Open a flight folder on the Brief tab and you are looking at its briefing: the weather, NOTAMs and duty picture the app gathers around the day you planned. This chapter covers that content - the hero, the trust check and the four panes beneath it. The folder itself (launcher, wizard, lifecycle, snapshots, completion) is the Flights chapter, and the route chart is Aviation Map's. The foot of the Overview carries the framing verbatim: "Personal review note - not a dispatch release or operational sign-off." Whenever FDP figures are on the pane, "Personal planning only." sits above it.

Find your way around

The folder page leads with the hero card: the lifecycle badge, the route, the date and sector count, and three verdict chips. Below it the section rail switches panes.

Chip or pane	What it shows
FDP chip	Your plan read against the modelled FDP limit, for example "Within FDP - 10h 25m to limit"; opens the Overview
Weather chip	The worst flight category across your route airports and how many are reporting; opens Weather
NOTAMs chip	The active count with criticals called out; opens NOTAMs
Trust line	One grade for the whole brief; tap it for the per-airport breakdown
Overview	Sharpen your brief, your flight plan, the route map card, Duty & FDP, readiness, offline readiness, your records, Mark as reviewed
Weather	A station card per route airport, personal minimums, Compare airports, enroute hazards, winds aloft
NOTAMs	Every route airport's notices with search, category chips and Priority first
More	The tools row and the folder's record decks

Each rail pill carries its own badge: an active-NOTAM count, a dot for IFR-or-worse weather or an FDP over a modelled limit, and a danger dot when a NOTAM source is down. Absence of data is never shown as a calm zero. The route line on the hero doubles as a flight switcher when other folders exist, the info button opens Brief help (the written guide and two guided tours), and the three-dot menu holds Add another station. On iPhone the hero and rail scroll away with the content; switching panes scrolls you back to the top.

An active flight folder's briefing on the Brief tab: the hero card with an Active badge, route EGLL to EGCC on Sat 12 Sep with 1 sector, three verdict chips reading FDP Within FDP 10h 25m to limit, Weather MVFR 2 of 2 reporting, and NOTAMs 40 active 4 critical in red, above a trust line reading Trusted, Current and complete, with the Overview, Weather and NOTAMs 40 section rail and the Sharpen your brief card at 81 percent, 4 of 7 added, below — The hero and the rail (1 the verdict chips, 2 the trust line, 3 the section rail).

How to check whether the brief is current

Read the trust line under the chips. Up to date - Current - all stations answered means every route airport returned current weather and NOTAM data.
If it reads otherwise, the line says what is wrong: Aging ("Weather aging - refresh recommended"), Gaps ("1 station missing data - EGCC", "NOTAMs unavailable"), or Checking while fetches settle. A completed folder reads Sealed record - data as captured for this flight.
Tap the line to open the per-airport breakdown: METAR, TAF and NOTAM state for every airport on the route, plus the snapshot seal state.

The brief trust breakdown sheet rising over the dimmed EGLL to EGCC folder: a green Trusted heading with Current and complete beneath it, a paragraph explaining this is a quick check of whether weather and NOTAM data is present and current for every airport on the route and not an operational clearance, and a table with METAR, TAF and NOTAMs columns showing OK in green for both EGLL and EGCC — The trust sheet: METAR, TAF and NOTAM state per airport.

How to read the FDP verdict

Open the Overview pane. It starts with the Sharpen your brief checklist (the wizard's optional extras, with a completion count), then your flight plan - aircraft, report time, each leg with its planned times - and the route map card (tap it for the full-screen route chart, which Aviation Map covers). A daylight line follows when sunset at your destination is close to your planned arrival, framed as "a personal cushion, not a night rule".
Scroll to Duty & FDP. Once your legs carry full planned times, the folder derives a real duty in your duty log and reads it with the same FTL engine as the Duty & FTL tab: the verdict word (WITHIN FDP / NEAR LIMIT / OVER FDP), your active regime, and an FDP rail that turns the limit into clock times - report, FDP end, and the "be on blocks by" limit.
Read the what-if strip under the band for what happens if the day slips, and the next legal report card for your earliest next report, with its assumptions stated.
Tap View duty details to open the Duty dashboard for the full breakdown, or What is this? for the written guide.
Read the readiness estimate below: a fatigue score from your recent duty pattern, with its drivers listed.

