Service Terms

Last updated: 2026-09-13

What Squawkr is, and what it is not RW 03 AB · Version 1.0 · Effective date: 2026-09-13

These terms describe the service itself. They apply to everyone who uses Squawkr, with or without an account. The agreement about your use — accounts, acceptable use — is in the User Terms.

1. Description of service

Squawkr answers three questions quickly, in the order a pilot actually asks them:

• What restriction areas are here, where are they, and how high do they go? — and, in the territories where we hold activation data, whether one is active right now and when it is active over the coming week.
• What are the conditions at an airfield? — the reported observation and forecast (METAR and TAF), including crosswind conditions for each runway.
• What does the airfield itself look like? — detailed runway layout (heading and length), the field's identity (ICAO code and location), and how that lines up with the weather conditions above.

It does this by fetching published data from aviation authorities and weather services, caching it, and putting it on one screen. It does not generate any aviation information of its own — everything it shows originates with national aviation organisations, weather services and other official sources (the full list is in section 6).

2. Limitations of the service

Squawkr is not an official planning tool. We republish data from official sources — we do not create, verify or authorise any of it.

• It is not an aeronautical information service and is not certified as one. It is not provided under Regulation (EU) 2017/373 or any equivalent, and it is not an approved pre-flight information bulletin.
• The Swedish NOTAM data it displays comes from LFV's Drönarkartan service, which states that the NOTAM layer must not be used operationally.
• Always verify activation and NOTAMs with the official source for the territory you are flying in — in Sweden, LFV AROWeb at aro.lfv.se — before you fly.
• For ground access to a shooting range or military area, the authority is the on-site signage and the responsible authority (in Sweden, Försvarsmakten), not this app. An area being inactive in the air says nothing about whether you may drive onto it.
• Squawkr gives you no permission, clearance or authorisation of any kind. It reports what has been published. Whether you may fly is between you, the regulations, and the authority.

The decision to fly, and the responsibility for it, are entirely yours. As pilot in command or remote pilot you are the final authority for your flight, and nothing Squawkr shows you changes that or shares it.

3. Status indicators

Squawkr shows each restriction area as one of three states:

• Active now (red) — a published activation covers the present moment.
• Scheduled (amber) — a published activation covers a period later today or this week.
• No published activation (green / neutral) — we have found no published activation window for this area.

No published activation does not mean the area is clear to fly. Activations can be published at short notice, publication can be delayed, and our copy can be out of date — the limits in §2 and §7 apply to this reading exactly as they do to everything else Squawkr shows.

"No published activation" is a statement about what has been published, not about what is happening. We will never word it as "free to fly" and neither should you.

4. Coverage

Squawkr is available worldwide. Squawkr does not have the same data worldwide. Those are two different statements and the difference is important.

Squawkr publishes three separate kinds of information, and each is covered separately. For any place you look at, this is what "covered" can mean:

1. Airfield data and weather data. Airfield reference data — identity, position, runways — comes from a global open dataset and exists for almost every field in the world. Weather (METAR/TAF) exists for those airfields that publish it themselves, typically controlled or larger aerodromes; that limit comes from the source data, not from us.
2. The locations and details of restriction areas. Where an area is, its designator and name, and the floor and ceiling between which it applies.
3. The activation status of restriction areas. Whether an area is switched on at this moment, and the published activation windows for the week ahead.

What we hold right now:

• Sweden — all three: airfields and weather, restriction-area locations and details, and activation status.
• The United States — all three: airfields and weather, special use airspace locations and details, and activation status.
• Everywhere else — the first only: airfields and, where published, weather. We hold no restriction areas at all, so Squawkr will draw none. An empty map is not empty airspace — it means we have no data for that country, and the areas that exist there are found through your national AIS, not through us.

