VFR Track

About VFR Track

VFRTrack is a premium Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) companion designed to enhance cockpit safety, organization, and efficiency for pilots. It provides offline-first, high-precision tools for real-time flight tracking, airport lookups, interactive checklists, automated logging, and diagram viewing.

Key Features:

1. Dynamic Cockpit Dashboard
- Spatial Status HUD: Real-time HUD showing current GPS coordinates, ground speed (in knots), true track, and altimeter details.
- Day & Night Themes: Seamlessly scales between high-contrast day mode and light-controlled night mode to preserve night vision in dark cockpits.

2. Smart Airport Lookups & Procedures
- Phonetic Spelling Header: Automatically displays the official military/NATO phonetic spelling of airport identifiers (e.g., Kilo Hotel November Delta for KHND) directly under the airport name for quick reference.
- Procedures Summary: Aggregates runway configurations to dynamically list approach/departure options (e.g., DEP, GPS, ILS) with links to AirNav procedures.
- Sunrise & Sunset Times: Timezone-interactive solar metrics mapped to the airport's location.

3. Sunrise, Sunset & Twilight Forecast
- 4-Day Solar Forecast: Calculates Morning Civil Twilight, Sunrise, Sunset, and Evening Civil Twilight for any selected date.
- Interactive Date Picker: Enables quick recalculation of solar milestones for future flight planning.
- Timezone Switch: Instantly toggle solar metrics between Device Local time and Airport Local time.
- Night Logging Assistant: Quick-reference guide explaining the Federal Aviation Regulation (FAR) 1.1 requirements on logging night flight time.

4. Automatic Flight Logbook
- Takeoff & Landing Auto-Detection: Monitors location updates in the background to automatically record takeoff and landing times (detects takeoffs when groundspeed exceeds 30 knots and debounces landings below 30 knots).
- Automated Log Registry: Tracks flight durations, routes, and times locally and synchronizes them to the cloud.
- Logbook UI: Displays active timers for currently running flights alongside a historical registry of all logged entries.

5. On-Demand Airport Diagram Downloads & Viewer
- AIRAC Cycle Monitor: Automatically tracks the 28-day Thursday cycle updates, highlighting in red if local diagrams are out-of-date.
- Built-in Document Viewer: Dedicated reader supporting page navigation, zoom, and high-contrast dark themes.

6. Interactive Cockpit Checklists
- EFB Checklist Engine: Pre-loaded standard General Aviation (GA) checklists (Pre-flight, Engine Start, Run-up, Takeoff, Cruise, Descent, Landing, etc.).
- Guided Check Flow: Highlighted borders guide you to the next pending item, while checked tasks fade out with a strikethrough.
- Emergency Highlights: Uses bright red danger borders and warning indicators for high-stress emergency checklists (like Engine Failure).
- Progress Tracking: Tracks and displays the completion percentage of each checklist.

7. Custom Aircraft Checklist Builder
- Tailored Fleet Checklists: Customize checklists for specific tail numbers or individual aircraft configurations.
- Interactive Step Editor: Add, modify, delete, and reorder steps using drag-and-drop.
- Dynamic Backups: Automatically saves changes and backs them up to the cloud.
- Revert to Defaults: Instantly reset or delete custom checklists to restore default templates.

8. Quick Pilot Reference Guides
- Phonetic Alphabet Mappings: NATO phonetic words and Morse code characters organized in a clean, compact grid layout.
- Hemispheric Cruising Altitudes: VFR cruising altitude reminders accessible directly from the flight menu.

Take control of your flights with VFRTrack, your ultimate general aviation companion.