The European planning cockpit
for everything up to 10,000 ft.
European weather, vertical cloud & icing profiles, terrain and wire-strike hazards and live rescue traffic — with SERA-based IFR minima and EASA CAT/SPA.HEMS fuel and reserve logic. Built by European pilots, on European data.
Europe’s aviation planning solution for non-pressurised GA — rotary and fixed-wing — up to 10,000 ft.
No card required · 30-day trial · cancel anytime
Connecting to the live feed …
Public, delayed ADS-B — not for operational use. Aircraft are shown as broadcast: this public feed carries no registration or type, so nothing here is identified as a rescue aircraft. ADS-B: adsb.lol (ODbL)
Live European rescue traffic — named fleet, reported altitudes, weather & lightning.
Made in Europe, for Europe.
Aus Europa, für Europa.
Most flight-planning apps are US products with Europe added on afterwards. LowLevel is the inversion — European by design: built on EASA and SERA rules, in European units, and fed first and foremost by European aviation authorities and open-data communities.
European rules first
Europäische Regeln zuerst
IFR minima computed from SERA, plus EASA Part-CAT and SPA.HEMS fuel and reserve logic — not FAA rules with a European skin. Part-NCO and fixed-wing coverage is still being built out, and the app marks what is not yet in scope rather than guessing.
European units
Europäische Einheiten
hPa, °C and metric ground distances, fuel in kg — with altitudes and speeds in ft and kt, exactly as EASA charts them. No unit-guessing, no US sectionals.
European data, first-class
Europäische Daten, erstklassig
Weather, airspace, obstacles, wires and traffic come from European authorities and European open-data communities. NOTAMs reach us as ICAO-format notices through an international NOTAM distribution service, not a European AIS provider — the one non-European link in the chain, and we would rather say so than leave it unsaid.
Built by European pilots
Von europäischen Piloten gebaut
Made in Darmstadt by Rotorsolutions for GA up to 10,000 ft — rotary and fixed-wing — across Europe. This site is in German and English; the app interface is English today, German next.
European data sources, built in
Coverage varies by layer and region. Airspace, aerodromes and live traffic are Europe-wide. High-resolution DWD weather leads in the German FIR and is expanding across the Alps. Obstacle and wire coverage is per-state — live today in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France, Italy, Slovenia, Czechia, Estonia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Spain.
Safety-critical layers — NOTAM, SIGMET/AIRMET, obstacles and wires, thunderstorm and low-visibility forecast, airspace and traffic — carry their own freshness signalling: when a source goes down, the last good data stays on the map but dimmed, under a source-down banner. Absence of returns never masquerades as clear conditions.
Three ways in
Find yours in ten seconds.
Same app, same map — three very different reasons to open it.
Built for low level, not adapted to it.
Vertical cloud and icing profiles, terrain and wire spans along the route, airspace activations and NOTAMs — up to 10,000 ft, where you actually fly.
- Wind and icing layers over the planned route
- Weather in detail: METAR, TAF and trend in one place
- Operator tier: dispatch, BOS/FMS status, NVG weather — after verification only
Your airspace, your units — no US sectionals.
European NOTAMs and airspace as the product, not an add-on. hPa and °C by default, altitudes and speeds in ft and kt, exactly as EASA charts them.
- NOTAMs per airfield, decoded instead of raw text
- Airfield weather with decoded METAR/TAF
- Route search across European airfields and waypoints
The fleet you follow — live, and named.
Live low-level traffic, the named Christoph / Rega / ÖAMTC fleet in real airframe shapes, history playback and push alerts.
- Aircraft detail: callsign, type and base, where we know them
- History playback included on every tier
- Shows the sky right now: no forecast (TAF), no time & altitude slider, no flight planning
What we can actually stand behind
Built in Darmstadt, Germany
LowLevel is made by Rotorsolutions in Darmstadt — European company, European hosting, European data sources. Not a US product with a Europe add-on.
Advisory only — and we say so everywhere
LowLevel is a situational-awareness tool. It is not an approved Electronic Flight Bag and must not be used for primary navigation or to replace an official briefing. The pilot in command carries the flight.
Coverage you can check yourself
Every country and data layer we hold is published as a live matrix — including the gaps, marked MISSING. We would rather show a hole than imply cover we do not have.
