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Version 3.0 - now with Synthetic Vision

A graphically beautiful flight deck in your pocket

fDeck brings a full set of stunning, true-to-life general-aviation instruments to your phone and tablet - from the brand-new synthetic vision PFD to traditional instrumentation, live weather, ADS-B traffic and a powerful radio-navigation trainer. And it is now100% ad-free!

4.8 on the App Store50K+ downloadsNo ads, ever

4.8★

App Store rating

50K+

Downloads worldwide

20k+

Airports & navaids

100%

Ad-free

Built by one pilot

From a sofa-bound ankle to a flight deck in your pocket

fDeck started in 2011 with a broken ankle and a curiosity for Android. Today it's a customisable glass cockpit for real flying, training, and sim — designed, built, and supported by one person.

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New in v3.0

Introducing Vision - synthetic vision for everyone

Our brand-new flagship instrument renders a clean, modern primary flight display with synthetic vision. It is the most ambitious instrument we have ever built - and it is just the beginning.

  • 2D Primary Flight Display, available now
  • 3D Synthetic Terrain coming soon
  • Beautiful, true-to-life PFD
  • Included with fDeck Premium

Loved by pilots

What the aviation community says

4.8 stars on the App Store · 4.6 on Google Play · 50K+ downloads

“fDeck is one of my all-time favorite apps and this is especially true for the new version. I only fly RC planes myself. But a friend of mine is a pilot and we sometimes fly with his piper cub. In the back seat, I use the app and watch the flight. The app is made very professionally, all instruments are fully functional and look great. The support is also excellent, the developer helped me today immediately with a small problem.”
Radion8 — Aviation enthusiastvia App Store
“Great app with lots of options for instruments, maps, navigation, etc. I fly an ultralight under US Part 103. This app helps by providing additional instruments without adding weight. The TCAS feature really helped when another pilot entered the pattern unannounced.”
Barry — Ultralight pilotvia Google Play
“Great app for flight training, or just flying. I fly an antique airplane with antique instruments. With this app I can pull up a more modern style 6-pack on my tablet for better situational awareness. Very well done.”
Joseph — Antique aircraft ownervia Google Play
“Amazing! Super useful app that does a truly ingenious job. I even tried the X-Plane connector — what a great job by a developer who knows his stuff!!”
LGE060606 — X-Plane flyervia App Store
“I don't usually write reviews but this app is just superb. The complexity and attention to detail is worthy of an award. It's unfortunate that only us aviation geeks will appreciate its greatness! Big thanks to Darren for the effort involved in making such a useful app.”
KezzaKnowles — Aviation enthusiastvia App Store
“Great visual app! I'm always looking for effective training aids and this shows tremendous promise to move to the top of the list. PLEASE KEEP AT IT. I'm happy to assist and provide evaluation/feedback.”
Glenn Gosnell — Aviation professionalvia Google Play
“I fly a trike (microlight) with no on-board instrumentation and discovered fDeck after trying a few other iPhone flight apps — I'm thrilled I landed on this. It's amazingly simple and easy to use. I purchased a lifetime membership and was more than happy to do so. I use it every time I'm up. Works great with my iPhone even at 22°F (-5.5°C) for about 2 hours and it never faltered.”
holajeffe — Trike pilot, Pennsylvaniavia App Store
“This is a great app. I'm not actually flying anymore, but this is a great app to even use in the car. Really love the sectional map overlay. What is most amazing is the quick response times from Sensorworks support.”
Daniel Wintjen — Pilotvia Google Play
“I fly microlights in South Africa and have used this app many times. With the limited instruments in the microlight, this is a flippen awesome addition and love using ALL the instruments and features. Well done.”
Philip le Grange — Microlight pilotvia App Store
“Just started using this app recently and what a surprise — I'm a flight instructor and CFII and this app offers all sorts of utilities for both teaching and flying. I use the ADF to give accurate position reports, the chronometer for ZULU time, approach timer and fuel estimations, and the map to teach navigation. I'm really looking forward to what this developer will continue to do.”
Hanson24 — Flight instructor & CFIIvia App Store
“I was very pleasantly surprised when I downloaded this app. Just wanted some decent compass. But this app can really be a nice addition to the flight instrument with lots of extra features for preflight preparation. Very professional design and functionality.”
Radu.Kapu — Pilotvia App Store
“I'm updating my review to highlight the reworked weather instrument. The addition of the radar, TAFs & METARs, is a fantastic enhancement, especially with the very intuitive selection buttons. I use this when paramotoring, which is extremely weather dependent, and this is a very welcome update.”
PRD-Devon — Paramotoring pilotvia App Store
“Beautiful app, clearly with a great deal of care and attention in its development. Great for simming but I'm also using it in real life as a heading bug tool on an aircraft that doesn't have one fitted. The dev is very responsive to feature suggestions.”
emoore1 — Sim & real-world pilotvia App Store
“I have been using this as an additional aid to navigating since January — it works fantastically as a standalone product, very flexible in what you can see. Currently set up as 1×2 instruments in a ⅓ screen alongside SkyDemon. At a glance gives me great flight and situational awareness.”
DenXD63 — General aviation pilotvia App Store
“Use it every flight! I use both the GPS Ground Speed and the ADF instrument on every flight. Very easy to see in flight and works flawlessly. The ADF points to the GPS target entered and gives DME. My private grass strip is somewhat hidden in a forest so this is quite helpful.”
Rob27617 — Private pilotvia App Store
“The app is an excellent tool to learn, teach, or practice the use of many avionics devices that you might not have in your plane; and the developer is great at responding to questions, comments, or suggestions.”
A thankful customer — Pilotvia App Store
“I've used many aviation apps but this one is hands down the most useful. Super easy to navigate its features and lots of options. It's the perfect back up!!”
govsux — Pilotvia App Store
“Concise, easy to configure, even easier to use. H/T to the developer — thanks for the work and effort you have put into this fine app.”
RDLGSTX — Pilotvia App Store
“I love that you made this app, it's amazing and so easy to use. One other thing I appreciate a lot — thank you for being a human who is going through and replying to these reviews and not a bot that puts the same thing. That's underrated. Keep up the work!”
PilotEXE — Aviation enthusiastvia App Store
“I use fDeck quite often as a backup to my glass instruments as well as when flying the light-sport that has the bare minimum instruments. I guess it's a good comfort zone for me as an older pilot.”
etmobsh — Light-sport pilotvia App Store

