Press & media kit

Boilerplate (copy & paste)#

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

• Free, ad-free and login-free
• 64 countries across Europe, North America, the Caucasus and Central Asia, Africa, Oceania and the French overseas territories
• Over 19,000 aerodromes and heliports, from international airports down to grass strips
• 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
• Landing fees per aerodrome, banded by take-off weight (MTOW)
• Rental cars at the aerodrome: station-based carsharing (app2drive) booked straight from the field's page
• Aviation museums at the aerodrome: a verified on-field museum shown on the field's page and the map
• VFR conditions: a whole-year heatmap showing when an aerodrome statistically has VFR-capable weather
• Live weather: METAR/TAF, precipitation radar, satellite imagery and a 5-day meteogram
• Route weather cross-section (GRAMET-style): cloud, airframe icing, turbulence, wind and the freezing level along the route
• Current NOTAMs and a free route briefing by e-mail (PDF)
• Live airspace-activation status (AIP AUP - Airspace Use Plan): restricted, danger and temporary reserved areas (ED-R, TRA, TSA) highlighted from official NOTAMs when they are active
• Live VFR moving map with on-map route planning and a taxiway ground chart: your GPS position over the VFR chart
• Live traffic on the map: other aircraft from open ADS-B/OGN networks, with a radar scope for co-altitude traffic (situational awareness only, not collision avoidance)
• Safety cues on the map: airspace-proximity warning, terrain/CFIT caution, glide-range ring and an animated wind field
• Ground Station: a fixed tower-screen per aerodrome showing inbound traffic on a map
• 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 of over 19,000 aerodromes and heliports, down to grass strips, across 64 countries, including the Caucasus, Central Asia, Oceania and ten French overseas territories - regions the major EFBs skip for VFR.
• A free browser VFR moving map with the Open Flight Maps aeronautical layer, GPS follow-me, a taxiway ground chart at aerodrome scale and on-map route planning (tap waypoints for a wind-corrected nav log and a terrain-and-airspace profile) - normally paid-app features.
• A GRAMET-style route weather cross-section - cloud, airframe icing, turbulence, wind and the freezing level along the whole route - on the moving map, on every meteogram and in the e-mailed briefing PDF. The only route weather cross-section that is free, ad-free and login-free: competitors keep theirs behind a login or subscription.
• Live airspace-activation status (AIP AUP - Airspace Use Plan): restricted, danger and temporary reserved areas (ED-R, TRA, TSA) are highlighted on the map from official NOTAMs when they are active, so a pilot sees at a glance which areas are hot - a capability normally reserved for paid EFBs.
• Free live traffic on the VFR chart from open ADS-B and OGN networks, with a radar scope for co-altitude traffic - situational awareness only, not collision avoidance, and otherwise a paid-app feature.
• Active safety cues on the map: airspace-proximity warning, terrain/CFIT caution, glide-range ring and an animated wind field - cues normally reserved for paid EFBs.
• A free Ground Station: a fixed tower-screen per aerodrome that shows airfield operators the inbound traffic on a map.
• On-the-ground discovery per aerodrome: a verified aviation museum at the field and station-based rental cars (app2drive), both shown on the field's page and as filters on the map - the "what's here when I land" layer the EFBs skip.
• Whole-year VFR conditions: a per-aerodrome heatmap of which months statistically offer VFR weather - for planning the trip, not just the flight.
• 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.

• Latest AIP & approach charts

  Every aerodrome with its official AIP page and approach/VFR charts on the current AIRAC cycle.

• Fly-in restaurants

  A directory of aerodromes with an on-field restaurant - fly-in destinations.

• Fuel price comparison

  Crowdsourced AVGAS and MOGAS prices ranked by aerodrome.

• VFR conditions

  A whole-year heatmap of VFR-capable weather per aerodrome - for planning the trip.

• Live moving map

  Your GPS position over the Open Flight Maps VFR chart, a taxiway ground chart when you zoom into a field, on-map route planning (tap waypoints for a wind-corrected nav log and a terrain-and-airspace profile), live traffic from open ADS-B/OGN networks, plus live airspace-activation highlighting (AIP AUP - Airspace Use Plan; ED-R, TRA, TSA).

• Ground Station

  A fixed map screen per aerodrome for airfield operators: inbound traffic at a glance, no GPS follow-me needed.

• Chart download packs

  Per-country ZIP packs of the AIP charts for offline use.

Brand colours#

Our typeface is Inter.

Logos & downloads#

• Square logo, vector (SVG) (scalable)
• Square logo, transparent (PNG) (1024 x 1024 px)
• Landscape logo, vector (SVG) (scalable)
• Landscape logo, transparent (PNG) (2400 px wide)
• Square logo, white for dark backgrounds (SVG) (scalable)
• Square logo, white for dark backgrounds (PNG) (1024 x 1024 px)
• Landscape logo, white for dark backgrounds (SVG) (scalable)
• Landscape logo, white for dark backgrounds (PNG) (2400 px wide)

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#