The airport reference is a bundled, offline-first database of airports, runways and frequencies. There is no Airports tab: you reach it from the Aviation Map's airport peek, Home's nearby airports shortcut and the station workbench's Airport tab, and the search page behind them reaches every field in the database. Offline, every reference page carries the module's framing line: "Data from OurAirports · Reference only. Verify with current charts."

Find your way around

The Airports page opens on a search field. Below it sit the shortcuts that grow as you use the module:

Section	What it shows
Search field	Placeholder "ICAO, IATA, city or name"; results appear as you type, from the on-device database
Saved & collections	The row under the Collections heading: it opens your groups and starred airports, and counts your groups and the airports in them
Browse by country	Every country with its airport count, filterable by type
Favourites	Your starred fields, each with its elevation
Recently viewed	Pills for the fields you opened last

The header holds the navigate icon, which opens Nearby airports from one GPS fix.

The Airports page: a search field with placeholder ICAO, IATA, city or name, a Collections section with a Saved and collections card reading 1 collection, 3 airports total and a Browse by country card, a Favourites section with EGLL London GB 83 ft and EHAM Amsterdam NL -11 ft rows each carrying a gold star, a Recently viewed strip with EGLL and EHAM pills, and the navigate arrow icon in the header — The Airports page (1 search field, 2 Saved and collections, 3 Browse by country, 4 the navigate icon for Nearby airports).

How to find an airport

Open the Airports page, or the airport search from Home's nearby airports shortcut or the Aviation Map's airport peek.
Type an ICAO, IATA code, city or name. "EGLL", "LHR" and "Heathrow" all find the same airport. Results appear as you type, entirely from the on-device database, and fields you have starred sort to the top.
Tap a result to open its reference page.

The Airports search with AMSTERDAM typed: result rows for EHAM Amsterdam NL -11 ft carrying a filled gold star, EHHA Amsterdam NL 1 ft, FAAM Amsterdam ZA 4,310 ft and SYNA New Amsterdam GY 3 ft, each with an outline star, above the Saved and collections card and the keyboard — Search by name, city or code; starred fields lead the results.

How to read the reference page

An airport's page is one scroll through everything the database holds on the field, card by card:

Read the Identity card: ICAO and IATA codes, scheduled-service status, type, elevation in feet and metres, and coordinates. Tap the star here to add the field to your favourites.
Read the Timezone card: the field's local time right now, its IANA zone, UTC offset and whether DST is active.

The EGLL Airport reference page top: the identity card with EGLL and LHR codes, a Scheduled service pill, a filled favourite star, London Heathrow Airport, London GB Large airport, elevation 83 ft and 25 m, coordinates 51.4707 N 0.4599 W, then the Timezone card with local time 13:40, zone Europe/London, UTC offset +01:00 and DST active Yes, and the top of the Sun card with the date Sat 12 Sep 2026 — Identity first: codes, elevation in both units, coordinates, then the field's own clock.

Read the Sun card: sunrise, sunset, day length, solar noon and all three twilight bands, local and Zulu. Pick any date to recompute it. The card names its method: "Source: NOAA solar-position algorithm · Computed".

The EGLL Sun card for Today, Sat 12 Sep: sunrise 06:30 local 05:30Z, sunset 19:26 local 18:26Z, day length 12h 56m, solar noon 12:58, a twilight table with civil 05:56 and 20:00, nautical 05:15 and 20:41 and astronomical 04:31 and 21:24, and the line Source: NOAA solar-position algorithm, Computed - above the Runways card with the 09L/27R schematic strip at 12,802 ft and 3,902 m — Sun times for any date, twilight included, with the computation's source named.

Read the Runways card. Each physical runway is drawn as a schematic strip with its identifiers, length in both units, width and surface. A displaced threshold is drawn with its painted arrows and threshold bar, and called out in amber with its length.

The Runways card for EGLL: the 09L end detail with 090 T heading, ASP surface and 164 ft 50 m wide chips and an amber 09L displaced 1,007 ft 307 m note, the full 09R/27L strip at 12,008 ft 3,660 m with its own 09R displaced 1,013 ft 309 m note, the line Schematic - not to scale, not for navigation, and the top of the Crosswind by runway card with a wind pill reading 240 degrees 16 kt over the wind rose — Each runway as a schematic strip, displaced thresholds flagged, limits stated.

