Learn & Reference is the app's teaching hub. It holds four kinds of content: narrative guides (the app's name for its reference articles), a shelf of quick-reference lookups, the Tutorial & Help hub (the Settings row calls it Tutorial & how-tos) that walks the app feature by feature, and the App Guide, this manual carried inside the app. It does not sit in the bottom tab bar; you jump to it from Settings or Tools, and the back button returns you where you came from. Everything in it is bundled with the app, reads offline, and is free.
Find your way around
The hub is a tile grid in three bands with a search box above them.
| Band | What it holds |
|---|---|
| Tutorials | How to use Pilot EFB (the Tutorial & Help hub) and App Guide (this manual) |
| Guides | Seven narrative articles: Decoding weather, Reading NOTAMs, Descent & approach, Holding patterns, Reading weather charts, Filling a logbook, FTL rules |
| Quick reference | Eight one-screen lookups: Phonetic, Squawk codes, Compass rose, Morse code, Light-gun signals, SID / STAR, Wake turbulence, NOTAM Q-codes |
The Search guides and reference box matches titles, subtitles and hidden keywords across all three bands.
How to open Learn & Reference
Use whichever doorway is closest:
- Settings: scroll to the Help & about group and tap Learn & Reference. The Help & onboarding screen inside the same group also links the hub, the tutorial and the App Guide.
- Tools tab: tap the Learn & Reference tile in the Reference & learn section.
- Home: in the Make it yours checklist, tap Take the tour. This lands on the tutorial directly.
How to read a guide
- In the Guides band, tap a tile, for example Decoding weather.
- Read the hero card: it gives the topic count and reading time ("9 topics · 11 min read") and a lead paragraph.
- In the In this guide contents card, tap a topic to jump to it, or tap Expand all.
- Tap any topic card to expand it. Each holds short explanations, tables and a worked example: a real-shaped raw report next to its plain-English reading.
- Check the source chip on a topic card (ICAO Annex 3, WMO No. 306 and so on) for the convention it restates.
How to look something up in Quick reference
- Scroll to the Quick reference band, or search for the lookup by name.
- Tap a tile: Phonetic (NATO alphabet), Squawk codes, Compass rose (reciprocal headings), Morse code (a VOR/NDB ident decoder), Light-gun signals, SID / STAR, Wake turbulence (ICAO categories and separation) or NOTAM Q-codes (subject and condition lookup).
- Read the single screen. Each lookup is built from bundled data and reads offline.
How to follow a how-to for a feature
- In the Tutorials band, tap How to use Pilot EFB. (Settings > Help & onboarding opens the same screen.)
- Pick a tile. The five Core modules (Home dashboard, Weather briefing, Duty and FTL, Logbook, Tools) are covered in depth; Everything else is covered briefly. Use the Search how-tos box to filter the list.
- Read the intro, then the Where to find it line naming the real doorway, then the numbered steps, which use the labels on the actual screens.
- Try the live demo where a how-to has one. It is a working component fed sample data: the weather how-to decodes a sample METAR, the tools how-to hands you a converter. Its badge reads "Sample data - not a real briefing."
- Tap Take me there to deep-link into the feature itself.
How to read this manual inside the app
- In the Tutorials band, tap App Guide.
- Browse the groups: Start here, Core modules, Plan and fly, Toolkit and Account and data, or type in the search box above them.
- Tap a chapter. It is the same text as this guide, adapted to read without screenshots.
- Where the chapter describes a real screen, tap through to open it.
Troubleshooting
Take me there landed on a search screen, not the feature. Where the destination needs something real, such as an airport page, the how-to lands you on the search and says what to do next instead of inventing an example.
I cannot find the Using Flight Brief guide in Learn. It is not on this shelf. Open the Brief tab and tap the info button in the Brief header.
The tutorial header says 0 of 5 core modules viewed. The count covers the five Core modules only. Open a core how-to and it earns a viewed tick; Everything else entries do not change the count.
The demo shows an EGLL METAR that is not today's. Demos run on sandboxed sample data, never live reports. The badge says so: "Sample data
- not a real briefing."
I am offline. Is any of this out of date? Guides, lookups, how-tos and the App Guide are bundled with the app and read the same offline. They restate published conventions; verify anything operational against the official source. The web edition carries the same Learn library, reached through its Settings or by name from its command palette.
Where next
- Tools - the calculators the descent and holding guides explain.
- Weather - the live decoding the weather guide teaches you to read.
- NOTAMs - the notice board behind the NOTAM guide and Q-code lookup.
- Community - the feature board whose doorway is a tutorial entry.
- Quick start - the first-run path the tutorial picks up from.