WingtraPilot and WingtraOne releases

How to update?

Please see instructions on how to update your WingtraPilot and WingtraOne software here.

WingtraPilot and WingtraOne 2.3 - October 2021

• WingtraOne now saves flight records to ease tracking of flight operations, as well as compliance reporting
• These saved flight records are optimized for upload to third-party fleet management tools like Airdata and Dronelogbook
• They are automatically stored next to the WingraPilotProjects folder for all the supported payloads
• Note: foy payloads that do not generate a WingtraPilotProjects folder (e.g. Altum GEN I and RedEdge GEN I) the flight records can be manually retrieved through log transfer, if needed
• Various reliability improvement and bug fixes

WingtraPilot and WingtraOne 2.2 - August 2021

• Support for the WingtraOne GEN II and all new payloads (Sony a6100, Oblique Sony a6100, MicaSense Altum, MicaSense RedEdge-MX)
• In-app telemetry communication now features reception strength and distance to home indications 
• Lock flight plan feature
• One-click import flight plans from Gmail, Gdrive, Dropbox and more
• Chromatic aberration correction for the oblique payload
• Improved map handling: zoom by double-tap or center easily on the complete flight plan
• Support for the Samsung Galaxy Tab Active 3 tablet
• Several bug fixes and layout improvements

This is also the last software update that supports the Samsung Galaxy Tab A tablet (SM-T350). We recommend customers operating their WingtraOne still with the TAB A to reach out to us and upgrade to the newest tablet version.

WingtraPilot and WingtraOne 2.0.0 - April 2021

A game changing release for easier user workflows and less time spent on the field. It features the following improvements:

• Flight planning is now offered in WingtraPilot and WingtraHub (desktop)
• Export and import flight plans in WingtraPilot and WingtraHub (desktop)
• A new flight plan overview page allows you to browse, search and filter
• Better guidance when creating new or copying flight plans
• Phasing out the use of pitot tube and removing pre-flight airspeed calibration check
• Sunsetting of geotagging in WingtraPilot
• Several bug fixes and reliability improvements

WingtraPilot and WingtraOne 1.15.3

• Safety critical bugfix for survey flight behaviour and battery estimation.

WingtraPilot and WingtraOne 1.15.2—March 2021

• High-altitude propellers (HAP) support take-off above 1500 m above mean sea level (AMSL) and increased safety compared to normal propellers from the same altitude.
• Flight time increases by up to 30% when using HAP between 1500 m and 4500 m AMSL.
• Several critical improvements to flight control failsafes.

WingtraPilot and WingtraOne 1.15.1—December 2020

• Failsafe recovery, in case the middle stand falls out in-air. This can occur if the middle stand is not inserted correctly before the flight.
• Slightly increased safety margin for low-battery RTH in altitudes > 1500m AMSL with standard propellers.
• Bugfix to PPK logging, enabling geotagging with third-party tools.

WingtraPilot and WingtraOne 1.15—November 2020

• Re-designed camera and PPK preflight checks ensure worry-free operation plus clear and targetted troubleshooting guidance in case any issues come up.
• In-air detection and recovery from flap or servo damage, as well as refined detection in the flap pre-flight check.
• It is now much easier to access your log files. Smaller file sizes, better documentation, and meaningful file names make your life easier when sharing them with Wingtra Support.
• A new system overview tab in WingtraPilot displays the serial numbers of the drone, the PPK module, and the camera, including the time when they were last connected.
• Various additional system reliability improvements to payload control and flight controllers.

WingtraPilot and WingtraOne 1.14—August 2020

• Forward-flight improvements in high-wind conditions, resulting in increased safety, data quality, and overall productivity to the highest range of the published wind tolerance.
• Minor improvements to the low battery RTH behavior, optimizing for both safety and flight time depending on the flight conditions.
• Visually redesigned app pop-ups, user prompts and error messages in WingtraPilot for improved UX consistency.

WingtraPilot and WingtraOne 1.13—June 2020

• New payload support for Micasense Altum. Capture multispectral and thermal imagery for agricultural applications at high resolution and large coverage.
• Import your custom elevation data as GeoTiff files, and fly at a constant height above terrain to both increase safety and achieve a uniform GSD. This is especially useful in areas where the default elevation data (SRTM) is not available (more than 60 degrees north or 55 degrees south) or is outdated (mines, glaciers, etc.).
• A more robust and automated pre-flight flap check now happens at the end of the preflight checklist.
• In case WingtraOne is still powered after a flight for an excessive amount of time, a buzzer will remind you to shut down the system. It will also buzz if a blocked flap is detected.
• Drivetrain performance (motors, speed controllers, and propellers) is now monitored during flight and you will be notified with timely instructions to examine the hardware at an early stage.
• Battery health is now displayed in WingtraPilot and you will receive a pop-up reminder to arrange new replacements when the batteries have reached a critical age.

