SAFA Skysailor Magazine

47 AUTUMN 2026 | March-April-May SKY SAILOR The problem: Squiggly was borrowing its legs The biggest issue with Squiggly was that it relied on another tracker – Skylines. It didn’t own the tracking pipeline or the reliability. It was only as strong as the system it was plugged into. When Skylines worked, Squiggly worked. When it lagged or dropped out, Squiggly inherited the instability. Ironically, it got worse on the best flying days, exactly when people were sending big lines and spectators were glued to their Squigglies. What was meant as a simple, dependable window into the sky, became vulnerable to someone else’s plumbing. It also required mobile data reception. No Garmin. No satellite trackers. No ‘bring whatever you’ve got and still show up.’ The lack of satellite tracking meant Squig- gly couldn’t be relied on for safety when it truly mattered – in the back country, no reception, and with no other humans near. Squiggly 2: Time travel and multiple tracking sources Squiggly 1 showed you a snapshot – where everyone landed at the end of the day but it doesn’t tell the story of how they got there. Because that was all you could see, landing further looked like the clean measure of who won the day. Squiggly 2 lets you time travel. Scrub back through the day and watch how it unfolded – who led out, who took the risks, who made the daring moves and who hung back, played it safe and pimped off the leaders once the line was proven. Suddenly, just making it a few more kilometres isn’t the same as winning the day. Time travel changes how you read the results. But Squiggly 2 isn’t just replay mode. It’s also the rebuild that lets Squiggly stop borrowing its legs and brings in its own servers and multiple tracking sources (including satellite trackers), while keeping the experience simple on the surface with a stack of usability improvements. A colourful line up of my friends’ initials