AeroPointer vs FlightChecked

AeroPointer shows airports, navaids, and aviation weather on a 3D globe, with FAA charts at every US airport. No account needed, no ads, and no tracking. AeroPointer Pro is an optional subscription. The free version keeps everything AeroPointer always had, plus improved and new features. Pro adds deeper weather layers, forecasts, route editing, and more. ON THE MAP • A 3D globe or a flat map, with Standard, Streets, and Satellite base layers • Animated US radar with a timeline you can scrub, and US infrared satellite • TFRs, AIRMETs and SIGMETs drawn and labeled on the map • Flight category for every reporting station • FAA airport status: ground stops, delay programs and closures, on the map and at the airport • Hurricane tracker: the forecast track, the cone, NHC wind probability, arrival times and areas of interest • FAA NAS status and the active tropical storms • Runways at close zoom, a ruler, a Zulu/local clock, and coordinates and magnetic variation anywhere you tap AIRPORT DETAIL • METAR and TAF, raw or decoded, color coded, with the age of every report • D-ATIS • Runway wind components • NOTAMs, decoded or raw, grouped and searchable • FAA airport diagrams and procedure charts, with dark mode, rotation and markup • Runways, frequencies, fuel, VOT, elevation and magnetic variation • Sunrise, sunset and civil twilight ON YOUR WRIST AND HOME SCREEN • Your home airport's flight category, wind and report age as a Home Screen or Lock Screen widget and as an Apple Watch complication • An Apple Watch app with your home airport and the nearest one: METAR, TAF, runways with wind components and frequencies • A morning note about your home airport, at the hour you choose WITH AEROPOINTER PRO • Alerts when a favorite airport changes: flight category, a TFR nearby, a ground stop or delay program, a hurricane watch • Highlights on the airport card: closures, ILS outages, TFRs and procedure changes from the NOTAMs • Favorites on the Apple Watch, with Highlights and the forecast • Lightning strikes over the Americas and Europe, with the last five minutes animated • Winds aloft and temperatures (surface to FL480) • Turbulence by altitude, now and up to 18 hours ahead • Pilot Reports (PIREPs) • Echo tops, European composite radar, global IR satellite, surface analysis (fronts and pressure areas), global surface temperature and smoke plumes • A 10-day and hourly forecast at every airport, and at any point you tap or any city you search • A route editor with airways, SIDs and STARs, Direct To, saved routes and your own waypoints • Vertical profile view with winds, turbulence, icing, AIRMETs, SIGMETs and TFRs along your route • Offline chart pack management THE DATA • More than 50,000 airports and 9,500 navaids worldwide: official FAA data for the US, open source data from Ourairports.com elsewhere • Airport and navaid data is stored on your device; weather, NOTAMs, and charts you have opened stay available offline Built for pilots by an airline pilot and flight instructor. AeroPointer Pro is available as an annual plan with 14 days free, or a monthly plan. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase, or at the end of the free trial. It renews automatically unless you cancel it at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. AeroPointer is for general reference and supplemental awareness only. It should not be used as a primary source for flight planning or navigation. The data comes from third-party sources, including the FAA, NOAA, the National Weather Service, Apple Weather and ourairports.com. The data is not guaranteed to be accurate, current, or available at any given time. You are responsible for verifying flight information using official sources. Privacy Policy: https://www.pilotscafe.com/aeropointer/privacy-policy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

FlightChecked streamlines your preflight briefing, helping you manage the volume of operational data before you head to the aircraft. Instead of wading through blocks of cryptic NOTAM text and raw forecast strings, you get clean, decoded, and easily scannable information for every airport and FIR on your route. Built for pilots, by pilots. — FLIGHT OVERVIEW — All your upcoming flights in one place, each with a quick snapshot of departure and destination weather and NOTAM status. Spot deteriorating conditions or new restrictions before you open the full briefing. — TAF AS A TIMELINE — Visibility, ceiling, and weather phenomena are parsed from each TAF and presented cleanly. Wind components are resolved against the runway diagram and corrected for local magnetic variation. The full forecast is shown as a color-coded timeline for rapid VFR/MVFR/IFR assessment. — NOTAM DECODE & MAP — Hundreds of NOTAMs, instantly readable. We translate raw NOTAMs into structured, plain language and plot spatially relevant obstacles and restrictions on an interactive map — instead of burying them in cryptic text. — ENROUTE OVERVIEW — See your departure, destination, and enroute alternates together. Smart ERA suggestions surface suitable enroute alternates for your route, with relevant NOTAMs and weather appearing exactly where they matter along the way. — FIR NOTAM MAP — Every FIR your route crosses, visualized with airspace restrictions, obstacles, and hazards plotted where they are. Smart filters surface only NOTAMs relevant to your flight — close to your route, at your cruising altitudes, and active during your crossing time — sorted by aircraft-aware severity. — WEATHER & NOTAM ALERTS — Proactive notifications in the hours before departure. Alerts are scoped to airports on your active route and filtered by severity and time relevance, so you hear about the fog, wind, or new restriction that actually affects you. — COMING SOON — AI-generated briefing notes tailored to flight phase and timing, runway and taxiway closures on airport layouts, and weather-aware fuel tracking. WHY FLIGHTCHECKED  • 1,000+ NOTAMs decoded daily  • 200+ airports supported  • 200+ FIRs supported Less time decoding. More time understanding the big picture. Download FlightChecked now and fly with clearer context. FlightChecked is a supplementary aid that aims to enhance a pilot's situational awareness and does not replace official briefing sources or pilot-in-command judgment. Always consult authoritative aeronautical data for your flight. Questions? support@daelead.co Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/