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News from PlaneWX

Press releases, product news, and partnership announcements.

Partnerships

PlaneWX Names 5X5 Aviation Insurance Its Exclusive Insurance Partner

Verified PlaneWX Pro Plus members are eligible for risk-based premium credits through 5X5's Safety Rewards program — underwriting recognition for the preflight work pilots already do.

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Product

PlaneWX Launches Pro Plus

A new plan for pilots who fly enough that the briefing should follow the airplane — Ground Protection, Auto-Brief, a pre-flight text, and eligibility for 5X5's risk-based premium credits.

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Product

Send a ForeFlight Plan to PlaneWX Without Retyping

On iPhone, ForeFlight’s Send To sheet can hand the route to PlaneWX. On any device, paste still works. Either way, the trip opens prefilled — it does not brief itself.

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Product

The Same Weather, Scored as IFR

If you are instrument-rated and the airplane is IFR-certified, a VFR WX Score crushed by ceilings is not the whole story. PlaneWX now shows the IFR number on the same briefing — and lets you switch the leg with one tap.

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Product

PlaneWX Works Worldwide — and We Keep Adding What Each Country Needs

Pilots in 30 countries are using PlaneWX, with briefings filed in 35. The briefing is not a U.S. product with a few extras bolted on. When a new country shows up, we add the products that route actually needs.

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Product

Your Forecast Office, In Your Own Briefing

Four times a day a meteorologist at your NWS office writes what they think the weather is doing and why. PlaneWX now puts that office — and their own sentence — on the home airport card, the morning digest, and the briefing.

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Product

Live Radar Now Changes the Thunderstorm Score

Models answer whether storms could fire. MRMS radar answers whether they are on your path right now. When the corridor is empty, that thunderstorm deduction can go away — CONUS, near-term, and only downward.

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Product

Wildfire Smoke on the Briefing — and 104 Journeys Into Oshkosh

Smoke can wreck VFR visibility a long way from the fire, while both METARs still look fine. PlaneWX now scores that corridor. During AirVenture week, 104 PlaneWX journeys were planned into Wittman Regional.

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Product

Ground Protection Watches the Airplane After You Land

A briefing card answers whether the destination ramp is safe to leave the airplane on. Then, if you want it, texts keep watching — and you can tell PlaneWX hangar, ramp, or home from your phone.

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Company

Mark Wolfgang to Speak at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh

The PlaneWX founder gives Advanced Aviation Risk Management on Wednesday, July 22, 4:00–5:15 p.m. CDT, Forum Stage 10 — WX Score inside a PAVE risk assessment, and why the decision has to start before the TAF.

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