Platform
The system between raw preflight information and a decision you can explain
Weather, terrain, NOTAMs, historical accidents, your own experience and limits — the pieces already exist. FlightReady is the pipeline that retrieves them on demand, scores them deterministically, and hands you the reasoning along with the number.
Inputs
What an assessment takes.
Six inputs define a flight. Three of them — aircraft, pilot profile, personal minimums — you set up once and refine over time. The rest take seconds per flight.
ROUTE
Departure and destination
ICAO identifiers for both ends of the flight. FlightReady resolves the route geometry and the corridor it will evaluate.
TIME
Departure time
When you plan to go. Forecasts and historical context are evaluated against this window, not against 'now.'
ALTITUDE
Cruise altitude
Optional planned cruise altitude, compared against the terrain elevation profile along the route.
AIRCRAFT
Aircraft and familiarity
Make, model, and your time in type. An aircraft you know well is a different flight from one you don't.
PILOT
Pilot profile
Certificate, ratings, total and recent hours, night and instrument experience, currency — entered once, read at analyze time.
MINIMUMS
Personal minimums
Your own ceiling, visibility, crosswind, and runway limits. The engine checks conditions against them and flags violations.
Pipeline
Eight stages from context to record.
Every assessment moves through the same sequence. No stage is skipped, and no stage is hidden — what you see in the briefing is what the pipeline produced.
Route, departure time, cruise altitude, aircraft, and pilot profile are resolved into a single flight record — the frame every later stage evaluates against.
METARs, TAFs, SIGMETs, G-AIRMETs, and PIREPs are retrieved on demand from the Aviation Weather Center. Terrain elevations are queried along the route. NOTAM sources are consulted where available.
Every retrieved record is stamped with its source and age. A source that fails to respond is marked unavailable — never silently assumed clear.
Eleven weighted factors are scored deterministically by the composite engine. When a factor's data is missing, its weight redistributes across the rest and the confidence score drops — visibly.
NTSB investigation records near the route corridor are retrieved by proximity, weighted by distance and recency. Historical investigative data — never live, never a prediction.
An AI-drafted narrative explains what the deterministic engine found, citing the retrieved records behind each claim. It refuses to generate without at least one real source.
You read the factors, the evidence, and the mitigations — and question any of them. The reasoning is on the table, not behind the score.
Your decision and its rationale are saved with a full snapshot of the assessment — a record you can revisit, export, or discuss with an instructor.
Where the pipeline sits
FlightReady does not replace your EFB or your official briefing. It sits between the tools you already use and the decision only you can make.
- AUTHORITATIVE
Official and operational sources
Aviation Weather Center, Flight Service briefings, FAA aeronautical data, NOTAMs, aircraft documents.
- YOUR EXISTING WORKFLOW
Planning and briefing tools
Your EFB — ForeFlight, Garmin Pilot — and 1800wxbrief. Where you plan, file, and obtain your official briefing.
- ADVISORY
FlightReady readiness analysis
A structured layer for interpreting how route, pilot, aircraft, conditions, and historical context come together — with the reasoning visible.
- FINAL AUTHORITY
Pilot-in-command decision
The go/no-go call, made by you, with a rationale you can state and revisit.
Weather and data
Retrieved on demand. Stamped with age.
When you run an assessment, METARs, TAFs, SIGMETs, G-AIRMETs, and PIREPs are retrieved from the NWS Aviation Weather Center at analyze time — not read from a stale mirror, and not sold to you as a 'live feed.'
Every record carries a freshness stamp: what it is, where it came from, and how old it was when the assessment ran. Density altitude is computed from the retrieved METAR. Conditions change — an assessment reflects the moment it was run, and re-running takes seconds.
Source freshness · example
Accident intelligence
Historical records, retrieved by corridor.
NTSB investigation records near your route are retrieved by proximity and weighted by distance and recency — so the accident history relevant to this corridor is in front of you, with each record linking to its NTSB report.
VFR into IMC — mountain pass
A non-instrument-rated pilot continued VFR flight into deteriorating conditions near rising terrain. Lowering ceilings in a confined valley left few escape options. A common thread in corridor records: the decision point came well before the weather did.
Factor analysis
Eleven factors. Published weights.
The composite engine scores each factor deterministically and combines them under published base weights. If a factor's data is unavailable, its weight redistributes across the rest and the confidence score drops — the assessment tells you what it didn't know.
- Weather
- Pilot readiness
- Personal minimums
- Aircraft readiness
- Terrain
- Airports
- Accident history
- NOTAMs
- Human factors
- Weight & balance
- Traffic
Briefing and citations
The model never sets the number.
Two separate systems produce an assessment — and the boundary between them is absolute.
Deterministic score
The 0–100 composite, the factor breakdown, the risk band, and the review-required flag come from a rule-based engine with published weights. The same inputs always produce the same score. The server-side composite overwrites any number an AI might emit.
AI narrative
The language model drafts the briefing narrative — summary, key risks, recommendations — grounded in retrieved NTSB records, with citations to the sources behind it. It refuses to generate without at least one real source, and it never sets the number.
Schools and organizations
The same pipeline, with review on top.
For Part 61 and 141 programs, the assessment pipeline gains an organizational layer — in early access: student submissions, instructor review, and program-level visibility.
Instructor review workflow
Approve, approve with mitigation, return for changes, or reject — with an override reason required for elevated submissions.
Shared factor framework
Every student works the same weighted factors before every flight, so instructors debrief the reasoning, not just the result.
Program dashboards
Submissions feed, fleet overview, and student views for chief instructors and safety officers.
Documented rationale
Saved assessments and PDF export create a record the program can learn from.
Security
Your flight data stays yours.
Authenticated accounts, encrypted transport, and saved assessments scoped to your account. How we handle authentication, storage, and operational security is documented in full.
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