Pilot work is scattered across too many tabs.
PilotDesk puts common flight math, airport weather, route planning, aircraft notes, and rating study tools in one browser. The formulas and source links stay visible so you can check the work instead of trusting a mystery answer.
How PilotDesk took shape
PilotDesk brings recurring pilot tasks together in one place: flight math, weather interpretation, route planning, aircraft references, and rating study. The product is organized around those workflows and links to primary references so pilots can check the assumptions behind a result. It is a supplemental planning and training aid, not a substitute for current official publications or aircraft-approved data.
What PilotDesk is for
Use it when you need a calculator, a quick airport-weather check, a route/navlog, or study material for the next rating. The core tools are free. A free account saves Daily, Written Prep, and profile progress. Pro adds full Checkride Lab, mock orals, study planning, advanced route review, unlimited aircraft profiles and saved flights, manual cloud backup, and ad-free signed-in access. See the current plans.
Built around real pilot tasks
The site focuses on the things pilots repeatedly work through: wind components, density altitude, time-speed-distance, fuel planning, descent math, navigation, weight and balance, METAR and TAF interpretation, E6B relationships, checkride study, and connected flight planning. Flight-school and CFI resources are available at PilotDesk for Flight Schools.
How the tools and guides are checked
Calculator formulas are kept in testable source files and representative calculations are checked automatically before production changes are accepted. Site checks also cover calculator-page generation, local links, structured data, accessibility-related markup, search metadata, and regression cases. These automated checks verify code paths and selected examples; they do not amount to an independent flight-instructor review of every page or an aircraft-specific data check.
Guides are published under the PilotDesk name rather than a personal byline. PilotDesk does not currently claim individual CFI, DPE, or outside technical review unless a page explicitly names that reviewer. Pages link to primary references where they support the subject, but a source link is not an endorsement by that source.
Read the Editorial, Testing & Corrections Policy and Sources & Methods for the sourcing standard and a way to report errors.
Public project trail
PilotDesk maintains a public GitHub repository so the codebase, change history, and QA workflow can be inspected independently. View PilotDesk on GitHub ↗.
Check the controlling source
PilotDesk is a supplemental planning and training aid, not an approved source. Check aircraft limitations and performance against current approved data, and use current official sources for weather, regulations, procedures, NOTAMs, and flight information. If PilotDesk disagrees with a controlling source, use the controlling source.
Corrections and feedback
If something looks wrong, report it. Safety-related corrections take priority, and confirmed issues should be corrected in the source and covered by regression testing when practical. You can also suggest calculators, guides, or pilot tools that would be useful.
Accounts, local data, and ads
PilotDesk uses a mix of account-synced progress and device-local planning data. Daily and Written Prep progress follow a signed-in account; Pro accounts can manually back up aircraft and saved flights to the account and restore that snapshot on another device. Advertising helps support the free site, and aggregate product analytics are used to see which workflows are actually useful. PilotDesk does not need a pilot's name, tail number, route text, or search text in analytics to measure whether a feature works.