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Waypoint starts with a free month: 30 days free, then $6 a month. Paid plans are for aircrew, so before checkout we'll send a code to your company email address to confirm employment. Checkout asks for a card, but you won't be charged until the 30 days are up, and if you cancel before then, you won't pay a thing. To cancel, go to your PocketFE account page (pocketfe.com/account) and choose "Cancel subscription." If Waypoint is part of a bundle, choose "Remove Waypoint" instead to drop just Waypoint and keep the rest. It's one free month per pilot: a month of any PocketFE app uses it, and a bundle starts free only if you haven't had one. And if your subscription ever lapses, your flights aren't deleted: we keep them until you delete your account, so they'll be waiting for you when you come back. In the meantime, you'll see the demo.

Waypoint is a combined Logbook, Crew notes, Journal, and Map app designed to give you comprehensive data about your flying history. It can sync with your Apple calendar and import your PAS, so you can get a full flying history without having to maintain any documentation of your own.

Of course! Go to www.pocketfe.com/waypoint and choose "Try the demo" for a sample logbook you can poke around in, with no account and no card. When you're ready for your own flying, your free month is waiting.

Yes, and for now it's the best way to use Waypoint. In your web browser, go to www.pocketfe.com/waypoint and choose "Share," then "Add to Home Screen." Start from the Waypoint page, not the PocketFE home page, or you'll add PocketFE instead.

Download the Logbook template from the Import page first. Make sure your logbook has the column headings from the template. You don't have to have all of them, but you'll need Date, Flight, From and To. Match column headings on the columns you do have (order is unimportant). Then drag and drop, or navigate to your Excel logbook on the Import page. All data gets parsed on your machine, and nothing beyond relevant logbook data is stored anywhere. In the table view, the color coding will always show you where individual entries came from.

Save your PAS as a PDF. Then drag and drop, or navigate to your PAS on the Import page. All data gets parsed on your machine, and nothing beyond relevant logbook data is stored anywhere. PAS data supersedes Calendar syncs. You can reference the Source list in the left rail (on a phone, it's in the menu). Its order, strongest first: User input, Enrich, Company record (a PAS or Delta's flight leg history), Calendar import, Excel import, Other import. In the table view, the color coding will always show you where individual entries came from.

Drop the .xlsx file Delta sends you, "Flight leg history", on the Import page, the same way as a PAS. It's read on your machine, and only the flight rows are sent; your employee number never leaves the file. It's a company record, so it ranks with your PAS: where the two differ by more than a minute, Waypoint keeps the statement's value and asks you, with Delta's duty times beside it. Ground deadheads are left out. Takeoffs, landings and PF/PM from Delta's ACARS records come in only if you tick the box on the preview, and then they only fill blanks.

If you have a spreadsheet, you can download the Waypoint Logbook template on the Import page. Make sure your logbook has the column headings from the template. You don't have to have all of them, but you'll need Date, Flight, From and To. Match column headings on the columns you do have (order is unimportant). Then drag and drop, or navigate to your spreadsheet on the Import page. All data gets parsed on your machine, and nothing beyond relevant logbook data is stored anywhere. In the table view, the color coding will always show you where individual entries came from. Coming soon: imports from other apps.

Calendar sync reads your MiCrew schedule from your Apple calendar through a public link. The Import page walks you through it: in Calendar, share the MiCrew calendar, turn on Public Calendar, then paste the link into Waypoint and choose "Subscribe." After that, press "Sync calendar" in the left rail (in the menu on a phone) whenever you want your logbook brought up to date; Waypoint doesn't sync on its own. It keeps the link on our server, which is how you can sync from any device, and otherwise stores only the flights it reads. "Remove" on the Import page stops the sync and forgets the link. Your upcoming trips come in too, but nothing in the future counts toward your totals.

Like any public calendar, anyone with the link can read it, so keep it to yourself. For now, the public link is the only way to sync.

No. Waypoint checks to make sure flights aren't duplicated. Imports and syncs fill in what's missing and refresh what they brought in before, and a higher-priority source corrects a lower one (e.g. updated out and in times from your PAS). Two things never happen without you: nothing you typed is overwritten, and no flight is deleted. A flight missing from a later sync or import is listed for you to decide.

A PAS import wins over a calendar sync. The one exception is the scheduled times: Waypoint keeps the first schedule it saw, usually from the calendar, so a later revision doesn't replace what you were scheduled for. You can reference the Source list in the left rail (on a phone, it's in the menu). Its order, strongest first: User input, Enrich, Company record (a PAS or Delta's flight leg history), Calendar import, Excel import, Other import. In the table view, the color coding will always show you where individual entries came from.

