SID/STAR, A TOMATO FLAMES, CTAF and many more. What do they mean? Aviation has its own phraseology, and this tool will help you learn it.

You've been cruising at 12,500 feet in your VFR flight on your way to an unfamilar airport. You want a gentle descent, for your nervous passenger. How do you determine when to start your descent? This tool will help.

Runway 09 or Runway 27 - We know it's better to take off into the wind, and land into the wind. The METAR says, "35017G25KT 10SM CLR M09/M19 A2952". Which runway puts me into the wind? Use this tool to find out.

Based on your heading, do you know how to enter a holding pattern? Aviation has its rules and this tool will help you stay compliant.

In aviation, the opposite of weight is lift. And the weight requires more power to get lift, and fuel adds weight, so if we carry just the amount of fuel we need we can fly further, cheaper. So how much fuel do we need? This tool will help you decide. 

Not only will our METAR decoder break down the METAR into plain english, it will go find the latest METAR for you. It'll advise you whether the airport is VFR, or IFR

We've included so many tools in our Time and Aviation Units Converters that we couldn't list them all in the menu. These easy to use tools are essential for aviation. Can you imagine trying to put pounds of fuel in your aircraft when it needs 16 gallons. How many pounds in 16 gallons anyway? This tool will help you answer that question and many more.