The Pilots Atlas App

The whole world,
in your cockpit.

Global topographical aeronautical charts for iPad, iPhone & Apple Watch — fully usable offline, with live ADS-B traffic, an AI copilot, trip planning, weather and the Captain’s Corner toolbox.

72,000 airports
185,000 waypoints
75,000 navaids
10,000 points of interest
Pilots Atlas on iPad showing the world globe with airports

Built for pilots

Everything you need to fly, on one chart

Pilots Atlas merges aeronautical system information with detailed topographical mapping — the ground beneath you and the airspace around you, in a single view.

Offline charts

Download your regions and fly without a signal. Six chart types including planning charts and NASA satellite imagery, with colour-shaded topography in feet and metres.

A vast aeronautical database

72,000 airports, 185,000 waypoints, 75,000 navigation aids (VOR-DME, NDB, TACAN, VORTAC, ILS-DME), 10,000 points of interest, plus FIR boundaries and Special Use Airspace.

Live ADS-B traffic — free

See aircraft around you in real time, refreshed every few seconds from adsb.lol, OpenSky and more — or your own SBS1, Stratux or GDL90 receiver. Free for every pilot, no subscription.

AI aviation copilot

Ask for a plain-language weather briefing, route check or airport details and get answers with colour-coded VFR/IFR conditions and map snapshots — powered by on-device and cloud AI.

Weather & trip planning

METAR and TAF from airport icons (plus PIREPs and SIGMETs), and routes you build by tapping airports, waypoints and navaids or entering ICAO/IATA codes — with leg and total distances.

On iPhone, iPad & Apple Watch

A full Apple Watch companion plus Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets — weather, Zulu time, density altitude, crosswind, flight timers and a live flight activity, right where you need them.

Pilots Atlas chart detail on iPad

Free flight cartography

The ground below, the airspace around

From the very first concept in 1998, Pilots Atlas has combined aviation data with real-world geography — streets, rivers, railways and points of interest — so you always know what you’re flying over, not just the airways above.

  • Topographical maps with contour shading in metres and feet
  • Over 20 selectable layers of aeronautical information
  • Airports colour-coded by runway length and surface
  • Works on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch
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absoluteZero multimedia GmbH

Charts made by pilots, for pilots

Founded in 1998, absoluteZero multimedia GmbH pioneered the merging of aeronautical information with detailed topographical databases. In 2013 we brought it all to Apple devices — and we keep evolving the atlas around real feedback from the people who use it.

“Calm seas and following air.”

Ready for your next flight?

Download Pilots Atlas free on the App Store, or order a printed atlas for the flight bag.