To add a leg, click or tap the + icon at the top of your flight list on the Logbook page, and the "Add a leg" card will appear.

To change a leg, click or tap it in either the tile view or the table view, and its card opens. The date, flight and route at the top normally come from your syncs and imports, so changing them happens in their own card, behind "Edit details." Everything below is the data you're more likely to change, ready for you to edit.

Make sure SEL/MEL (beside Total time) is selected as appropriate. If you choose "Apply to" Night, Inst, Xctry, or PIC, Waypoint assumes those conditions applied for the Total time; for Inst, it subtracts the taxi times you've set in Settings. For your currency to be accurate, select your role on each leg you flew: PF logs a takeoff, an approach and a landing, PF → PM a takeoff, and PM → PF an approach and a landing (check or change them under "All fields"). Then select CAT II/III and/or Auto-land as appropriate.

For Pax or SOB, pick one and make the entries (enter SOB and Crew, and Waypoint works out Pax for you).

You can also add crew members here. By default, Waypoint shows Capt or F/O based on the crew position in your Settings (both, if you haven't set one), and you can always add more of either. Everything you enter is stored as User input, and no import or sync will overwrite it. If a PAS later disagrees with something you typed, Waypoint keeps yours and asks: "Keep mine" or "Use the company's."

With calendar syncs and PAS imports, you'll get a full list of all your flights in full agreement with company records. The calendar brings in the rotation, flight number, route, out and in times, total time and type. The ship number comes from your PAS (or your calendar, with MiCrew's "by flight" export), and from it Waypoint looks up the registration and fleet. Waypoint also fills in distance, and MEL, Xctry and Captain PIC where it's confident. By editing individual legs you can also keep track of flight time categories like Night, Inst, Xctry. Don't see what you're looking for on the leg entry card? Click or tap on "All fields" at the bottom to see fields that are less commonly used.

Totals count the legs you've flown (deadheads and upcoming trips have their own tiles) and follow the timeframe and filters you've picked, while currency always looks at your whole logbook: three landings in 90 days (one auto-land at most), and CAT II/III within 180 days of your last CAT II/III leg. A leg counts toward landing currency once it has a landing logged, and picking PF or PM → PF as your role on the leg card logs one for you.

After a divert, a calendar sync brings in the leg to the airport where you actually landed, and asks about the planned leg, which the calendar no longer lists: choose "Remove leg." Then open the new leg, select "Divert" at the top of the card, and enter the planned destination. If the calendar hasn't caught up yet, open the planned leg instead: use "Edit details" to change the destination to where you landed, save, then select "Divert."

Crew gives you a way to keep track of the pilots you've flown with, jot down some notes, etc. Fill in as much or as little as you like. A pilot's logbook is a journal of sorts, so we've incorporated a Journal function that shows you a calendar with your trips overlaid. The Journal allows you to jot down notes about a trip, make a journal entry about the day, grade the day, tag a day, count up from an event, count down to an event, etc. Again, as much or as little as you like. And the map gives you a visual representation of where you've been that can be filtered and played back.

Yes, Waypoint is designed to work without an internet connection. A red "Offline" badge at the top right lets you know, and you can keep going: changes to your legs, journal and crew are saved on your device, and a "to send" count beside the badge shows what's waiting. Everything goes up automatically when your connection is restored. A few things do need a signal: adding or deleting a leg, changing a leg's date, flight or route, Enrich, imports and calendar syncs, and changes in Settings (your position and taxi times still show offline, read-only). The map works offline too, though the Terrain view needs to have been opened online recently.

They're saved on your device. Tap the "to send" count beside the Offline badge at the top right to see the list, and they go up automatically when your connection is restored. If the same thing was changed somewhere else in the meantime, Waypoint asks which version to keep.

Absolutely. Sign in with the same account on your phone, iPad and computer, and your logbook, journal and crew notes come along. Each device keeps its own copy so it can work without a signal, which means changes made offline show up on your other devices once that device reconnects. If two devices change the same thing in the meantime, Waypoint asks which one to keep. You'll need a connection the first time you sign in on a new device, and you can see (and sign out) your devices in Settings, under "Signed-in devices."

On the Friends page, enter your friend's email and choose "Share my logbook." It shows up on their Friends page, under "Shared with you." They see every leg as you do, including remarks, the crew names on each leg and any columns you've added, but they can't change anything, and they never see your Crew notes or journal. Your friend needs a PocketFE account under that email, and Waypoint to open your logbook (the free month counts). You can stop sharing any time with "Remove."

