Definition
What FlightReady AI
actually is.
A plain-language account of the product and the category, written for someone who has just heard the name: what it does, where the AI is and is not involved, who it serves, what it costs, and the four things it explicitly is not.
Source availability varies by assessment. Reference to government or open data sources does not imply endorsement of FlightReady by those organizations.
Terms
Four words worth defining precisely.
The category has enough vague language in it already. These are the terms this site uses, and what each one means here.
Preflight decision intelligence
Readiness assessment
Advisory score
FRAT, computed
What it does
Six concrete behaviours.
Retrieves conditions when you run it
METAR, TAF, SIGMET, G-AIRMET and PIREP from the NWS Aviation Weather Center at analyze time, each stamped with its issue time and age.
Scores eleven weighted factors
Weather, pilot readiness, personal minimums, aircraft readiness, terrain, airports, accident history, NOTAMs, human factors, weight and balance, and traffic — under published base weights.
Checks your own limits
Stored ceiling, visibility, crosswind and runway minimums are compared line by line with retrieved conditions, and violations are flagged rather than summarized.
Surfaces the corridor's history
Historical NTSB investigation records near the route, weighted by distance and recency, cited by report number and linked to the NTSB CAROL database.
Explains itself with citations
A language model drafts the narrative over the finished score and cites the records behind each claim. It cannot alter the number or invent a source.
Keeps the rationale
Your decision and reasoning are saved with a full snapshot of the assessment, exportable as a PDF for training records on Pro.
Corridor resolved. Awaiting retrieval
Demonstration · the assessment surface, cycling through its panels
Where the AI is
One job, and a hard boundary around it.
The name contains 'AI', so it is worth being exact: the score is arithmetic over published weights, and the model writes the explanation.
- WeatherAWC · on demand0.25
- Pilot readinessYour profile0.15
- Personal minimumsYour limits0.15
- Aircraft readinessYour aircraft0.12
- TerrainElevation model0.10
- AirportsFAA reference0.08
- Accident historyNTSB · historical0.08
- NOTAMsFAA · varies0.05
- Human factorsYour input0.05
- Weight & balanceWhen provided0.05
- TrafficCorridor context0.02
Relative weights · normalized at run time across available factors · missing data drops confidence
The score
Fixed rules over retrieved data and your inputs, combined under the weights above. Reproducible from the same inputs, every time.
The explanation
A retrieval-augmented narrative citing the records behind each claim. No write access to the number, and no ability to cite something that was not retrieved.
Boundaries
Four things it is not.
Not an official briefing
Under 14 CFR 91.103 the pilot in command must become familiar with all available information concerning the flight. The FAA's AIM and AC 91-92 describe the briefing paths — Flight Service, 1800wxbrief, and self-briefing with approved sources. FlightReady supplements that preparation. It never replaces it.
Not dispatch
FlightReady is not a certified dispatch or flight-release system and holds no operational control authority of any kind.
Not an instructor
For students, an assessment is a structure to discuss with a CFI — not a substitute for flight instruction or an instructor's authority.
Not a guarantee
No software can guarantee a safe flight. A low score is not permission and a high score is not prohibition. Both are inputs to a human decision.
Advisory only. FlightReady supports a decision, it never makes one. Verify critical information through official aviation sources. The pilot in command decides.
A category is only
as good as its limits.
Read the methodology and the source registry before you believe anything on this page. Both are published at the same depth as the marketing.
Advisory decision support · the pilot in command decides