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VFRView
9 Oct 2026launched yesterday
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n/aApple doesn’t publish installs
Soft launch · 1 countryUnited States
1.0latest version · today
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- 10 Oct 2026. Ratings, version and store page on this page are as of that read.
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About
Eyes outside. Confidence inside. VFRview is the VFR flight bag for pilots who fly by looking out the window. Real FAA sectionals that keep working with no signal. Weather in plain English. An honest read on the risk — before you start the engine.Built for student pilots, sport pilots, flight schools, and weekend GA. Not a shrunk-down IFR suite.Charts that never go blank Download only the sectional detail your route needs. Everywhere else, a national terrain map still shows terrain, water, roads, and airports. You are never staring at a blank screen. A briefing you can read METAR, TAF, NOTAMs, and AIRMET/SIGMETs decoded into sentences. Compared with your personal minimums for ceiling, visibility, and wind. It will read the briefing aloud if your hands are busy. The risk, before you start the engine Legal VFR is not the same as a smart go. VFRview runs the FAA’s PAVE check — Pilot, Aircraft, enVironment, External pressure — then rolls it into a Flight Risk Assessment scored against limits you already chose. Low, Elevated, or High. You can see the math. The app does not say go or no-go. You do. It coaches Every EFB will draw a magenta line. These three try to make you a better VFR pilot: Pilotage Coach — visual checkpoints. In the air, a quiet card: the lake on your left, two miles. After landing, a debrief students and CFIs can use. Radio Coach — non-towered calls in plain English. Other apps show the frequency. This tells a student what to say — inbound, downwind, base, final — with optional speak-aloud. Glide & Options — nearby fields with distance, runway, frequency, and how the wind treats the glide. Private by construction No account. No tracking. No ads. No analytics. Flight plans, logs, and tracks stay on your device. The facts iPhone. Portrait. One-handed. Lower 48. Fully offline for charts, terrain, airport data, and calculators. Charts and airport data from the FAA. Weather from NOAA/NWS. Advisory only — see and avoid. The pilot in command decides. What’s New (first release) First release of VFRview, the VFR EFB for iPhone. Offline VFR sectionals and terrain (Base Map) Plain-English weather and briefings PAVE / FRAT risk assessment against your personal minimums Pilotage Coach, Radio Coach, and Glide & Options No account, no tracking, no adsRead more
Eyes outside. Confidence inside.
VFRview is the VFR flight bag for pilots who fly by looking out the window. Real FAA sectionals that keep working with no signal. Weather in plain English. An honest read on the risk — before you start the engine.Built for student pilots, sport pilots, flight schools, and weekend GA. Not a shrunk-down IFR suite.Charts that never go blank
Download only the sectional detail your route needs. Everywhere else, a national terrain map still shows terrain, water, roads, and airports. You are never staring at a blank screen.
A briefing you can read
METAR, TAF, NOTAMs, and AIRMET/SIGMETs decoded into sentences. Compared with your personal minimums for ceiling, visibility, and wind. It will read the briefing aloud if your hands are busy.
The risk, before you start the engine
Legal VFR is not the same as a smart go. VFRview runs the FAA’s PAVE check — Pilot, Aircraft, enVironment, External pressure — then rolls it into a Flight Risk Assessment scored against limits you already chose. Low, Elevated, or High. You can see the math. The app does not say go or no-go. You do.
It coaches
Every EFB will draw a magenta line. These three try to make you a better
VFR pilot: Pilotage Coach — visual checkpoints. In the air, a quiet card: the lake on your left, two miles. After landing, a debrief students and CFIs can use.
Radio Coach — non-towered calls in plain English. Other apps show the frequency. This tells a student what to say — inbound, downwind, base, final — with optional speak-aloud.
Glide & Options — nearby fields with distance, runway, frequency, and how the wind treats the glide.
Private by construction
No account. No tracking. No ads. No analytics. Flight plans, logs, and tracks stay on your device.
The facts
iPhone. Portrait. One-handed. Lower 48. Fully offline for charts, terrain, airport data, and calculators. Charts and airport data from the FAA. Weather from NOAA/NWS. Advisory only — see and avoid. The pilot in command decides.
What’s New (first release) First release of VFRview, the VFR EFB for iPhone.
Offline VFR sectionals and terrain (Base Map)
Plain-English weather and briefings
PAVE / FRAT risk assessment against your personal minimums
Pilotage Coach, Radio Coach, and Glide & Options
No account, no tracking, no ads
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Versions
- Version 1.0First seen · 10 Oct 2026
Countries
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United States
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