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Time, distance, heading. Detailed planning, leg by leg, on your computer, tablet, or phone. Built to run with no internet connection, in the aircraft or out of it.
Mission-planning discipline for every cockpit.
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Why it exists
The founder spent 23 years in the Army, 20 as an Army Aviator, including 13.5 years flying in Army special operations. That kind of planning means calculating time, fuel, and heading for every leg before anyone straps in. Arithmetic and attention to detail is what keeps a pilot from running out of fuel, power, and ideas at the wrong moment.
The mission planning tools and support don't come with you when you move into a civilian cockpit. The software that did that arithmetic in uniform doesn't exist outside it. Meridian is the tool the founder needed to fill that gap: the same time, distance, and heading planning, built to run without anything from outside the aircraft.
Who it's for
If you came up planning missions in the military and now fly in civilian aviation, Meridian brings that detailed planning back and puts it at your fingertips.
The military often spends hours, sometimes days, planning a single mission. Meridian compresses that same rigor down, so you get what you need to fly safely in a fraction of the time.
Plenty of pilots planning this way are still on active duty and just want something portable. EFBs are already standard in the cockpit, so carrying one more app isn't a stretch. Meridian puts a mission planning computer in your pocket or flight bag. If weather forces a diversion, or you end up spending the night somewhere you didn't plan on, you can replan the flight without needing everything you'd normally have back at the unit.
EFBs are built around charts, weather, and moving maps. Very few build in the mission planning math: back-timing to a required time on target, fuel to a point of no return, weight and balance as cargo loads change leg to leg, and illumination timing. That's the gap Meridian fills.
If you never trained that way, and you've been figuring time, fuel, and heading by hand, or skipping it when you're in a hurry, Meridian does that arithmetic for you.
What it does
| Time, distance, heading | Update your actual time and fuel at any checkpoint, and Meridian recalculates the rest of the flight: timing, fuel, and gross weight, adjusted for a new stop, a cargo onload or offload, or a different route. |
| Wind and fuel | Wind-corrected magnetic headings, adjusted airspeed or groundspeed, and the fuel consequences, including help calculating your point of no return. |
| Runs with no outside connectivity | No signal, no cell service, no cockpit Wi-Fi. The plan runs on the device in your hand. |
| A route card you can print | Put it on your kneeboard. If your battery dies, your plan doesn't go with it. |
| Independent by design | Your data stays on the device. Meridian doesn't sync to the cloud or track where you fly. Aircraft profiles and user waypoints save right on the device, with flight plans coming soon, so you're not rebuilding from scratch across multiple aircraft. |
There's more in the app
Meridian also handles time zones, automatic magnetic variation for each leg, and worldwide airport, waypoint, navaid, and terrain data for elevation awareness. There are fuel check timers and stopwatches, time-on-target back-planning, and a pilot-entered emergency altitude reference for IIMC (inadvertent instrument meteorological conditions) contingency planning. Meridian doesn't calculate or verify that altitude. You do.
We're not going to list everything here. There's more in the app than this page has room for, and we're still adding to it. A lot has changed and improved since the first build, and there's more coming before this opens up.
Closed beta
Meridian isn't for sale yet. We're finishing testing and opening beta sales as soon as we're ready. Join the list and you'll be the first to know, and you'll get product updates along the way.
Get on the list
We're opening beta sales as soon as we're ready. No spam, and we won't sell your information. We will send you updates.