Software written by the people who use it.
Zephyr_LAB.io is a software workshop. We build tools for trades we practise ourselves — the cockpit, the classroom — where a badly designed interface costs time, attention, or worse.
Product · Aviation
All the weather of the flight,
on a single map.
Met2Pilot brings radar, satellite, upper winds, METAR, TAF, NOTAM and traffic together on one map, centred on the aircraft. Built for the iPad in the cockpit, designed to be read at a glance, between two tasks.
Every layer carries the name of its source and the age of the data on screen. Nothing is presented as more reliable than it is.
- iPad · web app
- OPERA European radar
- Vertical situation display
- Decoded METAR / TAF
- NOTAM
- ADS-B traffic
Product · Education
Dictation, built around
the words that need work.
You give Dictéo the words a child needs to revise — the ones from the lesson, the ones missed yesterday — and the app writes the dictation that contains them, at the chosen length and tense.
Words can be typed, spoken, or photographed. For French primary school years, on the family phone as readily as on a classroom tablet.
- Ages 7 to 11
- Voice input
- Photo input
- Pupil profiles
Approach
Four principles,
held to.
The trade comes first
Our software grows out of practice, not market research. Met2Pilot is written by an airline pilot and former aeronautical engineer who carries it in the flight deck. Real use is the specification.
Say what the tool does not do
An experimental feature is labelled as one. Data twelve minutes old shows its age. A tool that is not certified says so on every screen. Trust is built on stated limits, not on promises.
Named sources
Every piece of data on screen carries its provider and its licence. EUMETNET OPERA, NOAA, EUMETSAT, Open-Meteo, DWD — nothing is anonymised behind a coat of paint.
Hosted in Europe
Servers in Germany, database in Frankfurt, transactional email in Ireland. No card details are ever stored. The detail is set out in each service's privacy policy.
The workshop
Small,
by choice.
Zephyr_LAB.io is the trading name of Dimitry Petitprez EI, a French sole trader based in Annecy.
An active airline pilot and former aeronautical engineer, I design and build the software I publish. There is no one standing between the person who flies and the person who writes the code — which is what makes it possible to fix an interface detail the day after a flight where it got in the way.
That size imposes choices. We open few features at a time, we prove them in real use, and we do not promise a roadmap we could not keep.
Contact
Let's talk.
A question about a product, a request for access to the Met2Pilot beta, support on a current subscription, or a project to discuss — it is the same address, and you will get an answer.
Zephyr_LAB.io — 40A rue Centrale, 74940 Annecy, France