AeroTail vs Relative Wind Compass

AeroTail shows you every aircraft flying near you in real-time — right on a map. Get notified the moment a plane enters your area, tap to see flight details, and never miss a flyover again. REAL-TIME AIRCRAFT MAP See aircraft positions update live on a smooth, animated map. AeroTail pulls data from multiple ADS-B sources so you get the most complete picture of the skies above you. PROXIMITY ALERTS Set a detection radius and get notified when aircraft fly nearby — even when the app is closed. Perfect for catching that low-flying A380 or spotting unusual traffic in your area. FLIGHT DETAILS Tap any aircraft to see its callsign, airline, aircraft type, altitude, speed, heading, and route information. Identify what's flying overhead in seconds. APPLE WATCH Track nearby aircraft from your wrist with the AeroTail companion app for Apple Watch. ANIMATED RADAR A smooth radar sweep overlay shows your detection zone and makes spotting incoming flights feel like air traffic control. SUBSCRIPTION TIERS - Free: 4 km fixed detection radius, daily alert and flight detail limits - Pro: Adjustable radius (2-25 km), unlimited alerts and flight details - Ultra: Everything in Pro plus Apple Watch app PRIVACY FIRST Your location is stored anonymously and is never linked to your name or email. AeroTail does not track you across apps, does not use advertising SDKs, and does not sell your data. No ads — not even on the free plan. You can delete your account and all associated data at any time from Settings. AeroTail is built and maintained by an independent developer. Your support keeps the app alive and improving. Aircraft data is for informational and entertainment purposes only — not for aviation safety or navigation. Terms of Use: https://aerotail.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://aerotail.app/privacy

THE WIND, RELATIVE TO YOU. Most weather apps tell you the wind is from 270°. Relative Wind Compass shows you an arrow pointing where the wind is coming from, relative to where you're facing right now. Turn, and the arrow moves. Cross-reference with your runway, your treestand, your firebreak, your launch site, no mental math. Built by a student pilot for anyone who needs the wind on the ground. NINE MODES, ONE ARROW • BASIC — Just the wind. Direction, speed, the relative arrow. Nothing else. • FLIGHT — Headwind and crosswind components for any runway. METAR plus winds aloft, density altitude, Zulu time, heading bug. • HUNTING — Scent-direction compass, sunrise countdown, moon phase, still-air indicator, wind-shift alerts. • BURNING — Fire-spread direction, gust delta, relative humidity and temperature, a tap-to-copy dispatch radio call, and a red banner when conditions move out of prescription. • SAILING — Apparent wind when you're moving, Beaufort force, point of sail, veer/back detector. • DRONE — Go / Caution / No-Go from your aircraft's wind and gust limits. DJI, Skydio, and Autel presets built in. • FREE FLIGHT — Flyable / Marginal / No-Fly status, optional launch-direction alignment for paragliders and hang gliders. • HOT AIR BALLOON — Winds-aloft layers (3k, 6k, 9k, 12k ft) shown directly. Steering hints when the layers diverge. • MARINE — Beaufort plus sea state, small-craft, gale, and storm advisories. APPLE WATCH The full relative-wind dial on your wrist. A complication for the watch face so you can glance at the wind without unlocking your phone. The watch and phone keep each other in sync. IPHONE DUO Unfold it and the arrow gets half the screen, with speed, gusts and your mode's details on the other half. Half-fold it like a laptop and the arrow stands up top. Closed, the cover screen shows the compass you know. WEATHER YOU CAN TRUST Live surface conditions come from Apple's WeatherKit. Airport METARs and winds-aloft forecasts come from the FAA's aviationweather.gov. Barometric pressure reads from your iPhone's built-in altimeter. Everything is true-referenced, not magnetic. ALERTS, FORECAST, FEELS-LIKE Active National Weather Service alerts, Red Flag warnings for burn crews, Small Craft Advisories for sailors, severe-weather alerts for everyone — surface at the top of every screen. A one-hour wind forecast lives next to the live reading. Wind chill and heat index update with the data. YOUR UNITS, YOUR CALL Knots, mph, or m/s. Feet or meters. Zulu or local time. Cardinal points or true degrees. Set it once. PRIVACY No account. No tracking. No analytics. Your location stays on your device, it is used only to fetch weather for where you are. For pilots, hunters, prescribed-burn crews, sailors, drone operators, paraglider and hang glider pilots, balloon crews, and anyone on the water. For anyone who needs to know where the wind is coming from, relative to where they're standing, without doing the geometry in their head.