For aerial work crews
Work out how much you can lift on each leg, how much fuel you need, whether the centre of gravity is within limits, and how much duty time you have left. Keep your logbook, the day's jobs and the crew handover in the same place, and send the plan to your operator with one button. The aircraft weights, the forms and the limits come from your operator, so you are not typing them in yourself. The emergency checklists from the flight manual are in the app as well.
Legs are linked, so if you change the fuel on the first leg, the weight you can carry on the last one changes too. You can also fit a basket or carry a passenger on a single leg without it affecting the others, and the centre of gravity is checked for each leg.
You set the flight up once. The rest of the app uses what you entered, so you are not typing the same figures in twice.
Which helicopter, the altitude and temperature at the site, your own weight, and what is on board — seats, holds and equipment switched on and off in a picture of the aircraft. Everything else in the app reads from this.
How much you can lift on each leg, inside and on the hook, and how much of that the fuel for the leg takes up.
Headings, distances and times for each leg. Every other leg has a slightly darker background, so you do not read a figure off the wrong row.
Every seat, hold and piece of equipment with its arm and moment. The centre of gravity is checked at take-off and with zero fuel against the flight manual envelope, and drawn on the chart.
What the helicopter can do at the temperature and altitude you are flying at, using the tables your operator put in.
How many hours you have left over the last 5, 7 and 28 days, which of those limits you will run into first, and what you would have left after another three days of work. Past days are locked so nothing is changed by accident.
One row per flight, and the logbook you already keep can be imported. Totals per aircraft type, and ratings with their expiry dates. The duty log takes each day's flight time from here.
How many loads you slung each day, by HESLO class, and one button to put the day into the logbook.
How much fuel you took, which tank it came from, and how much is left in that tank. With sync on, the level counts down every pilot's refuellings, and each tank shows whether it has been drained and inspected today.
Who each job is for, what has to be ready before you go, and the equipment sold. Waypoints pasted from Air Navigation Pro each get a Direct-To button.
Your operator's forms, filled in on the iPad. The fuel table, the car and the house fill themselves in from the app's own lists. Sent to the operator, or shared as a PDF.
Your operator's aircraft with their latest weighings, the cars with the next service and EU control marked red, amber or green, and the houses on each project.
The warning panel and the VEMD are shown as true instruments. Press the warning light that has come on and you get the checklist for it.
Yellow is a caution light and red is a warning light. Those two colours are not used for anything else, here or in the app.
The bold steps are bold in the manual as well. That is how the manual marks the ones you do from memory. Switch names are in square brackets, the same way the manual writes them.
The checklists are copied from the flight manual exactly as they are written, in the same order. Where two lights have nearly the same checklist, both are still written out in full, so you always see the whole thing for the light in front of you.
Both panels are black in the app whether you use the light or dark setting, because that is how they look in the aircraft. Tap a light or a message and you get its checklist, along with the warnings and cautions that go with it. A third tab holds the procedures that are not behind a light, such as smoke in the cabin.
The checklists are stored on the device along with everything else, so they work with no signal. That is the situation you are most likely to need them in.
Everything the operator maintains is published from a dashboard in the browser and reaches every pilot's device within a minute. Everything a pilot sends in lands in the same place.
A plan, an aircraft configuration or a crew handover goes to the operator with one button. The dot beside it stays green and what the office sees is what is on your screen, and turns amber if you change something afterwards.
Fleet and weighings, standard weights, the forms, the tank list, the duty limits and the car and house lists are edited as a draft and then published. The office reads the plans and handovers sent in, every pilot's duty available for the next four days, how close anyone is to a 28-day or 365-day limit, and the tank levels.
A manager looks after one operator's shared data and reads what its pilots send in. An office account sees the operation but cannot change anything. Pilots see the app, and the operator's figures simply arrive.
The app is stored on the device rather than loaded from the internet each time.
You can plan a flight at a site with no coverage at all, and nothing is lost. When you are back in range, it sends your changes up on its own.
Plan it on the iPad and look at it on your phone. If the same thing was changed on both, the most recent change is the one that is kept.
Your operator keeps the empty weights, the limits, the performance tables, the forms and the tank list up to date, and changes reach everyone's device within a minute. You are not planning on figures somebody typed in themselves.
Getting startedYour operator has to add you before you can sign in. Once they have, your helicopters are already set up and you can plan a flight straight away.
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