Pilot vs FSnav

Your weather briefing, read aloud. Decoding aviation weather bulletins is slow and error-prone — whether you're planning a local flight or a long cross-country. Pilot Briefer turns cryptic METAR and TAF codes into plain language and reads them aloud with proper ICAO and DGAC aviation terminology. HOW IT WORKS 1. Choose Local Flight or Navigation 2. Pick your airfield (or departure + destination), or tap My Position to find the nearest one 3. Tap Get Briefing 4. Listen while you walk to the aircraft — the map animates the conditions as the briefing plays THREE VIEWS, ONE BRIEFING • Interactive map — color-coded by flight category (VFR, MVFR, IFR, LIFR) with animated wind, ceiling and visibility overlays synced to the audio • Weather cards — structured, scannable summaries of each element at every airfield • Spoken narration — natural-language briefing in your chosen language, played automatically TWO OPERATING MODES • Local flight — pattern work, training sorties, single-airfield briefings • Navigation — route-based briefing with stations ordered along your flight path, drawn on the map NO COMPROMISE ON ACCURACY Every AI interpretation is backed by the raw METAR and TAF it was generated from. Tap the Raw tab to see the source text. Stale METARs and expired TAFs are automatically flagged or filtered, so you always know how fresh the data is. WHY PILOTS USE IT • Spoken briefings — METAR and TAF translated into natural language and read aloud track by track • Bilingual — fully localized English and French, with proper phraseology (QNH in hPa, feet, Zulu time) • AI-powered — Amazon Nova on AWS Bedrock, with adaptive prompts tuned per report • TAF forecast clock — a circular timeline shows how conditions evolve across the forecast period • Flight path route line — your route drawn on the map from departure to destination • Find your nearest airfield — GPS-based lookup with instant ICAO resolution • Overview or per-field — regional summary across your route, or drill into each station individually • Background playback — keeps playing when the screen locks, with lock-screen media controls • Global airfield database — thousands of airports, heliports and microlight fields, including hard-to-find French ULM strips • Privacy-friendly — no account, no sign-up, no tracking AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE Pilot Briefer runs on iPhone and iPad. Your settings follow you across devices. PERFECT FOR • VFR pilots planning a local flight or cross-country • Flight instructors walking students through a weather decision • Student pilots learning to decode METAR and TAF • Anyone who prefers listening over reading in the cockpit IMPORTANT Pilot Briefer is a decision-support tool. It does NOT replace official pre-flight briefings from your national aeronautical information service (AIS). Always cross-check critical data with the official source before flight. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

FSnav is a VFR navigation app for private pilots: moving map, flight planning, a complete flight briefing pack, weather and a worldwide weather globe, live airspace, logbook, augmented reality. COUNTRIES • France: official SIA data, updated every AIRAC cycle, readable offline. • United States (new): official FAA data every cycle, Sectional and TAC charts, live TFRs, NOAA weather. US NOTAMs coming. THE MAP • Airspace (Class B/C/D, CTR, TMA, LTA, FIR, FIS sectors, P, R, D, MOA, military routes, RMZ/TMZ, TRA) with floors and ceilings, a ceiling filter, and the list of airspace you are in while flying. • Live: military route activations (AZBA), SUP AIP zones, NOTAMs on the map and in the airfield sheet (France), TFRs (US), SIGMET. • Warnings in words before you enter an airspace (“TMA in 4 min, climbing”). • Airfields, true-scale runways, taxiways, holding points, windsocks turned to the measured wind, fuel. • Obstacles, power lines, nature reserves, sensitive sites, built-up areas. • OACI and VAC charts (France), Sectional and TAC charts (US), georeferenced and readable offline. Terrain, night mode, satellite. • 3D airspace view, an (i) sheet for every layer, augmented reality (tags on the camera image). • Your points, layers (KML, GPX, GeoJSON, MBTiles) and documents, synced between your devices. NAVIGATION • Plan on the map, direct-to, drag and drop. Import and export GPX, KML, FPL, PLN. • Nav log: headings, drift, ground speed, times, fuel, estimated and actual times. • Vertical profile: terrain, minimum safe altitude, airspace, obstacles. • Route weather analysis with suggested routes around bad weather. • Engine-failure approach patterns for training (power-off 180 in the US). • Traffic: portable ADS-B/FLARM receivers (GDL 90: SkyEcho, Stratux, PilotAware, Sentry, Stratus) with conflict assessment. FLIGHT BRIEFING PACK Your whole preparation in one PDF, sections and order of your choice. • Sun times and aeronautical night, airfields with NOTAMs and VAC charts, nav log, fuel plan, profile. • METAR and TAF at your estimated time, Vigilance, SIGMET, TEMSI, WINTEM; airspace crossed, active military areas, NOTAMs along the route. WEATHER • France: Météo-France radar, lightning, satellite, stations, METAR and TAF, Vigilance, TEMSI and WINTEM charts; AROME and GFS forecasts. • United States: NOAA radar, lightning, GOES satellite, METAR and TAF, AIRMET, SIGMET, PIREP; HRRR, NBM and GFS forecasts. • Wind at every level, clouds, precipitation, visibility, gusts, storm risk, 0 °C level, icing. SIGMETs and AIRMETs decoded into plain words. • Offline weather box prepared before the flight. WEATHER GLOBE The whole world’s weather on a 3D globe. • Observed: infrared, visible and water vapour satellite in a loop, lightning, storm cells, deep convection, worldwide SIGMETs, tropical cyclones. • Forecast: surface, FL180 and FL300 wind, clouds, precipitation, temperature, CAPE, gusts, 0 °C level, icing and turbulence, up to 5 days, animated. FLIGHT REPLAY • GPS track recorded automatically, replay with instruments, past flights shared as an image or GPX. LOGBOOK, AIRCRAFT, KNOWLEDGE • Logbook: hours, landings, recent experience (FCL.060, FCL.740), your flying club’s minima, CSV export. • My aircraft: profile, fuel plan, weight and balance on the flight manual envelope. • Knowledge (France): the FFA VFR pilot memo and FCL.055 English preparation. SUBSCRIPTION 7-day free trial with every feature, then a yearly or monthly subscription. FSnav is an aid to flight preparation and monitoring: official documents (AIP, charts, flight manual) remain the reference. Your recorded flights and logbook stay on your phone. Data sources and licences: fsnav.flightshared.com/en/sources Terms of Use (Apple standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://fsnav.flightshared.com/en/privacy