SkyBrief - Preflight Tool

Five weeks of updates in one release — the biggest since launch. PAY LESS FOR FLIGHT TRAINING (new) • A full cost playbook: a scholarship database with deadlines, financing compared honestly, and the specific habits that cut what a certificate actually costs. Most students overpay by thousands and are never told how not to. CHECKRIDE PREP (free) • 938 practice questions and 616 flashcards across 8 tracks — Sport through ATP, including the post-MOSAIC sport rules • Full mock written exams, timed and scored like the real thing • Mastery tracking, so you drill what you keep missing instead of what you already know FLY, AND IT LOGS ITSELF (WORK IN PROGRESS) • Arm the tracker before takeoff and it records hands-off, then hands you a logbook draft with times, route and landings • Track Replay: fly the route back with altitude, speed and ground track • Private pilot progress against 61.109 — every requirement, what you have, what's left TRAINING, EVERY DAY • METAR of the Day, a daily scenario, and real accident case studies • Radio Trainer: 20 scripted CTAF and towered scenarios • Maneuver Cards: 14 Private ACS maneuvers with real C172S numbers • Airspace quiz, hold entry visualizer, glide range planner, rusty pilot refresher, rental checkout packs IN THE BRIEFING • Vertical profile sounding, FAA weather cameras, taxi diagrams with hot spots for 907 airports, and a fuel stop advisor comparing 100LL prices along your route • Flyable days this week, at a glance • A layout you can rearrange — hold any card and drag it, like the home screen FOR INSTRUCTORS AND FLIGHT SCHOOLS • Rebuilt instructor dashboard: 28-lesson private syllabus, lesson plan builder, endorsements, Part 141 training records • Flight schools: dispatch oversight, school operating minimums, a fleet registry tracking inspection currency, seats and member ACCURACY • Go/No-Go now respects your personal minimums instead of judging every flight against VFR numbers • Navigation data refreshed, and dozens of fixes to numbers that matter • A weather observation old enough to be wrong now says s of looking exactly as current as a fresh one • Thunderstorm and icing advisories in force over your ai alerts — whether or not the hourly report has caught up Fly safe out there.