About PlanePit

PlanePit is a set of tools for people who own and fly a light aircraft. It starts with the jobs an owner does after every flight: writing up the logbook, working out fuel and oil burn, keeping an eye on the engine, and checking whether tomorrow is flyable.

It is in beta. Features change often and some screens are rough. When something breaks or a step is missing, tell us.

What works today

The journey log keeps one log per plane for flights, fuel uplifts and oil top-ups, with the Hobbs as the source of truth. A photo of the meter, a GPX track or a message to the Telegram bot is enough to make an entry.

The Android flight recorder turns each flight into a report with engine RPM, the run-up and magneto drops, coordination in turns and every landing. Over time it builds engine trends for the plane. The app is not on Google Play yet; write to us if you want to try it.

The aerodrome brief scores the next five days at a few Latvian aerodromes against your plane's limits, hour by hour. It is public, and so are the articles.

What comes later

We plan social features on top: a map of owners, posts, and a way to reach someone who flies your type or is based where you are headed. They will be built on the same planes and logs, and they will be optional down to each plane. The tools come first because they have to be worth using on their own.

Who it is for

Owners of light aircraft. To open an account you must own a plane or have owned one, and selling it does not close your account.

How sign-up works

You register with your name, your email and a photo of yourself next to your plane. After you confirm the email, an admin looks at the photo and opens the account. It is slower than a normal sign-up, and it keeps the accounts to real owners.

What you will not find

There are no ads, and we do not sell your data to brokers. Your log is yours, and it exports to CSV whenever you want it. If we ever change any of that, we will say so in advance and give you the chance to leave.

Data sources

Airports and runways come from OurAirports, which is public domain. When OurAirports has no runways for a field, we use OpenStreetMap's: © OpenStreetMap contributors, under the Open Database License. Weather comes from Open-Meteo, aviationweather.gov and the Iowa Environmental Mesonet. The rain radar is RainViewer's.

Who runs it

A small team that flies. We answer email at info@planepit.com and fix things when you tell us they are broken.