LK8000 Beta

LK8000 Beta is the tactical flight navigator for gliders, paragliders, hang-gliders, and general aviation pilots who demand precision, reliability, and advanced functionality in the sky.

Born from a consolidated open-source project in 2010, LK has become the trusted instrument for thousands of pilots across 67 countries and 17 languages. Whether you're flying free flight, light aircraft, or even navigating trekking and off-road routes, this versatile platform adapts to your mission. Available on PC, PNA, KOBO, Linux, Raspberry Pi, and Android, LK delivers professional-grade navigation with the backing of free community support through our international forum and comprehensive online resources including maps, tutorials, and documentation.

Your flight planning gains unprecedented intelligence through advanced detection of free flight starts—both towing and winching—enabling accurate scoring calculations and FAI triangle completion forecasting with dynamically created virtual waypoints. The Oracle feature delivers instant position reports for quick radio readouts, while the automatic logbook captures every flight detail for device review or CSV export. Manage your flights intelligently with LK's profile system, saving and loading configurations for device, pilot, system, and aircraft settings instantly.

Navigation becomes intuitive with textual pages for waypoints, airports, and airspaces formatted like professional avionics. Cross-section map pages with splittable top and side views keep you oriented in complex terrain. The innovative visual glide page automatically suggests safe descent options around mountain peaks and valleys—no screen interaction needed, just feed the system waypoint data and let automation guide you.

Flarm integration reaches its most advanced form in LK8000, with aggressive data management, target linking, radar with historical trace playback, and capabilities unmatched worldwide. Airspace warnings sound through sonar-style proximity alerts, eliminating the need to constantly monitor your screen. AutoMC (Automatic MacCready) calculation replaces guesswork with reality-based arrival altitude predictions reflecting how you're actually flying, not what you hope to achieve.

Access your thermal history instantly through a searchable, sortable textual list showing distance, direction, historic climb averages, and forecasted arrival altitudes—ready for immediate go-to navigation. Multi-target switching lets you rotate between current task waypoint, best alternate, home, last thermal, or Flarm targets with a single screen corner touch. Automatic radio frequency setup eliminates manual tuning on supported hardware.

Designed for turbulence-proof flight operation, LK8000 Beta rewards pilots who invest time learning its capabilities with unparalleled situational awareness and decision support. Handle up to 10,000 waypoints simultaneously on legacy hardware, with unlimited potential on modern systems. Peak lists, thermal spots, and ridge data unlock the hidden power of the visual glide function. Welcome to the most advanced free flight computer ever made.