Serious planning doesn't happen on a seven-inch screen at the aircraft. It happens the night before, at a keyboard, with a chart open and a coffee going cold. Soar Plan is that screen — the same terrain, turbulence and obstacle intelligence as the app, with room to actually think.
Browser-based. Nothing to install.
In the aircraft you want the map, the next waypoint and the thing about to hurt you. On the ground you want to compare three routings, check terrain against four wind scenarios and brief a crew. Those are different jobs and they want different screens.
The temptation with a web version is to rebuild the planning logic in a second language and end up with two planners that quietly disagree about fuel reserves. We're not doing that.
Route generation, terrain routing, turbulence, weight and balance, weather decoding — one implementation, called by both the app and the browser. Change a rule once and both get it the same day. There is no version of this where the web says one thing and the iPad says another.
Proximity alerting never becomes a network call — the whole point is that it works in a valley with no signal. That logic stays on the device, permanently. The browser doesn't need it, for the same reason nobody flies with a laptop.
Build it at the desk, open it in the aircraft. Change it at the aircraft, and the operations desk sees the change. For fleets, a published route reaches every pilot's app without anyone emailing a PDF.
Airspace, TFRs, terrain, wire spans and your own waypoints — with the screen space to see all of it at once.
Two or three options side by side, with terrain profile, exposure and time for each.
What you'll clear along the route, and what you won't, at the altitude you intend to fly.
Run the same route against different wind and ceiling assumptions before committing to a departure time.
A shareable brief — waypoints, sketched approaches, hazards and notes — that opens in the crew's app in place.
Publish a standard routing once; every pilot in the operation has it. Tied into Fleet.
Soar Plan is in development and doesn't exist yet. The data behind it does — the hazards, airspace, terrain and weather are live and serving the app today — and so does the planning logic, currently on iOS. The work is moving that logic server-side and building the browser client on top.
If desk-based planning is the thing standing between you and using Soar across an operation, say so. That moves it up the list.