Strip Chart

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The strip chart is the time-history view that sits under the map. It lets you pick any numeric channel in your flight log and scrub through it.

Opening the Strip Chart

The strip chart appears automatically when you load a flight. On desktop it occupies the bottom portion of the main view; on phones it sits under the map in the Map tab.

The horizontal divider between the map and the strip chart is draggable — grab it and drag up or down to give either panel more space. Drag it all the way down to hide the chart.

Picking a Channel

The left side of the toolbar above the chart has a dropdown with every numeric channel in the loaded flight log — altitude, ground speed, vertical speed, indicated airspeed, track, engine fields (RPM, manifold pressure, fuel flow, CHTs, EGTs), and any other numeric columns.

Click the dropdown and pick the channel you want to chart. The plot redraws instantly.

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If a column in your CSV doesn't show up in the dropdown, it's probably non-numeric (text, timestamps, status flags). StolWRX only charts numeric channels.

Zoom

Two circle-plus / circle-minus buttons in the toolbar let you change the visible time window:

• Circle-plus — zoom in. Doubles the resolution by halving the window.
• Circle-minus — zoom out. Doubles the window (up to the full cropped length of the flight).

The default window is about 500 samples wide. The minimum is 100 samples to keep the chart legible.

Scrubbing

Click anywhere on the chart to jump the flight's playhead to that row. The map updates to that point on the track, the Engine HUD (if visible) updates the gauges, and any runway-related readouts (track, heading, altitude) follow along.

You can also click and drag to scrub continuously — the map follows in real time so you can watch the airplane move along the track while you sweep the chart.

Crop Range Highlight

If you have the time-range scrubber cropped (see Time Range Scrubber), the strip chart highlights only the cropped segment. Data outside the crop is still drawn but dimmed so you can see what's before and after without losing focus on the segment you care about.

Multi-Flight Charts

If several flights are loaded, the strip chart stacks them in separate panels (one per layer). Each panel independently picks a channel and each has its own scrub cursor — but they're time-synchronized: scrubbing the top panel advances the cursor on the bottom panel by the same amount, and the map shows all flight aircraft at their respective positions at that time offset.

This is handy for comparing approaches: two flights of the same strip side by side, scrubbing both at once.

Hiding the Chart

• Desktop — drag the horizontal divider all the way down, or collapse the chart panel by clicking the handle.
• Phone — swap to a different tab in the mobile tab bar (Flights, Waypoints) and the map goes full-screen automatically.

The chart state (selected channel, window size) is remembered while the app is open, so hiding and reopening keeps your settings.