Private preview · by invitation
One clear answer.
For every flight.
Vector X reads the weather, the airspace, the NOTAMs and your aircraft together, then tells you whether it’s GO, GO IF or NO‑GO, and exactly why. Then a moving map that keeps you clear.
- Moving mapa true VFR chart
- Airspace alertswarned early
- Go / No-Goevery reason
- Crosswindevery runway
- Route weather5 models
- Customsforms in one tap
Built on official dataUK AIP · NATSFrench AIP · SIAECMWFNOAADWDUK CAA
- The answer, firstYour next flight’s verdict, checked against your route, your aircraft and your own limits.
- Never old data as newEvery figure carries its source and its age, all the way to the cockpit.
- Works offlineBriefings, charts and documents stay on your iPad and iPhone when the signal goes.
The difference
Most apps show you the data.
Vector X tells you what it means.
A moving map and a stack of weather charts leave the hard part to you, often when you’re busiest. Vector X does the joining-up, and shows its working.
The moving map
A chart made for flying VFR.
Clearer than anything you’ve used.
The towns, roads, rivers and railways you navigate by stand out. Airspace is drawn like a proper VFR chart, and only what matters at your height is bright. In Fly mode the threat ahead lights up, and the chart never leaves the screen.
UK airspace, made simple
Europe’s most complex airspace.
Two numbers in the air.
How high you can go, and who to talk to. When something’s ahead, one alert tells you what to do, early enough to do it. The chart never leaves the screen.
Weather at a glance
Every airfield. One look.
The runway that suits the wind.
METARs and TAFs for every airfield on your route, decoded and checked against your own limits. The favoured runway, the crosswind and the headwind, worked out for you.
- VFREGTKOxford · 4 min old240° 12 kt19
- MVFREGJJJersey · 6 min old230° 18G2626
- VFREGJBGuernsey · 2 min old220° 15 kt27
- IFRLFRDDinard · 11 min old250° 10 kt26
- VFREGTEExeter · 8 min old230° 14 kt26
Every report shows its ageOld reports are never scored
Crosswind in the gusts is above your 12 kt limit. It drops to 9 kt after 13:00Z.
Flight intelligence
See the whole route
before you’re in it.
A side view of your exact route and level, drawn from the latest model runs and compared across models. Read at a glance.
Icing, in minutes
Where you’ll meet it, for how long, and the level that keeps you out of it.
Cloud and convection
Bases, tops and embedded CB, with each model’s view side by side.
Freezing level and terrain
With the minimum safe altitude along every leg of the route.
Better decisions
Every briefing makes you a sharper pilot.
Vector X never just says no. It shows you why, where and when, so you build the judgement that stays with you long after you’ve landed.
- The reason, with the time and place“Crosswind 14 kt at Jersey at 11:20Z” teaches more than a red light.
- What would make it a GOLeave later, fly lower, pick another runway. The options, not just the problem.
- The evidence, one tap awayThe METAR, the model and the chart behind every reason.
- No icing at 6,000 ft. Freezing level 8,200 ft.3 models agree
- Cloud base above 2,500 ft all the way.TAF 09:00Z
- 2 NOTAMs on your route, none affecting you.checked 09:52Z
- Crosswind at Jersey, as above.METAR 09:50Z
Crossing borders
Customs paperwork,
without the worry.
Most pilots put off flying abroad because the forms feel complicated. Plan the trip once. Vector X works out which forms you need, fills in the official ones, and tells you exactly when each is due.
- GBUK GARDue by 08:00Z, 2 h before departure · ready to upload to sGARReady
- JEJersey GENDECThe official jce 75b, sent to Jersey Customs · you’re copied inSent ✓
- GBUK GAR, returnOpens 48 h before departure · we’ll remind youLater
- GBUnited KingdomToday
- JEJerseyToday
- GGGuernsey and AlderneyComing
- IMIsle of ManComing
- FRFranceComing
Trust
Built on official sources.
Every answer comes from the people who publish the data, named on screen with the time it was issued.
- OfficialEvery AIRAC cycleUK AIPNATS
Airspace, aerodromes, navaids, reporting points and obstacles
- OfficialEvery AIRAC cycleFrench AIPSIA
Aerodromes, waypoints and navaids across France
- OfficialEvery model runECMWFEuropean Centre
The IFS global model, for route weather and forecast maps
- OfficialEvery run · every reportNOAAUS National Weather Service
The GFS model, and METARs and TAFs from the Aviation Weather Center
- OfficialEvery model runDWDDeutscher Wetterdienst
The ICON model and the official surface analysis charts
- OfficialCurrent editionUK CAACivil Aviation Authority
SafetySense guidance built in, such as the take-off and landing safety factors
Under the hood
Avionics-grade engineering.
Modern technology.
The care you expect from the instruments in your panel, with the speed and intelligence of today’s best software.
Compared, not averaged
Global and regional forecast models checked side by side along your route, with the most cautious credible answer used and any disagreement shown.
Your route, your level, your time
Conditions worked out for where you’ll actually be, minute by minute, not for a point on a chart hours away.
Straight from the AIPs
Airspace, aerodromes, navaids and obstacles loaded from the official national publications for each 28-day cycle.
Versioned and proven
Every verdict comes from one tested rule set. Any change that would alter a result has to pass fixed test cases first.
Still all there
Briefings, charts and documents are kept on your iPad and iPhone, with their age shown, for when the signal goes.
Protected end to end
Personal data encrypted with keys kept apart, data held in the UK and EU, and every record tamper-evident.
Once you’ve flown with it, you won’t want to fly without it.
There’s more
We’re not showing
everything yet.
Some of Vector X is for members only. Here’s a glimpse.
How we build it
Engineered to be trusted.
Software has to earn its place in the cockpit. These are the commitments behind every screen.
Official, current sources
Aeronautical data from the national AIPs for the AIRAC cycle in force. Weather from national met services and the major forecast models.
Every decision recorded
Each briefing is kept with the exact weather, NOTAMs and limits it used, so any decision can be reviewed later.
Private by design
Built to UK GDPR and the Jersey Data Protection Law. Data held in the UK and EU, personal documents encrypted, every access logged.
The pilot decides
Vector X informs and warns. It never says you’re cleared, and the pilot in command always makes the call.
For flight schools
Run your training on it.
Built inside a working training organisation, for instructors who would rather be flying than filling in forms.
- Lessons graded and signed in one tap, locked once both have signed
- Hours by category, ready to show the regulator
- Bookings checked against the weather and each student’s limits
- Manuals, approvals and student documents in one place
About
Made by pilots,
for pilots.
Vector X is built by Vector Aviation, a flight training business at Oxford (EGTK) and Jersey (EGJJ). We fly, we teach and we brief every day, so we built the tool we wanted in our own cockpits.
It’s in daily use at our own school, with real students and instructors, before it opens to anyone else.
By invitation
Fly with the whole picture.
We’re opening Vector X to a small number of pilots and flight schools at a time. Tell us a little about how you fly.
- 1Request an invitation
- 2We get in touch
- 3You’re in