How to check crosswind and low sun

Scroll to the Crosswind by runway card. With a current METAR available, the reported wind is broken onto every runway end: headwind or tailwind and crosswind per end, with the most-headwind end badged Favoured · most headwind.
Check the METAR line under the wind rose for its source and age. If there is no current METAR, the card says so instead of computing from stale air.

The Crosswind by runway card for EGLL: a wind rose with the 27L/R to 09L/R runway axis and a wind arrow from the southwest, then rows for 27L and 27R reading headwind 14 and crosswind 8 left with Favoured most headwind badges, and 09L and 09R reading tailwind 14 and crosswind 8 right with red Tailwind 14 kt over 10 kt warnings, above the footnote that METAR wind is true, runway numbers are magnetic and favoured is not a recommendation — The live wind broken onto every runway end; favoured means most headwind, nothing more.

Scroll to the low-sun glare card. It draws the runways from above with the sun's current position, states whether a low sun lines up with a runway heading right now, and names the next alignment window and the runway it falls on.

The foot of the low-sun glare card for EGLL: a Next low-sun alignment block reading RWY 27R, 27L around 17:18 to 18:20Z with the note that the dashed wedge on the dial marks where that low sun will sit, the framing line Informational cue only - there is no official glare standard, then the top of the Frequencies card, 16 entries, with ATIS, Clearance delivery, Ground and Tower groups — The glare check names the next alignment window and the runway it falls on.

How to look up frequencies

Scroll to the Frequencies card. Frequencies come grouped: tower, ground, approach and departure, ATIS, delivery, emergency.
Read the card's standing line beneath the groups: "Reference only - verify on current charts."
Read the attribution block directly under the card. It names the source, the fetch time, and which values were gap-filled from the bundled data.

The EGLL Frequencies card: Ground rows at 121.85 and 121.9 MHz, a Tower group with 118.5, 118.7 and 124.475 MHz, an Approach and Departure group with four Heathrow Director frequencies at 119.725, 120.4, 127.525 and 134.975 MHz, the line Reference only - verify on current charts, then Source: aviationweather.gov, Fetched 13:51:36Z with the note that runway headings, displaced thresholds and some frequencies are gap-filled from OurAirports, and the top of the Nearby fields card with EGWU RAF Northolt 5 NM NNE — Frequencies grouped and framed, with the attribution block naming what came from where.

How to keep notes on a field

Scroll to the foot of the reference page, to the Notes card.
Tap Add a note.
Type your note: taxi quirks, crew shuttles, parking.
Tap Save, or Cancel to discard it.

The foot of the EGLL reference page: the Notes card with a No notes yet empty state inviting taxi quirks, crew shuttles and parking, an Add a note button, then a blue METAR/TAF for EGLL button and the shortcut rows Winds aloft, 30-day METAR history and Distance from here, each with a caption — Notes and the hand-offs: one tap to the field's weather, winds, history or distances.

The New note EGLL editor sheet over the reference page: a text field with Long taxi to 27L - crew shuttle leaves from Gate B typed, the line Private to this device - never synced or shared, Cancel and Save buttons, and the keyboard — The note editor and its privacy line.

How to find airports near you

Tap the navigate icon in the Airports page header, or the nearby airports shortcut on Home's weather cards.
Allow one GPS fix. The map shows the medium and large fields around you with a distance-ranked list beneath.
Switch the radius between 25, 50 and 100 NM. In sparse regions, tap Search wider (200 NM) to extend the search.
Tap a field to open its preview: runways and frequencies, View airport for the full reference page, Add to brief, or Set as home base.

The Nearby airports screen near your location: a 25, 50 and 100 NM radius control set to 50 NM, an Apple map of southeast England with airplane pins labelled EGGW London Luton, EGSS London Stansted, EGUB RAF Benson, EGMC London Southend, EGKK London Gatwick, EGHI Southampton and EGKA Brighton, and a distance list reading EGLL London Heathrow 0.1 NM 083 degrees, EGWU RAF Northolt 5.2 NM 018 degrees and EGLF Farnborough 16.6 NM 225 degrees, footed by Airport data: bundled OurAirports dataset, informational only, not for navigation — One GPS fix, the fields around you by distance, and the data line in the footer.

