Fly VFR with a chart that's always under you.
PilotCharts overlays your live GPS position on real aeronautical charts from openAIP — cached to your device automatically, so it keeps working with no signal. Search any airport, check runways and frequencies, and open the official chart PDF in two taps.
Free for map browsing, search, and airport info. No account required.
Coming soon on iOS and Android
Everything you need to find your way
The core moving map is free for every pilot — no trial, no account, no catch.
Live moving map
Your position, rendered as a rotating aircraft on top of a real VFR aeronautical chart — OpenStreetMap base plus openAIP's chart overlay.
Works with no signal
Map tiles cache to disk automatically as you fly. Pan over an area once online, and it keeps working offline — no manual downloads for the map itself.
Airport details from openAIP
Elevation, runways, frequencies, PPR, contact info, and hours of operation — straight from openAIP, for airports worldwide.
Official charts, one tap away
Jump straight to an aerodrome's official chart PDF from the national AIP, opened in your browser — never redistributed in-app.
Instant search
Find any airport by ICAO code or name, with live results as you type — then jump straight to it on the chart.
Download what you need
Pull airports, reporting points, navaids, airspace and obstacles for any country, worldwide — free, by country, forever.
The same chart, more room to read it
PilotCharts adapts to iPad in both orientations — great for a kneeboard mount or on the panel.
Built for real flying and cockpit workflows
A subscription on top of the free map, for glass & analog instruments, live weather, route planning, simulator connectivity, and deep personalization.
Glass PFD, classic analog gauges, or hybrid
Transform your tablet or phone into a primary flight display. Switch effortlessly between a modern Glass PFD (speed & altitude tapes, artificial horizon, VSI, and 360° rotating compass rose), classic "Basic T" Six-Pack round steam gauges (ASI, attitude, altimeter, turn coordinator, DG, VSI), or a wide Hybrid cluster tailored to your preference.
- Modern PFD with tapes, artificial horizon, and next-waypoint bug
- Classic Six-Pack analog steam gauges with colored airspeed arcs
- Hybrid layout combining round dials with glass tapes and horizon
- 360° rotating Compass Rose with GA aircraft symbol and active route tracking
- Compact telemetry strip or enlarged instrument cluster with size scaling
Multi-waypoint VFR routes & Sim streaming
Plan VFR cross-country flights directly on the chart. Tap waypoints, snap to visual reporting points, view magnetic track headings and nautical mile leg distances, and replay your route with banked turns. Connect directly to X-Plane or MSFS via ForeFlight UDP protocol for real-time desktop simulator practice on your device.
- Multi-waypoint route creation with snap-to-reporting-points
- Leg magnetic headings, nautical miles, and active waypoint guidance
- Comprehensive briefing PDF generation with appended official airport charts
- Native UDP connectivity with X-Plane & MSFS (ForeFlight protocol)
- Integrated floating flight stopwatch with customizable corner positions
Weather, decoded — not just a raw string
METAR and TAF straight from NOAA's Aviation Weather Center, with flight-category badges, decoded wind/visibility/cloud/altimeter, and multi-day TAF forecasts — plus live rain radar, wind, cloud, and pressure overlays on the chart itself.
- Flight category at a glance — VFR, MVFR, IFR, LIFR
- Decoded and raw METAR / TAF with NOTAMs tab
- Rain radar, wind, clouds & pressure weather overlays
- Favorite airports quick-access bar and pinned split-screen panels
A chart that matches how you fly
Recolor every airspace class, adjust border thickness and fill opacity, and tune label density by zoom level — plus custom document attachments (PDFs/images) and notes for every airfield.
- Full airspace color and fill opacity customization
- Multiple base map styles (OpenFreeMap vector, Satellite, OpenStreetMap)
- Per-airport pilot notes with proximity alerts and custom PDF attachments
- Configurable map controls, heading-up mode, and follow zoom
Free to fly. Pro to do more.
The moving map, search, and airport details stay free forever — no trial clock, no feature cliff.
- Live GPS moving map with VFR aeronautical chart overlay
- Automatic offline map caching
- Worldwide airport search, by ICAO code or name
- Airport details from openAIP — runways, frequencies, PPR, hours
- Official chart PDF links
- Closest-airports lookup
- Per-country downloads for airports, navaids, airspace & obstacles
- North up / Heading up chart orientation
- Everything in Free
- Glass Cockpit PFD (speed & altitude tapes, artificial horizon, VSI, compass rose)
- Classic Six-Pack analog steam gauges & Hybrid cluster styles
- Multi-waypoint VFR route planning, playback, and PDF briefing export
- Flight simulator UDP streaming (X-Plane & MSFS)
- METAR & TAF aviation weather with flight categories & NOTAMs
- Rain radar, wind, clouds & pressure weather overlays
- Favorite airports & pinned split-screen panels
- Full map color & styling personalization
Questions pilots ask
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