SafeSail vs Wind & Runways

SafeSail – Know When It’s a Good Day to Go Out to Sea SafeSail is a marine weather app built for sailors, boat owners, and sea-goers who want to make smarter, safer decisions before heading out. It brings together wind, waves, and swell into a clear daily sea-conditions score, tailored to your vessel type, so complex marine data is easier to understand and act on. The scoring and recommendation system was developed with input from experienced sailors, combining real-world maritime knowledge with trusted weather and marine forecasts. Key Features • Smart Marine Conditions Score Wind, wave height, swell, and direction are combined into a simple daily score. • Interactive Forecast Map View conditions on a map, explore coastal areas visually, and quickly understand where conditions look better before choosing a location. • Hour-by-Hour Forecast Breakdown See detailed marine conditions by hour, including wind speed, wave height, swell, and direction. • Best Time Recommendations Find the most suitable time windows during the day based on predicted conditions. • Visual Charts & Trends Track wind and wave changes throughout the day with clear, easy-to-read charts. • Location-Based Forecasts Get accurate marine forecasts for selected coastal locations. • Vessel-Aware Analysis Conditions are evaluated by vessel type for more relevant guidance. Designed for Clarity and Safety SafeSail is designed for practical use at sea: Clean, distraction-free interface Fast access to essential information No ads No unnecessary features SafeSail is a decision-support tool and does not replace official maritime forecasts, notices, or professional seamanship. Regional Availability SafeSail currently focuses on selected regions and may require local phone number verification during onboarding. Whether you’re planning a short sail, a longer trip, or simply checking conditions out of curiosity, SafeSail helps you make safer, better-informed decisions at sea.

Wind & Runways helps pilots quickly understand how the current wind lines up with the runway. It brings together METARs, runway data, TAF-based wind trends, NOTAMs, airport details, radar coverage, airspace information, and route planning in a simple view built around the decisions pilots actually make. For pilots using Stratux, Wind & Runways can also connect directly to compatible Linux-based Stratux ADS-B hardware to provide live traffic information along with cockpit instruments including an artificial horizon and compass with an adjustable heading bug. For each airport, the app calculates headwind, tailwind, and crosswind components for every runway end using the latest available weather. A visual runway diagram makes it easy to see the wind direction at a glance, and the app can suggest the best runway based on the strongest headwind component. When the wind is calm or mostly direct crosswind, it says that clearly instead of forcing a recommendation. Runway diagrams show paved runways in gray and turf or grass runways in green, making surface type easy to spot. Helipads are displayed separately with an H symbol and wind indication. The map view helps you understand the bigger picture around your route or local flying area. You can view nearby METAR stations, see where current observations are available, check radar coverage, display rendered airspace, and turn on a TFR layer directly on the map. You can also create, edit, and save flight routes by adding airports, stations, or fixes, then view a basic navigation log with leg distances and route details. This makes it easier to compare conditions across airports, spot nearby reporting stations, identify active flight restrictions, and keep weather, airspace, and route-planning awareness in one place. Wind & Runways is not limited to airports with their own weather stations. I built it specifically so pilots could check conditions at the little grass strips, private fields, and non-towered airports around them — not just the larger airports with METARs. If an airport does not report its own weather, the app finds a nearby reporting station and clearly shows where the weather is coming from, including the distance to that station. Weather data comes from NOAA’s Aviation Weather Center. Airport cards show wind, gusts, altimeter, temperature, visibility, ceiling layers, present weather, and flight category. Observation age updates live so you can quickly tell how fresh the report is. The Wind tab uses TAF data to show how wind is expected to change over the next several hours, helping you plan for a later departure or arrival. Wind & Runways includes airport and runway information for more than 76,000 airports worldwide using the OurAirports database, including many smaller strips and private fields. Name, elevation, runway data, and surface information are available even for many airports that do not report their own weather. The NOTAMs tab pulls active FAA Notices to Air Missions so you can check for runway closures, TFRs, equipment outages, and other operational items without leaving the app. You can save favorite airports, reorder them, and sync them across devices with Apple or Google sign-in. You can also use the app without an account. Recently loaded METAR, TAF, and NOTAM data remains available offline, with stale data clearly marked. Unit preferences are supported for wind speed, temperature, altimeter, and elevation. Wind & Runways is built by a pilot, for pilots — with a fast, cockpit-friendly layout focused on runway wind, airport weather, traffic awareness, airspace, route planning, and the information you want close at hand before and during a flight. Free to download. Sign in to sync favorites, or use it anonymously.