RiskBird
Preflight risk assessment for general aviation

Know your risk before you fly.

RiskBird runs the FAA's Flight Risk Assessment Tool with the numbers already filled in: live weather, runway analysis, your personal minimums, even how you slept. Thirteen questions answered in the time it takes to walk to the airplane.

FREE · COMING TO THE APP STORE Submitted for review · AirVenture week 2026

The FRAT you'll actually run

Every safety seminar says to use one. Almost nobody does, because filling out a paper matrix in the run-up area is fantasy. RiskBird answers the questions for you and shows its work.

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Official FAA FRAT, auto-filled

13+ questions answered from live data. Override anything: you're still the pilot in command.

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Personal minimums, per aircraft

Your crosswind number in the 172 isn't your number in the Cirrus. Fifteen GA templates included.

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Live METAR & TAF

Real-time weather for 12,382 airports, scored against your minimums, cached for the ramp with no signal.

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Runway analysis

Length, surface, and wind components for the runway you'll actually use, not the airport in general.

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Fatigue, measured

With your permission, last night's sleep from Apple Health feeds the IMSAFE check. It never leaves your phone.

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Widgets & Siri

Risk on your home screen before you leave the house. "Hey Siri, run my preflight risk check."

For instructors

Send the assessment, not a lecture

Built by a CFI. Students share their completed FRAT with you before a solo or cross-country: one tap, and you see the same numbers, the same weather, the same reasoning. Risk management becomes a conversation you can teach from instead of a box on the 8710.

RiskBird is an advisory tool. It does not make go/no-go decisions, and it is not a substitute for an official weather briefing, current charts, or your judgment. The pilot in command is the final authority as to the operation of the aircraft (14 CFR 91.3).