{"id":11949,"date":"2026-08-23T22:21:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T20:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fly-air3.com\/?page_id=11949"},"modified":"2026-08-23T22:21:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T20:21:46","slug":"air%c2%b3-vario-watch","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fly-air3.com\/en\/air%c2%b3-vario-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"AIR\u00b3 Vario Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wear OS variometer<\/p>\n

Hear the air.<\/p>\n

AIR\u00b3 Vario Watch turns your smartwatch into an instant acoustic variometer for paragliding and hang gliding. It reacts the moment you enter lift, and it finds the weak thermals other varios talk you out of. No extra instrument, no phone needed in the air \u2014 just your wrist.<\/p>\n

Get it on Google Play<\/a>
\nRead the manual<\/a>\n<\/div>\n

A vario you listen to, not one you look at<\/h2>\n

In flight your eyes belong outside \u2014 on your wing, on other pilots, on the ground. That is why a variometer speaks. The watch reads its barometric pressure sensor many times per second and turns your vertical speed into a tone you can read without ever glancing down.<\/p>\n

Climbing, the tone is high and broken into quick beeps \u2014 the stronger the climb, the higher the pitch and the faster the rhythm. Sinking, it drops into a long, low growl. Around zero it goes quiet and unhurried. After a few flights you stop hearing beeps and start hearing air.<\/p>\n

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\nSinking \u2014 low pitch, long tone<\/span>Climbing \u2014 high pitch, fast beeps<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Two things a barometer alone cannot do<\/h2>\n

A pressure sensor is honest but slow: it can only report a climb once you have already gained height. AIR\u00b3 Vario Watch adds two layers on top of it \u2014 one that reacts sooner, one that hears weaker air.<\/p>\n

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Instant Lift<\/p>\n

The kick, not the consequence<\/p>\n

Entering a thermal, you feel the surge in your harness before you have gained a single metre. A barometric vario cannot know about it yet \u2014 there is no pressure change to measure.<\/p>\n

Instant Lift uses the watch’s accelerometer and gyroscope instead. It continuously computes true vertical acceleration, separating the movement of the air from your own turning and wing movement, and sounds the moment lift begins. You hear the entry as it happens, not a second and a half later \u2014 which is exactly the moment you need to decide whether to turn.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Weak Lift<\/p>\n

Find the small thermals<\/p>\n

Most of the day’s usable lift never registers as a climb. It is air that is merely sinking less than the air beside it \u2014 the fringe of a thermal, the edge of a convergence, the reason one glide ends higher than another. A conventional vario stays silent through all of it.<\/p>\n

Weak Lift gives that band its own voice, with its own threshold, resolution and averaging. On weak days, or low over a valley floor, it is often the difference between working a small thermal and walking back to the car.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

What it does<\/h2>\n
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Acoustic variometer<\/p>\n

Pitch and rhythm follow your vertical speed, with climb and sink thresholds you set yourself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Starts and stops by itself<\/p>\n

The vario arms itself when you launch \u2014 detected by ground speed or by altitude change \u2014 and stops once you are down.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Everything on your wrist<\/p>\n

Vertical speed, altitude, ground speed, heading and GPS accuracy \u2014 visible at a glance, and still on screen when the display dims.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Tuned from your phone<\/p>\n

A companion app sets every threshold, the altitude reference and the units. Configure once, then leave the phone behind.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Leave your phone behind<\/h2>\n

The watch is the instrument. Sensors, sound, GPS and automatic detection all run on the watch alone \u2014 with the screen off, your wrist down, and the phone nowhere near you. There is no Bluetooth link to lose in flight, because there is nothing being sent.<\/p>\n

The phone app exists for one job: changing settings. Every value you set is stored permanently on the watch, so it survives closing the app, restarting the watch and flying without a phone. Configure it once at home, then fly with an empty pocket \u2014 or with your phone off entirely, which is one less thing draining a battery you may want at the landing field.<\/p>\n

Built for the way you actually fly<\/h2>\n

Automatic landing detection is deliberately hard to fool. Losing GPS reception makes a watch report zero speed, which looks exactly like standing in a field. AIR\u00b3 Vario Watch tracks how confident the GPS is in each reading and refuses to treat an unreliable one as proof you have landed \u2014 so a dropout under your wing will not silence the vario mid-flight.<\/p>\n

Free and subscription<\/h2>\n
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Free<\/p>\n

Altitude, ground speed and heading<\/p>\n

GPS status and accuracy<\/p>\n

Sound test and altitude chart<\/p>\n

All settings in the phone app<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Annual subscription<\/p>\n

The acoustic variometer<\/p>\n

Automatic takeoff and landing<\/p>\n

Always-on display in flight<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Getting started<\/h2>\n

1.<\/strong> Install AIR\u00b3 Vario Watch from Google Play \u2014 one listing installs both the watch app and the phone app.<\/p>\n

2.<\/strong> Open the phone app, subscribe, and set your thresholds and units. Everything is sent to the watch as you change it.<\/p>\n

3.<\/strong> Open the app on the watch before launch and let the GPS settle. From there it starts on its own.<\/p>\n

What you need<\/h2>\n

A Wear OS smartwatch with a barometric pressure sensor \u2014 Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 or later is a good reference. A barometer is what makes a variometer responsive; without one the app falls back to GPS altitude, which is far too slow to fly by. An Android phone paired with the watch is needed to configure the app and to subscribe.<\/p>\n

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Ready to fly with it?<\/p>\n

Free to install and free to try. The full manual covers every screen and every setting.<\/p>\n

Get it on Google Play<\/a>
\nRead the manual<\/a>\n<\/div>\n

AIR\u00b3 Vario Watch is an aid, not a certified flight instrument. Do not rely on it as your only source of altitude or vertical speed information, and always fly within your training and local regulations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wear OS variometer Hear the air. AIR\u00b3 Vario Watch turns your smartwatch into an instant acoustic variometer for paragliding and hang gliding. It reacts the moment you enter lift, and it finds the weak thermals other varios talk you out of. No extra instrument, no phone needed in the air \u2014 just your wrist. 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