PlaneWX Labs
Pro PlusEarly access to tools still in development. What ships today: the Altitude Profile cross-section, Route Map Forecast models, and Pilot Self Debrief. Beta quality — useful, not a substitute for the briefing.
Labs means beta
These surfaces can change, disagree with the scored briefing, or be wrong. The WX Score and the briefing narrative remain the decision-support product. You stay PIC.
Altitude Profile
A vertical cross-section of your route: winds, clouds, icing, and turbulence by altitude, with a recommended cruise. It is the same engine documented on the Altitude Advisor help page — gated to Pro Plus as a Labs surface.
Open it from a trip briefing when you want to compare altitudes, not as a replacement for reading the icing and turbulence sections.
Route Map Forecast
On the trip Route Map, the Forecast tab embeds model layers (HRRR and friends) along your route so you can scrub timing and convection the way you would on a dedicated weather map — without leaving PlaneWX.
It is a model viewer, not a scored product. A colorful radar loop does not override a 0% WX Score.
Pilot Self Debrief
A structured look back after you land — how you flew, what the weather did, and what to take into the next trip. It does not change your WX Score. See the Pilot Self Debrief help page.
Labs is how we ship tools that are useful enough to fly with and honest enough to label unfinished. If something here earns its way into the core briefing, it will leave Labs and show up in the main help index under its own name.