Add a "report safe landing" option for the Live followers
Hi, it would be nice to have the option as a pilot to "report safe landing" and for it to show on the xcontest live map. Could be useful for groundcrew or worried family when you topland or bomb out in a place that looks sketchy on satmap but actually is'nt.
To avoid any accidental false "report" it could have a confirmation action needed after the "report".
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+1, I think this would go a long way towards making xcontest live tracking a full replacement for inreach tracking in areas with good cell coverage. In XCTrack, when "manual" landing detection is enabled, there is already a confirmation pop-up that could quite naturally trigger the "landed okay" message.
mentioned in issue #868
live.xcontest.org already seems to distinguish "tracking just stopped" from "landing detected and live tracking ended properly":
The "just stopped" case is marked with a question mark in both the list and map, and I think those users are shown for longer. Regular "landed" users are shown with check marks.
So for users that set up xctrack with manual landing detection (confirmation dialog), there is already some amount of safety, even if no explicit message is available. A crashed and unconscious pilot would likely show as continuing tracking in a single spot, or a question mark if tracking stops for some reason without explicit landing.
Edit: Looking at the websocket traffic on live.xcontest.org, I see LiveFlightInfos with explicit fields "landed=true|false" and "overridden=true|false". The former does look like it should correspond to the "checkmark" status shown in the UI. Not sure about the meaning of overridden - manual vs. automatic landing detection?
Edited by Gabriel Wicke