How to browse by country

On the Airports page, tap Browse by country.
Filter by type with the chips: All, Large, Medium, Small, Heliports, Seaplane. Each country row shows its airport count for that filter.
Use Filter countries to narrow the list, then tap a country to open its full list of fields.
Tap a field to open its reference page.

The Browse page, airports by country: type filter chips All, Large, Medium, Small, Heliports and Seaplane with All selected, a Filter countries search field, and country rows for Brazil 2,864 airports, United States 2,467, Australia 1,937, Chile 497, Germany 479, Russia 465 and France 430 — The whole database by country: filter by type, drill into any country.

How to save favourites and build a group

On any reference page, tap the star in the Identity card. The field joins your favourites and sorts to the top of search results.
On the Airports page, tap the Saved & collections row under Collections to open Saved. It lists your Groups and your Saved airports.
Tap the plus button at the bottom right to create a group, and give it a name: home base and diverts, EU hubs, a training circuit.
On the group's page, tap Add airport and type one code or several at once. A hyphen is added after every fourth letter as you type ("EGLL-EHAM-LFPG"). Tap Add.

The Saved page, groups and favourites: a Groups section with an EU hubs card reading 3 airports and EGLL, EHAM and LFPG chips, a Saved airports section with starred EGLL London GB 83 ft and EHAM Amsterdam NL -11 ft rows, and a blue plus button bottom right for a new group — Groups and starred fields in one place; the plus button starts a new group.

How to load a group into Brief

Open Saved and tap a group. Each member shows its live METAR, raw and verbatim, with a flight-rules badge and an age pill, the same anatomy as the weather watch-list.
Tap Load into Brief. The group's members replace the current Brief selection, in order, and Brief opens.

The EU hubs group page, 3 airports, with an edit pencil in the header: member cards for EGLL, EHAM and LFPG, each with a green VMC badge, an age pill of 22, 17 and 12 minutes and its raw METAR verbatim - for example METAR EGLL 121220Z AUTO 24016KT 9999 NCD 21/12 Q1022= - above a blue Load into Brief button and an Add airport button — A group carries its members' live raw METARs and loads into Brief in one tap.

How to open the reference from the station workbench

On the Flight Brief tab, switch to Stations and open any station on your watch-list.
Tap Airport, the first segment on the workbench strip, ahead of Summary, METAR and TAF.
Read the same reference cards, with the same attributions. Its nearby fields rows open each field's station view, so you stay in the weather context you came from.

The EGLL station workbench, titled EGLL Weather and NOTAMs under a Home, Flight Brief breadcrumb, on its Airport tab: the segment strip with Airport selected ahead of Summary, METAR and TAF, then the same reference cards - the EGLL identity card with Scheduled service pill and favourite star, the Timezone card with local time 13:42 and DST active Yes, and the top of the Sun card dated Sat 12 Sep 2026 — The same reference, embedded as every station's first tab.

On iPad

The browse and saved screens open as a split view: the list on one side, the full reference page on the other, so scanning a country's fields keeps the page you were reading in view.

Troubleshooting

The crosswind card shows no figures. It needs a current METAR. Without one the card says so rather than computing from stale wind.

The favoured runway differs from what the tower is using. Favoured means most headwind from the METAR's true wind against magnetic runway numbers; it is not a recommendation. Verify on charts and ATIS.

A small airfield or heliport is missing from Nearby airports. Nearby shows medium and large fields only. Search for it by code or name, or find it under Browse by country with the Small or Heliports filter.

Adding several codes to a group failed. One code in the batch is not a valid 4-letter ICAO code; the message names it. Fix that code and add again.

My notes did not appear on another device. Notes are private to the device they were written on and are never synced or shared.

Where next

Weather - the station workbench this reference lives in, and the METAR that feeds the crosswind matrix.
NOTAMs - the field's notices, one tab over from the Airport segment.
Free vs Pro - where the airport reference sits: entirely on the free side.