A modern flight bag built around real pilot decisions.

Advisory use only. ClearRoute is not certified for navigation. It is a planning and situational-awareness aid: pilots remain responsible for official briefings, regulatory compliance, aircraft performance, and every go/no-go decision. AI-generated content is advisory and should always be reviewed by the pilot.

At a glance

Charts, online or offline

ClearRoute stitches every FAA VFR sectional into one seamless, gap-free chart of the United States — no sheet edges, no reloading between charts — and does the same for IFR enroute low and high charts and Terminal Area Charts. Switch bases with one tap; charts refresh automatically on the FAA's 56-day cycle, and the effective dates are always shown on screen.

• Smooth, maps-style pan and zoom across the whole US
• VFR sectional, TAC, IFR low, and IFR high bases — plus an Apple Maps base
• Downloadable regional chart packs for fully offline flying
• Track-up or north-up orientation, ownship symbol, and state outlines
• Glide and endurance range rings drawn around your aircraft

Why it matters: a chart you can trust to be current and available — with or without a connection — is the foundation everything else builds on.

Weather & radar

Weather in ClearRoute is both textual and spatial: decoded METARs, TAFs, SIGMETs, winds aloft, PIREPs, and TFRs alongside weather markers and an animated radar loop drawn directly over the chart, refreshed every two minutes from NOAA MRMS data.

• Decoded and raw text for every report, with airport-by-airport weather views
• Animated composite radar loop over any chart base
• Radar Intelligence engine PRO — base reflectivity, precipitation rate and type, echo tops, VIL, hail, lightning probability, storm rotation tracks, and per-site NEXRAD Level II super-resolution imagery
• AI radar evaluation PRO — an advisory, plain-language read of the radar loop over your area: what the echoes are doing, which way they're moving, and the trend
• Per-airport AI weather summaries for the next 3, 6, or 12 hours
• FAA weather cameras matched to airports, so you can see actual conditions

Why it matters: the picture that keeps you out of weather isn't one product — it's radar, reports, forecasts, and cameras agreeing with each other.

Terrain, synthetic vision & safety

ClearRoute renders USGS elevation data two ways: a shaded-relief terrain layer for context, and an aircraft-relative mode that shades terrain red at or above your altitude and amber within 1,000 feet — recomputed as you climb and descend.

• Aircraft-relative terrain shading (TAWS-style, advisory) on the moving map
• Synthetic vision PRO — a 3D terrain view with advisory terrain-ahead alerting, runway markers, and a split-screen chart+3D layout on iPad
• Elevation, minimum-safe-altitude, and glide-footprint queries along your route
• Personal minimums: set your own ceiling, visibility, wind, and night/marginal-VFR limits and have plans checked against them

Why it matters: terrain awareness relative to your altitude — not just a pretty relief map — is what turns elevation data into a safety net.

AI briefings that explain the plan

ClearRoute's AI features are built to one rule: they summarize and explain, the pilot decides. Every AI output is labeled advisory, shows what data it looked at, and never replaces an official briefing.

• Route briefing — corridor weather, hazards, and risk factors along your planned route, summarized in plain language
• AutoRoute planning PRO — an advisory route, altitude, fuel, and alternate recommendation that states its reasons, flags contingency points along the way, and discloses the quality of the data it used
• Radar evaluation PRO — storm movement and trend, read from the live radar loop
• Airport weather summaries — terminal-area outlooks in a sentence or two

Why it matters: data tells you what; a good briefing tells you why. ClearRoute's AI is there to make the planning picture clearer — final authority stays in the left seat.

Planning, weight & balance, and performance

Plan with airports, waypoints, and airways; compare route candidates; pick your altitude with a winds-aloft optimizer; and find alternates fast. Then load the airplane with your own POH numbers.

• Route builder with saved routes and an active plan drawn on the map
• Airway MEA/MOCA inspector for IFR altitude planning
• Winds-aloft altitude optimizer and route-candidate comparison
• Nearest-alternates finder with map markers
• Weight & balance from your aircraft's envelope and stations, with a CG plot — sample data is always clearly flagged until you enter your own
• Takeoff and landing distance from your POH performance tables
• Navlog with PDF export, fuel planning with reserve warnings
• Community-reported fuel prices and a true-cost-of-fuel calculator that weighs the price against the detour
• Flight plan filing — draft, validate, and brief your flight plan, then file, amend, activate, or cancel it, with push notifications as its status changes and an AI assistant for the tricky fields

Why it matters: performance and loading answers are only as good as the numbers behind them — ClearRoute uses yours, and tells you when it's showing samples.

Airports & procedures

• Airport details: runways, frequencies, and nearby-airport search
• Tap anywhere on the chart to identify airports, airspace, and hazards
• Geo-referenced approach plates on the map — FAA instrument approach plates overlaid in position on the moving chart, with opacity control and a proximity picker that offers nearby plates as you approach
• Full-page plate viewer for briefing the whole procedure
• SID, STAR, and approach procedure data from the FAA's official CIFP coding, refreshed on the 28-day cycle, for procedure-aware planning

Why it matters: seeing the approach plate in position under your ownship closes the gap between the chart in your head and the one out the window.

Traffic & ADS-B

Connect a portable ADS-B receiver (Sentry or Stratux-class, GDL 90 over Wi-Fi) and ClearRoute shows traffic as relative-altitude diamonds on the chart and in synthetic vision, with proximity alerting — and uses the receiver's GPS as your ownship source.

Logbook & records

• Digital logbook entries with attachments
• Currency tracking, qualifications, and signable endorsements
• PDF export of your logbook