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Mark Wolfgang

Mark Wolfgang

Founder and CEO of PlaneWX, an AI-powered aviation weather platform; Patent Attorney at NASA Glenn Research Center; experienced pilot (TBM, formerly SR22T and DA40NG).

Jul 2, 2026

20:49
It takes the raw area forecast discussions published by weather forecast offices around the country, over 130 of them, synthesizes them with AI, factors in your aircraft's capabilities and your personal minimums, and gives you a single numerical WX score for your flight days in advance.
21:04
It's not just weather.
21:06
So when we put together a weather briefing, um, and present a WX score, which is a numerical score, it considers the weather, but then it factors in the aircraft capabilities and the pilot's personal minimums and tolerances.
21:23
You can put in a trip up to two weeks out, and it will refresh your briefing as new weather products come out.
21:53
It can notify your passengers too, so everyone's in the loop days before wheels up.
21:58
I wanted to provide pilots with as much notice as possible so they could have that conversation with their friends and say, "Hey, it's Monday, and we're going on a flight Friday." You can start the conversation.
22:08
Not only that, we have a way where you can have those that are accompanying you on your flight get these email alerts as well.
22:15
And the whole point is to get the conversation started of, "Hey guys, we might have to rent a car," or, "We might have to go on Thursday," or, "We might have to fly commercial," to remove some of that pressure from the pilots.
31:28
It is.
31:30
So, thanksgiving comes and wife of course says so do you think we're going to be able to fly and i'm like i don't know honey you know i'll tell you the night before when the taff comes out right and then we all know that sometimes the night before is is not even soon enough we don't sometimes we don't know if we're going until the morning of we've got to wake up and see what the ceilings look like and see what the the radar picture looks like in route so I got kind of frustrated with this and I'm like, you know, I'm just going to do what I always did and hire a programmer because I'm a technology guy and I built platforms and software, but always by hiring other programmers to do it because I am not a developer and that's a very unique skill set.
32:22
So I hired a developer.
32:24
So I dictated all my requirements of this app, of what it would do.
32:28
And I hired him.
32:31
And about the same time, I got an email saying, build your own app with AI, quick start guide.
32:38
And I was like... okay.

9 MINS LATER

41:13
So for someone who's maybe debating looking at something like this for their own decision making, how does this all come together and how does it work? Like how does the scoring come together and the parameters for like a new user?

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