Only you, and any friends you share it with on the Friends page. They see your logbook and map as you do, remarks and crew names included, but never your Crew notes or journal, and they need Waypoint to open it.

Coming soon: data export.

We'd love to know. Tap "Need help?" at the bottom right of any Waypoint page, tell us what happened, and attach a screenshot or two if that helps (up to 5 files). It comes straight to us by email, along with the page you were on, and your files aren't stored in the app. It does need a signal to send. For anything else, "Get in touch!" at the bottom of this page reaches us too.

MinLine starts with a 30-day free trial. Checkout asks for a card, but nothing is charged until day 30, and if you cancel before then, you won't pay a thing. After the trial it's $15 a month, or $150 a year (two months free). Paid plans are for aircrew, so before checkout we'll send a code to your company email address to confirm employment. It's one free month per pilot: a month of any PocketFE app uses it. To cancel, go to your PocketFE account page (pocketfe.com/account) and choose "Cancel subscription." MinLine keeps working until the end of the period you've paid for, or the end of your trial. After that, your bid packages and settings stay with your account until you delete it, and MinLine takes you to the plan page until you subscribe again.

MinLine reads bid package PDFs you download from the company. It picks up base and fleet from the package itself. You can keep up to three packages at a time (uploading the same one again simply replaces it), and the PDF itself is not stored. Just the relevant data is parsed and stored on our server.

When you sign in, the Start Bid wizard walks you through it: upload your bid package (or pick one you've already added), choose the seat you're bidding, and add any credit already on the books this month. Prefer to do it yourself? "Skip for now" closes the wizard, and the Start Bid screen has the same three steps: "Bid package," "Crew position" and "Pre-posted credit." The rest of MinLine opens up once all three are answered. (To stop it opening at sign-in, turn off "Show the Start Bid wizard at login" in Settings. "Getting started" at the top of the sidebar opens it again any time.)

It's credit you already have on the books going into a month: carry-in from a previous month's trip, CQ or training, vacation, or other credit.

On Start Bid, answer "Yes" under "Pre-posted credit," add each one, then press "Submit." (With nothing pre-posted, "No" finishes the step.) CQ/Training and vacation fill in contractual credit (5:00 a day for CQ, 4:35 for vacation). Carry-in and other credit are manual entries. MinLine takes the pre-posted total off your target, so your bid groups only have to make up the rest (the "Line award goal" on Bid Groups). Any trips that clash with pre-posted days are automatically moved to Conflict. You can find pre-posted credit in PBS, and "Import credit from PBS" (Beta) fills it in from a screenshot or the PDF of your PBS calendar. PBS doesn't show everything (pay, for one), so check what it filled before you press "Submit."

Each bid package starts fresh: your seat, target, pre-posted credit, days off, trip lists, drafts and its Bid Groups setup (days of work, seniority preset and the rest) all belong to that package. Your Highlights, rules and hotel and city lists alike, and your Settings (min base layover, similar bids and "Prefer lengths" among them) belong to your account, so they come along to every package. "Save cities/hotels" keeps your hotel and city lists as a named preset if you'd like to switch between them. It's all saved to your account, so it's there on any device.

Highlights color-code trips so the good ones (and the not-so-good ones) jump out. Under "General," turn on rules like "Check-in is 6:00a or earlier" or "Any layover is 12:00 or shorter," and mark each one "Good" or "Bad." You can also flag layover cities and hotels: the star for good, the trash can for bad. Choose "All stored bid packages" to flag hotels and cities from your other packages of the same base and fleet, too. Your rules and lists apply to every bid package. Highlights only add color coding to the trip display; they have no bearing on how MinLine builds your groups. "Save cities/hotels" keeps your hotel and city lists as a named preset, and "Load cities/hotels" brings one back.

Think of it as an inbox for trips. Everything starts in "Unfiled." Select the trips you like and choose "Move selected to Bid" (star icon), or send the ones you don't to "Discard" (trash can icon). "Anchor selected" (anchor icon) pins up to six trips you'd really like to build around, and MinLine builds as many groups around them as it can, listed first. (In the Anchor list, "Anchor by: Cluster" anchors every trip in a range of dates, lengths and credit instead.) Trips that clash with your pre-posted credit or days off are moved to "Conflict" automatically. When MinLine builds your groups, it works from your Anchor and Bid trips (or, if Bid is empty, Unfiled trips). If your Bid list runs short, it borrows from Unfiled to give you more options and marks those trips "Unfiled." Discard and Conflict trips are never used.

