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Everything editors, portals and associations need to report on AIP:Aero: ready-to-use boilerplate, a fact sheet, our brand colours, logo downloads and a press contact. Please feel free to link to aip.aero.

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About AIP:Aero

AIP:Aero helps pilots find any aerodrome by name or ICAO code and takes them straight to the official AIP publication, approach and VFR charts, plus embedded weather, NOTAMs, fuel prices and aerodrome data. It is free and needs no registration, and it covers 62 countries. The site is a project of Dross:Media. For data, backlinks or sponsorship, see our partner options.

Boilerplate (copy & paste)

Ready-to-use descriptions of AIP:Aero in three lengths. Please use them verbatim or shorten as you like.

Short (one line)

AIP:Aero (https://aip.aero) is a free, login-free pre-flight reference for pilots. It finds any aerodrome by name or ICAO code and links the official AIP and approach/VFR charts, plus live weather, NOTAMs and aerodrome data, across 62 countries.

Medium

AIP:Aero (https://aip.aero) is a free, ad-free and login-free pre-flight reference for pilots. Search any aerodrome by name or ICAO code and go straight to the official AIP publication, approach and VFR charts with the current AIRAC cycle, live weather (METAR/TAF, radar, satellite, a 5-day meteogram), current NOTAMs, fuel prices and aerodrome data such as runways, frequencies, opening hours and customs. It covers 62 countries across Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia and Oceania.

Long

AIP:Aero (https://aip.aero) is a free, ad-free and login-free pre-flight reference for pilots, covering 62 countries across Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia and Oceania. Pilots search any aerodrome by name or ICAO code and reach the official AIP publication and approach/VFR charts with the current AIRAC cycle, alongside embedded weather (METAR/TAF, precipitation radar, satellite imagery and a 5-day meteogram), current NOTAMs, crowdsourced fuel prices and aerodrome data (runways, frequencies, elevation, opening hours, PPR, customs and on-field restaurants). It also mails a free route briefing PDF, installs as an offline app (PWA plus native iOS/Android), and is available in around 40 languages. AIP:Aero is a project of Dross:Media, founded by Alexander Dross and based in Germany.

Fact sheet

  • Free, ad-free and login-free
  • 62 countries across Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia and Oceania
  • Official AIP publications and approach/VFR charts with the current AIRAC cycle
  • Always links the newest AIP edition - the AIRAC cycle changes every 28 days - while staying findable in search engines
  • Aerodrome data: runways, frequencies, elevation, opening hours, PPR and customs
  • Fly-in restaurant directory: aerodromes with a verified on-field restaurant
  • Fuel price comparison: crowdsourced AVGAS and MOGAS prices ranked by aerodrome
  • Live weather: METAR/TAF, precipitation radar, satellite imagery and a 5-day meteogram
  • Current NOTAMs and a free route briefing by e-mail (PDF)
  • Live VFR moving map: your GPS position over the VFR chart
  • iOS and Android app coming soon; content stays available offline even via the PWA
  • Interface in around 40 languages
  • A project of Dross:Media, founded by Alexander Dross, based in Germany

What makes AIP:Aero special

The differentiators journalists most often ask about.

  • The only free, login-free website that answers the full pre-flight question per airfield - so it appears in Google and AI assistants, where subscription apps and login portals structurally cannot.
  • One stable page per airfield that always serves the current AIRAC cycle, yet stays fully search-indexable.
  • A free public data API (countries, airfields, per-ICAO facts, NOTAMs, weather, forecast, fuel) with correct per-source open-data licensing.
  • Embeddable operator widgets (wind, METAR/TAF, runways, opening hours, AIRAC) in the field's own language, with a mandatory attribution backlink.
  • A free route briefing PDF by e-mail with real VFR planning: a nav log, wind triangle, winds aloft and a terrain-and-airspace vertical profile - no account needed.
  • Coverage down to grass strips across 62 countries, including the Caucasus, Central Asia, Oceania and ten French overseas territories - regions the major EFBs skip for VFR.
  • A free browser-based VFR moving map with the Open Flight Maps aeronautical layer and GPS follow-me - normally a paid-app feature.
  • Offline by design: per-country chart download packs as a fallback if a national AIP source goes down, plus on-device chart storage in the coming native app.
  • Privacy by construction: first-party maps and data, no cookies, no advertising, no third-party code and no login.
  • Raw and decoded weather side by side, with NOTAMs decoded into a plain-language headline in the reader's language.

Notable pages

Story-worthy pages editors like to feature.

Brand colours

Our typeface is Inter.

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Primary brand blue

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Light blue (hover / accents)

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Background grey

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Dark grey (muted text)

Logos & downloads

AIP:Aero landscape logo on white
AIP:Aero landscape logo on grey
AIP:Aero square logo on white
AIP:Aero square logo on grey
AIP:Aero landscape logo, white on a dark background
AIP:Aero square logo, white on a dark background

Both logos come as a scalable SVG and a transparent PNG, in the full colour version and a white knockout for dark backgrounds. Please keep clear space around the logo and do not recolour or distort it. Need another format? Just ask us.

Data & sources

AIP:Aero links official national AIP publications and enriches them with open aviation data. The full list of sources and their attribution is on our terms & data-sources page.

Frequently asked questions

Is AIP:Aero free to use?

Yes. AIP:Aero is free, ad-free and needs no registration. It is an installable web app (PWA) with offline country packs, and native iOS and Android apps are coming.

How many countries does AIP:Aero cover?

Around 62 countries across Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia and Oceania, down to small grass strips - each linking the official national AIP and approach/VFR charts with the current AIRAC cycle.

May we reuse the logo, boilerplate and brand colours?

Yes. The boilerplate, brand colours and logo files on this page are provided for editorial use. Please keep clear space around the logo and do not recolour or distort it, and a link to aip.aero is appreciated. Need another format? Just ask.

Who runs AIP:Aero?

AIP:Aero is a project of Dross:Media, founded by Alexander Dross and based in Germany.

Press contact

For interviews, review access or high-resolution material, write to info@aip.aero or use our contact form. AIP:Aero is run by Alexander Dross.