Coming to iPhone and iPad

VFR flight planning, simply.

Pick where you're going. SimpleFlight answers the questions that matter before a VFR flight: how far, how long, how much fuel, what the weather is doing along the way, what airspace is in the way, and what the destination looks like when you get there.

One email when the TestFlight beta opens and one at launch. See the privacy policy.

SimpleFlight home map of Southern California: airports colored by flight category, radar, animated winds aloft, Class B and C airspace, TFRs, and the planned route from Riverside to Gillespie Field

How it works

Four steps from idea to briefing

Built by a pilot who wanted the answer on one screen, not spread over six apps.

Set up your airplane
Cruise speed, fuel burn, usable fuel, the altitude you usually fly. Once, then it's remembered.
Pick a destination
Type an identifier or a city. Press and hold the route line to bend it around airspace; it snaps to airports, VORs and fixes nearby.
Choose an altitude
Only legal VFR hemispheric altitudes are offered, each with its headwind or tailwind and time en route from the current winds aloft.
Read the plan
Heading, groundspeed, time, fuel and reserve, weather at every reporting airport along the way, airspace, TFRs, advisories and PIREPs. Then send it to Garmin Pilot.

Features

Everything a VFR flight needs, nothing it doesn't

US only and VFR only, on purpose. That focus is what keeps it simple.

Winds aloft that move

An animated wind layer at your cruise altitude, plus the full winds-aloft table for 6, 12 and 24 hours.

Weather along the route

Decoded METARs and TAFs for airports in the corridor, colored by flight category, with radar and satellite on the map.

Airspace at your altitude

Class B, C and D shelves with floors and ceilings. Shelves that apply at your cruise altitude stand out; the rest fade back.

TFRs, SIGMETs and PIREPs

Restrictions on or near your route, checked against your planned time and altitude, with the NOTAM text a tap away.

Runways and the pattern

Headwind and crosswind for every runway, a to-scale runway diagram, and the expected traffic pattern drawn on the map for the wind right now.

Hand off to Garmin Pilot

Share the route as a Garmin FPL file, waypoints included, and fly it on the avionics you already trust.

A look inside

Real screens, live data

Captured from the app with live weather. Nothing here is a mock-up.

Plan result for Riverside to Gillespie Field with a route map, distance, course, winds aloft, heading, groundspeed and time en route — The plan: course, wind-corrected heading, groundspeed, time and fuel, over a map of the airspace and weather on the way.

Cruise altitude picker showing 5,500 ft with a 10 knot headwind and a note that 3,500 ft has the least headwind — Pick from legal VFR altitudes and see what each one costs or saves in wind.

Route briefing listing San Diego Class B, a TFR for an air show, G-AIRMETs for mountain obscuration and IFR conditions, and pilot reports — Airspace, TFRs, G-AIRMETs and PIREPs in the corridor, in plain language.

Gillespie Field airport page with a runway diagram of three runways, the traffic pattern for runway 09L, and wind components for each runway — The destination: runway diagram, wind components for every runway, pattern altitude and frequencies.

Map zoomed in on Fullerton airport showing the dashed traffic pattern for runway 06 with a 45 degree entry and a label reading left traffic, TPA 1,100 — Zoom in on where you're landing and the expected pattern appears, entry and all.

Home map with flight category dots, radar, animated winds, airspace, TFRs and the planned route — The home map: what the weather is doing within a tank of fuel of home.

For pilots

Straight answers

Does it replace a briefing? No. SimpleFlight shows you data and does the arithmetic. It never tells you a flight is safe. You are pilot in command: get an official briefing, check NOTAMs, and use current charts.
Where does the data come from? Weather from the Aviation Weather Center. Airports, runways, frequencies, navaids and airspace from the FAA. TFRs from tfr.faa.gov. Radar and satellite from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet. Wind fields from the GFS model via Open-Meteo.
IFR? Outside the US? Not now. It is a VFR planner for the United States, and saying no to the rest is what keeps it fast to use.
What about my data? Today everything you enter stays on your device. Optional accounts are planned so your airplanes and plans can follow you between devices; the privacy policy says exactly what that will involve.
What will it cost? Pricing will be announced before launch. Early-access pilots hear first.
Who makes it? Digitier, LLC, a technology studio in Riverside, California. It's built by a pilot based at KRAL.