About
A real number for every landing
"How was that one?" deserves a better answer than a shrug. landing.fyi gives every landing an objective, repeatable score.
Why we built it
Pilots already fly with avionics that record everything — airspeed, vertical speed, g, track, position — many times a second. That data has the whole story of every approach and touchdown in it. It just sits in a file nobody opens.
landing.fyi reads that file and turns it into something useful: every landing detected, scored 0–100, and broken into the six things that actually make a landing good — a stable approach speed, a steady glidepath, the centerline, the flare, how firmly the wheels touched, and how straight you rolled out.
The score is built to match how a pilot would judge it. Around 80 is a comfortable, passenger-friendly landing; the top of the scale is the kind nobody in back felt. It's calibrated to be aircraft-agnostic, so it's fair whether you fly a trainer or something faster.
Airports we cover
landing.fyi scores landings at 13,976 airports and 18,353 runways across United States, Australia, Europe, South Africa, Namibia, New Zealand and Canada, with more being added. Browse all airports →
Flew somewhere we don't cover yet? Upload the flight anyway — we'll tell you exactly which airport is missing and let you add it with one click, so we know to bring it in next.
Data & sources
Scoring a landing means knowing exactly where the runway is — its threshold, alignment, and dimensions. We build that reference from open data:
- United States — runway data from the FAA Aeronautical Information Services (NASR).
- Australia, New Zealand & Canada — OurAirports, refined against X-Plane Scenery Gateway apt.dat data, © its contributors, used under the GNU GPL v2 (the apt.dat-derived coordinates are published under the GPL); New Zealand runway geometry also contains data sourced from the LINZ Data Service, licensed for reuse under CC BY 4.0.
- Austria — runway positions checked against the Austrian air navigation service provider, Austro Control (ACG): its INSPIRE runway areas, retrieved 2026-10-01, used under its CC BY 4.0.
- Switzerland — official aerodrome and runway data from the Federal Office of Civil Aviation (FOCA): its Cadastre of obstacle limitation surfaces of 2026-02-17, used under its opendata.swiss terms of use ("Open use. Must provide the source.").
- Czechia — runway positions checked against the Czech Office for Surveying, Mapping and Cadastre (ČÚZK): its INSPIRE runway areas, retrieved 2026-10-01, used under its CC BY 4.0.
- Denmark — runway positions checked against the Danish Agency for Climate Data (Klimadatastyrelsen): its INSPIRE runway areas, retrieved 2026-10-01, used under its terms for free geographic data.
- Finland — official aerodrome and runway data from the Aeronautical Information Services of Fintraffic Air Navigation Services (Fintraffic ANS), AIRAC cycle of 2026-10-01, used under its terms of use.
- France — official aerodrome and runway data from the Service de l'Information Aéronautique (SIA), AIRAC cycle of 2026-10-01, used under its Licence Ouverte.
- Luxembourg — runway positions checked against the Administration de la navigation aérienne (ANA): its INSPIRE runway areas, retrieved 2026-10-01, used under its CC0 1.0.
- Netherlands — official aerodrome and runway data from the Dutch air navigation service provider, Air Traffic Control the Netherlands (LVNL), AIRAC cycle of 2026-10-01, used under its permission of 2026-10-12 (AIP data in the public domain, LVNL credited as the source).
- Slovenia — runway positions checked against the Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia (GURS): its INSPIRE runway areas of 2022-12-01, used under its CC BY 4.0.
- Europe, South Africa & Namibia — AIP-grade runway data from open flightmaps, used under the OFMA General Users' Licence.
- Worldwide baseline — airport positions from OurAirports (public domain).
- Terrain — runway slopes where no official source publishes the heights of the runway ends, and the field elevations no aeronautical source gives, come from the Copernicus DEM (some of those field elevations by way of Open-Meteo): produced using Copernicus WorldDEM™-30 and WorldDEM™-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved.
- Weather — when your avionics logged no outside air temperature, a landing's temperature and density altitude come from the nearest weather station, via the Iowa Environmental Mesonet (Iowa State University) and NOAA's Global Historical Climatology Network.
Aeronautical data is never perfect. If a landing is projected onto the wrong runway, or an airport you flew is off or missing, let us know:
Built for honest feedback
The point isn't a leaderboard. It's a mirror: a consistent measurement, flight after flight, so you can see whether the thing you're working on is actually getting better. When the data is too ambiguous to score honestly, the landing is flagged rather than guessed at.
Your landings are private to your account. Sharing is opt-in. Anonymized entries can appear on public airport leaderboards, which you can switch off.