Flight Kneeboard

Poster studio

Any US airport diagram or instrument approach plate, laid out as a print-ready poster. The PDF is built from the original vector chart, so it is sharp at 12 × 18 and still sharp at 24 × 36.

What are you making

An airport diagram or an instrument approach plate, with the weather from a moment you choose.

Size

Printed at exactly this size — nothing to scale at the shop.

Style

Paper, typeface and the color the weather is drawn in. The chart itself never changes — it is the FAA's artwork.

The moment your local time

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The report

The raw observation from that moment, exactly as it was transmitted.

The weather

Up to three. Each gets its own lane, 48 hours wide, marked at the moment above.

The occasion optional

Set under the airport's details with the date of the moment you picked — and the weather that was actually being reported at the time.

Your own line optional

Printed bottom left, in your words.

The chart

Enter an identifier to see what is published.

Download print-ready PDF

Print-ready PDF

Free

Exact-size vector PDF from the original FAA artwork. Take it to any print shop.

Printed and shipped

Coming soon

The same file, printed on matte stock and posted to you — framing too.

Route poster

Coming soon

Two airports, the leg between them and the distance, over a stylised chart — with the registration and the date you flew it.

What you get

A single-page PDF at the size you picked, with the plate placed on it and a caption block carrying the airport's name, identifier, city, coordinates, field elevation and the AIRAC cycle the chart came from — plus whatever the field was doing at the moment you chose. That is what turns a chart into a record of a particular day rather than a decoration.

The weather comes out of our own archive of observations, so you can go back to a date that mattered. How far back depends on how much has accumulated — the picker says exactly, and will not offer you a day we cannot substantiate.

The preview above is a layout preview, not a proof. It uses the same rasterised plate image the EFB draws on screen, so it looks soft. The PDF does not — it embeds the original vector chart, so there is no resolution to run out of.

Printing it

Send the PDF to any print shop and ask for the size you selected — the page is already exactly 12 × 18, 18 × 24 or 24 × 36 inches, so nothing needs scaling and nothing gets cropped. Matte stock suits a chart better than gloss: plates are line art, and gloss fights the fine linework.

Where the charts come from

Airport diagrams and instrument approach plates are published by the FAA in the digital Terminal Procedures Publication, on a 28-day cycle. They are works of the United States government. The poster records which cycle it was made from, because a plate is a snapshot: procedures change, and one printed today will not match the chart in a year.

Decoration, not navigation. These are for a wall. A printed chart goes out of date the moment the next 28-day cycle publishes, and the poster records which cycle it came from so you can see at a glance how old it is. Fly the current one.

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