A flight in Pilot EFB is a folder for the day: your route and times, the weather and NOTAMs briefed around them, your notes and snapshots, in one place. There is no Flights tab. Folders are planned, flown and filed from the Brief tab, because the folder and its briefing are the same thing. This chapter covers the folder itself, from plan to sealed record; the Overview, Weather and NOTAMs panes and the route chart have chapters of their own.
Find your way around
Open the Brief tab. The Flight Brief launcher is your flight list:
| Section | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Suggestion card | Your next duty from the roster or duty log, with a Brief it button (shown when the app can see one) |
| Plan a flight | The button that opens the planning wizard, with your free folder count beneath it on a free account |
| Upcoming | Planned folders, with a Draft badge on any day you left half-planned |
| Completed flights | Flown days as boarding-pass strips, with a calendar button for the month view |
| Archived | Archived folders, collapsed until you open the section |
The header holds the Flight Brief / Stations mode toggle, and a search field finds any folder by route, note or date.
How to plan a flight
- On the Brief tab, tap Plan a flight. (If the suggestion card shows your next duty, tap Brief it instead to pre-fill it.)
- Set up the day. Enter your route; tap Add onward leg for a multi-sector day. Set your report time - the wizard notes it is what anchors the duty day. If you fly to a simpler profile, this step asks for a planned departure time instead.
- Tap Continue.
- Sharpen your brief. Everything here is optional. Each leg has a card for planned times, cruise level, flight number, alternates and who flies it. Below the legs sit the day-level groups: Aircraft & crew, Duty times, and Monitoring & notes for extra airports to brief alongside the route.
- Tap View briefing. You land in the folder and the briefing builds around your day.
The Weather and NOTAMs chapters cover the panes that fill the folder, and Aviation Map covers the route chart.
How to start the day
A planned folder starts itself at the first time you entered for the day, normally your report time. The day goes Active, is pinned to the app header so it stays one tap away, and its route airports join the weather and NOTAM watch. The folder says when it will start ("Starts automatically at ...Z").
- To start early: open the folder's menu and tap Start now.
- To undo an automatic start: tap Undo - back to draft on the folder. If a day has clearly passed without being completed, the folder asks you to complete it and offers Back to draft instead.
How to manage the folder
- Open the folder and tap the three-dot button to open Folder actions.
- Pick the action:
| Group | Actions |
|---|---|
| This briefing | Edit briefing, Start now (while planned), Add another station (an off-route station), Close briefing (back to your flights, when the folder is not the live one) |
| New flight | Plan another flight, Fly again |
| Manage | Share brief (PDF), Save as template, Archive (or Unarchive), Delete folder |
How to save a briefing snapshot
- While the day is live, tap the folder's add button.
- Tap Save brief snapshot. The weather and NOTAMs you briefed are frozen as they are at that moment.
- To open a snapshot later, go to the folder's More pane and tap it under Briefing snapshots.
Each snapshot carries a seal line with its frozen time, source and a SHA-256 hash that the app verifies every time the snapshot is displayed. The viewer is subtitled "Historical record · no refresh".
How to complete the day
- Scroll to the foot of the folder's Overview and tap Complete flight.
- In the completion review, tick the legs you want to log. One logbook entry is proposed per sector. A leg whose planned departure has not passed starts unticked.
- Set who flew each leg and the times you actually flew.
- Confirm. The entries land in your Logbook as normal, editable entries.
To complete without logging anything, tap Skip & just complete instead.
How to reopen or re-fly a completed flight
A completed folder is a read-only record of the briefing (its attachments stay open). At its foot, the Complete button is replaced by two chips:
- Reopen - if you need to change something.
- Fly again - starts a fresh folder pre-filled with the same route.
Fly again is also on the boarding-pass strip of any flown day under Completed flights on the launcher, and in the Folder actions menu.
How to archive or delete a folder
- Archive a completed day: on the launcher, swipe the strip and tap Archive. Archived folders keep everything and stay searchable in the Archived section. They do not count toward the free cap.
- Delete an unflown folder: swipe it on the launcher and tap Delete. An undo is offered.
- Both actions are also in the folder's Folder actions menu under Manage.
Free vs Pro in Flights
| Free | Pro |
|---|---|
| 3 flight folders (archived days do not count) | Unlimited folders |
| Weather and NOTAM snapshots in any folder you keep, with no snapshot limit of their own | The same, across unlimited folders |
Troubleshooting
My flight went Active before I was ready. A planned folder starts itself at the first time you entered for the day, normally the report time you set. Tap Undo - back to draft on the folder, or change that time in Edit briefing.
I cannot start a second flight. Only one flight can be active at a time. Complete or undo the active day first.
A completed folder shows no NOTAMs. Completed folders stop fetching and show only what was saved while the day was live. The pane says so: "No saved NOTAMs for this completed flight. NOTAMs are sealed when a flight is completed and are not re-fetched afterwards."
A leg was unticked in the completion review. A leg whose planned departure has not passed starts unticked. Tick it only if you flew it.
Plan a flight tells me I am at the cap. The free tier includes 3 flight folders, and the launcher reads "Free tier limit reached (3 / 3)". Archive flown days to free a slot, or move to Pro for unlimited folders.
I need to add a receipt to a completed flight. Open the folder's More pane and tap Add attachment under Attachments. Completing a folder seals the briefing, not the paperwork.
Where next
- Weather and NOTAMs - the panes that fill the folder while the day is live.
- Aviation Map - the route chart the folder's Overview carries.
- Duty & FTL - the duty your folder derives, and the FDP verdict on its Overview.
- Logbook - where the completion review's entries land.