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Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-10

PILOT3D, a Synthetic-Vision HUD for Pilots

pilot3d.app ↗ · Useful Tools · score 75.0
Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

A 3D airspace-awareness app that combines synthetic vision, GPS, ADS-B traffic, alerts, and voice callouts for flight planning and situational awareness.

Why it surfaced

PILOT3D maps controlled airspace, restricted areas, terrain, airports, and nearby traffic into red danger and yellow caution zones. Its unusually serious advisory warns that the app is not certified navigation equipment, making this a narrow but consequential piece of cockpit software rather than another generic map.

Ham Is Specifically Discouraged

August 10’s newborn domains include a mock cryptid council that specifically discourages ham, a vintage phone collecting messages for Twyla’s 70th, a 4.5-meter dish measuring Galactic hydrogen at 1420 MHz, and an open index that found 530 sites permitting GPTBot in robots.txt while refusing it at the server.

This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-10 Domain Arrivals issue.