bberisford

Re:Show HN: PreflightAPI – US airports, weather, NOTAMs and more via o... on Monday March 09, 2026 @12:31AM (#47304905)

D-ATIS information and SWIM is actually something I'm currently working on. D-ATIS will be my first "official" data set from SWIM. Let me know what else you'd like to see from it.

Re:Show HN: PreflightAPI – US airports, weather, NOTAMs and more via o... on Monday March 09, 2026 @12:31AM (#47304899)

Yeah I actually noticed that myself. I've gone ahead and fixed it I believe.

Show HN: PreflightAPI – US airports, weather, NOTAMs and more via one API

Posted by bberisford on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @07:55PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://preflightapi.io/

I'm a private pilot and software engineer. I set out to build a 3D VFR flight planning tool — something that would let you visually plan a cross-country flight with real weather, airspace, and terrain.Before I could build any of that, I had to build an entire data infrastructure first.FAA airport data comes as fixed-width text files from the NASR subscription, updated on a 28-day cycle....

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