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Time Range Scrubber ​

📢 - INFO

The time-range scrubber is the narrow bar under the strip chart. It's the single control for cropping a flight, scrubbing the playhead, and defining what a public share link will show.

Three Thumbs ​

The scrubber bar has three handles:

  • Left crop thumb — the start of the cropped range.
  • Right crop thumb — the end of the cropped range.
  • Cursor thumb (center) — the current playhead time. Drag it to sweep the map/chart at once.

Drag any thumb with your mouse, finger, or pen. The cursor thumb is always clamped between the two crop thumbs, so you can't scrub out of the range you've cropped.

📌 - TIP

The minimum gap between the two crop thumbs is 10 samples — enough to keep the strip chart meaningful. If you try to pinch them closer, they push each other out of the way.

Scissor Indicator ​

When the flight is cropped (either crop thumb is away from its end), a small scissor icon appears next to the bar. This is the cue that part of the flight is being hidden. Double-click it to reset the crop back to the full flight.

What the Crop Affects ​

The crop is a single, global setting per flight. When set, it changes:

  • The 3D map — the flight track is drawn only within the cropped range.
  • The strip chart — data inside the crop is highlighted, outside is dimmed so you can still see context.
  • Track photos — photos outside the crop fade.
  • Share links — a public share link only exposes the cropped segment. Anything you cropped out is not accessible to the recipient.

Cropping Workflow ​

A typical use:

  1. Load a full flight from takeoff to shutdown.
  2. Drag the left thumb in to trim away the cruise portion.
  3. Drag the right thumb in to cut off the shutdown rollout.
  4. Now the map, chart, and share link only contain the approach and landing segment.

To reset, drag each thumb back to the edges or double-click the scissor icon.

Sharing Pre-Cropped Flights ​

When you generate a public share link via the Tools menu, the recipient opens a view where the crop is already applied. They can pan and tilt the map, but they won't see any flight data outside the crop — useful for sharing the interesting moment without exposing the full flight track.

See Sharing Flights.