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Summary

The Summary section will display the name of the route, departure and arrival airport, the number of legs, distance and ETA. When tapping on the Route a new menu will open with further options.

General

Date of Flight
Set the date and time of departure for this route.
Pilot in command
Set the pilot flying this route.
Aircraft
Select the aircraft for the route. You can create a new aircraft profile by tapping on "+ New aircarft...".

Route

Name
By tapping on this field you will be able to change the name of the route.
Routing
Departure, Destination and number of legs.
Distance
Distance of the Route.
Cruise speed
Information taken from the aircraft profile.
ETE
ETE calculated with information from the aircraft profile.
Alternate
Select an alternate airport for the route.
Dist. to altern.
Distance to alternate from last WP from route.
Endurance
Calculates endurance once the fuel on board is entered.

Fuel

Fuel on Board
Enter the fuel on board of the aircraft.
Fuel flow
Information gathered from the aircraft profile.
Taxi time
Sets taxi time.
Taxi
Calculates taxi fuel.
Cruise
Calculates cruise fuel for route.
Alternate
Calculates fuel needed for leg DEST - ALTN.
Reserve time
Allows you to set a reserve time (By default 45 mins).
Reserve
Calculates fuel for reserve.
Fuel Required
Calculates fuel for the trip taking in account taxi, cruise, alternate and reserve time.
Contingency
Endurance (Fuel on Board) minus Fuel required.

Wind

You can calculate the effect of current wind to your route. For the time being the wind calculates will be only the wind at ground level.

No wind
Don't take in account wind for the route.
Wind per leg
Downloads from the internet the current winds for your route legs. To push the service tap on the circled arrow at the bottom of this menu. This will take some seconds and the message "Last update: Never" will change to the current time.
Wind per route
Enter manually a direction and speed of the wind for the whole route.

Remember that you must download the Free Elevation data in order to calculate the Wind per leg info.


Operational Flightplan

The route created can be converted to a flight log that can be printed out or sent by E-Mail.