See the coverage matrix, country by country →Built to follow the DWD MET-display guidance
Weather rendering follows the DWD guideline for displaying digital meteorological information (AMC-DWD-01). That is how it was built — it is not a conformity statement, and no authority has assessed or endorsed it.
“Für die korrekte Implementierung und Visualisierung von meteorologischen Informationen in Systeme zur Anwendung in der Luftfahrt ist die Richtlinie Display of Meteorological Information (Acceptable Means of Compliance for Display of Digital Meteorological Information AMC-DWD-01) anzuwenden.”
Complete Mission Awareness.
Real screens from the app HEMS, SAR and police crews fly with — not mock-ups.
Live rescue-traffic & the named fleet
Every ADS-B, OGN and RescueTrack contact fused onto one map — named rescue helicopters (Christoph 77, Christoph Europa 5…), altitude on every target, weather radar and lightning. Filter to rotorcraft in a tap.
- ADS-B + OGN + RescueTrack fusion
- Named fleet, callsigns & equipment
- Weather radar + lightning overlays
- Altitude & vertical trend per contact
The whole mission brief — in one panel
Terrain and airspace as a vertical cross-section, fuel & weight, the NVIS window and daylight remaining — with hazards flagged before you lift: fuel-insufficient, 10 critical NOTAMs.
- Terrain / airspace vertical profile
- Fuel, W&B & endurance
- Hazard review: NOTAM · fuel · weather
- NVIS window + civil-twilight daylight
Low-level routing, icing-aware
Terrain-hugging low-level legs with per-leg minimum and best cruise for icing avoidance, obstacle NOTAMs surfaced (HT masts, unlit), and the German GAFOR 3-day briefing right alongside.
- Direct, low-level & hybrid-IFR routers
- Icing-avoidance cruise per leg
- Obstacle & wire-strike NOTAMs
- GAFOR / area-forecast briefing
Live RescueTrack dispatch & BOS status
For approved operators: each aircraft’s live BOS status (Status 2 — Einsatzbereit Wache) with a 24-hour history by area, fused with its live position on the map.
- BOS / FMS status 1–8
- 24-hour status history by area
- Fused with live ADS-B position
- Leitstellen coverage modelled
Dispatch, pushed straight to the glass
Incoming EINSATZ arrives on the map — scene address, target clinic (Leitstelle Mainz), ETE and a one-tap route — with a time-slider to scrub the last hours of the operation.
- Scene → launch → track
- Address, target clinic & ETE
- One-tap Direct-To route
- Time-slider replay
RescueTrack-aware ground routing
Hospital drive times and ground-vehicle ETAs (RTW, NEF) on real road routing — with active RescueTrack road closures fed in as a routing input, not just a map layer. When the fastest road runs through a closure, the time reflects the detour; “AIR SAVES 18 MIN” shows air vs ground at a glance.
- OSRM road routing, not straight-line
- RescueTrack road closures as a routing input
- Auto-detour around active closures
- Live RTW/NEF ETA + air-vs-ground
Instant go/no-go, per airframe
Every decision decoded to a clear call — a NO GO — FUEL for a rotary — computed against live weather, legal minima and your specific aircraft, on phone, tablet or the dispatch wall.
- Per-airframe rotary & fixed-wing
- Live weather vs legal minima
- VFR / IFR / fuel / NOTAM tabs
- Phone, tablet & desktop
Your layer stack.
Your clutter limit.
Every layer, opacity and stacking order is yours — openAIP, terrain, Leitstellen, rescue points — dragged top-to-front the way you want it and saved as a workspace. Each of these settings lives on your account rather than in this browser, so the setup you build at the desk is the one that opens on the phone.
- Custom layer order
- Per-layer opacity
- Custom map icons
- Quick-action shortcuts
- Custom NOTAM filters
- Set home base
- Save workspaces
- Day / Night / NVG
Weather decoding lives in the app
The interactive METAR demo that used to run here has been withdrawn. We would rather show you nothing than show you a decode we cannot stand behind.
The live METAR decoder demo is unavailable.
It has been removed from this page. Its presentation of a decoded report was not accurate enough for every valid METAR form, and we do not show aviation weather we cannot stand behind — not even in a demo.
The decoder itself is unaffected and runs in the app, where its output is verified. Nothing on this page decodes a METAR.
Europe’s rescue fleet, live on one map.
Europas Rettungsflotte, live auf einer Karte.
The live spotter experience built right into your planning app — a named European rescue fleet in real liveries, history playback and alerts, on fused ADS-B and OGN coverage. All of it on the 5 € tier.
