Live LED Aviation Weather

Your SkyIn Living Color

Where aviation and weather come together.

Handcrafted LED maps that pull real-time METAR data and light up each airport with its current flight conditions — green for clear, red for low. A glance tells you the weather.

See The Maps → How It Works

The Idea

A weather briefing you can hang on the wall

Each light on a Hotshot Map is a real airport. Behind the scenes, the map quietly checks current conditions and recolors every station, so your local flying weather is always glowing in the corner of the room — no app, no screen, no checking.

5 min

Always Current

Conditions refresh automatically around the clock — the map is never out of date.

Wi-Fi

Plug & Glow

Connects to your home Wi-Fi in a couple of taps. Just give it a wall outlet.

Custom

Your Region

Built around the airports you care about — home field, training area, or a whole state.

Reading The Lights

Four colors, one glance

Hotshot Maps use the same flight-category colors pilots already know. The moment conditions change at an airport, its light changes with them.

VFR

VISUAL FLIGHT RULES

Clear skies and good visibility. Green means go.

MVFR

MARGINAL VFR

Ceilings or visibility starting to drop. Worth a closer look.

IFR

INSTRUMENT FLIGHT RULES

Low ceilings or reduced visibility. Instruments required.

LIFR

LOW IFR

The toughest conditions — very low ceilings and visibility.

Beyond Color

The map comes alive

Active weather doesn’t just sit there. Stations animate when something’s happening overhead.

LightningThunderstorms flash

WindGusts pulse & fade

RainShowers shimmer

SnowFlurries twinkle

The Work

Maps I’ve built

Every map is made by hand and wired one station at a time. Here are a few from the workbench.

Hotshot Maps LED METAR map of the Kansas City and Missouri region with airports lit in flight-category colors

Kansas City & Missouri

From KC to St. Louis — live conditions across the region.

LED METAR map of the Lake Michigan region glowing at night, Milwaukee to Chicago

Night Glow

Milwaukee, Chicago & the lakeshore after dark.

Framed LED METAR map of the Great Lakes region showing VFR green conditions

Great Lakes, Framed

Wisconsin to Grand Rapids in clean VFR green.

Hotshot Map mounted on a wall showing live METAR conditions

Ready to Hang

Framed, mounted, and live — right at home on the wall.

Hotshot Map glowing green in the dark showing all VFR conditions

All Green

Every station reporting VFR — a good night to fly.

Live in Action

Watch the lights update in real time as conditions change across the region.

Always On

A closer look at the lights cycling through conditions — no app, no screen needed.

Why A Hotshot Map

Built to fly, made to last

01 / LIVE

Real-Time Data

Pulls official METAR observations and updates every five minutes, day and night.

02 / EASY

Simple Setup

Connects to 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi from your phone in minutes. After a power blip it reconnects on its own.

03 / YOURS

Made To Order

Tell me your airports and your approximate size, and the map is built around them.

04 / CRAFT

Handmade

Assembled and wired by hand — not a kit, not mass-produced.

05 / QUIET

Set & Forget

No subscription, no app to babysit. It just glows with the current weather.

06 / GIFT

A Pilot’s Favorite

A standout gift for aviators, CFIs, and anyone who loves the sky.

The Maker

Made by a pilot, for people who look up.

Hotshot Maps started in a workshop in the Kansas City area, born from a love of flying and a habit of checking the weather. Each map is designed, built, and tested by hand — the kind of thing you make because you’d want one yourself.

A framed Hotshot Map mounted on a wall, lit with current flight conditions

Get In Touch

Let’s build your map

Questions, a custom region in mind, or just want to see more? Send a note — I’d love to hear what you’re thinking.

Email Hotshot Maps

Hotshotmaps@gmail.com