Introducing Overflight’s Next Big Step: High-Speed Overlay Creation

At Overflight, we’ve always believed that every flight deserves more than just a plan—it deserves a plan that follows you into the cockpit. Too often, preflight briefings and planning sessions remain just that: conversations, chalkboard sketches, or mental notes that never fully translate into action once the wheels leave the ground. Pilots are left with gaps between their intentions and the tools available to execute them.

We’re working to change that.

Why the Old Way Doesn’t Work Anymore

For years, pilots who wanted custom overlays were forced to rely on tools like Google Earth Pro, QGIS, or MapTiler. While powerful in their own right, these applications were never built for the cockpit. They’re slow, complex, and require too much technical digging just to produce a single export. For a pilot who needs to brief, adjust, and fly in real time, that approach is no longer acceptable.

Overlay creation shouldn’t feel like GIS homework—it should feel like flying.

From Concept to Cockpit

Within the next

month, Overflight will be launching our desktop application right here on our website. This tool will allow users to intuitively draw and shape their own overlays—paths, polygons, and waypoints—and immediately export them as .KML files for ForeFlight and Garmin Pilot. No extra steps, no unnecessary complexity. Just quick, actionable overlays that are ready to fly.

We’re also exploring .GPX support at launch, giving users the ability to export waypoint packages directly into cockpit-mounted GPS databases. That means your planning doesn’t just sit on your EFB—it’s synced with the avionics you rely on in the air.

A Spearhead for a New Era of Planning

Our mission is to encourage pilots to experiment, play, and get creative with overlays. By lowering the barrier to entry, we want overlays to become a normal part of everyday cockpit planning—not a rare, complicated project. The more accessible this process becomes, the more ways pilots will find to improve safety, precision, and situational awareness.

And this is only the beginning. Overflight’s long-term vision is an iOS app that feels like pen and paper. Imagine drawing your plan directly on your iPad map—circling hazards, sketching routes, marking zones—and then instantly sending it to your EFB. No middleman. No paper. No missed details. Just quick, intuitive, actionable planning that follows you into the cockpit.

At Overflight, we’re not just building tools—we’re building a process. A process where every idea, every safety note, and every plan turns into an overlay you can act on. The desktop app is just the first step, and we can’t wait to see how aviators use it to redefine the way they fly.