Most of Pilot EFB is deliberately private - your logbook, your duties, your briefings, all on your device. The Community surface is the one deliberate exception: a shared feature-request board where pilots post ideas, upvote each other's, and watch what happens to them. It is the direct line into what gets built next - and it is honest about what it is not. Every idea on it is a suggestion from a user, not a promise from the developer.
Where it lives
There is no Community tab. On iPhone and iPad the board opens from the Community entry in the app's built-in tutorial - Settings > Help & onboarding > Tutorial & how-tos > Community, then Take me there. (The tutorial lives in the Learn area - the Learn & Reference chapter covers it.) On the web edition, Community sits in the sidebar.
Read the board
The board is a single list of ideas, and the controls above it are the whole reading model. Sort by Top (most votes), New, or Trending - the most-voted ideas among recent posts. Filter by category: Feature, Integration, Bug or Other. And filter by status: each request carries one of Open, Under review, Planned, In progress, Done or Declined, set by the developer as an idea moves - so "show me everything Planned" is one tap.
Each card shows the idea's title, a snippet of its description, its category and status chips, and the vote count beside a caret. Tapping a card opens the full post with its posted date.
The board is served from Pilot EFB's server and read live, so what you see is whatever the community has posted when you look - and when there is nothing to show, it says "No ideas yet" rather than inventing content. Offline, the board shows the last list it loaded under a plain "Offline - showing the last loaded board" banner; if it has never loaded, it says so and asks for a connection instead of showing an empty board as if that were real.
Vote
Tap the caret on any idea to upvote it - votes are what move an idea up the board - and tap again to take your vote back. Voting needs a free account, and the app is upfront about why: one vote per person. Tap the caret as a guest and it offers the account rather than pretending the vote landed: "Voting needs a free account so each person votes once. Browsing stays open to everyone."
Suggest a feature
The + button opens Suggest a feature. As a guest you meet an honest gate first - posting has to be attributable so the board can be moderated, so the screen offers Sign in or create account instead of a form that would fail later.
Signed in, your very first post shows the community guidelines once, and asks you to agree before the form opens. They are short and strict: the board is a shared, respectful, on-topic space with "zero tolerance for objectionable content" - no harassment, hate speech, threats, spam or sharing of other people's private information, and no operational, safety-of-flight or confidential company information. Posts are public to other users and are not private. Agree once and you will not be asked again.
The form itself is three fields: a short title, optional details ("What problem does this solve? How would it work?"), and a category. Post it and it lands on the board as Open. The server applies the same rules the guidelines describe - a content filter and a daily posting limit - and tells you plainly if a post is not allowed rather than silently dropping it.
Reports, blocks and moderation
Every post's detail screen carries a Post actions menu with the two safety levers the guidelines promise: Report this post - picking a reason: Spam, Abuse or harassment, Off-topic, or Other - and Block author, which hides all posts from that person on your board. Reported posts are reviewed by the developer, who acts within 24 hours; objectionable posts are removed and abusive users are blocked or banned.
Your posts and votes are stored with your account, but shown to other users without your name or email. Deleting your account deletes them all; you can take back a vote anytime, and ask support to remove one of your posts.
Free, entirely
Nothing on the board is a Pro feature: browsing, voting and posting are all part of the free app - posting and voting just need the free account. Free vs Pro covers what Pro actually gates.
Where next
- Home - the dashboard the rest of the app hangs off.
- Free vs Pro - what the free tier includes and what Pro adds.