Live low-level traffic
Live-Tiefflugverkehr
ADS-B and OGN fused onto one European map — with altitude and vertical trend wherever the feed reports them, and rotorcraft-only filtering in a tap.
The named rescue fleet
Die benannte Rettungsflotte
Christoph, Rega, ÖAMTC and more — matched to registration and callsign, with home base and airframe type where we know them, and real livery artwork for the types we have drawn.
History playback
Verlaufs-Wiedergabe
Scrub back through the day and replay where the fleet flew. Flight and fleet history is included on every tier — no upgrade, just a signed-in account.
Push alerts
Push-Alarme
Web-push traffic and incident alerts straight to your phone, so you catch the movements you care about.
Community-enriched
Von der Community bereichert
Accredited pilots and operators add hazards, hospitals, HEMS bases, fuel stations and webcams; every account can report an error or comment on a facility. New entries go live at once, badged unconfirmed until someone checks them.
One app, not five tabs
Eine App statt fünf Tabs
The live picture and the fleet knowledge in one European app — no more juggling separate trackers to follow the fleet.
Why not just use what you have
Because none of it was built for this altitude.
Four structural gaps — not opinions about other products, but limits that follow from how they are built.
Consumer flight-tracking apps
Away from radar they lean on MLAT, and Flightradar24’s own blog puts MLAT’s working floor at roughly 5,000–10,000 ft. HEMS spends most of its flight below that.
We build the low-level picture from ADS-B plus, for verified operators, real dispatch data — the band where rescue actually flies.
US-first EFBs
Europe is a plan add-on, priced in USD on a US-domain page. The rules, the units and the charts you get are the American ones with Europe layered on top.
SERA-based IFR minima, EASA CAT and SPA.HEMS fuel and reserve logic, hPa and °C by default, European sources first. Nothing is layered on top.
VFR-GA flight planners
They plan VFR general aviation well and stop there: no rotary mission model, no HEMS workflow, no live fleet tracking.
Rotary and fixed-wing up to 10,000 ft in one app, with the wire, terrain and airspace hazards a low-level leg actually meets.
Tracking-only subscriptions
A fleet-tracking subscription costs real money every year and plans nothing — you still open a second app to fly.
Our Spotter tier is the cheapest way in, and the same map carries planning the moment you move up a tier. One app, one subscription.
Comparisons describe categories, not individual products, and reflect how those categories are built rather than any assessment of a competitor. The MLAT altitude band is Flightradar24’s own published figure.
The data behind every decision
One European flight-safety stack — continuously ingested, decoded and rendered.
The same platform
the pros fly with.
LowLevel and HEMSreach are one app. Every spotter and enthusiast flies with the exact tool built for HEMS, SAR and police crews. Accreditation adds the seven operator-only capabilities below — RescueTrack dispatch, BOS/FMS status, Leitstellen areas, base and pad detail, NVG weather, the ops-wall view and RescueTrack-aware ground routing — and changes nothing else about the app.
Live RescueTrack dispatch
Real German/EU dispatch fused with ADS-B into one enriched fleet picture.
BOS / FMS fleet status
Status 1–8 per aircraft: available, dispatched, on-scene, transport.
Leitstellen areas
Dispatch-centre coverage modelled — scene → launch → track correlation.
Hospital & base inside info
Approach plates, exact pads, base status and readiness — operator-only.
NVG weather & night-ops
Night-Vision go/no-go: lunar illumination × ceiling × visibility limits.
Dispatch-centre screen
A wall-ready ops view and multi-device base login for your crews.
RescueTrack-aware ground routing
Hospital & ambulance ETAs on real road routing, with active RescueTrack road closures fed in — detours reflected, air-vs-ground savings shown.
Request operator access
Operator features are granted to verified HEMS / SAR / police operators, approved individually by our team. Tell us who you fly for and we'll be in touch.
One live map.
Three ways to fly it.
Spotters and enthusiasts get the live fused rescue-fleet map for 5€. Pilots add full European planning, icing and convection for 10€. HEMS, SAR and police operators add RescueTrack dispatch, BOS/FMS status and NVG weather once accreditation is granted — reviewed by hand, not by card. Annual saves two months on every tier.
Spotter
For spotters & enthusiasts.
