Introduction to Flight Preparation

Flight preparation is a complex process that requires many steps of planning and organizing essential details before a flight. It encompasses tasks such as assessing weather conditions, determining aircraft performance capabilities, calculating fuel requirements, and ensuring compliance with regulatory guidelines. Effective flight preparation is crucial for enhancing safety, efficiency, and adherence to flight schedules. It involves the integration of various sources of information and attention to detail to mitigate risks and ensure a smooth and successful flight experience.

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Flight preparation details are organized over various tabs in SkyWalk. Each tab contains multiple expanders where information is either automatically loaded from static or live sources or requires user input. After the login screen, the tabs can be found at the top of the screen as shown in the screenshot. To start using SkyWalk, you need to log in first. The subscription plans can be found in the Subscription tab.

A summary of the tabs is as follows:

  • New/Load: Create new flight plans, load previously saved ones or look at the summary flight information.

  • Departure/ Arrival: Tabs with the details about the departure, and arrival aerodromes. Information is shown about runway length, elevation levels, and weather conditions such as METAR. The static information is combined with live information and your specific input. Details about crosswind, required runway length, wind envelope, and cloud base are computed and visually presented.

  • Enroute: The phase of flight between departure and arrival. Information is projected on a map with aerodromes, airspaces, live weather conditions from METARs. All information is filtered for your flight plan, including your flight altitude.

  • ATC: Transcripts are automatically created based on the information that is provided in various other sections in SkyWalk.

  • More: The more sections contains the checklists, aircraft configurations, selecting countries, general configurations, tutorial, subscriptions and to check for new updates.

Expander Sections

Each tab contains multiple expanders where information is organized into specific categories. Every expander starts with either an exclamation mark or a green check mark. This shows whether all necessary information in the specific expander is complete. If information is required and missing, a message will indicate which part of the information is missing. There is a lot of logic incorporated to help you fill in all the details.

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Note

  • ❗Exclamation sign indicates an important note.

  • ⚠Warning sign indicates an event that needs to be looked at.

  • ✅ Green check indicates that all required fields are successfully processed.

Warning

The green check ✅ only depicts whether information is provided. It does not describe the quality nor correctness of the input.