Yes. Open "Filters," then "Route," and click the "Flight number" box. It lists every flight number you'd fly in the bid package (deadhead legs aren't listed): select one or more (type to narrow the list, and Enter selects the match), and a trip shows if you fly any of them. Or pick "Under," "Over" or "Range" and type a number instead. Under "Pairing," the "Pairing number" box works the same way, with a list of every pairing in the package. Either filter shows as a pill; tap its × to remove it. One tip: the search box above the trip list looks up pairing numbers, not flight numbers.

Compare puts up to three trips side by side. Select two or three and choose "Compare" (or select one and choose "Compare": it waits in the Compare box above the trip list, even if a filter hides it, until you select another and choose "Compare" again). You'll see their numbers next to each other, including soft pay, block, TAFB and legs per day, plus the flying day by day, with each difference measured against the first trip. Differences are easy to spot, and you can send any of them to "Bid" or "Discard" right there. MinLine won't pick a winner; that part's up to you.

PBS can't import a bid, so you'll enter your groups by hand, from the top down. MinLine lists them best first. "Preview PBS bid" shows every line numbered the way PBS will number it, and each group's copy button or "Copy all groups" gives you the trips to work from if you want to paste them in a separate document. In PBS, each group is a "Pairing Bid Group," with an "Award Pairings If Pairing Number (Ordered)" line (Limit 1) for each cluster of trips, and "Clear Schedule and Start Next Bid Group" before the next group. PBS reads your groups in the order you enter them, so the order matters.

No. We don't have a direct connection to PBS at the moment, and MinLine never signs in to PBS for you, so you're always in command of your bid. "Preview PBS bid" and "Copy all groups" make entering it as painless as we can.

It's your goal for the month. On Bid Groups, choose "Min," "Mid" or "Max," and MinLine sets the range based on the bid package ALV and LCW for your seat. (Pick your seat on Start Bid first; changing it clears the target, so choose again afterward.) MinLine deducts any pre-posted credit to get your "Line award goal," then builds groups whose lowest award still reaches the floor and whose highest stays under the ceiling. The gauge shows how close you are: "+X over the floor" or "X short of the floor."

MinLine takes each trip's credit and pay straight from the bid package. Pay is the trip's credit plus its soft pay (sit, EDP, holiday and carve), which doesn't count toward the LCW. If a trip runs past the end of the bid period, only its in-period credit counts, and its soft pay is paid with the next period. "IP" shows the in-period figures and "TOT" the whole trip.

Your whole bid, line by line, numbered the way PBS will number it, so you can follow along as you enter it. Once you've built some groups, you'll find "Preview PBS bid" beside "Copy all groups" on Bid Groups. It includes your hand edits and skips any groups you've discarded. On Manual, the group you're building has its own "Preview PBS bid" once a cluster holds a trip. (Note: if you add any lines of your own in PBS, like a vacation slide, the line numbers won't match perfectly.)

Yes. Each "Generate bid groups" is a run. Star a group you like ("Keep this group") and it stays through later runs, listed above the new ones; "Clear unstarred" clears away the rest. You can tidy groups by hand too: remove or reorder trips, "+ Add trips," or "Send to manual." Mix and match until it looks right. Your groups stay with their bid package through a reload or a sign-out, but the next "Generate bid groups" replaces any you haven't starred, so to keep a run, choose "Save entire bid" and put it in one of the five "Saved automatic drafts."

They stay with their bid package, saved or not: reload, sign out and back in, or open MinLine on another device, and each package's groups come back as you left them, stars and discards included. Two things replace them: the next "Generate bid groups" (your starred groups stay) and "Clear all." To keep a run beside the next one, choose "Save entire bid" to put it in one of the five "Saved automatic drafts," and "Load" brings it back.

Mostly, yes. With a bid package loaded, you can sift, highlight and adjust without a signal, and your changes are sent as soon as you're back online. A red "Offline" badge lets you know. Two things need a connection: uploading a package and generating bid groups. Before you head out of range, open MinLine online (twice is safest), and on an iPad, add it to your Home Screen. Sign-in lasts 30 days from the last time you open MinLine online, and 90 days at most from when you signed in.

Yes. Your work is saved to your account, so sign in on both and pick up where you left off. A few display preferences, like the theme, stay with each device. If both devices changed something while one was offline, MinLine asks which to keep ("Keep this device" or "Take the other"), and the one you don't keep is discarded. You can stay signed in on up to three devices; signing in on a fourth signs out the one that signed in longest ago.

Please do! Tap the round "?" at the bottom right ("Need help?"), tell us what happened, attach a screenshot or two if it helps (up to 5 files), and choose "Send to admin." We'll reply to your account email. You'll get a copy of your message there too.