AviHUD
Your flight plan, in your line of sight. Built by a pilot, for pilots.
Every pilot knows the trade-off: eyes inside on the chart or the tablet, or eyes outside where they belong. AviHUD moves the essentials (next waypoint, distance to go, ETE and live ETA) onto the Even Realities G2, everyday glasses with a transparent display that floats just below your line of sight. You keep flying and looking out; the numbers are simply there when you glance at them.
The glasses
AviHUD runs on the Even Realities G2, and the hardware is half of why the idea works. At 36 grams of magnesium and titanium the G2 weighs what ordinary eyewear weighs, light enough to forget on a long flying day. The slim, flat temples sit comfortably under an aviation headset's ear seals, where bulkier smart glasses press. The clip-on shades turn them into proper sunglasses for the bright side of the sky. The battery runs up to two days between charges, longer than any flying day, and the case carries seven more. And they are designed as well-made everyday glasses, not a gadget: nothing about them announces a display, until you need one.
The route page
Sign in with your AviTracer BRIEF account and pick your flight, and the planned route appears on the glasses. On the left, a schematic moving map with the route, the waypoints and your own position and track. On the right, the waypoint list: distance to go, time en route and a live ETA for every point ahead, with the active waypoint marked. Waypoints sequence automatically as you pass overhead or abeam, with no button pushing, and a swipe on the glasses' temple steps to the next or previous one when you want to look ahead.
The footer keeps altitude, groundspeed, distance to go and destination ETA in one glance. A UTC clock sits in one corner and today's sunset time in the other: the two numbers every VFR pilot ends up asking for. Before departure, plan ETAs are computed from your filed EOBT and planned speed; once you're moving, they go live from your actual groundspeed.
The last five miles
Every airport sits on the moving map as a small dot, the European VORs as the chart's hexagon with their idents once the scale allows, and the coastline and the larger lakes sit dimmed behind the route across Europe (Settings toggles turn each layer off; coastline and lakes from Natural Earth, Greek lakes © OpenStreetMap contributors). Within 5 NM of your destination the map zooms to a 5 NM view, and inside 2 NM it tightens again: runways appear in their true position and orientation, numbered at their thresholds, so you see your angle to the runway as you turn final. A heliport destination is marked by the circled H every pilot knows; a private spot keeps a clear dot.
Bring your own route
No AviTracer BRIEF account? AviHUD flies routes exported from the planning apps you already use:
Add the file on the phone, straight from an email attachment if that's where it landed, and it joins your Routes list. Tap a route to put it on the glasses, or turn it around for the flight back.
Or draw the route on the phone. Create route opens a map built from the plugin's own data, so it works with no signal: airports, heliports and VORs, the VFR reporting points across Europe as the chart's triangles, and the IFR fixes as four-point stars, from the AIPs of Greece, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Romania, North Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Germany, France, Spain, Portugal and the UK. Tap a symbol and it joins the route by name, tap open ground for a point of your own, drag a point to move it, drag the chips to reorder, and Save. The pencil on any saved route opens it on the same map to change it, or turns it around, or deletes it.
Fly without a route
Not every flight has a plan: a local training sortie, a sightseeing loop, a helicopter working an area. Tap FLY on the phone and the glasses show the picture around you instead of a route: a 5 NM view with a dashed ring at 5 NM around your position, every runway in true position and numbered, the heliports, the VORs, the coastline and the traffic. Beside it, the nearest airport with its distance and bearing and its frequencies in tune order, the next airport on a line, the next VORs with frequency, magnetic radial FROM and distance while the nearest one sits in the header as your fix, and the two nearest heliports with their distance and bearing. The footer keeps altitude, groundspeed, track and the nearest field. Choosing a flight or a route takes you back to planning.
