PilotDeck

METAR, TAF & NOTAM briefing

Only for iPhone

Free · In-App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.

iPhone

Every pilot feature is free, always: weather, NOTAM, SIGMET, briefing, routes, GPS flight. We charge only for training games and quizzes. Built by a pilot, for pilots. PilotDeck puts real aeronautical weather in your pocket — decoded METAR and TAF, live NOTAMs, SIGMET on the map, aviation news and a full route briefing for any ICAO airport in the world. Built by a pilot, for pilots, in a clean flight-deck (FMS) style. WEATHER — FREE, FOREVER • Live METAR and TAF, decoded into plain language • Hour-by-hour forecast: temperature, wind, gusts, precipitation, pressure; 7-day outlook • Weather at your exact position: a minute-by-minute rain nowcast and a 12-hour trend • Unlimited airports on your watchlist, everything cached for offline reading SMART PUSH ALERTS — THE FEATURE PILOTDECK WAS BUILT ON Follow an airport and PilotDeck watches it for you. The moment a new METAR or TAF is issued — a wind shift, a drop to IFR — a push reaches you, even with the app closed. ROUTE BRIEFING — YOUR WHOLE FLIGHT ON ONE SCREEN One tap builds a departure–destination–alternate brief, judged at your ETD and ETA: • A plain-English verdict: GOOD TO GO / CAUTION / NOT RECOMMENDED • NOTAMs sorted honestly: red only for what can stop you — runway or approach closed, minima raised, RVR out • SIGMET along your track, drawn on the map and sorted against your cruising level • Wind on the real runway layout: best threshold, crosswind and tailwind for every runway end, Vapp from your VREF • TAF timeline with LVTO, LVP and below-minima tags; take-off alternate when you may depart but could not land back • Countries overflown with entry times; re-route around any airspace in a few taps • The whole briefing as a three-page PDF to share or keep with the flight's documents Flight tracks are recorded in the background and can be merged and shared. AVIATION NEWS Twelve trusted sources in one feed, categorised, with alerts for incidents and regulation changes. Bookmark to read offline. HOME SCREEN WIDGETS Live airport weather with a colour-coded wind compass, your Daily Check streak and the latest news. DAILY CHECK — A PRE-FLIGHT FOR YOUR BRAIN A two-minute cognitive pre-flight measures reaction, memory and decision-making and gives you a FIT index for today, with an IMSAFE self-check and a 30-day trend. REFERENCE IN SIX ICAO LANGUAGES Every screen has a REF key: an illustrated explanation in English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish. TRAINING AND TOOLS • Holding Entry, Scan & Catch, Crosswind Crunch, Needle Chase — games that train real skills, with a scientific debrief • Aviation quizzes with detailed explanations • Flight-planning tools: wind and drift, top of descent, crosswind, fuel, density altitude and more PRICING — HOW IT WORKS PilotDeck is built for pilots, by pilots. Everything a pilot needs for a flight — weather, NOTAM, SIGMET, briefing and PDF, routes, alternates, tracks, news — is free and stays free. No operational feature is locked behind a paywall. What is paid is the training side: PilotDeck PRO unlocks unlimited games, the full quiz banks and the Daily Check history. That is what keeps the team going — the servers, and the data that is only sold, not given away. A number of professional feeds would make the app noticeably better: full ADS-B traffic for the flight-radar layer (today it runs on free feeds, so aircraft and flight details are incomplete), richer NOTAM and airport data, wider weather coverage and faster updates. Each is a paid subscription on our side, and every PRO plan brings them closer. PilotDeck PRO: Monthly €4.99 · Annual €39.99 (best value). Both start with a 7-day free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless turned off at least 24 hours before the current period ends; your account is charged within 24 hours prior to the end of that period. Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited on purchase. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ In partnership with DataFly Systems LLC.

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PilotDeck 4.5 - plan a route by eye and fly it with a big NEXT line. Every pilot feature stays free, always. US airways expand from the FAA database: LAX J60 BLD becomes the fixes between them ROUTE MAP - BUILD BY TAPS - Layers on the map: MY points, VOR and NDB, fixes, US airways, your zones. Only what can be read at this zoom - WPT mode: hold a point or the map and it goes into the route in order, with a cursor that shows where the next one lands. MOVE, DEL, UNDO and REDO - The route is solid magenta as on an FMS. FIT frames the whole route, including a round trip from your home field - Zones: tap for the card with limits, CHECK asks the NOTAM. A leg through an active restricted or danger zone turns red, flashes once and is named in the header. Above or below the zone - amber only FPLN - COORDINATES THE FMS WAY - A CDU keypad in the Honeywell layout, capitals only, with a cursor you can place on any digit - Type coordinates as one word (N3402.1W11723.3), ARINC five-character (5724N), place radial distance (PDZ 091 45), two radials, along-track (CIVET -10) - or paste them as they are from an OFP or AIP - Every leg shows bearing, distance and time at the GS from INIT. The header shows the total time IN FLIGHT (GPS) - NEXT, big and magenta: the point ahead, its bearing, distance, time and ETA, with the leg flown as a bar and the point after it - Off the bearing by more than 5 degrees - an amber turn hint. Thirty seconds before the point - the turn to the next one - Courses are magnetic, by the nearest VOR - A restricted or danger zone active by NOTAM on your vector up to 10 NM ahead: red banner, three low tones and a strong vibration, again at 2 NM. A CTR or ATZ ahead: a cyan clearance note - Sunset at the destination and a warning when your ETA is after it. When REC stops, a flight log card - NAV folds the big panel into one NEXT line, MORE folds the rarely used keys ALSO - US airways expand from the FAA database: LAX J60 BLD becomes the fixes between them - Your own airfield gets local time from the nearest station - Fixed: a crash on a round-trip briefing, a crash after DEL in FPLN, a station that could stop updating at the turn of the month

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Seller
Flight Service SIA
Size
56.3 MB
Category
Navigation
Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
  • iPhone
    Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
  • Mac
    Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
  • Apple Vision
    Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
Location
This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease device battery life.
Languages
English
Age Rating
4+
In-App Purchases
Yes
  • PilotDeck PRO (Annual) $44.99
  • PilotDeck PRO (Monthly) $5.99
Copyright
© 2026 Flight Service SIA