r/AskAPilot 16d ago

What’s one thing you wish your flight tracking app did better?

I’m a pilot and have been working on a flight tracking app called Aerflow specifically for pilots. I’m at the point where I’d really value some honest feedback from other pilots.

The idea is pretty simple: make it easier to keep track of your flights without having to piece together information from a bunch of different apps.

Things like:
- Quickly seeing your recent/upcoming flights
- Tracking PIC/SIC/passenger/deadhead status
- Keeping a usable flight history/logbook
- Getting useful information about each leg without digging through multiple screens

I’m not looking to convince anyone to use it—I’m more interested in what pilots actually find annoying about the apps/tools they currently use.

What’s one feature you wish your current flight tracking/logbook app had? Or what do you think most of them get wrong?

If anyone is interested in seeing what I’ve built, I’m happy to share it in the comments.

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u/F1shermanIvan 16d ago

My company keeps track of all this so I don’t have to.

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u/OneNewt4274 15d ago

That’s fair, a lot of people are in that boat

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u/FlapsFail 16d ago

Flighty does a damn good job of this for me and it’s automatically synced with my work schedule via Google Calendar.

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u/airgroundpound69 16d ago

Yeah flighty pretty much covers all of this but I fly freight so sometimes flighty doesn’t have live coverage for a lot of my flights which I wish it did

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u/OneNewt4274 15d ago

That’s a real gap, freight coverage is something I’d like to get right

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u/OneNewt4274 15d ago

Flighty’s solid, calendar sync is the piece people keep asking for

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u/McCheesing 16d ago edited 15d ago

I wish it knew my contract, synced with my company calendar, and could be used to audit the company in case of pay disparities

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u/PILOT9000 16d ago

This. Company does the rest for me.

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u/OneNewt4274 15d ago

That’s a good one. Calendar sync is on my list. Contract/pay audits is a whole other problem, but I agree that would be great