IXO PILOT, being at all times readily accessible from any location, facilitates self-briefing for VFR/IFR pilots.
Its main features comprise:
- Interactive flight planning and pre-flight briefing based on valid ANSPs and EAD data
- Alerts on potential conflicts between a flight path and terrain, obstacles or restricted airspace areas (TRA, TSA, etc.) in the flight planning phase
- Information on current weather (METAR, satellite and radar images), weather forecast (TAF) and severe weather (SIGMET, lightning)
- Flight route planning and specification of the lateral/vertical buffer zone along a flight path for selected AIS data – Smart Filtering Concept
- A plotting tool to draw the planned flight path on a map and calculate navigation data as per aircraft characteristics
- A display of lateral and vertical profiles of a flight path in map layers
- Completion, validation and distribution of FPL form in accordance with ICAO Doc 4444
- Safety warnings that alert a pilot of possible hazardous situations in flight, e.g. at a flight altitude in conflict with terrain, a VRF flight performed during an aeronautical night, or flight duration exceeding the aircraft’s endurance
- Notification of potential flight path conflicts with active airspaces (FUA) calculated for a planned flight
- Creation of pre-flight preparation documents in PDF file format available at the pilot’s convenience
- 2D/3D visualization of a planned flight
IXO PILOT users benefit largely also from its capability to manage flight plans and to create detailed Pre-flight Information Bulletins.
Via IXO PILOT, a user is able to:
- Submit flight plan proposals and FPL-related up-to-date messages via dedicated modules
- Create a FPL via:
- Flight Log, a tool which generates a complete flight
- ICAO FPL Form
- FPL for an executed flight stored in an archive, or
- a saved FPL template
- Review a colour-coded status of submitted FPLs in FPL List
- Receive FPL status information via:
- E-mail
- Notification in the application
- Other media ( under development, e.g. WhatsApp, etc.)
- Use stored FPL templates with pre-filled fields
- Validate IFR FPL proposals for flights within IFPS zone with IFPS, and VFR FPL proposal with local service (ARO/CARO)
- View NOTAM information:
- in tooltips when hovering a mouse cursor over a specified map location
- in NOTAM Viewer displaying a list of NOTAM messages according to specified filters
- as PIB Report (Aerodrome, Area, Route, Narrow Route PIB) in PDF file format
- Retrieve and view AIP information via AIP Viewer menu options in PDF file format
Other functionalities:
- Aviation weather overview:
- Colour-coded METAR/TAF/SIGMET depicted on a map with encrypted content
- METAR/TAF/SIGMET/FORECAST accessible via METEO Viewer
- Colour-coded AWOS map layer with encrypted content
- Colour-coded AWOS messages through SYNOP Viewer
- Weather radar layer displayed over a basemap, either as the latest stationary image or in a loop of the latest five animated images
- Weather radar/satellite images accessible via Meteo Pictures Viewer
- Route proposals obtained from Network Manager
- View of geo-relevant NOTAM-to-Flight Route
- Student sub-accounts for flight schools
The responsive web design of IXO PILOT enables it to be easily used in major web browsers or mobile devices of a proper screen size (recommended 5″ or larger display).