The instruments

A full panel of true-to-life instruments

Every instrument is graphically accurate with ultra-smooth animations. You can go full-screen on a single instrument and have multiple instruments of the same type. fDeck lets you build your own custom flight deck!

Synthetic Vision instrument
Vision
TutorialEarly access

Synthetic Vision

The Synthetic Vision instrument combines attitude, airspeed, altitude, and heading information with dynamic 3D terrain in a PFD style design.

Horizontal Situation Indicator instrument
HSI
Tutorial

Horizontal Situation Indicator

The HSI instrument combines a compass/heading display with navigation course deviation information, showing the aircraft's heading, selected course, and lateral displacement from that course on a single rotating compass card.

VHF Omnidirectional Range instrument
VOR
Tutorial

VHF Omnidirectional Range

The VOR instrument displays a Course Deviation Indicator (CDI) needle that shows lateral displacement left or right of a selected VOR radial and a To/From flag indicating if the aircraft is flying toward or away from the station.

Automatic Direction Finder instrument
ADF
Tutorial

Automatic Direction Finder

The ADF instrument has a needle that points continuously toward a navigation station, showing your relative bearing to the station.

Attitude Indicator instrument
AI
Tutorial

Attitude Indicator

The Attitude Indicator instrument displays your pitch and bank angles relative to the natural horizon. It uses your device's built-in sensors to show nose-up/down and wing-left/right orientation.

Altimeter instrument
Altimeter
Tutorial

Altimeter

The Altimeter instrument displays your height using GPS altitude or barometric pressure. It also allows you to account for local pressure settings.

Vertical Speed Indicator instrument
VSI
Tutorial

Vertical Speed Indicator

The Vertical Speed instrument displays the rate of change of altitude, showing whether you are climbing, descending, or in level flight by measuring the rate of change in static pressure or GPS altitude.

