How it works
The assessment lifecycle, from account setup to a decision on record
You set up three things once. After that, every flight follows the same short path: enter the route, review the weighted factors, read the cited briefing, and record your decision.
Before you fly
Set up once. Refine over time.
Three pieces of context make every later assessment yours instead of generic. None of them takes more than a few minutes.
Pilot profile
Certificate, ratings, total and recent hours, night and instrument experience, currency. These enter every assessment as first-class factors — the same conditions score differently for a 60-hour pilot and a 600-hour pilot, because they are different flights.
Aircraft
Make, model, and your time in type. Aircraft familiarity feeds the aircraft-readiness factor. A free account holds one aircraft; Pro holds your whole list.
Personal minimums
Your own ceiling, visibility, crosswind, and runway limits — set on a calm day, checked on every flight. When conditions violate a minimum, the assessment flags it and raises the review-required flag. Personal minimums enforcement is a Pro feature.
Every flight
Route in. Reasoning out.
Four moves, in order — and the middle two happen while you watch.
01ROUTE ENTRY
Departure, destination, departure time, and optional cruise altitude. Seconds of typing.
02FACTORS
The engine retrieves weather on demand, queries terrain and corridor accident history, and scores eleven weighted factors deterministically.
03BRIEFING
A cited narrative explains what the engine found — the AI drafts the words, never the number.
04DECISION
You review the factors and make the call. The decision and its rationale go on the record.
01Step 1 of 7
Flight context
Departure, destination, departure time, cruise altitude, and aircraft. FlightReady resolves the route geometry and the corridor it will evaluate.
02Step 2 of 7
Environmental conditions
METARs, TAFs, SIGMETs, G-AIRMETs, and PIREPs are retrieved on demand from the Aviation Weather Center at analyze time — each stamped with its source and age.
03Step 3 of 7
Pilot and aircraft context
Your certificate, hours, currency, aircraft familiarity, and personal minimums enter the assessment as first-class factors — not an afterthought.
04Step 4 of 7
Historical accident intelligence
NTSB records near your corridor are retrieved by proximity, weighted by distance and recency. Historical investigative data — never described as live.
05Step 5 of 7
Weighted factor analysis
Eleven factors are scored deterministically and combined under published base weights. If a factor is unavailable, its weight redistributes and confidence drops — visibly.
06Step 6 of 7
Explainable briefing
An AI-drafted narrative cites the retrieved records behind it. The language model never sets the score — it explains what the deterministic engine found.
07Step 7 of 7
Pilot decision
You review the factors, question them, and make the call. The assessment gives you a rationale you can state out loud — to yourself, an instructor, or a safety officer.
“Westerly flow of this strength has historically produced mountain wave along this corridor…”
The pilot in command decides.
After
The decision stays on the record.
An assessment is not a moment that evaporates when you close the tab — it becomes a snapshot you can revisit, export, and learn from.
Saved history
Every assessment is saved as a full snapshot — briefing, factor scores, weather, and the conditions as they stood at analyze time. Free accounts keep a 7-day window; Pro keeps full history.
PDF export
On Pro, export any saved assessment as a PDF — for your own records, an instructor debrief, or a training file.
Re-run when conditions change
An assessment reflects conditions at the moment it was run. If the departure slips, the forecast updates, or anything about the flight changes — re-run it. It takes seconds, and the freshness stamps tell you exactly how old each source was.
Limits
What it can't do — stated plainly.
A decision-support tool you trust is one that tells you where its edges are.
The assessment says so. A missing factor's weight redistributes across the available factors, the confidence score drops visibly, and the affected value shows N/A — never a fake zero. A missing METAR is treated as unknown conditions, not as VFR.
Get started
Set up once. Decide better every flight.
A free account runs route risk checks and five full briefings a month. The first assessment takes about a minute.