Pilot Toolkit privacy policy

Pilot Toolkit is an app for iPhone and iPad from Whiskey Victor LLC. This policy covers the app. The Hangar Flying website has its own privacy notice.

We collect no data from the app. It has no account, no ads, no analytics, no tracking and no third-party software development kits (SDKs).

The numbers you type into the tools, your favorites, your theme, your timers and your cruise figures stay on your device. So do your favorite airports and the minimums you set for them, which the app shares only with its own Home Screen widget; your minimums are compared on your device and never sent. Your iPhone’s or iPad’s own backups, to iCloud or to a computer, can include them, under Apple’s terms.

The app uses your location only for GPS Flight Mode, Closest Airports and the maps that show where you are. It is used on your device, and the app never sends or saves your position. A map showing the area around you loads that area from Apple Maps, so Apple receives a request for it.

The app uses the pressure sensor only for Device Altitude. The reading is not sent or saved.

Notifications for Mission Timers are local. They are scheduled on your device, with no push server.

When you ask for weather, the airport code goes to aviationweather.gov (NOAA) and atis.info (a community D-ATIS service).

If an airport has no weather report of its own, the app asks NOAA for reports in an area around that airport, and asks atis.info about the nearest reporting station. The area comes from the list of airports built into the app, not from your device’s location.

In versions that include forecast guidance, the app also asks Iowa State University’s Iowa Environmental Mesonet (mesonet.agron.iastate.edu) for the Model Output Statistics (MOS) forecast for that airport’s station, or for the nearest reporting station. Only the station code is sent. The weather is not saved.

In versions that show NOTAMs, the app sends the airport code you looked up to hangarflying.com, our own server, which fetches that airport’s NOTAMs and returns them. Nothing else is sent: no location, account or identifier. Our server keeps each airport’s NOTAMs for ten minutes so a second request is answered quickly, without recording who asked. Requests reach our server through Cloudflare, our network provider.

In versions that show temporary flight restrictions (TFRs), the same request also returns the TFRs near that airport. Nothing more is sent: the same address and the same airport code.

In versions with favorite airports, opening the weather or NOTAMs tool sends your favorite airports’ codes to NOAA in one request, to show each one’s flight category. From version 2.2.1 it also looks up up to six of your favorites ahead, the same way as a lookup you make (the same services, the airport codes only), so tapping one shows its weather at once. What comes back is kept only while the app is open.

In versions with a Home Screen widget, if you add the widget, it asks NOAA for the weather at the one airport you chose, about every 30 minutes, so it stays current without opening the app. Only that airport code is sent, and the weather is not saved. This is the one request the app makes without being asked each time, and only while the widget is on your Home Screen.

Maps load through Apple Maps. NOAA, atis.info, Iowa State University and Apple see your device’s internet (IP) address, as any website does, and they have their own policies.

In versions that include Request a New Tool, it opens your own email app with a draft to support@whiskeyvictorllc.com. The draft includes the app’s version and your iOS version. Nothing is sent unless you press Send, and the app never sees the email. If you send it, we receive what you wrote and your email address.

Links to Hangar Flying open in your browser and fall under the website’s privacy notice.

A brief is shared only when you choose to share it, through your phone’s share sheet.

Whiskey Victor LLC, support@whiskeyvictorllc.com. See also the Pilot Toolkit page.