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If you found this site on your own, this is the way in. It takes about a minute and there is nothing to pay.

First, the part nobody has to ask for

The map itself is open. Every layer, the aeronautical charts, airspace, obstacles, live traffic, the Skew-T soundings, the route cross-section, the nav log and the guestbook all work with no account at all. Nothing on the map is behind this form, and nothing is unlocked by paying.

One thing is not open: the question box, the free-text box that answers aviation and weather questions in words. It calls a paid AI service on every question, so it has a name attached to it. That is the only thing this form is for. If you have not looked around yet, try the map first and read the guide; you may not need an account at all.

What happens after you press send

  1. An email arrives with a sign-in link. It works once, and it expires fifteen minutes after it is sent. Asking again simply sends a new one; there is no password to choose and nothing to install.
  2. Following that link opens a trial straight away. Not a queue, not a wait: the account is created signed in, and for the next 24 hours it can ask the question box up to 15 questions, on my budget, at no cost to you.
  3. Then it stops and waits for a person. When the 24 hours are up or the 15 questions are used, whichever comes first, the question box stops answering and the account moves into a review queue that I read by hand. I am told when that happens.
  4. Waiting costs you nothing you have already done. The account and its history stay exactly as they are while it sits in the queue, and the map carries on working normally throughout. If it is approved, the question box simply starts answering again.

Being honest about the queue: this is a hobby project run by one person who flies for fun and has a job. Review happens when it happens. There is no service level, no guaranteed answer, and a trial ending is not a verdict on you, it is just the point at which somebody has to look.

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The answer here is the same either way. Whether or not that address already has an account, this page says exactly the same thing back. That is deliberate: a reply that differed would turn this box into a way of finding out who has an account, and one of the two answers would be about somebody else. If you already have an account, the same emailed link just signs you back into it, and it does not restart a trial you have already used.

Sent with your request: your email address, what you typed in these boxes, and the usual connection details any web server sees, which for this site means your address, your network operator, and the city and country it maps to. What this site records sets all of that out in full, including how long it is kept. Please do not put anything confidential in the box, and please use an address you can actually receive mail at, because the link is the only thing that comes back.

Prefer not to leave an address at all? You do not have to. The map needs nothing from you, and you can also bring your own Anthropic API key for the question box, in which case the whole conversation runs in your own browser, is billed to you by Anthropic directly, and the key is never sent to this site.