57 Open Source Aviation Software Projects

📻 LocalRadio is "Radio for Cord-Cutters" – a Software-Defined Radio (SDR) app for your Mac and mobile devices. With an inexpensive RTL-SDR USB device, LocalRadio provides a casual, home-based radio listening experience for your favorite local frequencies - FM broadcasts/free music/news/sports/weather/public safety & aviation scanner/etc.

All sorts of aviation data sets collected by the OpenSky Network

This library extracts flight information from aircraft movements like departure airfield and time, arrival airfield and time, total flight time and more.

Cessna 172 Skyhawk flight simulator panel

Sky Cast: A Comparison of Modern Techniques for Forecasting Time Series

TAF (Terminal Aerodrome Forecast) and METAR parser and decoder

Heads Up Display for use with Stratux. Designed for reflective HUD screens, intended for traffic call outs.

A Terminal Aerodrome Forecast Encoding Software

A realistic ATC simulation game

Reinforcement learning for an air traffic control task. OpenAI gym based simulation.

A Flutter sensor plugin which provide easy access to the Pitch and Roll on Android and iOS devices.

Updated METAR Decoder Software Package Library

Arduino software for AHRS module

A library for decoding various ACARS message payloads

Modern C++ library for parsing METAR weather report and TAF weather forecast

UAT (ADS-B 978) test signal generator

Simple flight simulator.

GAAS is an open-source program designed for fully autonomous VTOL(a.k.a flying cars) and drones. GAAS stands for Generalized Autonomy Aviation System.

QFlightInstruments is a Qt library containing flight instruments widgets including: Airspeed Indicator, Altimeter, Vertical Speed Indicator, Turn Coordinator, Attitude Indicator, Heading Indicator, Electronic Attitude Direction Indicator (EADI) and Electronic Horizontal Situation Indicator (EHSI).

R 📦 to analyse flight ✈️ trajectories

An online app to view your X-Plane flight

Overview of the aircraft encounter models that support safety analysis and development of aircraft avoidance systems.

Airport editing has been stopped for the time being due to implementation changes in Infinite Flight.

A free navigation app for VFR pilots

nRF905 single-chip radio transceiver demodulator + FLARM protocol decoder

3D visualization of air traffic through RTL-SDR (dump1090) and MATLAB

Top of descent path calculator. Let's calculate your descent!

Public airports database API service based on GitHub

Clean Markdown files for FAR/AIM and more

Docker container to run rtlsdir-airband + ice cast to stream ATC audio locally or to a remote server

The Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020.

VATprism is a data explorer for VATSIM, the Virtual Air Traffic Simulation Network. VATprism allows users to explore available ATC services, connected pilots, Airports, Flight and Upper Information Regions and more!

A high detailed version of the Cessna 172P aircraft for FlightGear

... the open-source glide computer

A browser-based viewer for gliding flight recorder logs.

Aviation charts

Automatic planning for VFR flights

Aviation weather and traffic receiver based on RTL-SDR.

Airport editing has been stopped for the time being due to implementation changes in Infinite Flight

Multichannel HFDL decoder

:airplane: Multifunctional, compatible DIY general aviation proximity awareness system

Custom silhouettes for Virtual Radar Server

A tool to search Aviation-related intelligence from public sources.

Go tools for flying

Modularised version of IGCWebview

Fetch NOTAMs (Notices to Airmen) using Node.js

Open Source ADS-B aircraft position tracker on the 1090 MHz (ES) and 978 MHz (UAT) bands for Android devices

Fetch airport diagrams from https://www.faa.gov/ using Node.js

Fetch terminal procedures using Node.js

Aircraft engine management system using Qt.

openScope Air Traffic Control Simulator

Lightweight and simple Flight instruments/indicators written in React.

Example programs that demonstrate how to use the FlightAware Firehose service

VDL Mode 2 message decoder and protocol analyzer

XML schema and Schematron for aviation weather data exchange

:signal_strength: 1090ES ADS-B Out Add-on

Demos and experiments with LeafletJS