Load a flight plan
Loading a new flight plan is paused until your administrator releases this. The flight already loaded is not affected.
Receive a flight
From another pilot — 6-digit code
From my other device
Collects a flight you sent from your own other device with Send to my other device. Needs a signal.
No internet — from a file or pasted text
It was sent to me — how do I open it?
iPad / iPhone (AirDrop, Mail, Messages)
iOS will not open a file straight into a Home Screen web app — that is an Apple limitation, not a Sky Matrix one, so “Open with Sky Matrix” will not appear. Do this instead:
1. Accept the AirDrop — it opens in a preview, or saves to Files.
2. Either Select All → Copy in that preview, then come back here and paste anywhere (or tap Read from clipboard) — or tap Open a handover file and pick it from Files.
Android (Quick Share, Downloads)
Tap the file in the Downloads notification and choose Sky Matrix — it opens directly.
Laptop / anything else
Open a handover file, or paste the
SMFLIGHT block anywhere on this page.
A received flight replaces your entries for this flight with the sender’s — one set of figures, not a mix of two. You see what is in it before you accept.
Flight Control — send & close this flight
Not registered with Flight Control yet.
The acceptance is signed first if it has not gone yet, then the post-flight report closes the flight — both land in your airline's Flight Control console. The full check lists are on Briefing → Acceptance and Inflight → Post Flight.
Hand over to a pilot
For the pilot taking over this flight. The 6-digit code needs a signal; the routes under No internet? work with none, which is the case this was built for. They receive it on their Load page, under Receive a flight.
Send to my other device
One press sends everything for the flight you have open — the flight plan itself, your captured times, nav-log actuals, weights and notes — to the other device on this account. On that device: INIT → Load → Receive a flight → From my other device.
Switched on or off in Settings → Privacy. Stored against your account for 36 hours, readable only by your own devices.
This device & account
- Signed in
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- This device
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- Licence
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- AI reads
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- Devices on this account
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Log out & erase everything on this device
Deletes your briefing, profile, checklists, announcements and documents from this device. It cannot be undone — use Move my setup first if you want to keep them. Your Device ID stays, so your access code still works.
Biometric unlock
My flights
The flights this device has held for Flight Control, kept on this device. Sent = green, closed but never sent = amber, not sent = red.
Offline flight-plan reader
Checking…
The reader is the code that turns your OFP text into the briefing. It is delivered once per device, works offline, and updates itself when Sky Matrix ships parser fixes — this line proves which one you are holding.
Altimeter ground check
Enter your operator's tolerances to have the ATC page say whether each reading is within them. Leave blank to see the differences only.
Alternates along the route
The Progress page lists every aerodrome whose longest hard runway meets your minimum and that lies within reach of the route: 60 minutes, or the plan's ETOPS time on an ETOPS sector, at your diversion speed. Runway lengths and elevations come from OurAirports (public domain), not from your operator's route manual — check suitability there.
Flight Control — for airlines under contract
Flight Control adds Flight Acceptance before departure, a signed Post Flight report after landing, company circulars and queries from your operations team. It runs on your airline’s own server, so it appears in Sky Matrix only when your airline has a Flight Control contract and you open the app from its address.
Display
Make the text larger for glare, vibration or low vision. Applies everywhere in the app and is remembered on this device.
Move my setup
Your profile, checklists, announcements, documents and preferences — never a flight plan. Flight plans hold other crew members’ names and roster details, so they never travel this way; a flight goes with Send to my other device on the Load page.
Or use a file (iCloud Drive, Google Drive, OneDrive, Files)
Also restores this device after a reinstall. Not included: your loaded OFP and briefing, your licence code and your PIN.
Privacy
Send feedback
Tell us what to improve or report a problem — it goes straight to the Sky Matrix team.
Flight Acceptance
Accept the flight after reading the briefing. Figures the app already holds are used as they are; you add only what it does not know. Signing works offline — it sends when this device is online.
Once per device: your airline emails a code, then this device makes a PIN / Face ID key that signs your acceptances and reports.
Registered:
No flight chosen yet.
Checklists
Create multiple named checklists. Tap a tab to open it; use ‹ › to reorder. Saved on this device. Reset ticks before each flight.
Checklist maker
Turn any document into a checklist — PDF, Word, photo or text. Review the steps, then add them to your Checklist above.
Crew roster
Upload a crew roster — photo, PDF, Word or text. Sky Matrix AI reads the flight-deck and cabin names by rank (Captain / CP / Capt · FO / SFO / SO · CSD / CS / LCC / LC).
