User Guide
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The Pilot EFB user guide
How to use every part of Pilot EFB, task by task: setting up on day one, tracking duty and flight time limits, keeping your logbook, reading weather and NOTAMs, the tools around them - and the web edition at your desk.
- Chapters
- 17
- Sections
- 5
- Reading time
- 99min
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Verified against Pilot EFB 1.0.0 for iPhone and iPad
The guide is not complete yet: more chapters are being written and land here as they are finished. Every chapter states the app version it was last verified against.
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Core modules
- HomeYour day at a glance - what is live now, weather at your base, your legal position and the tools you reach for, on one adaptive dashboard.6 min read
- Duty & FTLLog duties, import your roster, and read your flight time limitations live - EASA ORO.FTL or FAA Part 117, on your own terms.6 min read
- LogbookLog flights and simulator sessions, watch your totals and recency, and take your records anywhere - a personal flying record that shows its working.7 min read
- WeatherWatch the airports you care about, read METARs and TAFs raw and decoded, and browse the wider weather picture - with every report attributed and aged honestly.6 min read
- NOTAMsRead an airport's NOTAMs raw and decoded, watch a FIR's enroute notices, map them, and get alerted to new critical ones - gaps stated honestly.6 min read
- AirportsLook up any airport offline - runways, frequencies, sun times and live crosswinds from bundled reference data, every value attributed for verification.6 min read
- Aviation MapOne offline chart engine behind every map in the app - the route chart, its layers and airport peek, region packs, and a permanent Not for navigation badge.7 min read
Plan and fly
- FlightsFlight folders in the Brief tab - plan the day in the wizard, let it go active at report time, complete it into a sealed read-only record.5 min read
- BriefInside the flight folder's briefing - verdict chips, an honest trust check, the FDP reading of your day, and weather and NOTAM panes per airport.7 min read
Toolkit
- ToolsThe Tools tab's utility catalogue - pinned shortcuts, search, phase-of-flight browsing, and the calculators, converters, checklists and admin tools inside.7 min read
- CommunityThe community feature board - browse pilots' ideas, vote with a free account, suggest your own, and how moderation keeps the space honest.4 min read
- Learn & ReferenceThe app's teaching shelf - narrative aviation guides, quick-reference lookups and the step-by-step tutorial hub, all bundled, offline and free.5 min read
- Notifications & WidgetsThe header bell and alerts feed, NOTAM and weather alerts, local reminders, quiet hours - and the widgets and duty Live Activity outside the app.7 min read
Account and data
- Settings, Backup & SyncOne hub for identity, preferences, data and help - accounts and cloud sync, backup files, your devices, honest deletion, and the About ledger.8 min read
- Pilot EFB on the webThe same product at a desk - the Overview desk, Duty & FTL console, logbook, weather and NOTAM workbenches, and the full-screen Ops Map.6 min read
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Pilot EFB is free to download on iPhone and iPad, with an optional Pro subscription for the full duty, logbook and briefing toolkit.