VFR flight planning for students, pilots and schools
VectorEFB is an electronic flight bag that runs in the browser on a phone, tablet or laptop. Students plan the route, check the weather and terrain, and record the flight. Instructors see each plan, the briefing behind it and how the flight compared, before and after the lesson.
In the app today
Airports and navaids from OurAirports, built 12 November 2026. Airspace from openAIP. Counts taken from the product, not estimated.
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Freqwise is a web app, made in Bucharest by Readback Labs, for practising radio calls out loud. A simulated controller on a practice airfield answers and corrects your readbacks, using English radiotelephony and SERA phraseology. It is built for European student pilots, with an instructor view for flight schools. We are working with them so that planning here and radio practice there fit together. It is a training aid, not real ATC and not approved flight training.
Visit freqwise.com (opens in a new tab)The controller says this. Tap what you would read back, in the order you would say it.
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Pick the closest fit. Each has its own page with what it does and why to choose it. VectorEFB is in private pre-launch, so access is by request.
Flying on your own, or checking the day before you go.
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Training towards a licence, with an instructor to answer to.
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Instructors and heads of training who want to see the work before the lesson.
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Private pre-launch
VectorEFB is in private pre-launch. Tell us who you are and we will email you when you are approved. Then you can plan the flight, check the weather and terrain, and keep your routes, waypoints and recorded flights on every device.
It takes about a minute. We approve each person by hand.
We will write to about setting up your school: the school code, your fleet and standards, and a walk through the dashboard for your instructors.
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We have your request. VectorEFB is in private pre-launch and we approve each person by hand. We will email when you are in, with a link to choose your password.
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A training and situational awareness aid, not certified for navigation.
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Plan · Fly · Learn
One record follows the flight from the briefing to the debrief, so the student and the instructor are looking at the same thing.
See how a lesson worksOn the tablet
A short walkthrough of the pilot app at iPad size: look up an airport, build a route, read the nav log and the terrain under it, then check the weather. It runs in the browser, so there is nothing to install.
Screen recording, sped up.
The same app from the instructor’s chair: the day’s bookings, the planning record with its red flags, one plan opened up, then a recorded flight replayed with its debrief, and a student’s logbook.
Screen recording, sped up. About the screens.
Screen recording of the VectorEFB pilot app on an iPad. The pilot searches for Brasov airport and reads its weather, adds two more airfields to build a route, opens the nav log and the terrain profile, then switches on the rain radar.
Screen recording of the VectorEFB flight-school area on an iPad. An instructor looks at the day’s bookings, opens the planning record and one plan with its red flag, replays a recorded flight and reads its debrief, then opens a student’s logbook and the safety overview.
01 Pilot toolkit
This is what is in the app now. Free public data feeds it, and each layer says where it comes from and how old it is.
01 / 07 Traffic and airspace
Live ADS-B traffic is drawn over airspace with its vertical limits, reporting points and navaids. The status bar shows how many aircraft are in view and how many seconds old the data is.
02 / 07 Weather
Airports are coloured by flight category. SIGMETs, precipitation radar, Meteosat cloud type and top height, storm cells and lightning share the same map, with forecast winds aloft and cloud cover from a model. Each layer has its own update cycle, so use imagery for the big picture.
03 / 07 Airport briefing
Open any airport for its latest METAR and TAF next to the raw text, each with its observation time. Runway headwind and crosswind, density altitude, sunrise and sunset and frequencies are on the same page. If an airport publishes no METAR, the app says that, and says something different when the weather service cannot be reached.
04 / 07 Route and nav log
Tap the map to add waypoints, or search airports, navaids and reporting points. Fetch forecast winds for each leg and the nav log fills in true course, wind correction, magnetic heading, distance, groundspeed, time, ETA and fuel, with the fuel remaining at the end of each leg.
05 / 07 Terrain
A side view draws the terrain and obstacles within 2 NM of track against your cruise altitude, and warns when you would have less than 1,000 ft above the highest. On the VFR chart, grid figures give the highest terrain or obstacle in each square with a margin added.
06 / 07 Before you leave
Download the area around your airfield (10, 25 or 50 NM) before the lesson. The downloaded map and terrain, your route and nav log, the calculators and the notepad then work with no signal. Live traffic and fresh weather do not. Weather saved this way is a snapshot, shown with the time it was fetched.
07 / 07 In the aircraft
In a student account, the Route panel has a Flight record control. It records the flight from the phone or tablet’s own position and keeps working with no signal. The flight is kept on the device and sent when it is online again. Keep the app open and the screen on.
Recording is new. It has been tested in the lab but not yet on a real flight, so keep your usual logbook alongside it while it is proven.
