Skyballast: Wind Atlas
Navigate wind by altitude
$1.99 · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Read wind layers, manage lift, and plan a safe approach to moving fields across 60 authored flights. Now includes daily approaches and a Flight Planner.
Skyballast is an offline navigation puzzle campaign about steering a balloon by choosing the right wind at the right altitude.
Read layered forecasts, climb or descend into useful currents, preserve ballast and gas, avoid dangerous conditions, and commit a landing while enough lift remains. Sixty authored flights reward planning, controlled chains, and precise approaches.
Campaign stars and best scores remain on this device. The illustrated fieldbook provides an offline reference for altitude bands, forecast confidence, lift, hazards, landing windows, and scoring.
The new Flight Planner lets you practice the tradeoff directly. Adjust wind alignment and lift reserve, introduce an icing layer, and watch landing confidence respond. A deterministic daily moving-field approach provides the same date-based challenge without an account or server.
Skyballast includes local achievements, haptic and high-contrast preferences, reduced-effects controls, Dynamic Type, VoiceOver labels, and adaptive iPhone and iPad layouts.
Skyballast is an abstract strategy game, not an aviation planning instrument.
One paid download includes every flight and feature. There are no subscriptions, ads, in-app purchases, accounts, analytics SDKs, weather feeds, or remote unlocks.
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Skyballast 1.1 expands the wind atlas:
- Added deterministic daily moving-field approaches with mastery constraints.
- Added the interactive Flight Planner for wind alignment, lift reserve, icing risk, and landing-confidence feedback.
- Added local achievements and richer campaign progress.
- Added haptic, reduced-effects, high-contrast, and left-handed preferences.
- Improved compact-screen gameplay sizing.
- Expanded automated coverage for daily flights, scoring, achievements, and persistence.
The developer, Robert Corbin, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Robert Corbin
- Size
- 77.5 MB
- Category
- Strategy
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Robert Corbin
