Tyson Weihs

Aspen, Colorado

Status: building interesting things agentically.

I'm best known for co-founding ForeFlight with Jason Miller and Adam Houghton. At ForeFlight we created and defined the category of integrated flight applications — combining capabilities that used to be built and delivered by dozens of separate companies into a single product. Along with a team of immensely talented designers, engineers, product managers, and supporters, we built a passionate following in every segment of aviation, from student pilots to the world's largest flight departments and air forces. The thing I'm most proud of is that we created a product customers raved about, and that brought countless pilots home to their families after enduring some kind of event that would, without ForeFlight, have ended in tragedy.

Along the way we picked up a number of industry honors I'll always be grateful for — multiple Flying magazine Editor's Choice awards, the Living Legends of Aviation Entrepreneurs of the Year award, the Godfrey L. Cabot Award from the Aero Club of New England, and, perhaps most meaningfully, the AOPA Aviation Safety award for making measurable improvements in aviation safety statistics.

A few mantras from those years still rattle around in my head. Someone is coming to eat you — there is always a faster, hungrier competitor closer than you think, and standing still is the only thing that guarantees you lose. Real artists ship — taste without a release is just noise; the work isn't real until customers can use it. The best deals die three times — anything worth doing will look dead at least once before it closes, and the people who close them are the ones who keep showing up after the funeral. And there's no such thing as an easy feature — every shipped capability carries a tail of edge cases, support load, documentation, and second-order consequences that the original spec never imagined.

These days I spend my time on a few things. I'm a partner at Airspeed Partners, a partnership the ForeFlight co-founders started that invests in patterns we recognize and areas we're passionate about. I serve on the boards of the National Business Aviation Association, Signature Aviation, Natural Atlas, and Surfline (which is exactly as fun as it sounds), and on the advisory board of MITRE's Center for Advanced Aviation System Development (CAASD), the FAA's federally funded R&D center for the National Airspace System. I also advise OpenSnow, Deep Dive, Adronite, 1A1, and Enhanced Radar.

Off the keyboard, I'm an active pilot — I fly both piston and jet aircraft — and a competitive clay target sportsman, angler, tennis player, skier, avid bird hunter, and family guy.

Most of my creative energy these days goes into agentic engineering and what it is doing to the cost curve of building software. Ideas that would have required a team and tens — sometimes hundreds — of thousands of dollars to get off the ground in 2025 are now achievable by one person with an all-you-can-eat Max plan from one of the frontier labs. The question I find most interesting is just how big you can scale something with a small team, and I'm working on answering it with a few collaborators.

Elsewhere

• ForeFlight — co-founder.
• Airspeed Partners — a partnership that invests in patterns we recognize and areas we're passionate about.
• NBAA — board of directors.
• Signature Aviation — board of directors.
• Natural Atlas — board of directors.
• Surfline — board of directors.
• MITRE CAASD — advisory board.
• OpenSnow, Deep Dive, Adronite, 1A1, Enhanced Radar — advisor.
• Shoot Schedule — something AI built under my direction for the skeet and sporting clays community.
• LinkedIn — if you must.

Contact

Email is best. Surely you can guess it.

Last updated April 2026. This page is intentionally plain. Inspired by the long tradition of personal home pages that loaded in under 50ms on a 28.8 modem.