✈ Flying Tools

Stop squinting at raw METAR strings like ancient hieroglyphics. Punch in an ICAO code and get back beautifully decoded weather: flight category badges, structured remarks, and a live TAF if available.

Bonus: a fully interactive wind visualiser with:

• A compass rose showing where the wind's actually coming from
• A runway diagram so you can see exactly how much that crosswind is going to ruin your day
• Crosswind, headwind/tailwind component breakdowns with gust indicators
• Works with any runway, just pick from the dropdown or type a heading manually

Not all flying is about blue skies. This wizard helps you find airports with genuinely challenging weather near your departure point, perfect for sim training or hunting down real-world practice conditions.

• Weather type: choose between high winds (gusts, crosswinds) or visibility challenges (fog, low ceiling, rain, snow)
• Departure airport: enter any ICAO code as your starting point
• Flight duration: under 1 hour, 1 to 3 hours, 3 to 6 hours, or any distance
• VATSIM preference: optionally filter for airports with live ATC online

Results show matching airports with decoded METAR highlights, approximate flight time, and condition badges (Windy, Gusts, Fog, Low Ceiling, Thunderstorm, and more). Powered by the Where2Fly.today API.

Everything you'd want to know about an airport, fetched live. Search by ICAO and get:

• Airport type and overview details
• Full runway table (length, width, surface, lighting, closures)
• All radio frequencies in one tidy place

Great for pre-flight planning, or just satisfying your curiosity about that tiny grass strip you flew over.

Aviation loves obscure units. This converter handles them all, in real-time and bidirectionally; change any field and everything else updates instantly.

• Weight: lbs ↔ kg
• Distance: NM ↔ SM ↔ km
• Altitude: ft ↔ m ↔ Flight Levels
• Speed: knots ↔ mph ↔ km/h ↔ Mach (with altitude-aware ISA calculations)
• Temperature: °C ↔ °F
• Pressure: hPa ↔ inHg
• Fuel: litres, US gallons, imperial gallons, and weight conversions for both Jet-A and Avgas

Because "I'll just start down when it looks right" is not a strategy. Enter your current altitude, target altitude, and groundspeed, then calculate:

• By angle: input a descent angle (default 3°) and get distance to TOD + required V/S
• By V/S: input your desired feet-per-minute and get distance to TOD + the equivalent angle

Supports both feet and Flight Level inputs. Real-time results with validation so you don't accidentally descend into a mountain.

A full embedded viewer for the 737-800 Quick Reference Handbook. Whether you're studying procedures, doing sim prep, or just want to feel like a real airline pilot for an afternoon, it's all there.

Not aviation, but extremely useful if you're coordinating flights or events on Discord. Pick a date and time, hit the "NOW" button for the current moment, and get all seven Discord timestamp formats ready to copy-paste:

• Relative (in 3 hours, 2 days ago)
• Short/long date and time combinations

Your event announcements will never say "8pm my time" again.

Live VATSIM network data, pulled straight from the VATSIM API and refreshed every 60 seconds. At a glance you get:

• Total pilots, ATC controllers, supervisors, and admins currently online
• A top-5 aircraft type bar chart showing what everyone's flying right now
• A full ATC stations table with callsign, frequency, facility type, controller rating, range, and time online

Filter the station list by ICAO prefix to zero in on a specific airport or FIR. Hover a callsign to peek at the ATIS text if one is set.

A quick-reference sheet for the iniBuilds Lockheed L-1011-500 TriStar in MSFS 2024. Everything you need without digging through a manual mid-flight:

• V-speeds & performance: Vr, V2, Vref, Vapp, cruise Mach, VMO
• Key weights: OEW, MZFW, MLW, MTOW, and max fuel capacity
• Flap settings & IEPR thrust targets for takeoff and landing configurations
• Navigation modes: RADNAV, triple INS, INS + PMS, and GPS, with notes on when to use each
• Direct Lift Control: how the spoiler-based DLC system works on approach
• Virtual Flight Engineer: manual vs. autocomplete flow modes
• Typical flight profile from cold & dark to shutdown, with phase-by-phase notes
• Engine (RB211-524) operating limits, spool behaviour, and reverse thrust limits
• Brief historical context: first flight, operators, and why it matters