02 Also in the app
03 Flight schools
Students plan in the normal app and send the plan to their instructor. The school area shows the plan, the briefing the server logged, how the flight went, and the school’s safety reports. The screens below show a sample school (about the screens).
01 / 08 Schedule
The day board has a column for each aeroplane, briefing room, simulator and instructor. A booking is checked against all of them at once, so nobody is in two places and no aeroplane is in two details. An aeroplane in maintenance or marked out of service cannot be booked. Times show in the school’s timezone.
02 / 08 Planning record
Each submitted plan is listed with the number of briefings pulled, its flags and its review status. Red means a school rule was broken. Amber is worth a word at the briefing.
03 / 08 Plan review
Open a plan for the route, the fuel and terrain figures and the briefings the server logged: what was asked for, when, and how old the data was. The times are the server’s, so a student’s device cannot backdate them. Sign the plan off, or mark it as needing work with a note the student will see.
04 / 08 Replay
Many light training aeroplanes broadcast no position, so the student’s phone or tablet records the track from its own GPS. The replay draws the track coloured by altitude, and plots the altitude flown against the planned cruise level and the ground beneath it. Play it at 1x, 4x, 16x or 60x.
05 / 08 Debrief
When the flight is sent, it is compared with the plan: time, distance, the furthest off track and for how long, how well the cruise level was held, average groundspeed, fuel and any planned waypoint not reached. The written debrief is composed by rules from those measured figures, and no outside service sees the flight, so the words cannot disagree with the numbers.
06 / 08 Logbook
The logbook is laid out with the columns of an EASA pilot logbook. A recorded flight fills in what it can prove, including night time worked out from the track against civil twilight. It does not guess who was in command, or what was dual or instrument time: the pilot enters those, and the pilot’s correction always wins. Export as CSV or print.
07 / 08 Standards and fleet
Minimum final reserve, how long a briefing stays valid, terrain clearance, how far ahead of departure a plan must be ready, and minimum fuel spare are the school’s own. Each aeroplane gets its performance figures from its POH and its own checklists, written by the school. Two schools can hold different standards.
08 / 08 Safety reports
Anyone at the school can report an occurrence, a near miss or a hazard, with their name or without. The safety manager rates each report on a severity-by-likelihood matrix, gives follow-up actions to named instructors with dates, and closes it with a note the reporter reads. The overview shows what is waiting for a rating, the open risk, overdue actions and reports per month, and every report downloads as a spreadsheet for a safety review.
The roster lists everyone in the school with their role, instructor, last plan and whether they have accepted the privacy notice. Sign-in is by school code, username and password, or with a passkey on each device. Students can enrol themselves with the school’s invitation code.
The operator’s console creates and lists schools without a terminal. It uses a named admin account that shows up on each school’s roster.
At the airfield with no signal, a booking or a plan waits on the device and goes when the signal returns, only under the person who queued it. If the server then refuses it, for example because someone booked the aeroplane meanwhile, it stays visible in red instead of vanishing.
| Sign in | How |
|---|---|
| Password | School code, username and password |
| Passkey | Registered on each device |
| Enrolment | Students use the school’s invitation code |
On your phone
No app store needed. VectorEFB installs from this site, then opens full screen like any other app, with its own icon. It is in private pre-launch, so ask for access first; the steps below work once you are approved.
Lesson reminders need iOS 16.4 or later and the installed app.
While you record a flight, keep VectorEFB open with the screen on: a phone pauses location updates for apps that are not in front. A version that keeps recording with the screen locked is being prepared.
04 Pricing
We are working with a small number of flight schools and are not charging yet. Prices will be agreed with each school before anything is billed. If you want to use VectorEFB at a school, write to us and we will set up the school code, load the fleet and standards, and take your instructors through the dashboard.
About VectorEFB
VectorEFB is made by a private pilot who knows what schools and pilots need: planning, briefing and debrief in one place, and instructors who can see the work before the lesson, not only after it. Students and instructors work from the same record, from the first look at the weather to the debrief.
We are working with flight schools now, and what their instructors and students tell us decides what we build next. If you have a view on how it should work, we would like to hear it.
MaxFounder, VectorEFB · Private pilot · Romania
Tell us about your organisation and what you need. We will reply by email with what setup involves.
We have your enquiry and will write to , usually within two working days.
Controller: VectorEFB, Romania. We use these details to reply to you and keep the enquiry for 12 months, then delete it. See the privacy notice. Prefer email? Write to contact@vectorefb.com.
Individual pilots can ask for access with the Request access form on this page. A school can choose Flight school there, and we will be in touch.
A training and situational awareness aid. Use official charts, the AIP, NOTAMs and a proper weather briefing for real flights.
Aircraft without ADS-B Out never appear. Weather is as old as its timestamp. Terrain is a model.
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