By the time you reach the ramp, your trip is already running.
Walk up to your aircraft, glance at your phone, and the FBO has confirmed your fuel, parking, and crew car. Your weather brief is fresh. Your flight plan is filed. Your hotel for the night is locked in. Everything in one place.
Six things every pilot does. One place.
No tab switching. No double entry. No five separate apps for what should be one chat thread.
Snap a photo of your pilot certificate.
Open the app, point the camera at your FAA pilot certificate, and FlightDepartment extracts your name, certificate number, ratings, and date of issuance. Confirm what we read, and you're set up for life.
- One photo — name, cert #, ratings, issuance date
- Set your home airport and briefing refresh window
- Used to pre-fill every flight plan thereafter
Capture aircraft info in one shot.
Snap the performance pages from your POH or a screenshot from your favorite EFB. We auto-fill empty weight, max gross, fuel capacity, climb / cruise / descent fuel burn and TAS, ICAO equipment, surveillance, wake category, and PBN. Every flight plan after this uses these numbers.
- POH-grade performance: climb / cruise / descent TAS & GPH
- ICAO equipment, surveillance, wake category, PBN
- Empty weight, max ramp / takeoff / landing, max zero fuel
Weight, balance, and fuel — the math is already done.
Add your passengers and cargo, and FlightDepartment runs it against your aircraft profile in real time. You'll see endurance, max fuel for this load, and a fuel slider tied to your filed route. No spreadsheets, no scratch paper.
- Real numbers from your aircraft profile
- Live endurance, max fuel for the load, est. burn for the route
- Slider for how much fuel to actually take
Read the weather like a dispatcher.
FlightDepartment ingests every relevant FAA product — METARs, TAFs, AIRMETs, SIGMETs, PIREPs, NOTAMs — and writes you a route-aware executive summary. Then it tells you what to do about it. NOTAM noise gets filtered out; only what's operationally relevant is shown.
- Auto-refresh hours before departure (your choice)
- NOTAM filtering — only what's operationally relevant
- Downloadable PDF brief for the kneeboard
Executive summary
Predominantly VFR en route. Departure clear; destination temporarily MVFR in showers/mist 1900–2200Z. Light convection along Mid-Atlantic front possible.
Recommendation
File RNAV/GPS routing; plan for 25–35 kt deep-layer shear near convective bands. Increase fuel reserve.
One sentence — or one form — files the flight plan.
Tell FlightDepartment what you want, or fill in the trip form right inside the chat. Either way, the plan goes out using your aircraft's ICAO equipment and PBN codes, and you get a filed confirmation back in the same thread. Need to amend or cancel? Just say so.
- Plan, time, altitude, route — pre-filled and editable
- Amend or cancel from the same chat thread
- Filed confirmation arrives as a notification
Cutter Aviation accepts. You get a notification.
Tell FlightDepartment what you need at the destination — fuel type, ramp or hangar, GPU, lavs, ice, catering, crew car, rental car. The reservation is sent to the FBO with everything they need. The moment they accept, you get a push notification, and the confirmation lands in your chat thread.
- Jet A / 100LL with Jet A negative or positive prompt
- Ramp vs hangar; published pricing surfaced
- Crew cars, rental cars, private driver — your choice
- Push notification the moment the FBO accepts