Free Aviation Tools for Pilots
These tools run on the same live airport-status feed as the rest of ATIS Alerts — METARs, D-ATIS, runway winds, and FAA delay events for every US airport. No account, no paywall. Built for student pilots, CFIs, flight schools, and anyone who watches an airport.
Pilot Games
F-22 Landing Challenge Game
Fly the F-22: hold centerline against a gusty crosswind at a real US airport, dodge the geese, and grease it for 10,000 points. Daily challenge, arcade leaderboard, 20 seconds a round.
Play free →F-18 Carrier Landing Challenge
Fly the ball to the deck of a real US Navy carrier: hold the yellow centerline, dodge the seagulls, and catch the 2-wire. Miss all three and you're in the water. Daily 5-carrier run, arcade leaderboard.
Play free →All Pilot Tools
Crosswind Calculator
Headwind and crosswind components for any runway — enter wind manually or pull live METAR winds for any US airport and see every runway ranked.
Open the tool →Density Altitude Calculator
Hot-and-high performance numbers: enter your values, or pick any US airport to compute density altitude from its live METAR and surveyed field elevation.
Open the tool →METAR & TAF Decoder
Paste any raw METAR or TAF and get an instant, group-by-group plain-English decode with the flight category — or decode any US airport's live report.
Open the tool →Airport Status Widget
Free embeddable widget for your website: live flight category, wind, decoded summary, and FAA delay status for any US airport. One script tag.
Open the tool →RC Field Weather Widget
Free embeddable widget for AMA club websites: live wind, gusts, and an RC flyability read for your flying field, from the nearest reporting station. One script tag.
Open the tool →FAA Delays Board
Live national board of FAA ground stops, ground delay programs, arrival/departure delays, and airport closures — straight from FAA NAS Status.
Open the tool →Active TFRs Board
Every published US Temporary Flight Restriction in plain English — grouped by state and type, with the airports each TFR affects.
Open the tool →More aviation weather resources
- FAA written test prep — free ACS-aligned practice tests and flashcards for the Private Pilot and Instrument Rating knowledge tests.
- How to read a METAR — a plain-English field-by-field guide.
- D-ATIS airports — every US airport broadcasting digital ATIS.
- US airport directory — live status pages for 13,000+ airports.
- RC airfield weather — live conditions and a flyability read for AMA model flying fields.
- About & data sources — where the data comes from and how often it refreshes.
The tool that checks the weather for you
ATIS Alerts messages you on Telegram when your airport's ATIS changes, it drops below VFR, or wind moves toward your minimums — so you open a weather page only when something actually changed.