Home is the screen Pilot EFB opens on: a dashboard that gathers the state of your day - the duty or flight in progress, weather at your home base, your legal position and your next seven days - into one scroll. It is built to be glanced at between other things, and every card on it opens the module it summarises, so it doubles as the app's front door.
The header
The greeting at the top follows the clock at your home base - "Good morning" through "Late watch" - with the date, your name, home base and aircraft type underneath. To its right sit a live Zulu clock, the notification bell (with an unread count), a help menu that can start the guided tour of the main tabs, and the Settings gear.
Two habits worth knowing: pull down anywhere on Home to refresh its data, and re-tap the Home tab to scroll back to the top.
The status strip
Under the header, a row of chips answers the day's three standing questions:
| Chip | What it reads | Where it goes |
|---|---|---|
| Legal | Your duty state or most pressing currency item | The currency list |
| Wx | Flight rules at your home base right now | The weather briefing |
| Alerts | Whether anything needs your attention | The currency list |
The chips are honest: no home base means no weather claim ("No data"), and a quiet day reads "Nothing flagged" rather than a reassuring green tick. When the adaptive layout collapses a section off the dashboard - the currency card during an active duty, for example - a pill at the end of the strip keeps it one tap away.
The hero: what is live now
The first card is always about now. In order of priority it shows your active flight (one tap back into its briefing), a resume prompt if a fresh sign-in parked the flight you had open (the app starts clean rather than assuming), your next planned flight as a route card with its schedule, or - most days - No active flight with the most useful next step: "Brief your duty" when a duty is on today, otherwise "Plan a flight".
Active duty at a glance Pro
When a duty is open and flight time limits apply to you, the duty card sits directly under the hero: remaining flight duty period, the latest legal FDP end, the day's sector count, a progress bar from report to limit, and your earliest legal report after minimum rest - plus an End duty now action. Tapping the card opens the full Duty dashboard, where every number can be opened into its explanation.
On the free tier the card appears without the numbers and offers the FTL Tracker unlock instead - your logged duties themselves are never gated. Whenever duty figures are on the dashboard, the FTL module's "Personal planning only." line sits at the foot of the scroll - the same framing the Duty tab carries.
Weather at your base
Set a home base and Home keeps its latest METAR - flight rules badge, the raw report in monospace, and a freshness pill that ages honestly - with the TAF glance beneath it, graded by the forecast's own validity window. Both cards open the station in the Weather workspace for the full picture.
If your field does not publish reports, the card says exactly that and offers nearby airports that do - the dashboard never fills the gap with invented weather.
Next 7 days
The week strip lays out the coming seven days - a dot marks each day with a duty or flight, with a summary line for the week. Tap a day for its detail, or All flights to open the flight list.
Flight hours and cumulative limits Pro
Right under the week strip, the Flight hours card totals your block hours and sectors over the last 30 and 90 days from your logbook. During an open duty it also carries the Cumulative limits gauges - the same rolling flight-time and duty-time windows the Duty dashboard tracks, in glance form.
Cards that come and go
A few cards appear only when they have something to say, and leave when they do not:
- Legal & current - your single most pressing currency or credential item, with See all into the full currency list. It steps aside during an active duty (the strip's Currency pill covers it).
- Notifications blocked - your reminders are armed but iOS notifications are off; the card walks you to the fix.
- Logbook health - a count of logbook records worth a second look.
Make it yours
The setup interview's skipped steps land here: a folded checklist card with a progress ring. Unfold it and each row - flying profile, duty rules, fleet, medical and licence dates, carried-forward hours, reminders, theme, app lock, backup - deep links straight to the right screen. The list only ever shows what applies to you and is still unfinished; complete it (or tap "Don't show again") and the card retires.
Quick tools
The grid at the bottom is your shortcut row into the Tools tab: up to four tiles on iPhone (six on iPad) from a pool of ten - conversions, descent planner, timers, time calculator, crosswind, checklists, scratchpad, world clock, sun times and fuel uplift. Customize (or the Add tile) opens the editor: add, remove and reorder until the grid matches your habits.
One more shortcut layer lives outside the app: long-press the Pilot EFB icon on your iOS home screen for Quick Brief, New Log Entry and New Flight.
Home on iPad
On iPad the same cards spread into a board: the hero runs full width, the rest pack into up to three columns, and a few glances that share a card on iPhone get their own - a separate Recent hours card, a standalone Cumulative limits card, the TAF on its own tile, and an iPad-only Route conditions card that pairs the weather and NOTAMs along your active flight's route.
Where next
- Duty & FTL - the module behind the duty card and the limits gauges.
- Quick start - the setup interview that seeds the Make it yours checklist.
- Free vs Pro - exactly which Home glances belong to the subscription.