One feature among many. The one nobody else has.
Everything below two thousand feet, watched by direction and closing speed — built on a database no one else has assembled. This page is the deep dive; the app is the point.
Counted from the production database, not written by marketing.
The database behind it
The Digital Obstacle File models a power line as one coordinate at the sag point — no direction, no span. All 641,207 DOF records fit inside our database sixteen times over.
FOURTEEN COMPONENTS · EVERY SECOND
The alert you hear is the end of a pipeline. This is the rest of it.
Where you are, how fast, and which way you are actually going.
Traffic straight off a portable receiver — Sentry, Stratus, Stratux, SkyEcho. The box hears the frequencies itself, so no signal is required.
Crowd-sourced hazards from the people flying the area — and it works local-only if you never want them leaving the aircraft.
Your altitude alone means nothing. It resolves the ground beneath you to get true height above terrain.
The area around you is held in 16-kilometre tiles on the device, so the engine never waits on a network it may not have.
Every hazard in a moving window around you — the on-device store first, the network only when it has to.
The same wire arrives from the utility, the FAA and OpenStreetMap. Fusion de-duplicates them into one span, so you are warned once, not three times.
How tall is it, and does its top reach your altitude? Where the height is unknown, it assumes the worst.
Under 40 knots it watches the full ring. As speed builds it narrows to the arc you can actually reach.
Distance is the wrong unit at 120 knots. It solves for time — how long until you are there.
In wire country everything is a hazard. It ranks them and stays quiet about all but one.
Which span, how far, which bearing — and it lights that exact span on the map.
Said out loud so your eyes stay outside, and felt through the airframe in case the headset is busy.
And carried on the Dynamic Island, so it is still in front of you when the phone is not.
Fourteen components, one answer — every second you are airborne. That is the R2 Risk Engine.
4,292,292 obstacles carry a verified height — 41.7% of the database. The rest don’t, and we say so instead of pretending. An advisory tool you can’t trust to be straight with you isn’t advisory. It’s decoration.
It runs quietly. Alerts are directional and scaled to closing speed rather than beeping at everything inside a radius, and after a warning the app shows you which wire — highlighted, with a bearing and the towers either end. Most flights it says nothing at all. Advisory only: Soar is not certified avionics and does not replace charts, vigilance, or see-and-avoid.
Planning, weather, W&B, checklists, logbook, ADS-B, offline — see the whole thing.