A guided tour · Live on the App Store

Every screen, in detail.

Eight sections, in order — what the app actually does, claim by claim. Composed iPhone + iPad mockups for each. Nothing is promised that the app does not already do; every feature listed here ships in v1 on the App Store.

Section 01

Stations & Detail

Watched airports, and what each one really looks like.

The default screen shows your watched airports grouped the way you keep them in your head — Home Base, this trip, currency-tracking. Each row gives you the FAA category, wind, visibility, ceiling, the last-update time, and the runway that best fits the current wind. Tap a row for the full station detail: METAR and TAF decoded, twelve-hour meteogram, per-runway crosswind components, NOTAMs ordered by impact, frequencies, and recent PIREPs within fifty miles.

01 Watched airports grouped by user-defined collections
02 Current FAA category pill (VFR · MVFR · IFR · LIFR)
03 Wind, visibility, and ceiling summary at a glance
04 "Best runway" recommendation from wind components
05 Per-station alert badge when a rule is breached
06 Station detail: METAR, TAF preview, meteogram, runways, NOTAMs, frequencies, PIREPs
07 iPad: master-detail layout with three-column station detail

SkyFeed on iPad showing the master-detail Stations layout — left rail with six watched airports, right pane with the full KJFK decoded METAR, Live TAF preview, meteogram, and runway crosswind components.

SkyFeed Station Detail for KJFK on iPhone — VFR category pill, decoded METAR at the top, Live TAF preview, and a meteogram showing twelve hours of flight category, wind, and ceiling.

01 · Station Detail · KJFK

Section 02

Forecasts & TAF

TAFs you can scrub through, in English .

A full-screen TAF reader with a scrubbable timeline. Drag a needle along the forecast period and the screen tells you, in plain English, what is expected at the moment you stop. Period cards below the timeline are tagged FM, BECMG, TEMPO, and PROB30/40. The parser handles international TAFs out of the box — EGLL, EHAM, the lot.

01 Scrubbable timeline with a plain-English readout
02 Period cards labelled FM · BECMG · TEMPO · PROB30/40
03 International TAF support (non-US formats parsed correctly)
04 Decoded sentence first; raw text on tap
05 Bound to the same watched-stations list as the home screen

SkyFeed on iPad showing the master-detail layout with KOAK selected — left rail with the watched-stations list, right pane with KOAK decoded METAR, Live TAF, and meteogram.

SkyFeed Live TAF panel for KOAK — the FM 1220Z–1307Z period decoded into a sentence, with a meteogram below showing flight category, wind, and ceiling for the next twelve hours.

02 · Live TAF — KOAK

Section 03

Map & Radar

Radar, polygons, watched stations, PIREPs — one map .

MapKit base with the weather layers a pilot actually uses on the ground. NEXRAD radar in the US and RainViewer worldwide, both with a time scrubber. SIGMET and AIRMET polygons overlay where they matter. Watched-station markers carry their current FAA category color, and PIREPs within fifty miles in the last two hours render with severity-coded badges. On iPad, a sidebar gives you the watched-station rail alongside the map.

01 NEXRAD radar (US) and RainViewer (worldwide) with a time scrubber
02 SIGMET / AIRMET polygons
03 Watched-station markers in their current FAA category color
04 PIREP markers within 50 NM, last 2 hours, severity-coded
05 Bottom-right layer toggles; station peek sheet on tap
06 iPad: sidebar with the watched-station rail

SkyFeed Map on iPad — left sidebar lists watched stations; main pane shows a US East-coast map with radar overlay and dozens of station markers.

SkyFeed Map view on iPhone covering the US Northeast — NEXRAD radar layer showing a band of orange and red cells, with watched-station markers in their FAA category colors overlaid.

03 · Map with watched stations + radar

Section 04

Brief & Trips

A go / no-go verdict at the top of every brief .

The pre-flight brief stacks departure, destination, and an optional alternate, with a personal-minimums verdict at the very top: GO, NO-GO, or CHECK. The engine reads cached METAR, TAF, and the limits you set on the day you built the app, then says the answer. Trips bundle a departure, destination, optional alternate, tail number, and cruise speed — the brief binds to whichever trip you have selected.

01 GO · NO-GO · CHECK verdict at the top of every brief
02 Departure, destination, and (optional) alternate stacked
03 Reads cached METAR + TAF + your personal-minimums profile
04 Trips list, new-trip form, trip detail with map preview
05 Tail number and cruise speed per trip
06 Single alternate in v1; multi-alternate planned

SkyFeed Brief on iPad in split-view — left rail lists upcoming trips; right pane shows the brief for the selected trip with a red NO-GO advisory at the top.