WingtraPilot and WingtraOne 1.12—April 2020

WingtraPilot v1.12 brings major improvements to your in-flight interactions with WingtraOne:

• Pause WingtraOne before landing and move it to land on a desired spot with new in-app controls. Full operation is possible without the remote control (RC).
• Without using the RC, you can pause the mission in cruise, sending it into loiter. In this loiter mode, you can command WingtraOne to rise and sink.
• Resume your data collection from pause or RTH.
• Improved in-flight feedback (flight mode, RTH reason, wind speed)
• Sunsetting the emergency shut-off on the RC. Triggering emergency shut-off will be deactivated on the RC with this update. You can still shut-off the system in an emergency through WingtraPilot by going through a two-staged shutt-off procedure.

As of this release, we recommend flying the WingtraOne without using the RC.

Further changes:

• The idle flap position after performing the flap pre-flight check and after landing has changed, such that both flaps return to their zero position. This is done to protect the flaps from getting entangled with obstacles or rough terrain.
• In case of magnetic interference, the safety landing mode had been removed and replaced by a seamless recovery mechanism. This allows you to proceed with the flight even if compass measurement errors occur after take-off.

WingtraPilot and WingtraOne 1.11—February 2020

• Increased flight time. Thanks to the updated battery estimation logic, the WingtraOne can fly up to 25% longer and automatically trigger RTH for a safe landing in all conditions.
  NOTE: the battery level can go down to 15% during the survey because it will not drain as fast during landing as it did previously
• Support for high-altitude propellers, enabling flights up to 5000 m above mean sea level (AMSL). From now on, high altitude propellers can be used to take-off above 2000 m AMSL and are mandatory for take-off between 2500 m and 4800 m AMSL.
• Images (non-PPK only) can now be imported into Trimble Business Center (TBC) in the Trimble JXL file format. This is now an option in WingtraPilot and WingtraHub. Enable the option from WingtraPilot settings.

WingtraPilot and WingtraOne 1.10.1—Dec 2019

• A new take/off and landing controller achieves higher stability in gusty and challenging wind conditions up to 12 m/s, as well as faster landings and improved touchdowns
• A new Help menu in WingtraPilot features an interactive user guide and links to get help or give feedback
• Immediate post-flight used feedback for failed data capture due to the following: bad PPK signal quality, misdetection of image triggers by the PPK module or camera trigger failure
• Slightly faster QX1 image triggering allows lower GSDs at a given frontal overlap and in specific wind conditions

WingtraPilot and WingtraOne 1.10—Oct 2019

• Corridor mapping feature
  • Allows mapping of linear infrastructure (roads, railroads, pipelines, rivers, etc)
  • Convert KML polylines into corridor elements
  • Map corridors segment by segment to ensure best data quality
• Improved landing performance
  • Reduced altitude gain after backward transition, when wind < 8m/s
  • Softer ground impact on landing
• Improved user-drone communication
  • PPK status is now in the GPS tab (satellite button) and no longer in the loudspeaker
  • Option to continue without PPK offered in the malfunction pop-up
  • High altitude pop-up above 2500 meters
• Special control configuration for flight close to the earth's magnetic poles (read article)
• Smoother WingtraPilot planning page
  • Seamless display of the flight path (no more sharp corners)
  • Unified display of planning items, e.g. home, areas, corridors and loiter waypoints
  • New button to download a map

WingtraPilot and WingtraOne 1.9.5—Aug 2019

• Improved hover control for increased landing stability in windy or gusty conditions
• Improved handling of in-air clogging of the pitot tube
• In-air detection of unbalanced batteries will trigger automatic RTH
• Improved pre-flight checks for sensors, motors and flaps
• Automatic battery RTH now covers flights above 1500m a.s.l.

WingtraPilot and WingtraOne 1.9.4—May 2019

• Drone registration: All WingtraOne users are asked to register their drone under wingtra.com/register
• Physical ready-to-fly button is replaced with a button in WingtraPilot: Use the button in the preflight checklist instead of the physical button on WingtraOne from 1.9.4 onwards
• Flight and landing reliability updates: better control of landing speed, better handling of distance sensor failures, new tipping/crash detector that would shut off motors in case of a tipping or crash
• New pre-flight magnetic inclination check to prevent takeoff without sane compass measurements
• Bug fix for a case where RTH was not triggered on RC and telemetry communication loss
• Improved communication protocol for RX1R II
• Improved communication protocol for PPK module

WingtraPilot and WingtraOne 1.9.3—March 2019

• Multiple flight safety improvements
• Improved flight behavior in locations with bad magnetic field conditions
• Enhancement of safety preflight checks

WingtraPilot and WingtraOne 1.9.2—December 2018

• Necessary update to continue using terrain data!
• Fixed a bug that occasionally prevented completion of the pre-flight checklist

WingtraPilot and WingtraOne 1.9.1—November 2018

• Improvements in pre-flight motor check
• Enable flying in locations where Earth's magnetic field is very weak
• Increased reliability of safety landing mode

WingtraPilot and WingtraOne 1.9—October 2018

• New safety features before takeoff:
• Smart motor check: both motors are spinning separately just before take-off; take-off would be aborted in case of failure
• In case of magnetic interference or imbalanced battery cells, WingtraOne warns the user and refuses to take off
• Safety-critical reliability improvements
• WingtraPilot available now in Chinese, Japanese and Spanish
• WingtraPilot support for high-end Samsung Tab Active2
• Automated check for completeness of flight data after landing
• New UI design of WingtraPilot
• Location search functionality for online and offline maps
• Situation-aware low-battery return-to-home (RTH): Depending on planned transition altitude, the distance to home and the wind conditions, WingtraOne will come home earlier or later
• Low-battery RTH is not triggered automatically when in assisted mode
• General bug fixes and performance improvements
• Manual 1.9

