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Route in.
Finished navlog out.

Plan it. Check it. Fly it.

Type a route and your airplane's numbers. EasyNavLog does the wind triangle for every leg, pulls the winds aloft and weather for your departure time, checks the airspace, and prints the whole thing in the layout your school hands out.

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FAA airport, fix, VOR and airway data · NWS winds aloft and weather · current magnetic variation. Also: 28 flight maneuvers, step by step.
VFR NAVIGATION LOGKMLB → KOCF · PA-28-181 · 6,500 ft
CheckpointTCWindWCAMHDistGSETEETAFuel

Every number on that sheet came from somewhere real.

Not a template with blanks. The checkpoints are places you can see from the seat, the headings come out of the wind triangle, and the weather is for the hour you'll actually be over each field.

  • VIS
    US-1Highway crossing
    12 nm
    354°
  • VIS
    TitusvilleTown
    20 nm
    354°
  • APT
    3FD6Small airport
    9 nm
    355°
  • VIS
    9 SW of EdgewaterTurn point around the Bravo
    11 nm
    319°
  • VIS
    DeltonaTown
    11 nm
    282°
  • APT
    X23Umatilla Muni · airport
    22 nm
    279°
  • APT
    21FASmall airport
    6 nm
    296°
  • VIS
    BelleviewTown
    16 nm
    299°
  • APT
    KOCFOcala Intl · destination
    11 nm
    314°
Suggested checkpoints, Melbourne to Ocala, routed around the Orlando Class B. Real route, real names.
Checkpoints

Highway crossings, towns and lakes. Things you can find out the window.

Tap Suggest and it lays checkpoints along your course from the same map you'd fly with: a highway crossing, a town, a lake, a small airport. Not a GPS fix that only exists on a screen. Drag any of them, star the ones you use every week.

Tick the Orlando Bravo in "Airspace to avoid" and it routes around it, then puts the new legs straight into your list.

the little turn points get named after the nearest town, so they read like a real navlog, not a coordinate
The arithmetic

The wind triangle, worked for every leg.

Winds aloft are interpolated to your altitude between the forecast levels, not rounded to the nearest panel. Then true course, wind correction, true heading, variation, magnetic heading, ground speed, time and fuel, in the same order you'd do it on an E6B.

Every formula is written out, and the "How it's done" page walks through a leg of your own flight so you can check it against your own work.

SFC2k4k6k8k10kClass B Orlando · 6,000 ft to 10,000 ftClass B Orlando · 6,000 ft to 10,000 ftKMCOClass D Cocoa Patrick Afb · surface to 2,500 ftKCOFClass D Titusville · surface to 1,900 ftRestricted area R-2935 · 11,000 ft to unlimited · INTERMITTENT BY NOTAM NORMALLY 24 HOURS IN ADVANCERestricted area R-2935 · 11,000 ft to unlimited · INTERMITTENT BY NOTAM NORMALLY 24 HOURS IN ADVANCEClass B Orlando · 1,600 ft to 10,000 ftClass B Orlando · 2,000 ft to 10,000 ftClass B Orlando · 3,000 ft to 10,000 ftClass B Orlando · 3,000 ft to 10,000 ftClass B Orlando · 4,000 ft to 10,000 ftClass D Cocoa Patrick Afb · surface to 2,500 ftClass D Melbourne · surface to 1,900 ftClass D Ocala · surface to 1,500 ftTerrain floor estimated from airport field elevations within 5 nm · advisory only, check the MEFKMLBKOCF147 nm
The airspace profile for the same flight, drawn by the app from the current FAA airspace cycle.
Airspace

Your flight from the side, against the shelves.

Class B, C and D, restricted areas and MOAs along the route at your altitude, the floors and ceilings you cross, and the sectional's Maximum Elevation Figure under you. If you'd rather stay under a shelf, it finds the altitude. If you'd rather stay out of it, it finds the route.

Advisory only. You're still the pilot in command, and the chart and ATC still win.

  • VFR
    KMLB14:00 departureWind 060° at 9 kt, visibility more than 6 sm, showers in the vicinity, scattered at 2,500, broken at 3,500. From the TAF group in force at your time off.
  • VFR
    KTIX14:15 on courseWind 060° at 9 kt, visibility more than 6 sm, showers in the vicinity, scattered at 2,500, broken at 3,500.
  • VFR
    KSFB14:32 8 nm off routeWind 040° at 9 kt, visibility more than 6 sm, showers in the vicinity, scattered at 2,500.
  • VFR
    KOCF14:57 arrivalWind 040° at 3 kt, visibility 10 sm, no cloud reported. No TAF at this field, so the current report is shown.
Weather page from the same plan. Times are your ETAs, and each line is the forecast group that covers that time.
Weather

The forecast for when you're going, not for right now.

METARs and TAFs for the departure, the destination, the alternate and the towered fields near your line, each matched to your ETA over that field. A TEMPO group that overlaps you shows up as the one to plan around, not buried in the raw text.

Convective SIGMETs, G-AIRMETs, PIREPs and TFRs are drawn on the map, and the winds aloft panel is picked for your time off. Weather that changes after you build changes the sheet when you rebuild.

Standard EasyNavLog layoutKalamazoo layoutMelbourne layoutFarmingdale layoutDubuque layout
same flight, five forms
Your school's form

Prints the way your instructor expects it.

