Where private pilots find their next destination

Official sources tell you a runway's length and surface. They don't tell you whether the restaurant is any good, how to pay the landing fee, whether the field is genuinely welcoming to visitors, or what the locals wish you knew before you arrived. That knowledge lives in pilots' heads and in scattered forum threads — not in one searchable place.

Aviators.co is the place you go before you touch your EFB, to decide where to fly. We combine the operational facts (runways, frequencies, customs, PPR, weather) with the lifestyle context (food, walkability, things to do) so a Saturday lunch flight or a multi-day European tour starts from one honest, up-to-date picture.

We are a discovery and inspiration platform. We are deliberately not an Electronic Flight Bag, a flight planner, a navigation tool, or a logbook. Information here is community-sourced and not for navigational use — always consult the official AIP, NOTAMs, and the airfield operator before any flight.

We're building for the pilots who treat flying as a way to go somewhere:

• The weekend explorer — a PPL holder looking for somewhere new within an hour of home for a good lunch.
• The touring pilot — planning a multi-day, cross-border trip and weighing customs, fees, handling, and fuel.
• The curious student — building a wishlist of places to fly once the licence is in hand.

Every airfield starts from open upstream data and gets better as pilots contribute. We show how complete and trusted each page is with a simple four-tier badge:

• Stub — a real field, but core technical data is still missing. These are the long-tail strips that need a pilot's help to fill in.
• Sourced — core technical data from our upstream sources, with no community input yet. The quiet baseline.
• Community — pilots have added or improved the page with reviews, photos, fees, or corrections.
• Verified — the airfield operator has claimed the page and vouched for its accuracy.

Where we can, we show the source and last-updated time for technical fields, so you always know where a number came from. The data itself comes from a small set of open sources we credit in full.

Aviators.co is early. We're launching with PPL-grade, fixed-wing airfields across Switzerland, Germany, and Spain, and we'll expand through the rest of Europe as the community grows.

Right now the site is read-only: you can browse the map, search by ICAO or name, and read decoded weather without an account. Accounts and contributions — reviews, photos, fee reports, edits, and trip lists — are the next milestone. When they land, this page and our privacy policy will be updated to match.

Open the map to see what's out there, or jump straight to a field you know by ICAO or name.