Equivalent to 4.08€ / month
- Live fused rescue-fleet map (HEMS / police / SAR, Europe-wide)
- Correct airframe silhouettes & operator liveries
- Operator & category filters
- Fleet completeness — "5 of 6 airframes seen"
- Flight playback & fleet history
- Mark your own spotting position & view angle (private by default)
- Webcams & community hazard reports
- Hazard presence: SIGMET / AIRMET, NOTAM, airspace, obstacles & wires
- Terrain shading & land mask
- Suggest a livery, colour or newly tracked aircraft
- Current METAR & SYNOP — the sky right now · Radar, satellite & lightning
- Shows the sky right now: no forecast (TAF), no time & altitude slider, no flight planning
No card required. 30-day trial. Cancel anytime.
Pilot
The full LowLevel planning app.
Equivalent to 8.25€ / month
- Everything in Spotter
- Vertical terrain / airspace / wire profile along a route
- Route planning, Direct-To & the low-level terrain-hugging router
- Mission brief & export (ForeFlight / Garmin)
- IFR feasibility, EASA alternates & minima
- Current METAR & SYNOP — the sky right now · Radar, satellite & lightning · TAF — aerodrome forecast · Time & altitude slider (look ahead, plan a level) · Icing forecast (ADWICE) · Convection & thunderstorm forecast (NowCastMix) · HEMSminima cloud-base forecast
No card required. 30-day trial. Cancel anytime.
HEMSreach
Per user, for verified HEMS / SAR / Police.
Equivalent to 12.42€ / month
- Everything in Pilot
- Approach plates (after verification)
- Live RescueTrack dispatch & BOS status (after verification)
- Leitstellen (dispatch centre) inside information (after verification)
- Hospital & base inside details (after verification)
- Current METAR & SYNOP — the sky right now · Radar, satellite & lightning · TAF — aerodrome forecast · Time & altitude slider (look ahead, plan a level) · Icing forecast (ADWICE) · Convection & thunderstorm forecast (NowCastMix) · HEMSminima cloud-base forecast
Access granted to approved operators only.
What each tier gets
One table, generated from the same definition the app enforces. If a line says you have it, the server agrees.
| Spotter5€ | Pilot10€ | HEMSreach15€ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Live map & traffic | |||
| Live fused rescue-fleet map (HEMS / police / SAR, Europe-wide) | included | included | included |
| Correct airframe silhouettes & operator liveries | included | included | included |
| Operator & category filters | included | included | included |
| Fleet completeness — "5 of 6 airframes seen" | included | included, off by default | included, off by default |
| Flight playback & fleet history | included | included | included |
| For spotters | |||
| Mark your own spotting position & view angle (private by default) | included | included, off by default | included, off by default |
| Webcams & community hazard reports | included | included | included |
| Weather | |||
| Current METAR & SYNOP — the sky right now | included | included | included |
| Radar, satellite & lightning | live only, no time travel | included | included |
| TAF — aerodrome forecast | not included | included | included |
| Time & altitude slider (look ahead, plan a level) | not included | included | included |
| Icing forecast (ADWICE) | not included | included | included |
| Convection & thunderstorm forecast (NowCastMix) | not included | included | included |
| HEMSminima cloud-base forecast | not included | included | included |
| NVG weather & night-ops go / no-go | not included | not included | operator verification required |
| Airspace, NOTAM & obstacles | |||
| Hazard presence: SIGMET / AIRMET, NOTAM, airspace, obstacles & wires | included | included | included |
| Terrain shading & land mask | included | included | included |
| Vertical terrain / airspace / wire profile along a route | not included | included | included |
| Planning | |||
| Route planning, Direct-To & the low-level terrain-hugging router | not included | included | included |
| Mission brief & export (ForeFlight / Garmin) | not included | included | included |
| IFR feasibility, EASA alternates & minima | not included | included | included |
| Approach plates | not included | not included | operator verification required |
| HEMS operational | |||
| Live RescueTrack dispatch & BOS status | not included | not included | operator verification required |
| Leitstellen (dispatch centre) inside information | not included | not included | operator verification required |
| Hospital & base inside details | not included | not included | operator verification required |
| Contribution | |||
| Suggest a livery, colour or newly tracked aircraft | included | included | included |
- ✓ included
- ○ included, off by default
- ⏱ live only — no time travel
- — not included
- 🔒 operator verification, never automatic
Mission Briefing FAQ
Clear, authoritative answers to the most common questions from HEMS and GA pilots.