Pilot EFB's other cockpit is a browser. The web edition is the same product - the same modules, the same local-first database, the same disclaimers - laid out for a desk: a sidebar instead of a tab bar, multi-pane workbenches instead of stacked screens, a command palette instead of a thumb. This chapter is the tour.
Pro-only, up front
The web edition is for Pro subscribers, and it says so at the door. The order is: sign in with your Pilot EFB account, accept the disclaimer (recorded once per account, so it carries across browsers and devices), then the web plan - a separate subscription at 99.99 US dollars per year, yearly only, alongside the iOS plan described in Free vs Pro. There is no read-only guest mode on the web; until all three gates are passed, nothing else loads.
One product, two cockpits
Everything you know from the app carries over. The database is local to your browser (the app works through connection drops the same way the phone does), and Cloud Sync is the bridge: with Auto-sync on, a duty logged on the phone is on the desk when you sit down, and an entry corrected at the desk is on the phone when you leave - Settings, Backup & Sync covers how that works and what stays free. The sidebar groups the product the way you work: Overview, then Operations (Duty & FTL, Logbook), Planning (Weather, Flight Brief, NOTAMs, Airports, Ops Map), Library (Tools, Checklists), with Community and Settings at the foot. The Learn & Reference library is on the web too, reached through Settings > Help & about. And the desk adds desk things: Cmd+K (or Ctrl+K) opens a palette that searches airports, pages and actions, number keys jump between sections, and panels that earn it - the station board, the Duty console - can pop out into their own window for a second monitor.
The Overview desk
The web Home is built around one question: what changed since you last looked?
The since-last-look strip counts what arrived while you were away and holds an unread-alert chip; the station board watches your home base and recent stations with category, wind, visibility and TAF trend per row - and an honest "No data available" line when a field publishes nothing, never a blank pretending otherwise. The active duty panel mirrors the phone's FDP ring ("Personal planning only." included), the Today timeline lays the day out in duty, sector and rest lanes, and the NOTAM alerts rail headlines what is new at the stations you watch. Every panel names its source and carries the same verbatim framing as the app: "Reference only - verify officially." on weather, "May be incomplete - verify officially." on NOTAMs.
The Duty & FTL console
The Duty & FTL engine is the same pure calculator the phone runs - the console just gives it room: a stat strip across the top, the live FDP ring with the regulatory notes written out (the frame above is flagging a night duty against the WOCL window, with the rule paragraph cited), and the cumulative flight-time and duty-time ladders labelled with the ORO.FTL references they implement. The segments you know - Dashboard, Roster, History, Calendar, Reserve, What-if - ride across the top, and the same honesty line closes the panel: cumulative totals use the duties recorded in Pilot EFB, so confirm imported history is complete before treating them as compliance evidence.
The logbook at desk size
The Logbook becomes what a logbook wants to be on a big screen: a real table. Month-grouped rows with sortable columns, filter chips (this month, night, cross-country, sim), bulk edit, column presets, H:MM or decimal display, CSV export, and the same career, currency and credential readouts the phone carries - with "Not tracked" said plainly where evidence is missing, and "Personal record only." at the foot.
Weather and NOTAM workbenches
The Weather workbench pairs a stations rail (your watch-list, plus a flight-route group when a duty or briefing names stations) with a three-column station view: raw METAR and decoded cells, the observation detail, and the TAF with its validity timeline
- the same validity-window grading as the app, with the trend chip ("Worsening" above) computed from the forecast in force. The raw text always leads, and the header names the source and fetch time.
The NOTAMs workbench is triage plus reading room: filters and severity counts in the console, the station's grouped cards in the middle, and a detail pane that shows the complete raw NOTAM with its decoded validity timeline, Q-code and classification. The workbench states its own limits in the frame: "Showing fetched NOTAMs only - the absence of a NOTAM here is not an all-clear.", and every group names "Source: NOTAM Management System" with the fetch time.
The Ops Map
The web edition's Ops Map gives the aviation chart what the phone cannot: the whole window. It is the same chart engine and the same rules - "Not for navigation" pinned with the data credits - with a layers panel, search, a time bar that scrubs weather layers through the day and snaps back to LIVE, and a share panel for a PNG of the current view. A permalink carries your view (camera, layers, time) so a colleague opens exactly what you see.
Community and settings
The sidebar's foot holds Community - the same feature-request board, with browsing open and posting behind sign-in - and Settings, which arranges the same folders as the app (Settings, Backup & Sync) into desk panes: the same rows, the same honesty surfaces, the same verbatim disclaimers.
Web things worth knowing
Two behaviours are specific to running in a browser, and both are stated on screen when they matter:
- It keeps itself up to date. The web app updates itself - no update banner, no manual step. A new build is adopted the moment it cannot cost you anything: instantly on an untouched or hidden tab, never while you have unsaved work or a field focused, and after a quiet pause when you are active - with a short notice so the reload reads as intended.
- One tab at a time. The local database takes an exclusive lock, so Pilot EFB runs in a single browser tab. Open a second and it tells you plainly that the app is already open in another tab - and that closing the other tab lets this one take over on its own.
It also installs from the browser as an app, so it can live in your dock like everything else on the desk.
Where next
- Free vs Pro - the web plan beside the iOS plan, and what Pro unlocks.
- Settings, Backup & Sync - the sync bridge between phone and desk.
- Duty & FTL, Logbook, Weather, NOTAMs and Aviation Map - each module's full chapter; the web edition changes the layout, never the rules.