WingtraPilot and WingtraOne 1.8—June 2018

• Terrain following: Use of elevation data ensures flight safety and consistent map resolution
• KML import with option to add polygons automatically to your flight plan
• Increased landing reliability
• Flight performance improvements
• Performance improvements for WingtraPilot
• Support of Google Ditu terrain map
• Basic WingtraPilot support of Japanese
• General improvements in camera identification and communication
• Support for RedEdge-M payload (for WingtraOne ID > 1135)
• Deep integration of QX1 incl. 20mm and 15mm lenses (for WingtraOne ID > 1135)
• Manual 1.8

WingtraPilot and WingtraOne 1.7—April 2018

• Faster geotagging on Android 7
• Improved fail-safe logic for high winds and low battery
• PPK support—WingtraOne systems with ID > 1135 are PPK capable and need to be operated on version 1.7.0 or newer
• Manual 1.7

WingtraPilot and WingtraOne 1.6—November 2017

• Introduced a “ground elevation offset” to map areas that do not lie on home altitude
• Altitude above mean sea level (AMSL) is given when WingtraOne is connected
• “Loiter waypoints” are introduced that define how WingtraOne flies between different areas; additional loiter waypoints can also be added manually
• Improved visualization of flight plan
• New “battery swap and resume” feature that allows you to run large flight plans that require several flights
• Enabled flight logs to be downloaded by connecting the tablet to WingtraOne with the USB cable
• Geotags (position and orientation) can be exported to a CSV file; the format of the CSV file can manually be specified
• Possibility of setting negative side overlaps for applications that require a large sample area but no stitching
• Airspeed calibration required before every flight; blowing into the airspeed sensor is not required anymore
• Ability to set connection loss timeout parameter, which allows the user to fly without RC and telemetry connection for a specific number of seconds
• Multiple reliability and stability improvements
• Extensive improvements in sensor failure handling and state estimation robustness
• Various safety enhancements, including improved flight behavior in windy conditions
• Increased level of detail in flight log information and better error reporting
• Manual 1.6

WingtraPilot and WingtraOne 1.5—July 2017

• Zendesk is introduced to support you even better
• Improved backward transition, which prevents overshoots if winds < 5 m/s
• Support for additional sensors (RX1R II and RegEdge)
• Removal of "WingtraOne market-entry restrictions," i.e. we remove on-top-of-law restrictions on flying above residential houses and streets
• Improved landing by better ground detection and consistent timing of motor switch-off
• Improved landing accuracy by up to 2 m in horizontal position
• Increased maximum distance to home and flight altitude
• New safety tab in flight planning for direct editing of geofence and minimum return-to-home altitude
• New compatibility check for WingtraPilot and WingtraOne firmware versions
• New in-app update page for downloading and updating new Wingtra releases (includes WingtraPilot, WingtraOne firmware and manual releases)
• Selection of camera model when creating a new flight plan to configure WingtraOne according to the correct sensor
• Geotagging robustified against any preflight images. Re-tagging of previously tagged images is now possible, and copying the original images on geotagging can be disabled to save space on SD card
• WingtraPilot is now partially translated to Chinese and contains new Chinese map providers
• Numerous safety and design improvements, including sensor failure handling, reliable ground station communication, WingtraPilot bug fixes, flight control and reduced computational load
• Manual 1.5

WingtraPilot and WingtraOne 1.4—May 2017

• Unified home, take-off, landing
• Welcome menu in WingtraPilot for user guidance
• Different sensors support (several RGB, multispectral)
• Landing accuracy improved
• Wind alignment after back transition: In case of wind, the WingtraOne will rotate right after back transition to optimally face the wind
• Improved flight behavior in hover and cruise
• Simplified and robustified geotagging
• Fixed orientation of geotagged images
• Upgrade process
• Adjustable geofence
• Improvements in pre-flight checklist
• Manual 1.4

WingtraPilot and WingtraOne 1.3—March 2017

• Improvements in flight behavior, e.g., descending in winds
• Improvements in WingtraPilot stability
• New return-to-home logic
• Removed in-flight replanning of landing based on wind
• Changed RC stick assignment for cruise flight in assisted mode
• Changed emergency switch logic (new: click three times within two seconds)
• Terminology changes (flight plan, assisted mode, ready-to-fly)
• Pre-flight checklist improvements
• Manual 1.3

WingtraPilot and WingtraOne 1.2—February 2017

• Improvements in flight behavior
• Improvements in WingtraPilot stability
• Introduced WingtraPilot on tablet
• Introduced new return-to-home logic with user defined RTH altitude
• Introduced in-flight replanning of landing based on wind
• Manual 1.2

WingtraPilot and WingtraOne 1.1—January 2017

• Initial version
• Manual 1.1