bauidch / awesome-flying

A curated list of flying/aviation tools

Awesome Flying

A curated list of flying/aviation tools

Contents

• Flight planning
  • Maps
  • Meteo
  • Metar & TAF
  • Weight and Balance
• Logbook
• Flightradar
• Radio
• Social
• Simulator
• APIs
• Multi Tools

Flight planning

• navplan.ch - VFR flight planning online. Open-source, non-commercial hobbyist project with a main focus on Switzerland. (Source Code)
• landables_ch - Flugplatzdaten Segelflug CH
• HeliPaddy FREE/PAID
• Enroute - A free navigation app for VFR pilots (Source Code)
• VFR-Flight-Planner - Automatic planning for VFR flights (Source Code)
• airport-diagrams - Fetch airport diagrams from https://www.faa.gov/ using Node.js
• Fluttair - VFR flight planning and navigation
• Decent Calculator - Top of descent path calculator. (Source Code)
• Runway Chooser - Easy way to find the best runway for takeoff or land. Enter airport ICAO code and get runways suggestions based on wind data. (Source Code)
• Flyr iOS

Maps

• Open Flightmaps Free and open source database of aeronautical objects for the rendering of high quality VFR maps

Meteo

• PGG Report - Weather report tailored for paramotor pilots. Uses the NOAA rapid refresh Op40 analysis.(Source)

Metar & TAF

• homeassistant-metar - METAR module for HomeAssistant
• PyTAF - TAF (Terminal Aerodrome Forecast) and METAR parser and decoder
• Dun-Dunv2 - Small METAR, TAF, NOTAM discord.js aviation bot.
• AirportWeatherMonitor - Airport weather monitor. METAR/TAF parser, Leaflet, Symfony. (Source Code)
• Aviatorsbot - Telegram bot for METAR and TAF weather update subscriptions for pilots (Source)
• metarr - React web app to check any airport's METAR (Source)

NOTAMS

• Notams - Fetch NOTAMs (Notices to Airmen) using Node.js
• SNOWTAM - ❄️ SNOWTAM ✈️ Decoder, and utilities for working with SNOWTAM data

Weight and Balance

• Gyronimo Apps iOS PAID

Other

• VFR Llight A lightweight assistant for pilots flying under VFR.

Logbook

• Flugbuech - Web based flight log for paragliding pilots.
• Flight-LogBook - A log book application to be used as a backup to physical pilot log books
• Foreflight Logbook PAID
• MyFlightbook
• LogTen iOS and Mac
• capzlog PAID
• Skyhop - A digital logbook built for glider pilots! (Source)
• Aircraft Logbook - Web application for digital aircraft logbooks
• openPilotLog - A FOSS pilot logbook written in C++(Qt5)
• Pilot Log - Simple Django pilot log webapp

Fightradar/Trackers

• flightradar24
• Planefinder
• adsbexchange
• TwitterFligthBot
• Open Glider Network - live tracking of gliders, paragliders, UAVs, and other aircraft.

Radio

• LocalRadio
• Statux - Aviation weather and traffic receiver based on RTL-SDR.
• Flare - Nordic nRF905 , OGN tracker and PilotAware (SV650/Si4432) demodulators. FLARM, OGNTP and P3I decoders.

Social

• Avinet - A social network and online log record for pilots. WORK IN PRODGRESS

Simulator

• openScope - openScope Air Traffic Control Simulator (Source Code)
• flight-indicators

APIs

• AirportDB - This is a JSON database that contains about 60k airports with their runways, communication frequencies, navaids, countries, and regions information.
• OpenAIP - Free Worldwide Aviation Database

Multi Tools

• flylog
• flightastic Mobile
• ForeFligth - Delivers everything a pilot needs for planning, briefing, filing, and logging flights Mobile PAID
• Air Navigation Pro - Air Navigation Pro is a flight planning and real-time aircraft navigation application for individual and professional pilots all over the world. Mobile PAID
• Airbone - Minimal aircraft management app for small groups

JavaScript Components

• Airport Diagram React
• JS flight-indicators
• React flight indicators - A React + Typescript porting of react-flight-indicators React

Not a Tool but also good

• OurAirports - a site for discovering and discussing the world's airports

Contribute

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