Squawkr always tells you which of these applies for the place you are looking at. Two further rules follow from that, and they are the point of this section:

• Missing restriction-area data is labelled as missing, not as inactive. "We have no data here" and "nothing is active here" are different statements, and Squawkr never lets the first one look like the second.
• Where we hold (2) but not (3), we show the area — in a colour that is not a status colour. Should we hold an area's shape and vertical limits but have no feed telling us whether it is switched on, we draw it deliberately outside the red/amber/green status ramp, give you the identity and the floor and ceiling we do have, and say plainly: we cannot tell you whether this is active. That is neither a "clear to fly" nor an "active" signal — it is an honest "we do not know", and you must treat it as one.

Coverage changes as we add territories. The app itself is the current, authoritative statement of what we hold for the country you are flying in — not this paragraph.

5. Data freshness

• Everything on screen carries its age, and the time it applies to, in the local time of the thing being described — the airfield for weather, the area for activation windows — always labelled with its time zone. Raw METAR, TAF and NOTAM text is shown as issued, in UTC.
• When a source is unreachable we show the last data we hold, clearly marked as old, rather than showing nothing. Past a certain age we stop claiming to know, and say that instead.
• Caching is aggressive on purpose, so the app is fast and works at an airfield with no signal. The consequence is that what you are looking at may be minutes or hours old. The timestamp on screen is part of the information, not decoration.

6. Data sources and attribution

Squawkr displays information from third parties, with thanks:

• LFV (Luftfartsverket) — Swedish restriction areas, danger areas, AIP SUP and NOTAM data, via the Drönarkartan open data services. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Squawkr adapts this data: it parses the published schedules and NOTAM text into the status and timeline it shows, and says so where the data is shown. LFV states that this information must not be used operationally.
• NOAA / National Weather Service, via aviationweather.gov — METAR and TAF. US Government work, in the public domain.
• The FAA — United States special use airspace and NOTAM data.
• OurAirports — airfield and runway reference data. Public domain.
• OpenStreetMap contributors — base map data and tiles, © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed ODbL (openstreetmap.org/copyright).
• Esri and its imagery providers — satellite imagery.

Attribution is also shown in the app itself. Squawkr's own presentation, code and design are © RW 03 AB and are not covered by the licences above.

7. No warranty

Squawkr is provided as it is. To the fullest extent the law allows, we make no warranty that:

• activation information is accurate, complete, current, or reflects what an authority has actually published;
• the absence of a restriction area, an activation, or a NOTAM means there is none;
• weather information is accurate or current;
• airfield, runway or field data is accurate — it is indicative, and reference publications govern;
• the service will be available, uninterrupted, or free of errors.

Aviation data changes constantly, sources fail, feeds go stale, and publishers make mistakes we cannot detect. That is precisely why §2 says to verify against the official source.

8. Liability

Nothing here limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited — including the mandatory consumer rights of the country you live in.

Subject to that, and to the fullest extent Swedish law allows:

• We are not liable for any decision you make about a flight, or for its consequences, including any loss, fine, prosecution, enforcement action, airspace infringement, damage, delay or cancellation.
• We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, lost profit, lost data, or the cost of a substitute service.
• We are not liable for errors, omissions, outages or changes in third-party data, or for those third parties' own services and terms.
• Squawkr is a convenience layer over public data, not a substitute for it. Every figure we show traces back to an onward source you can and must check — LFV AROweb and NOTAMs, the relevant aviation-weather service, and on-site signage — and the decision to fly, with all responsibility for it, is yours as pilot in command (see §2). We do not set a monetary cap on our liability; we rely on the disclaimers above and on your duty to verify.

9. Changes

We will change the service and these terms as Squawkr develops — new territories, new sources, occasionally the loss of a source. Each version is dated and numbered. Material changes are announced in the app and by email to anyone with an account, before they take effect. Continued use after that means you accept them.

10. Governing law and contact

Swedish law applies, with the consumer position set out in the User Terms §11.

RW 03 AB · org. nr 559537-8331 · Björngränd 4, 621 57 Visby, Sweden hello@squawkr.net