HOW IT WORKS

A map kept up to date
by the pilots who use it.

When you open an airstrip you can see what it was like the last time another pilot landed there. Usually that means a rating for the surface and a few words about how it went, and often a photo too. Once you have flown in somewhere yourself, you leave the same thing for whoever comes after you.

SkyTribe is a one-person project, so it is deliberately simple. There is just a map, with no feed to scroll through and nothing else asking for your attention. When you zoom in you can see how each strip is doing and how recent that information is, and if you tap on one you can read what other pilots have written about it.

  • 01
    Find the strip
    You can look for a strip by its name or code, or by the city or country it is in, and if you would rather browse you can just move around the map. When you need to narrow things down, you can filter by things like the airport type, the country, or the strips you already follow.
  • 02
    Read the conditions
    Pilots rate the surface on a scale that runs from unusable up to excellent, and on the map that shows as a coloured ring around the strip. If you open one you can see when the rating was made, along with any photos and the notes the pilot left about what they found.
  • 03
    Filing a report, or asking for one
    Filing a report only takes a minute once you are on the ground. You give the surface a rating, add a photo if you have one, and write a short note if there is anything worth passing on. If you are planning a trip somewhere that has no recent reports, you can ask for one instead, and that puts a small marker on the strip so pilots heading that way know to have a look. Either way the map updates straight away.
  • 04
    Follow your home strips
    You can follow the airfields you fly to often, and you will get a notification whenever something about one of them changes, whether that is a new report or a change to the runway information. It only tells you about the strips you have chosen to follow, and nothing else.
SkyTribe map view with airport markers across a region
SkyTribe airport detail screen showing condition score and pilot remarks