AviatorWatch

A little bit of aviation, always on your wrist.

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AviatorWatch is a way to keep a little bit of the cockpit in your peripheral vision on the days between — the METAR at your home field, the active runway based on current wind, density altitude, baro, moon phase, a personal-minimums alert when conditions drop below what you're comfortable with.

What's on the watch

✓ Current METAR for your selected airport, updated automatically.
✓ Active runway — Auto mode picks whichever runway has the best headwind, or pick your own.
✓ Crosswind and headwind components against the active runway.
✓ TAF timeline complication — the next four forecast periods with color-coded flight categories.
✓ Density altitude with field elevation reference tick.
✓ Altimeter setting in a Kollsman-window complication, with rising/falling/steady trend.
✓ FAA sectional-style airport symbol complication — blue for towered, magenta for untowered.
✓ Moon phase with real lunar surface texture, plus moon and sun rise/set times.
✓ Personal minimums — ceiling, visibility, crosswind, flight category. Alerts when you cross a line you set.
✓ Sixteen complications covering circular, rectangular, inline, and corner slots — works on every modern watch face.

What it isn't

A flight-planning tool. Use Foreflight, Garmin Pilot, or whatever your EFB is.
Connected to your avionics. Your panel doesn't know this thing exists.
A replacement for a real preflight brief with approved sources.
Going to fly the airplane. That's you, still.

Where the data comes from

METAR and TAF — NOAA Aviation Weather Center. Fetched directly from the public API on every weather update.
Airport and runway data — OurAirports, a community-maintained open dataset of airports worldwide.
Field elevation and tower status — NOAA's airport endpoint, per-airport, permanently cached after the first lookup so we don't hammer it.
Sun and moon — astronomical calculations run locally on the watch, seeded with the airport's coordinates.