Pilot EFB is a free download with an optional subscription, and this chapter is the honest map of the line between them. The guide marks every Pro-gated walkthrough with a small Pro chip, so nothing in these pages leads you into a paywall unannounced.
What free includes
The free tier is a working flight companion, not a demo:
- Weather and NOTAMs - fetch, decode and read them, with the raw text always kept.
- Logbook - log flights and see your hours and currency, up to 300 logged hours.
- Duty records - log duties and view your own history and roster (the Duty tab's History and Roster segments stay free), up to 20 duties.
- Flight folders - up to 3 folders to organise trips.
- Alert monitoring for 1 watched location.
- The learning material - the FTL rules guide, decoders and quick reference cards ask for no subscription.
The caps exist so the free app stays honest: your data is never held hostage, and anything you logged stays viewable if a subscription lapses.
What Pro unlocks
Pilot EFB Pro is one subscription covering the full toolkit. The headline items:
- The live FTL engine: the Duty dashboard, cumulative limit tracking, calendar grading, reserve assessment and the What-if planner (Duty & FTL).
- Roster import - PDF, CSV and calendar files - with batch review and undo.
- The full logbook: unlimited entries, PDF export and career reports.
- The briefing toolkit at full depth, more watched locations for alerts, and the rest of the Pro surface the guide chapters mark with the Pro chip.
Pricing
- iOS (iPhone and iPad): 39.99 US dollars per year, or 4.99 per month, as an App Store subscription. There is no free trial.
- Web: the web edition is a separate plan - 99.99 US dollars per year, yearly only - for signed-in Pro subscribers on the web.
Pricing carries the current table and the fine print; prices in other currencies follow your App Store region.
Managing the subscription
The iOS subscription is bought and managed through Apple: the Pilot EFB Pro row at the top of Settings shows your state, and cancelling or changing plan happens in your App Store account settings. Your data is yours regardless - lapsing back to free never deletes anything you logged.