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All you need to learn more about the platform and get support

Profile and Pilot Type Settings

Manage your AeroCopilot pilot profile, Part 107 dates, IMSAFE check, home airport, type ratings, and locale from your account settings.

The 5 AeroCopilot Tiers

Free, Student, Pilot, Pro, Operator, and School plans for AeroCopilot US — what each tier includes, who it's built for, and how to choose.

Pre-Flight Briefing Overview

How AeroCopilot's pre-flight briefing covers 14 CFR 91.103, produces a FAA-defensible PDF, and routes you through Threat Board, Risk Window, and FRAT.

Pilot Currency Tracking (§61.57)

How AeroCopilot tracks day, night, IFR, tailwheel, SFAR 73, and SFAR 194 currency in real time from your signed logbook entries.

AI Copilot — 5 Modes, 49 Tools

Five conversational modes and 49 AI tools spanning weather, compliance, planning, performance, helicopter, drone, eVTOL, IFR, and post-flight debrief.

Data Sources Behind AeroCopilot (61 Pipelines)

AeroCopilot ingests 61 government and authoritative aviation data sources across weather, charts, compliance, safety, airport ops, and environmental feeds.

Building a VFR/IFR Route

How AeroCopilot builds VFR and IFR routes against FAA charts, CIFP procedure data, preferred routes, and the AIRAC cycle — what the planner uses and why.

Introduction to AeroCopilot

Overview of AeroCopilot — the multi-mode AI copilot for Part 91, 61, 107, and SFAR 194 pilots flying airplane, helicopter, drone, and eVTOL.

MyFlightbook Logbook Sync

Connect your MyFlightbook account to AeroCopilot via OAuth2 and import flights, aircraft, currency, and totals — read-only and rate-limited.

Email and Push Notifications

Configure AeroCopilot push notifications and email digest preferences, including safety-critical alerts that cannot be disabled and opt-in awareness items.

How AI Costs Work (Absorbed in Subscription)

AeroCopilot bundles AI into every paid tier. No credits, no tokens, no overage charges — the AI Copilot is part of the subscription itself.

Threat Board: How AeroCopilot Surfaces Risks

The Threat Board filters TFRs, SIGMETs, smoke, AQI, and space weather to your route corridor, then renders structured threat cards and a decision banner.

BasicMed and Class Medical Tracking

How AeroCopilot tracks First, Second, Third Class medicals, BasicMed, and Sport Pilot driver-license medical fitness with class-aware operational limits.

ChatFAR: Regulatory Q&A Assistant

A 14 CFR expert chatbot that cites the binding regulation, explains it in plain English, gives a practical example, and flags the gotcha most pilots miss.

Freshness and Refresh Cycles

How often AeroCopilot refreshes each upstream feed — from 5-minute METAR pulls to 28-day AIRAC cycles, with the exact cron schedules that drive ingest.

Weather Layers: METAR, TAF, SIGMET, PIREPs

What each weather layer in AeroCopilot represents, who issues it, and how often it refreshes — METAR, TAF, SIGMET, G-AIRMET, PIREPs, winds aloft, and more.

Quick Start: 10 Minutes to Your First Briefing

Step-by-step walkthrough from account creation to a server-rendered, FAA-defensible pre-flight briefing PDF in about 10 minutes.

Signing In with Google

Use your Google account to sign in or sign up for AeroCopilot. Powered by Better Auth, secured by Google's standard OAuth2 consent flow.

Installing AeroCopilot as a Mobile App (PWA)

Install AeroCopilot on iPhone, iPad, and Android using the built-in browser install flow. Enables push notifications, home-screen launch, and offline GPS buffering.

Upgrading and Downgrading

How to change plans on AeroCopilot — when changes take effect, how the trial works, and how Operator and School billing differ from individual plans.

Risk Window & Go/No-Go Gates

The Risk Window Gate is a mandatory acknowledgment modal when ETD intersects forecast IFR or thunderstorm conditions, with a Zulu-stamped persisted decision.

Airworthiness Directive Compliance

How AeroCopilot tracks open ADs, recurring inspection countdowns, and the ARROW documents that make an aircraft legally airworthy under 14 CFR.

ChatCFI: Flight Instructor Knowledge Base

A 24/7 flight instructor that teaches by asking, not by lecturing. Grounded in PHAK, AFH, IFH, IPH, RFH, and the AIM. Adapts to pre-solo, instrument, and commercial students.

Source Attribution and Transparency Layer

How AeroCopilot cites every weather report, NOTAM, regulation, and chart back to its upstream agency — the proud-source attribution layer that powers trust and AI traceability.

NOTAMs and TFRs in AeroCopilot

How AeroCopilot ingests and surfaces FAA NOTAMs and TFRs — sourcing, refresh cadence, route geofiltering, decoding, and AI relevance classification.

Creating Your Account

How to create an AeroCopilot account, what providers are available, and what happens after first sign-in including the redirect to onboarding.

API Library Overview

An overview of the third-party integrations AeroCopilot ships with — MyFlightbook logbook sync, Leidos FFSP flight services, and Google OAuth sign-in.

Team and Organization Accounts

How AeroCopilot multi-tenant organizations work — creating an org, inviting members by email, managing roles and permissions, and the owner-only delete control.

Refunds and Cancellation

AeroCopilot's 30-day full refund policy, the Medical Grounding pro-rated refund for annual subscribers, and how to cancel without phone calls or hoops.

FRAT — Flight Risk Assessment Tool

AeroCopilot's FRAT is an IMSAFE + PAVE artifact: 15 checkboxes, a live 0-21 score, and GO / MITIGATE / NO-GO thresholds, persisted to your flight plan.

Wet-Click Terms-of-Service Attestation

How AeroCopilot's TosAttestationGate captures wet-click consent, versions Terms of Service, and retains affirmative-consent records for state AG audits.

ATC Trainer: Comm Practice

Practice radio communications with a 20-year ATC veteran simulating ground, tower, departure, approach, and CTAF. Readbacks graded against AIM Chapter 4.

Airport Data: NASR-Sourced Facility Information

How AeroCopilot's airport directory is built — FAA NASR 5010 fields, Chart Supplement data, frequencies, hot spots, D-ATIS, status, and weather cameras.

Generating Your First Pre-Flight Briefing

Walk through generating an FAA-defensible pre-flight briefing — Risk-Window Gate, FRAT, Ops Authority verdict, and the server-rendered PDF with Briefing-ID.

Leidos FAA Briefing Service

AeroCopilot's pre-built REST client for the Leidos Flight Service (FFSP) — file flight plans, get briefings, and search routes through the FAA's contracted provider.

Operations Audit Log (§135.439)

How AeroCopilot's append-only OpsAuditLog, Postgres immutability triggers, and seven-year retention satisfy 14 CFR 135.439 and the §135.63 inspector bundle.

Post-Flight Debrief Mode

A structured CFI-led debrief after every flight. Walks through what went well, ADM review, study considerations, and three actionable takeaways tied to PHAK/AFH/AIM.

Setting Up Your Aircraft Profile

How to add aircraft to AeroCopilot — performance baselines, helicopter profile (HOGE/NVG/rotor), eVTOL profile (battery/MCS), and why each field matters.