Aerivo: VFR Flight Planning & Digital Logbook
Full-stack SaaS for general aviation pilots that brings flight planning and complete pre-flight preparation into one place.
The problem
General aviation pilots across Europe were stuck juggling separate tools for flight planning, weight & balance calculations, and logbook tracking, none of them built for how pilots actually fly. Existing logbook software felt like it was designed for commercial airlines, not someone flying a Cessna out of a grass strip on weekends.
What we solved
- Weight & balance across aircraft types. Every aircraft has different empty weight, fuel capacity, and center-of-gravity envelopes. We built a system that pulls the right reference values per aircraft and validates the calculation live, catching out-of-range loading before a pilot ever gets to the runway.
- Real weather parsing. METAR reports are dense, abbreviated aviation weather codes. Early versions of the parser choked on edge cases, non-standard station formats, missing fields, unusual wind notations. We rebuilt the parsing logic to handle these gracefully instead of silently failing, since a pilot trusting bad weather data is a real safety issue, not just a bug.
- Cross-country time logic. Aviation logbooks track cross-country time differently from total flight time, with specific distance and landing requirements. Getting this calculation wrong doesn't just look bad, it can affect a pilot's certification records. We rebuilt the logic against the actual regulatory definitions instead of approximating it.
- Reliable exports. Pilots need their logbook data portable, for insurance, certification renewals, or switching tools. We rebuilt PDF export to handle larger logbooks and edge-case entries without breaking formatting.
Live: https://aerivo.net/