SkyFeed Trip detail on iPhone for KPIT → KJFK — cruise 110 kt, 294 NM, ETE 2+40, departure 14:00Z; a route map showing the great-circle line from Pittsburgh to New York.

04 · Trip detail · KPIT → KJFK

Section 05

Tools

Seven calculators that live inside the app , too.

A dedicated tools tab with the calculations pilots actually run on the ground. Density altitude, pressure altitude, wind components, a crosswind quick-reference table, true airspeed and Mach, an aviation unit converter, and sun-and-civil-twilight for an airport on a date. The same seven calculators are also free on this website — useful when you want a quick number without unlocking the phone.

01 Density altitude · pressure altitude + temperature → DA
02 Pressure altitude · altimeter setting + field elevation → PA
03 Wind components · wind dir/speed + runway heading → HW / XW
04 Crosswind quick-reference matrix
05 TAS / Mach · IAS + altitude + temp → true airspeed and Mach
06 Aviation unit converter across common families
07 Sun & civil twilight for an airport on a given date

SkyFeed Tools on iPad — eight calculator tiles in a wider two-column grid.

SkyFeed Tools tab on iPhone showing eight calculator tiles in a two-column grid.

05 · Tools tab — eight calculators

Section 06

Alerts & Widgets

Find out when conditions move — before you go to the car.

Configure rules per watched station — category drops below VFR, wind exceeds 15 kt, visibility drops under 3 SM — and the app raises a foreground notification when something matches. Background refresh keeps things fresh on its own schedule, coalesced per-station with a cooldown and quiet-hours window. iOS home-screen widgets give you the same picture in glance form: a small widget for one station, a medium widget for your top four.

01 Per-station rules: category, wind, visibility, ceiling
02 Foreground notifications via UNUserNotificationCenter
03 Background refresh via BGTaskScheduler (every 30 min minimum)
04 Per-station coalescing, cooldown, and quiet hours
05 Small widget: one station — category, wind, vis, ceiling, age
06 Medium widget: top four watched stations side-by-side
07 Home base always slot 0

iPad Home Screen with SkyFeed widgets — small widget showing EGLL VFR, plus a medium widget showing four watched stations.

iOS Springboard with SkyFeed widgets — a small widget showing KJFK with VFR category and wind/visibility/ceiling, and a medium widget showing four watched stations side-by-side.

06 · Widgets on Springboard

Section 07

Settings

Personal Minimums is the load-bearing setting.

Most settings screens are administrivia. This one is not — Personal Minimums is the value that organizes every screen in the app. Set your limits once, and the rest of the app reads them: home-screen color tints, brief verdicts, alert thresholds, runway recommendations. The rest of the screen handles the usual: profile, aircraft, theme, Zulu or local time, notifications, offline cache, and an About section.

01 Personal Minimums — ceiling, visibility, wind, crosswind
02 Preset chips: Student · Recreational · Experienced · Custom
03 Profile and pilot details
04 Aircraft list
05 Display: light / dark / system
06 Time: Zulu or local
07 Notifications and quiet-hours settings
08 Offline cache controls

07 · Settings · Personal Minimums

Section 08

Onboarding

Four panels, then a mandatory advisory, then you fly the app.

The first-launch flow is intentionally short. Welcome, then pick the airports you watch, then set your personal minimums — preset chips for Student, Recreational, or Experienced, plus a slider for fine-tune — and then a notifications opt-in. The final panel is the Before-you-fly advisory: a planning aid is not a substitute for an official briefing, and the pilot in command remains responsible.

01 Welcome panel
02 Pick watched stations (uses the same search as in-app)
03 Set personal minimums with presets + slider fine-tune
04 Notifications opt-in
05 Mandatory "Before you fly" advisory
06 Five panels total; under sixty seconds to finish

SkyFeed onboarding "Your personal minimums" on iPad — the same preset chips and sliders in a wider layout.

SkyFeed onboarding panel "Your personal minimums" on iPhone — preset chips and sliders for minimum visibility, minimum ceiling, maximum crosswind, and maximum wind/gust.

08 · Onboarding · personal minimums

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Free on the App Store. iOS 18 and up.

iPhone and iPad. No accounts, no signup, no Pro tier. The app is the whole product.

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