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.