The Overview's Duty and FDP section: a green Within FDP band labelled EASA ORO.FTL showing 10h 25m remaining of max FDP, a usage bar, and a rail reading Report 13:40Z, FDP ends 15:30Z, FDP limit 01:55Z with 1h 50m planned of 12h 15m max and a Why this limit disclosure - beneath the route map card's Not for navigation attribution line and a note reading Sunset at EGCC 19:35L, planned arrival 16:30L, 3h 5m before sunset, with the What if the day changes strip starting below — The Duty & FDP band: the verdict word, your regime, and the limit as clock times.

Further down the Overview: the Next legal report card reading in 14h 15m, min rest 12h 00m, rest from 16:00Z planned, with the note that it assumes the duty ends on time, a View duty details button, a What is this link, and the Readiness estimate card showing Moderate readiness 53 out of 100 with drivers listed as short rest periods, early starts, sector workload and night duties — Next legal report, View duty details, and the readiness estimate with its drivers.

How to check offline readiness and your records

Scroll the Overview to Offline readiness. It answers "if I go offline right now, what do I have?" with a count of cached sources ("6 of 6 sources cached") and a row each for METAR, TAF, NOTAMs, winds, sealed snapshots and chart packs.
Read Your records below it: your stored credentials evaluated for the flight's date.

The Overview's Offline readiness card with a Refresh button, reading 6 of 6 sources cached, with rows for METAR, TAF and NOTAMs each covering all 2 stations with the oldest age shown, winds aloft cached 10m ago, sealed snapshots counting 4 weather 2 NOTAM 1 winds, and chart packs covering all 2 stations - above the Your records card explaining stored credentials are not an authoritative statement that you are legal to operate, with a Class 2 medical row reading valid 112 d — Offline readiness is a count of cached sources per row; Your records evaluates your stored credentials for the date.

How to mark a brief as reviewed

Work through the Weather and NOTAMs panes first (below).
At the foot of the Overview, find Mark this brief as reviewed. The card shows your reading progress, "You've ticked 1 of 65 listed NOTAMs as viewed", as a shortcut to the NOTAMs pane; it is never a gate.
Tap Mark as reviewed (personal note). It only unlocks while the trust line reads Up to date; while it is locked, the card names the gap that blocks it. The card then shows Reviewed by you with the time.
If the frozen data changes later, the card changes to Review again ("... but the frozen data has changed since") and the button becomes Mark as reviewed again.

The foot of the Overview: credential rows reading Class 2 medical valid 112 d and Flight review valid 128 d with an Edit records link, the Mark this brief as reviewed card with the line You've ticked 1 of 65 listed NOTAMs as viewed, an Open NOTAMs to mark them viewed link and a blue Mark as reviewed personal note button, the Active lifecycle bar with a Complete flight button, and the closing lines Personal planning only and Personal review note, not a dispatch release or operational sign-off — Mark this brief as reviewed, with the NOTAM reading count and the pane's closing lines.

How to brief the weather

Tap the Weather chip or the Weather rail pill.
Read each route airport's station card: the raw METAR on top in monospace, the decoded strip beneath it, a TAF read against your planned time at that airport, and the flight-category pill.
Check the personal-minimums band at the top, or tap the row to set your minimums so they are assessed against this route.
Use Compare airports to read stations side by side, then the enroute hazards band and winds aloft per departure. On a route with a US airport, PIREPs & alerts adds pilot reports and US public weather alerts.

The Weather pane of the EGLL to EGCC folder: the section rail with Weather selected, a row inviting you to set personal minimums to see them assessed against this route, and the EGLL station card with a green VMC pill, the raw METAR EGLL 121320Z AUTO 23015G26KT in monospace and a decoded strip showing wind 230 at 15 gusting 26 underlined in amber, ceiling SCT032, visibility 9999, QNH 1021 falling and temperature and dew point 22 over 14 — The Weather pane: the personal minimums row and a station card, raw METAR first.

How to work through the NOTAMs

Tap the NOTAMs chip or the NOTAMs rail pill. Every route airport's notices load.
Narrow the list from the top card: type in the search field, or tap a counted category chip (aerodrome, enroute, navigation, airspace, other).
Leave Priority first on to put low-priority notices behind Show. Nothing is removed. With a US station on the route, the pane can add the explicit FAA queries (an ARTCC, FDC national, GPS); each group they add carries a subtitle saying what it is. The FDC one reads "chart and procedure notices · TFRs are under the ARTCC", so look for a TFR in the ARTCC group, not the FDC one, and read the caveat the pane prints with them.
Tap a card's body once you have read it to tick it as viewed - that tick is what the review card's "N of M" line counts. Tap Show details on a card for the full decode.
To export, tap Share PDF on the NOTAM briefing pack row. It makes a PDF of the route's full loaded set - always the complete set, never the filtered view.