Compass instrument
Compass
Tutorial

Compass

The Compass instrument displays the aircraft's magnetic (and optionally true) heading and the current magnetic declination at your location.

Groundspeed Indicator instrument
Groundspeed
Tutorial

Groundspeed Indicator

The Groundspeed Indicator displays your speed across ground, derived from GPS data, and reflects the combined effect of airspeed and wind on your speed over the ground.

Chronometer instrument
Chronometer
Tutorial

Chronometer

The Chronometer instrument provides a clock, stopwatch, flight timer and fuel totaliser.

Weather & Wind instrument
Weather
Tutorial

Weather & Wind

The Weather instrument shows current weather at your location, a synthetic precipitation radar as well as nearest TAF and METAR details.

Flight Planner instrument
Flight Planner
Tutorial

Flight Planner

The Flight Planner instrument allows you to plan and execute a flight using ordered nav stations with automatic and manual transitions. You can slave instruments to the plan.

More than instruments

Everything you need to fly and to learn

Multiple flight instruments, a worldwide navigation database, live weather, live traffic, traffic avoidance and an aviation moving map come together in a one-of-a-kind, unique, radio-navigation trainer - all in one beautiful app.

Build your own navaids

Create virtual VORs, NDBs and waypoints anywhere - even over your house - to practise tracking and intercepts! So much fun :-)

Radio-nav trainer

Pan your aircraft anywhere on the map and watch every instrument respond in real time. The best way to learn radio navigation.

Live weather & wind

Real-time TAF & METAR reports with RAW or decoded display, plus live wind and precipitation radar map overlays.

ADS-B traffic & TCAS

See-and-avoid with live ADS-B traffic and a built-in traffic collision and avoidance system (TCAS).

Aviation moving map

Airspace, airports and navaids on a clean moving map, now with optional 5/10/20NM range rings and enhanced radial lines.

Worldwide aviation database

Over 20,000 airports and radio navaids, fully searchable and filterable, updated monthly for Premium members.

Track export

Record where you flew and export your tracks as GPX or KML to share or review later.

Video tutorials

Every instrument ships with its own built-in video tutorial, so you are never left guessing. Watch these by clicking on the instruments above.

Flight simulation connection

Your home cockpit's missing instrument panel

Drive fDeck's instruments straight from your simulator and turn any phone or tablet into a secondary instrument panel. fDeck now connects to bothX-Plane andMicrosoft Flight Simulator.

  • Microsoft Flight Simulator support
  • X-Plane support
  • Add as many extra instrument displays as you like!
How to connect
X-Plane
Microsoft Flight Simulator

Built for general aviation

Whatever you fly, fDeck flies with you

Student pilots and those studying for IR rating

Master VOR and ADF radio navigation, and the HSI before you ever start the engine. Reposition anywhere on the map and watch the needles respond.

GA & Recreational pilots

Gorgeous backup instrumentation for your cockpit, plus live weather and ADS-B traffic for extra situational awareness.

Ultralight & Experimental owners

Add modern instruments and traffic awareness to a minimal panel - no extra weight, no wiring, just grab your device and go!

Flight sim enthusiasts

Build a home-cockpit instrument panel that runs alongside X-Plane and Microsoft Flight Simulator.

Free to fly - Premium to go further

Download free. No ads. Ever.

fDeck is free to download and now completely ad-free. Become a Premium member to unlock the full experience - and to support a project built by one pilot, on his own, in his spare time. fDeck is a true labour of love.

Monthly

£1.99

per month

Best value

Annual

£14.99

per year

Pay once

Lifetime

£29.99

one-time

Every Premium plan supports future development and includes

  • Premium and Early Access instruments
  • Unlimited user navigation stations
  • Monthly navigation database updates
  • Map weather overlays & live virtual radar
  • Live ADS-B traffic with TCAS alerting
  • Live TAF & METAR reports
  • Unlimited X-Plane & MSFS flight simulation connection
  • Crazy fast support from the dev!

Put a flight deck in your pocket

Download fDeck free today, fly with beautiful instruments, and join tens of thousands of pilots already on board.