ½×, 1× and 3×.
- The profile at the bottom: drag along it to jump anywhere.
- Whole route: the whole day from above.
- Move the map with your fingers to look around.
Layers
Tap Layers:
- Weather: Wind, moving air, Wind arrows, Gusts, Rain and Temperature.
- Colour the route by: Wind, Heat, Climb or Surface (tar, gravel or dirt, not mapped, or off any road).
- Route check: Show on the map, how much of the route is on mapped roads and how much is tar, and the stretches to look at. Tap one to fly there.
- When you ride: the start time and pace it’s timed for.
Tap Done to close Layers.
The route check
Windline checks every 100 m of the route against the road map, so you can spot a stretch of gravel, a farm track or a line drawn across a field before the day. See how to check a cycling route.
Distances, speeds and temperatures follow your units in Settings. It’s the same flyover as in the iPhone app, with the same card, controls and layers. The map’s credits are behind the ⓘ at the bottom left.
On a computer, see Fly the route on the web.