17 METEO – Weather for Drones

Andrii Kniaziev

About this app

Good to fly right now?

17 METEO answers in a second:
🟢 Green — good to fly
🟡 Yellow — fly with caution
🔴 Red — better hold off
And it always tells you why.

17 METEO is a professional weather forecast for drones, FPV, UAVs and light aviation.

A drone is hundreds of hours of work and serious money. One weather mistake takes it away in a minute. A regular forecast tells you whether to take an umbrella — a pilot needs winds and gusts at working altitude, cloud base, visibility, GNSS health, and the moment a safe launch window opens. 17 METEO puts all of it on one screen. Weather for drones, not the "average temperature in town".

Set your aircraft's limits once, or pick a ready-made profile, and every forecast is checked against YOUR drone — quadcopter, FPV or fixed wing. 50+ ready-made profiles: DJI Mavic, Mini, Air, Matrice, Autel EVO, Ukrainian and Western professional UAV platforms — or build your own.

AI FORECASTS THAT ACTUALLY WORK
• Real next-generation neural weather models (NOAA AIGFS) — the technology reshaping world meteorology right now
• An AI go/no-go verdict with a confidence level, cross-checked against a classical model
• Model agreement: do ECMWF, GFS and ICON agree — how much can you trust today's forecast

GO/NO-GO TRAFFIC LIGHT
• Readiness status tuned to your UAV profile — with the limiting factor spelled out
• Nearest green launch window: when it opens and how long it lasts
• Hourly forecast for 24 h and a 15-day outlook

WIND IS THE ENEMY
• Detailed wind profile by altitude up to 3,000 m
• Mission altitude: drag the line and every card recalculates
• Wind rose, gusts, turbulence, density altitude, icing risk
• Bluetooth anemometer support — ground-truth wind in the field

PILOT TOOLKIT
• Point of No Return (PNR): will the battery get you home against the wind
• Wind triangle: actual ground track and ground speed
• Radio line-of-sight: Fresnel zone, 360° coverage, MGRS input
• Route analysis: weather where your aircraft will BE, not where it is now
• Upper air: winds and temps up to FL450, Skew-T diagram, CAPE, freezing level
• Battery state before launch, cold-weather derating

NAVIGATION & SIGNAL
• GNSS monitor: satellite health with spoofing alerts
• GNSS forecast: how many satellites will be visible in your launch window
• Geomagnetic activity: Kp index and its effect on GPS
• Lightning and thunderstorms: CAPE index and hourly risk graph

BEYOND THE AIR
• Naval mode: wave height, sea state and departure windows for surface platforms
• Ground mode: soil trafficability, night-frost windows, fords, control-link range

WORKS EVERYWHERE
• Worldwide coverage: the same forecast at any point on the planet
• Offline maps and forecast cache — reliable where connectivity is poor
• Home-screen widget: readiness at a glance
• Shareable team briefing in one tap
• Built in Ukraine — proven by pilots where weather decides everything

PRIVACY (OPSEC)
• All computation on-device; the app collects and transmits nothing
• There is simply nothing to leak — private by default

Built for people who fly for a living: aerial photo and video, FPV, inspections, search and rescue, agriculture — any unmanned platform.

17 METEO is a professional weather app for drone and UAV pilots — completely free. No ads, no subscriptions. Fewer guesses, more confidence before takeoff.

What’s new

• Added location input using MGRS coordinates
• Improved stability and fixed other issues