There is no Flights tab in Pilot EFB - and like the missing map tab, that is deliberate. A flight here is a folder for the day: your route and times, the weather and NOTAMs briefed around them, your notes and snapshots, all in one place. Folders are planned, flown and filed from the Brief tab, because the folder and its briefing are the same thing seen from two ends. This chapter is about the folder itself - its life from plan to sealed record. What fills it (the Overview, Weather and NOTAMs panes, the route chart) has chapters of its own.

Where your flights live

Open the Brief tab and the Flight Brief launcher is your flight list. At the top sits the day's decision: a plain Plan a flight button - or, when the app can see your next duty in the roster or duty log, a suggestion card that briefs it in one tap. Below that, your folders in three honest groups: Upcoming (with a Draft badge on any day you left half-planned), Completed flights, and an Archived section that stays collapsed until you ask. A search field finds any folder by route, note or date.

The Flight Brief launcher in the Brief tab: the Flight Brief and Stations mode toggle, a suggestion card reading From your duty log, EGLL to EGLL, 2 legs, Today, report 10:45Z with a Brief it button, a Plan a flight button beneath it and a Thunderstorm season seasonal reminder card — The launcher at rest: the day's next duty offered at the top, Plan a flight one tap below.

Plan a flight

Plan a flight opens a two-step wizard. Step one, Set up the day, asks only for what anchors everything else: your route (add onward legs for a multi-sector day) and your report time - the wizard notes it is what anchors the duty day. If you fly to a simpler profile, the same step asks for a planned departure time instead.

Step two, Sharpen your brief, is everything optional - and it says so up front: the flight is already saved as a draft, so you can leave anytime and pick it back up from your flights. Each leg gets a card for planned times, cruise level, flight number, alternates and who flies it; below them sit the day-level groups - Aircraft & crew, Duty times, and Monitoring & notes for extra airports to brief alongside the route.

Step two of the Plan a flight wizard, Sharpen your brief: a strip explaining the flight is saved as a draft and everything below is optional, then the leg card for EGLL to EGCC marked Times set, with the line Estimated with 10 min taxi, 450 kt cruise, adjust any time, and planned off-block and takeoff times each labelled Estimated, tap to edit — Step two is optional - and one tap seeds the four leg times as honest, editable estimates.

View briefing lands you in the folder, where the briefing builds around your day - the Weather and NOTAMs chapters cover those panes, and Aviation Map covers the route chart. If you fly the same trips repeatedly, From template on step one pre-fills the route from a template you saved off an earlier folder.

Your day, live

A planned folder does not wait to be told: at your report time it starts itself and the day goes Active - pinned to the app header so it stays one tap away, its route airports joining the weather and NOTAM watch. The folder says plainly when it will start, and an auto-started day offers a one-tap Undo - back to draft if the plan changed. You can also start a day yourself from the folder's menu (Start now), and only one flight can be active at a time.

Everything else about the folder lives under Folder actions (the three-dot button on the folder page): edit the briefing, add an off-route station, share the brief as a PDF, save the route as a template, archive, or delete.

The Folder actions sheet over an active flight folder, in three sections: This briefing with Edit briefing and Add another station, New flight with Plan another flight and Fly again, and Manage with Share brief PDF, Save as template, Archive and a red Delete folder row — One menu for the folder's whole life - editing, sharing, templates, archive, delete.

Complete the day

When the day is flown, Complete flight (at the foot of the folder's Overview) closes it out - and offers to do the paperwork. The completion review proposes one logbook entry per sector you flew: tick the legs to log, set who flew them and the times you actually flew, and the entries land in your Logbook as normal, editable entries. Or Skip & just complete - the folder completes without logging anything. Either way the sheet says exactly what happens next: the folder becomes read-only, and you can reopen it later.

The Complete flight review sheet: a card for Leg 1 EGLL to EGCC with its planned times and the note Planned departure hasn't passed, include only if you flew it, above a Complete without logging button, a Skip and just complete button, and the line The folder becomes read-only, you can reopen it later — Completion offers the paperwork - honestly: a leg whose departure has not passed starts unticked.

A sealed record

A completed folder is a read-only record of the day. Its weather and NOTAM panes stop fetching and show only what was saved while the day was live - and where nothing was saved, they say so instead of pretending: "No saved NOTAMs for this completed flight... This does not confirm none existed - verify with official NOTAM sources." The folder's foot swaps the Complete button for two quiet chips: Reopen, if you need to change something, and Fly again.

The foot of a completed flight folder: the Your records card explaining stored credentials are not an authoritative statement of legality, then a lifecycle card reading Completed with Reopen and Fly again buttons, above the lines Personal planning only and Personal review note, not a dispatch release or operational sign-off — Completed: the folder is a record now - Reopen and Fly again are the only levers left.

The record's foundation is the briefing snapshots: the weather and NOTAMs you briefed, frozen at the moment they were saved and never refreshed. You can freeze one yourself anytime while the day is live - Save brief snapshot on the folder's add button - and each snapshot carries a seal line with its frozen time, source and a SHA-256 hash the app verifies every time it is displayed. Open one (under Briefing snapshots in the folder's More pane) and the viewer says what it is: a historical record, no refresh.

A sealed winds aloft snapshot for EGLL in the viewer, subtitled Historical record, no refresh: a card naming the source WAFS, WAFC London via SADIS, the fetched and saved times, a green Verified badge and the line This is a historical record, data is from the time of saving, not current - above the frozen winds table by flight level — A snapshot is a historical record - source and times named, hash-verified, never refreshed.

Fly again and the archive

Back on the launcher, a flown day becomes a boarding-pass strip under Completed flights, with the calendar a tap away for the month view. The Fly again chip on any strip starts a fresh folder pre-filled with that route - the fastest way to plan a day you fly often. When the list grows, swipe a completed day to Archive it: archived folders keep everything and stay searchable, just out of the way (deleting is the swipe on unflown folders, with an undo).

The launcher after a flown day: tomorrow's duty suggested at the top, the Plan a flight button and flight search, then the Completed flights section with a calendar button and a boarding-pass strip reading EGLL to EGCC, 26 Aug 2026, 2 airports with a Fly again chip — A flown day on the launcher: the boarding-pass strip, the calendar - and Fly again, one tap.

Free and Pro

Flight folders are part of the free app: the free tier includes 3 flight folders (archived days do not count), and the app tells you where you stand before you hit the line. Pro removes the cap - unlimited folders and unlimited weather and NOTAM snapshots. Free vs Pro has the whole picture, priced.

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.