Beacon Tools

Local-first flight boards, without an account wall.

Beacon Tools is the home behind Local Flight. Start here for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Raspberry Pi downloads, mobile apps, privacy choices, support, and a plain-language explanation of the optional shared service.

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Downloads, mobile guidance, support, privacy choices, and clear online-connection information for Local Flight.

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Local Flight

Turn a Windows, macOS, Linux, or Raspberry Pi host into an airport-style flight board for your own screens, with radar, history, mobile views, and LED matrix output.

Product page 0.5.2 notes

Mobile apps

Use Companion with your own Local Flight server, keep that connection available through encrypted Remote Companion, or choose Standalone for a simpler phone-only board. Version 0.5.2 is in TestFlight and Google Play testing.

Mobile page

Support

Send a general question, ask about the mobile app, make a privacy request, or file a structured bug report with optional text logs.

Support page

Shared service

This optional service supplies shared data, carries unreadable Remote Companion messages, and powers mobile Standalone without asking every user to manage aviation data keys.

Network page

Privacy

Read what stays on your device, what online features may send, and how to reset local app data or ask a privacy question.

Privacy policy

Not for professional or safety-critical aviation use

Local Flight, Beacon Tools pages, screenshots, and relay data are informational display aids only. Data may be delayed, incomplete, cached, wrong, or unavailable. Do not use them for navigation, dispatch, operational control, flight planning, professional aviation work, or safety decisions.