Pre-flight, decoded

Your co-pilot for pre-flight.

flightBuddy turns raw aeronautical data — METARs, NOTAMs, charts, fuel math — into a briefing a pilot who's still building hours can actually read, without losing the numbers underneath.

KPIA KBMI 18 NM · 274°
FAR 91
reserve math, built in
19
independent chart layers
2
platforms, one experience
Weather

Know before you go.

Live METARs and TAFs, checked against the personal minimums a pilot actually sets for themselves — not a generic ceiling. flightBuddy shows the verdict and the reason, and lets the pilot make the call.

Every observation ships with its raw form intact, right next to the plain-English read — so the shorthand becomes second nature instead of staying a black box.

Advisory only — the pilot decides
KPIA 181851Z 27014G21KT 8SM BKN035 22/14 A2996
Wind270° at 14, gusting 21 kt
Visibility8 statute miles
CeilingBroken at 3,500 ft AGL
Temp / Dewpoint22°C / 14°C
CategoryVFR
Fuel

Fuel math you can actually trust.

Not duration times burn rate. Every phase of the flight — start, taxi, climb, cruise, reserve — broken out on its own line, so the total means something.

Taxi
0.9 gal · 8 min
Climb
1.4 gal · 9 min
Cruise
6.8 gal · 47 min
Reserve
3.2 gal · 45 min
Total planned12.3 gal against 24 gal capacity
NOTAMs

The ones that matter, first.

NOTAMs sort by what they actually mean for the flight, not the order the teleprinter spat them out in.

QMRLC
Runway 14 closed
KPIA · through 1900Z
QNAXX
ILS RWY 09 out of service
KPIA · affects IFR arrivals
QOBCE
Crane, 210 ft AGL, 2 NM west of field
KPIA · obstruction
In-flight

It knows what phase of flight you're in.

GPS-based phase detection follows the flight automatically — no buttons to remember mid-pattern.

Wheels up
Climb
Top of climb
Top of descent
Wheels down
Charts & ground

Charts in your pocket, taxiways under your thumb.

Sectional and IFR charts, offline-capable, with 19 layers you can show or hide on your own terms. On the ground, georeferenced taxi diagrams highlight your actual route to the runway — or back to the ramp.

Airports Airspace Obstacles Navaids Class E 700' Class E 1200' Victor airways
Traffic

See the sky around you.

A live overlay of nearby aircraft, sourced from crowd-fed ADS-B data.

Informational only — not a collision-avoidance system
Built for pilots who are still learning.
Not a re-skin for veteran ATPs
Platform

One app, every cockpit.

Android
iOS