Wind, when it matters
Within 5 NM of an AviWIND station, a live wind page appears on its own for six seconds: direction on a compass rose, speed and gusts, temperature and QNH, with FOG, RAIN and lightning STRIKE alerts when they're active. It shows up as you approach, exactly when you're setting up to land, then hands the route back for the approach itself. From the phone you can also call up any station for a ten-second look. Stale data is never dressed up as current: an old reading is flagged, not hidden.
Frequencies, one glance away
Every airport within 20 NM, with its frequencies, on one card: nearest first, with live distances. Approaching a field, the card leads with what you'll tune: ATIS, then approach, then tower; on the ground the order flips to ATIS, delivery, ground, tower. A single airport nearby gets the full detailed card, and en route over Greece the card carries the ATHINAI INFORMATION sectors and TMA instead. The data covers more than 2,200 European airports, with the Greek frequencies verified against the GREEK HELICOPTERS COMM/NAV card.
Traffic, before your eyes find it
An experimental TRAFFIC page puts live ADS-B traffic within 6 NM on a TCAS-style scope: your aircraft nose-up at the centre of the range ring (track-up, as on a TCAS display: 10 o'clock on the scope is 10 o'clock out the window), every target a diamond with its relative altitude in hundreds of feet and a climb or descent arrow. Beside the scope, the same traffic as a list: clock position, distance, altitude difference and callsign, nearest first. When an aircraft enters the ring, or appears inside it, the page appears on its own for six seconds, then hands the route back, and the phone chirps, through your headset if it is paired to it; inside the last five miles the diamonds join the approach view instead, right next to the runway you're aiming for.
Fly for a company that tracks its fleet with AviTracer? Sign in with your AviTracer account on the Settings page and your company's aircraft join the scope straight from their trackers, transponder or not: each one by registration, drawn as a small helicopter or airplane rather than a diamond, with its live altitude, or GND while it sits on the apron. ADS-B keeps covering everyone else, and an aircraft that shows up on both feeds is counted once.
Advisory only, and honest about its limits: this is transponder traffic heard by community ground receivers (adsb.lol), never everything that flies. Eyes out, see and avoid. It stays off until you switch it on in Settings.
A display that knows where you're looking
The G2 display follows your head. Look up at the overhead panel or down at the instruments and it hides; look ahead again and it returns. A tap steps to the next page (route, wind, frequencies, traffic: whatever is in range right now), and any page you glance at returns to the route on its own after twenty seconds. A long press hides the display manually, and a hidden display wakes itself when your next waypoint or a wind station comes close. There are no menus to work through with a headset on: the head does the flying, the glasses do the rest.
The phone side
The companion panel in the Even app stays in your pocket for the things a HUD shouldn't do: choosing the flight or tapping FLY, stepping waypoints from the phone, checking GPS and the nearest AviWIND station. No account yet? Tap Try the demo and watch SX-DEMO fly Samos to Mykonos on the glasses: route and sequencing, a live wind page and traffic on arrival, and base and final for runway 34 drawn on the 5 and 2 NM views down to the landing and the taxi in.
A Settings page, behind the gear button, keeps the choices you make once: your marker on the moving map (arrow, airplane or helicopter), airports, heliports and the coastline with its lakes shown or hidden, the track line ahead of your aircraft, live traffic on or off with its alert chirp, your AviTracer account for your company's fleet, and hands-free page turns by tilting your head.
Getting your Even G2 glasses
In Greece they are stocked by Optika Liolios, in two frame shapes: G2 A (rounded) and G2 B (rectangular), along with the sun clip-on for each (clip A · clip B), handy over sunny Greek islands, and the Even R1 smart ring. Elsewhere, order at evenrealities.com.
Getting the AviHUD plugin
AviHUD is available for the Even Realities G2 through the Even Hub plugin store. BRIEF flights need an AviTracer BRIEF account (avitracer.com); imported routes need none. AviWIND live wind stations are currently available in Greece (aviwind.com).
Every page, gesture and setting, in order: the AviHUD user manual.