The standard EasyNavLog sheet is free on every flight. School layouts, organized to carry the same columns in the same order as the form a program in that city hands its students, are the heart of Pro. Melbourne, Kalamazoo, Farmingdale, Daytona, Lafayette, Dubuque and Grand Forks today, more as students send them in.

Pick a font too. Handwriting, if you want the numbers to look filled in. Blank ETAs, if you'd rather write the clock times in as you fly.

ask for your school's layout and I'll build it
New · Flight maneuvers

Every maneuver, step by step, in the cockpit

Twenty-eight maneuvers from the ACS and the Airplane Flying Handbook, animated in map, side, cockpit and PFD views with the pitch, bank, power and airspeed at every step. Play one as a smooth flow or step through it with the teaching point for each moment. Built for CFIs to teach from and students to chair-fly with.

Fly the chandelle, freeSee all 28
Your saved airplanes fly them with their own speeds and power settings. Private, Commercial and Instrument standards where they differ.
CHANDELLE · COCKPIT VIEWStep 9 of 13
Cockpit view from the chandelle walkthrough: 18 degrees nose up, 30 degrees right bank, 83 knots, 2,500 RPM
+18°Pitch
30° RBank
2500RPM
83KIAS
Maintain coordination and a constant 30° bank angle during the first 90° of turn.

Four legs to a finished navlog.

Simple enough for a first cross-country, fast enough for an IFR checkride the next morning.

LEG 1

Route

Type it the way you'd file it: KMLB KOCF, KBCT DURRY T208 VALKA KMLB, radial/DME fixes, or click visual checkpoints on the sectional. Or tap Suggest.

LEG 2

Flight details

Altitude (or let Best altitude rank them for you), time off, fuel on board, alternate, and what airspace you'd rather avoid.

LEG 3

Aircraft

Pick a saved airplane or start from a type preset, then verify the numbers against your POH. Saved once, one tap after that.

LEG 4

Build

Check the flight data status, build, print or save as PDF. Rebuild any time the weather changes. Or print the practice sheet and do it by hand.

Free to plan. Pro for your school's form.

Free users get complete standard navlogs on every flight. Pro adds the school layouts, unlimited saved airplanes, and your navlog history on every device.

Free

$0
  • Standard EasyNavLog VFR and IFR navlogs
  • Live winds, weather, diagrams and frequencies
  • Airspace avoidance and the side profile
  • Print and save as PDF
  • One saved airplane
  • The chandelle walkthrough, free to try

Pro

$9.99/mo
  • 14 days free, then $9.99 a month. Cancel any time.
  • Unlimited navlogs and saved airplanes
  • School-specific navlog formats
  • All 28 flight maneuvers in the walkthrough
  • Navlog history on every device
  • New premium features as they land
I built this because I got tired of watching students spend a whole evening copying numbers from ForeFlight onto their school's form, and then get the wind triangle wrong on the fifth leg anyway. The math isn't hard. The copying is what kills you.

Every number here is the same one you'd get on an E6B, from the same forecast, and it shows its work so you can check it. It doesn't replace knowing how. It just means you spend the evening on the flight, not the form.
Paul Knipmeyer, CFI/CFII · Melbourne, FL

Learn the parts people get stuck on

Plain English guides to navlogs, the wind triangle, winds aloft and cruising altitudes, written by a working CFI.

Filling out a navlog

Every column in order, and why each one depends on the last.

Wind correction angle

The wind triangle with a worked example and a mental check.

Winds aloft forecasts

Decoding FB groups and interpolating to your altitude properly.

Printable navigation log

A free blank VFR navlog to print and fill in by hand, and what every block on it is for.

All guides

Common questions about navlogs

What is a navlog?

A navigation log, usually shortened to navlog or nav log, is the sheet you fill in before a cross-country flight. It breaks the route into legs and records the course, heading, distance, wind, ground speed, time and fuel for each one, so you can fly the trip on a clock and a compass and know at every checkpoint whether you are where you planned to be.

Can I make navlogs in my own flight school's format?

Yes. That is the reason EasyNavLog exists. Most schools and universities require their own navigation log form rather than the generic one, and copying numbers from ForeFlight or SkyVector onto that form by hand is the tedious part. Pick your school's layout and the finished navlog prints in it.

Is it free?

The standard EasyNavLog layout is free on every flight, with no account needed to build your first one. School specific layouts are the paid part. Pro is $9.99 a month with a 14 day free trial, and you can cancel any time before the trial ends.

Where do the winds aloft and weather come from?

The National Weather Service. Winds aloft come from the FB forecast covering your departure time and are interpolated to your cruising altitude rather than rounded to the nearest panel. METARs and TAFs are matched to the time you will actually be over each field, not to right now.

How accurate are the numbers on the navigation log?

Courses and distances come from the current FAA NASR airport and navaid data, and magnetic variation is computed from the World Magnetic Model for your date of flight rather than read off a chart. It is a planning and training aid, so verify it against your POH and an official weather briefing before you fly.

Can I use it for an IFR flight plan too?

Yes. Airways, fixes and preferred routes are included, and the finished log prints alongside an ICAO flight plan form.

Do I still need to know how to fill out a navlog by hand?

Yes, and your examiner will expect it. The guides walk through every column in the order you fill it, and the How it works page shows the arithmetic for a leg of your own flight so you can check it against your E6B rather than taking the software on faith.

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