Every operation at your field, captured automatically.
Skylume turns one plug-in receiver into a record of who flew in and out. Takeoffs, landings, touch-and-gos, and low passes are logged with the runway, time, aircraft type, and registered owner, without a control tower or a clipboard on the ramp.
The receiver sets itself up and starts logging with the first aircraft it hears.
From shipping box to live dashboard in an afternoon.
Setup needs a power outlet and an antenna. Nothing about how your field operates changes.
Plug in the receiver
The unit ships pre-configured. Connect the antenna and power and it checks in with Skylume on its own within minutes. Once it is assigned to your airport, logging starts.
It logs every operation
The receiver decodes each ADS-B-equipped aircraft in range, looks it up in the FAA registry, and matches its track to your runways. Touch-and-gos and low passes are logged along with full stops.
Open the dashboard
Watch traffic on a live map of your field, see operations by hour, day, and month, and export any date range to CSV or Excel. The numbers start with your first day of traffic.
One morning at a training field, as Skylume logs it.
Every row was recorded by the receiver. Nobody typed anything in.
The same record feeds a live map of your runways and taxiways, charts by hour, day, and month, economic-impact figures with editable assumptions, the latest METAR plus the TAF where one is issued, CSV and Excel exports, and an FAA 5010 summary.
The visits that never made it onto an invoice.
Skylume checks each visit against the sales in your fuel system. Transient aircraft that parked for more than an hour and left without a sale go on a review list with the tail number, registered owner, and length of stay, while the visit is still fresh enough to follow up.
- A weekly email of unmatched visits, with the owner's name and mailing address from the FAA registry.
- Dollar estimates from your own ramp and handling fee schedule, by aircraft weight class.
- Reviewed visits become draft invoices, and nothing is sent until your team approves it.
Counting airplanes is the easy part.
The difference is what gets counted, and whether you can stand behind the number when someone challenges it.
Honest numbers
Measured figures are marked as measured. Modeled figures show the assumptions behind them, and you can edit every one. You only report numbers you can defend.
Ready for the 5010
Operations are sorted into the FAA 5010 classes and paired with your based-aircraft roster, so the annual submission starts from counted operations.
On duty around the clock
The receiver runs day and night, so the 6 a.m. medevac departure and the Sunday evening pattern session make it into the record even when nobody is at the desk.
Your data stays yours
Each operator's data is kept apart from every other customer's, and Skylume can run on servers you control. Your field's record belongs to your field.
Let's talk about your field.
Send us a note and we'll set up a walkthrough. You don't need an account.