The NOTAMs pane of the EGLL to EGCC folder: the section rail with NOTAMs selected showing a 40 badge, a search field reading Search NOTAM ID or text, counted category chips for All 65, Aerodrome 11, Enroute 0, Navigation 10, Airspace 6 and Other 38, an All NOTAMs 65 or Priority first 58 segment, and the note that Priority first sets aside low-priority NOTAMs behind a one-tap Show — The NOTAMs pane: search, counted category chips and the Priority first note.

How to find the folder's records

Tap the More rail pill.
Use the tools row to open crosswind, weather charts and other utilities pre-filled with your route airports.
Open a deck: Passenger announcement talking points Pro (airline and commercial profiles), Briefing snapshots (the sealed captures the Flights chapter covers), Notes, Voyage reports (informal write-ups, never a formal occurrence report), Attachments for plates and photos, and Checklists.

The More pane's record decks, each a folded card with a subtitle and chevron: Passenger announcement with talking points for your welcome PA, Briefing snapshots with a count of 5 saved weather and NOTAM snapshots, Notes for this flight, Voyage reports for informal write-ups such as occurrences and debriefs, Attachments for plates photos and documents, and Checklists for pre-flight and procedure checks — The More pane: one folded deck per record type.

How to open the written guide

Tap the info button on the folder hero (the Brief tab header has the same one) and choose Open the Brief guide. Using Flight Brief opens: twelve expandable topics covering the whole tab, free.
The same Brief help menu starts two guided tours, the Detailed Brief tour and the Flight briefing deep-dive, and What the trust line means jumps to that part of the guide.
The wizard's "What goes into a briefing? Read the guide" link and the FDP band's What is this? deep-link into the same guide.

The Using Flight Brief guide screen, subtitled Your pre-flight picture: a What Flight Brief is for card noting 12 topics and a 13 minute read, an introduction explaining Flight Brief is where you build a personal picture of a flying day before you fly it, the line that everything here is informational, and an In this guide list with an Expand all button and topics including Two ways to use it, Setting up a day, Sharpen your brief, The glance band and METAR, TAF and winds detail — Using Flight Brief: the built-in manual for the whole tab.

On iPad

In landscape, the folder page splits: a fixed spine carries the identity, verdict chips, trust line and section navigation, and the pane fills the rest of the screen with the same content. Portrait keeps the stacked iPhone layout.

The flight folder briefing on an iPad in landscape: a left spine with the route EGLL to EGCC, the FDP, Weather and NOTAMs verdict chips, the trust line and a vertical section list for Overview, Weather, NOTAMs and More, beside the full-width Overview pane showing the flight plan and route map — iPad landscape: the hero becomes a spine and the pane takes the rest of the screen.

Free vs Pro in Brief

Free	Pro
The hero, trust check, Overview bands, Weather and NOTAMs panes and the written guide, within 3 flight folders	Unlimited flight folders
The FDP verdict once your legs carry full planned times; the derived duty counts toward the free tier's 20-duty allowance	Unlimited duties
Station cards, personal minimums, Compare airports, enroute hazards, winds aloft	The Weather charts row on the Weather pane
Briefing snapshots, Notes, Voyage reports, Attachments, Checklists on More	The Passenger announcement deck on More

Free vs Pro has the whole picture, priced.

Troubleshooting

The FDP chip shows no verdict. The verdict appears once your legs carry full planned times. Until then the folder has no duty to derive and nothing to read.

Mark this brief as reviewed is greyed out. The button only unlocks while the trust line reads Up to date; the card names the gap. Tap the trust line to see which airport is aging or missing data, refresh, and try again.

The review card says Review again after I reviewed it. The frozen data changed since your review. Read the changes and tap Mark as reviewed again.

The NOTAMs pane shows fewer notices than the badge. Priority first puts low-priority notices behind Show; tap it to see them. The NOTAM briefing pack PDF always contains the complete loaded set regardless.

A rail pill shows a danger dot. A NOTAM source is down for that pane. The app never fills the gap with a calm zero; verify against official sources.

Where next

Flights - the folder around this briefing: wizard, lifecycle, completion, snapshots.
Aviation Map - the route chart on the Overview.
Duty & FTL - the engine behind the FDP verdict and the numbers it reads.
Weather and NOTAMs - the station workbench the panes link into.