Email and Push Notifications

AeroCopilot sends notifications across three urgency levels and two channels: in-browser push (via the Web Push standard) and email digests. This page explains exactly which categories you can toggle, which ones you cannot, and where to manage each.

Where to manage notifications

Open /settings/preferences. The Push Notification Preferences card lists every trigger AeroCopilot can fire, grouped by urgency.

The three notification tiers

The preferences form organizes triggers into three groups that map to how prominent the alert will be when it arrives.

Safety Critical (cannot be disabled)

These triggers always fire. The form shows them with a lock icon and the label "Cannot disable" because they protect against scenarios where missing the alert could be catastrophic:

• TFR Incursion / Projected — when you are inside or projected to enter a Temporary Flight Restriction
• Terrain Conflict (CFIT) — controlled flight into terrain warning based on altitude and terrain data
• Severe Weather Cell Nearby — convective SIGMET or severe thunderstorm cell within proximity of your position

This is intentional. You opted in to a pilot-grade tool; we do not let you opt out of CFIT and TFR warnings.

Visual Alerts (toggleable)

Prominent on-screen notifications, grouped under the weather preference toggle:

• Destination Below Minimums — destination airport reporting conditions below your personal minimums
• SAA / MOA Activation on Route — Special Activity Airspace or Military Operations Area activated along your route
• GDP / Ground Stop at Destination — Ground Delay Program or Ground Stop issued for your destination
• New SIGMET on Route — new SIGMET that intersects your planned route of flight

Badge Notifications (toggleable)

Subtle indicators for awareness items. Each maps to a specific preference column:

• GPS Unreliable (Kp greater than 7) — geomagnetic storm index suggests potential GPS degradation (weather toggle)
• New NOTAM Affecting Airports — new NOTAMs published for your favorite airports or planned destinations (tfrAlerts toggle)
• AQI Change greater than 50 points — air quality index at your destination changed significantly (weather toggle)
• Fuel Price Change at Destination — avgas or Jet-A price changed at your planned fuel stop (digest toggle)

How push delivery works

Push notifications use the standard Web Push protocol with VAPID keys. When you accept the browser permission, AeroCopilot stores a PushSubscription for your account. Notifications fire from the AeroCopilot service worker, which displays them with the AeroCopilot icon and links back to the relevant in-app view when you click them.

If a subscription expires or your browser revokes it, AeroCopilot cleans it up automatically the next time delivery fails.

For push to work reliably you need to keep the browser tab installed (PWA install is recommended on mobile — see the PWA guide). On iOS Safari, push only fires when AeroCopilot is added to the home screen.

Email digests

The digest preference toggle controls non-urgent email summaries (for example, fuel-price changes at saved destinations). Billing- and account-related emails — including renewal reminders, payment-failure dunning, and trial confirmations — are transactional and are sent regardless of the digest toggle, because they are required for the subscription to function.

Saving and verifying

Toggles save when you click Save Preferences. A green "Saved" badge appears for three seconds when the change has been persisted. The next push event respects the new preferences immediately — there is no propagation delay.

Related

• Profile and Pilot Type Settings — /help/account/profile-settings
• Installing AeroCopilot as a Mobile App (PWA) — /help/account/mobile-pwa
• Team and Organization Accounts — /help/account/team-organization