Available today at the Apple and Android app stores for only $9.99
Visibility Tool
Turn your phone into a visibility sensor for safe and legal flights.
Visibility Tool
Turn your phone into a visibility sensor for safe and legal flights.
WHY IS THIS APP WORTH $9.99?
It is accurate and fast. After download it can be used without cell or cloud connectivity anywhere in the world. It enables you to "check the box" for Part 107.51 or 91.155 compliance. Most importantly, it reduces the likelihood of spilled blood and bent metal.
WHERE IS THIS TOOL NEEDED?
COMMERCIAL UAS
Instantaneous FAA (part 107.51) and EASA regulatory visibility compliance for every UAS operation. The software can also be embedded within onboard cameras for continuous BVLOS weather compliance.
RECREATIONAL DRONES
Visibility Tool software is downloaded on your device. It is not cloud-based. It does not require cellular connectivity. Therefore, drones can be flown weather compliantly from your backyard to the remotest of destinations, anywhere in the world.
GENERAL AVIATION (GA)
Reduce risk of inadvertent Visual Flight Rule (VFR) flight into Instrument Meteorological Conditions (IMC). As part of your preflight, obtain instantaneous FAR 14 CFR section 91.155 regulatory visibility data for your VFR operation. More importantly: make your go/no-go decision, even safer.
ADVANCED AIR MOBILITY (AAM)
When flying greater than 5 miles from a METAR ["airport" site]...which is what AAM are designed to do...this tool is your only option for visibility safety and compliance. The software can also be embedded for continuous, inflight AAM visibility monitoring.
DEFENSE
Our TRL9 cybersecure software embedded on military aircraft enables BVLOS national airspace (NAS) integration.
MEDEVAC
This tool allows First Responders to instantly determine if Medevac can be safely initiated or alternatively, ground transport is necessary because of poor visibility. Said differently, it reduce by 15 to 45 minutes the time it take for a patient to reach the ER.
TECHNOLOGY COMPARISONS
Forward/Back Scatter Sensor (NOAA AWOS/ASOS)
Visibility Tool for Mobile Devices (Everyone)
Forward/Back Scatter Sensor (NOAA AWOS/ASOS)
Large
Expensive ($40K to $900K)
Heavy
Wired/Electrified
Fixed
15 minute delay
~1000 sites
Weather Optical Video Camera (FAA)
Visibility Tool for Mobile Devices (Everyone)
Forward/Back Scatter Sensor (NOAA AWOS/ASOS)
Large
Very expensive ($400K to $1M)
Heavy
Wired/Electrified
Fixed
10 minute delay
~600 sites
Visibility Tool for Mobile Devices (Everyone)
Visibility Tool for Mobile Devices (Everyone)
Visibility Tool for Mobile Devices (Everyone)
Small
Inexpensive ($9.99)
Light
Battery/Powered
Mobile
No delay
Everywhere
FAA WEATHER REGULATIONS (MOST OTHER NATIONS ARE SIMILAR)
UNCREWED (PART 107)
CREWED (PART 91)
WHY IS VIS the only wx factor that requires reg compliance?
Visual Flight Rules (VFR) or Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) are fundamental to how the entire aviation "see-and-avoid" regulatory structure is built. If visibility drops below minimums, see-and-avoid is no longer feasible; so the FAA sets hard minimum visibility limits. Other weather factors (wind, temperature, turbulence, etc.) do not fundamentally break “see-and-avoid” the way low visibility does.
About Low Altitude Weather Network (LAWN)
The Birthplace of Aviation
In 2021, FlightProfiler, LLC (Cincinnati, Ohio), a Veteran-Owned Small Business, joined with Ohio University (Athens, Ohio) and The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio) to develop the Low Altitude Weather Network (LAWN).
LAWN’s mission is to provide accurate, affordable, mobile phone-based weather tools that aid the pilots of crewed and uncrewed aircraft.
LAWN has been seeded with $1M from the Ohio Federal Research Network (Columbus, OH) and the USAF (Dayton, OH), with partnership from NASA (Cleveland, OH), and the Naval Aerospace Medical Research Unit Detachment (Dayton, OH).
After 4 years of effort, the LAWN collaboration has delivered its first technology: 'Visibility Tool.' Other LAWN innovations are in development.
LAWN technology will save lives, make aviation even safer and along the way show that Ohio is still the birthplace of aviation.
About FLIGHTPROFILER
Our History
Since 2006, FlightProfiler has designed, developed and delivered aviation technologies, many of which are meteorological focused. The company invests heavily in R&D, collaborates with FAA, federal & academic institutions, and employs a world-class team of technologists.
Test flights are primarily at I69 (Clermont County Airport).
Additional information can be found at www.flightprofiler.com
Federal info available upon request: CAGE Code, UEI Code and EIN
FlightProfiler SAM & SBC status is current & active
State info available upon request: Ohio Business ID
FlightProfiler is a Veteran Owned Small Business (VOSB)