The operating captain, first officer and CSD are the names the announcements use — typing them here is identical to filling them in the Welcome or Descent PA window, and a roster you upload fills them in too. The relief names and the CS are kept with the flight.
MY PAs
Your own announcements, grouped by where each one came from. Write one below — it is kept under My own — or open Greetings, Abnormal or Emergencies and tap Save to My PAs to keep a standard one with your own wording.
Tap Sky Matrix AI on any saved announcement to expand it and fill it with the current flight's details.
Name it Welcome to auto-show on the Departure page, or Descend for the Arrival page — both are auto-filled for the current flight. Any other name (Boarding, Delay, Diversion…) is saved for quick access.
Greetings
Abnormal
Emergencies
Standard wording only. Your operator’s procedures and the situation decide what is said and when. Nothing here is filled in by guessing: the airport you are landing at, and how long until you land, stay a gap until you enter them.
Sent to you
Documents sent to you by the administrator. They stay here on this device until you delete them. Tap a document to open it.
No admin documents yet.
Flight time no OFP loaded
Planned ETA is take-off + trip time. Progress shows the ETA from your position.
Banners: Top of Climb, then a check every set interval after take-off.
Alerts & markers
Get a sound + alert when you reach a waypoint, a lat/long, or a UTC time — and stamp the current UTC against any event. Acknowledge an alert to clear it.
Stamp the current UTC against an event (TOC, oceanic entry, level change…) and keep a running list.
Aircraft / flight lookup
Enter an ATC callsign (e.g. ABC123) for airline + route + live aircraft, or a registration (e.g. G-ABCD) for the exact type & operator. Most complete while the flight is airborne. Needs internet.
Sun — departure, destination & en-route
| Where | Sunrise | Sunset | Day/Night now |
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GPS auto take-off & landing
Uses this device's own GPS (the built-in GPS, or a paired Bluetooth receiver like a Garmin GLO if one is feeding iOS Location Services — whichever is available). Auto-stamps take-off only when ground speed stays above 100 kt and the device has climbed above the recorded aerodrome elevation — so a rejected take-off is not mistaken for a departure — then jumps to Live. Landing needs a sustained speed below 100 kt at aerodrome level, so a GPS dropout in the cruise is not mistaken for a touchdown; it then jumps to Arrival. Times come from internet UTC and drive the NAV LOG. Loose fixes are ignored. The START and LDG buttons remain the primary method — this is a convenience, not a certified sensor.
PROGRESS — live position vs the OFP plan
NEXT WAYPOINT
ANY WAYPOINT
WATCH AN ALTERNATE
No alternate to watch in this flight plan.
All figures on this card are projections derived from the OFP plan, this device's GPS and your entered fuel — not from the aircraft's systems. The FMS and EICAS are the source of truth.
No clearance recorded yet.
The warm-up counts automatically from off-blocks, with a sound and a pop-up when complete.
Flight details from the OFP
Filled automatically only when the broadcast was issued within one hour of departure (your chocks-off time, else the scheduled time; after the scheduled time with no chocks-off, the time now).
AZFW and ATOW are the same figures as Final ZFW and TOW on Departure — enter them in either place.
As filed, printed in your flight plan.
No filed flight plan in this OFP.
The cool-down counts automatically from landing, with a sound and a pop-up when complete.
Post Flight
Times and arrival fuel come from the Departure and Arrival pages — correct them there and they change here. Photos are optional; SEND FLIGHT never waits for them.
- Chocks off
- Take-off
- Landing
- On blocks
- Arrival fuel
Queries from Flight Control
Inflight Rest no OFP loaded
Rest window auto-builds from takeoff + OFP trip time: rest start = takeoff + 15 min; rest end = takeoff + trip − 60 min. Times are editable.
Splits the available window between crew — it does not assess legality. Sky Matrix does not know your operator's FTL scheme, augmentation or minimum-rest rules. Check the split against your company FTL and roster before using it.
| # | Crew | Start | End | Duration |
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Company circulars
From your airline’s Flight Control. A must-read circular has to be acknowledged before you can accept a flight.
My documents
Add your own reference documents (PDF, images, etc.). Stored on this device only; they stay until you remove them. Tap a document name to set it as current; use Open to view.
DGR — Emergency Response drill codes
These are ICAO emergency response DRILL CODES (the code shown on the NOTOC), not UN hazard classes. Based on the ICAO Doc 9481 Emergency Response Guidance for Aircraft Incidents Involving Dangerous Goods structure. Sky Matrix does not carry a controlled copy and does not track amendments — always work from the ERG carried on the aircraft and your operator's procedures. If anything here differs from those, they are correct and this is not.
Pick the drill code from the NOTOC, and/or a drill letter, to see the associated response.