Overflight on tvOS

An instrument built for Apple TV

Always know

For the people who look up

Overflight on Apple TV gives you always-on awareness of your local airspace, whether that's around a house, an office, a flight school, an FBO, or a waiting room. iPhone and iPad run the same instrument for the pocket and the porch. The main page covers the whole system.

A wall-mounted TV in a private-aviation lounge showing Overflight tracking a Cape Air flight, with leather armchairs, charts on a coffee table, and a light jet parked on the ramp outside the windows.
The FBO lounge, between arrivals
Native

Built for Apple TV

Flight tracking on a television usually means a phone app stretched to 1080p. Overflight for Apple TV is a native app, designed to be used from across the room. Plus it has custom controls for Siri Remote.

Overflight's remote-controls card on Apple TV: a diagram of the Siri Remote with each control labeled — up and down set range (near, normal, far), left and right browse to the previous or next aircraft, click opens the Options menu, back dismisses the card, and play/pause toggles spoken traffic.
The remote legend: Every control, one card
Ambient

Built to be left on

The scope runs fully unattended, locking onto one aircraft and tracking it across the sky, then handing off to the next when it can no longer be seen. With spoken traffic enabled, every aircraft is called out as it passes. And when something notable is inbound, the whole instrument turns amber and shows a countdown to arrival.

When the sky empties, the display drops to a standby sweep and a note that nothing is currently visible.

To protect the screen and prevent burn-in, the whole interface imperceptibly cycles through a slow orbit, one full lap every sixteen minutes, so no static element parks on the same pixels long enough to leave a permanent mark.

* Always-on mode, spoken traffic, and interesting inbounds are Pro features.

Overflight's standby state on Apple TV: an empty radar scope with a slowly turning sweep line, the words Watching the sky, and the note No aircraft currently visible.
Standby: The sweep keeps watch on an empty sky
Pairing

Your exact location and direction

Apple TV knows roughly where it is, which is enough to start. For exact bearings and elevation angles, click and choose Pin exact location & direction from the Options menu, and scan the QR code with your iPhone. Your phone sends one precise fix; the pairing server holds it for minutes, then deletes it. The scope re-centers, the visibility model picks up your true ground elevation from terrain data, and the same handoff can record which way the room faces, so the scope's “up” can match the actual direction you're facing.

Overflight's pairing screen on Apple TV: the heading Pin your exact spot, a QR code above the pairing code VK7M2P, an invitation to scan with your iPhone to share this spot once, and the note that coarse location is already working — this just makes it precise.
One scan from the couch, and “overhead” is exact
On the App Store

It's on iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV