# Getting started with Copilot EFB How to create your account, install the app on your phone, tablet or computer, set it up for your aircraft and your airfields, use it with no signal, manage your keys, and connect it to RogerATC for X-Plane. https://rogeratc.app/en/docs/copilot-efb/ ## What Copilot EFB is Copilot EFB is an electronic flight bag for iPhone, iPad, Android and desktop browsers, built for general aviation and with Argentina's sources first. You plan the route on the map, file the flight plan, read the weather, NOTAMs and aerodrome information, run your checklists, keep your logbook, and take all of it into the air with no signal. - **Offline-first.** After the first load it works with no connection; what you downloaded stays on the device with its age in plain sight. - **No app store.** It is a web app you install from the browser, and it is the same on every device. - **One account, every device.** What you create appears on your phone, your tablet and your computer. - **English and Spanish**, with aviation identifiers — METAR, TAF, QNH, NOTAM, runway designators — never translated. - **Free during the beta.** This is version 1.0 beta. Copilot EFB is a product of its own and works perfectly well without a simulator. It is also the account that **RogerATC**, the AI air traffic controller for X-Plane 12, requires: see **Using it with RogerATC** below. ## Create your account ``` https://copilot.rogeratc.app/sign-up ``` - Open [copilot.rogeratc.app/sign-up](https://copilot.rogeratc.app/sign-up). - Enter your name (it appears on your flight plans; you can change it later), your email and a password of at least 10 characters with upper case, lower case and a number. - Enter the six-digit code sent to your email to confirm the account, then sign in. The language you choose there is the one the app and its emails use. If you forget your password, use **I forgot my password** on the sign-in screen and a code is sent to your email. > Signing in needs a connection. Once you are signed in, the app keeps working offline, and Settings lets you choose how long you stay signed in without a connection. ## Install it on your devices Copilot EFB is a progressive web app: you open [copilot.rogeratc.app](https://copilot.rogeratc.app) in the browser and add it to your home screen. It then gets its own icon and opens full screen like any other app. Installing it also makes the browser much less likely to clear its offline data. ``` https://copilot.rogeratc.app ``` | Device | How to install | |---|---| | iPhone and iPad | Open the address in **Safari**, tap **Share** and choose **Add to Home Screen**. | | Android | Open it in **Chrome**, open the menu and choose **Install app** (or **Add to Home screen**). | | Computer | Use it in any modern browser to plan on a big screen. In **Chrome** or **Edge**, the install button in the address bar turns it into an app. | Sign in on every device with the same account and your data appears on all of them. ## First steps The first time you sign in, a short welcome tour shows the main screens; close it whenever you like and reopen it from the cap icon on the Dashboard. The Dashboard also carries a **setup checklist** with a button to each screen; its steps tick themselves as you fill them in. ### 1. Add your aircraft Nothing comes preloaded, on purpose: performance figures and checklists must come from your own aircraft's approved manual. Create one profile per registration with its weights, fuel, cruise speed and burn, V-speeds, take-off distance, flight plan equipment, colours and markings. Everything else — the flight plan, weight and balance, the assistant, the map, the logbook — uses it. ### 2. Do a pass through Settings - **Where you fly:** your region, your home base (the Dashboard and the weather start from there), magnetic variation (automatic by default, from the World Magnetic Model), transition altitude, and the ARO/AIS address where finished flight plans are emailed. - **Units, time and number format:** knots and feet, Zulu first and the dark theme are the defaults; choose DD/MM or MM/DD and 24 or 12 hours. - **Data sources:** which provider answers for each kind of data. See **Keys and data sources** below. ### 3. Your pilot profile, aerodromes and checklists Enter your name, phone, licence, ratings and medical with their expiry dates: your name and phone fill in every flight plan. Search your usual aerodromes to create their cards, and transcribe your checklists from the manual. ## What you can do with it ### Plan on the map Tap an aerodrome, a VOR, an NDB or a significant point and choose **Depart from here**; every place you add after it is the next leg. Each leg shows magnetic heading with wind correction, track, distance, ground speed, time and fuel from your aircraft and the forecast wind, and the totals tell you the minimum fuel to load and whether the reserve is met. The map also shows Argentina's airways from the AIP, airspace with its class and limits, significant points, radar, traffic and your glide range. Plannings import and export as GPX, and you can plan live with a copilot. ### The flight plan A planning becomes the ICAO flight plan on the EANA form, checked against Doc 4444 as you type, with your aircraft and profile filling most boxes. Review it on screen, sign it with your finger and email it to the ARO/AIS office, with a copy to you. It also exports to X-Plane, Microsoft Flight Simulator and VATSIM clients, and a PDF route sheet goes on your kneeboard. Always check the preview: it is a filing under your name. ### Weather, NOTAM and aerodromes METAR and TAF decoded beside the raw report, with an hour-by-hour strip; NOTAMs and the MADHEL straight from ANAC; and an aerodrome card for every field you fly to — frequencies, runways, aids, fuel, contacts, diagrams and your notes, with the runway end favoured by the wind in green. Search by ICAO, IATA, national code, name or town. Every value shows its source and its age, and the app tells apart "no NOTAM" from "could not ask". ### In the cockpit and after the flight - **Checklists** from your own manual, run item by item, with critical items marked. **New flight** runs them all in order. - **Weight and balance** and thirteen **calculators** — density altitude and take-off distance, wind, descent, fuel, levels and more — each showing its working. - **Notes** for clearances and the ATIS, by keyboard, voice or finger. - **Logbook** with ANAC's columns and totals that add up. - **Resilience:** breathing and concentration exercises with their studies cited, and a private record of how each phase of your flights felt. ### The assistant Ask by typing or by voice and it answers from your own data — your aircraft, your cards, the stored weather, your notes — showing every lookup it made. It never answers figures from memory, and it saves nothing without your tap. It uses your own Claude, ChatGPT, Grok or OpenRouter key, set in **Settings → Assistant**; calls go from your device straight to that provider. It is optional: everything else works without it. ### Copilots Invite the pilots you fly with by email or QR code. You can send each other flight plans, aircraft with their checklists, aerodrome cards and notes — what arrives is the other pilot's own copy — write in Messages, and plan a route together, live. Your licence, logbook, settings and keys never travel. ## Flying offline, and keeping devices in step Everything you type saves itself, with or without signal, and goes up to your account when the connection returns. Before you leave, on Wi-Fi, prepare the device: - Tap **Sync now** so everything you saved on other devices is on this one. - Use the sync button to download reports, NOTAMs, MADHEL and diagrams for the aerodromes of your briefing — up to 40 in one go. - If Settings warns that storage is not persistent, install the app on the home screen and request persistent storage, so the browser does not clear your cache. Nothing is deleted for being old: an hour-old METAR beats none, so old data stays, clearly marked with its age, until you clear it yourself in **Settings → Storage**. ## Keys and data sources In **Settings → Data sources** you choose one provider for each kind of data — METAR, TAF, NOTAM, winds aloft, map layers, radar, traffic — and enter the keys for those that need one. Only the source you pick is asked; if it cannot answer, the value shows as missing rather than being filled in from somewhere else. Each source has a **Where to get a key** link, and most keys are free. Argentine sources come first where they exist. ### Keys used by RogerATC If you fly with RogerATC, its keys live in this section too, under **Keys used by RogerATC**. The plugin fetches them from your account each time it starts, so you never type them into the simulator. | Key | What RogerATC uses it for | |---|---| | OpenAI | **Required.** Speech recognition, the controller's voice and the language model. | | openAIP | Optional. Up-to-date airspace for the instructor. | | Windy | Optional. Wind forecasts aloft for the instructor. | | Flightradar24 | Optional. How busy the frequency sounds follows real traffic (a count only). | | Tavily | Optional. Web search for the instructor, limited to aviation sources. | When the EFB itself uses a key that RogerATC has also fetched in the last 30 days, it is marked **Used by Copilot EFB and RogerATC**; a key only the plugin needs is marked as RogerATC only. Changing a shared key changes it for both apps. > Your keys are kept in your account and travel in your own backups, but never in anything you share with another pilot. Each key is sent only to the provider that issued it. ## API access Every account has a personal API key, shown in **Settings → API access** together with the base URL, when it was created or last rotated, and how much it has been used per day. It starts with: ``` rat_live_… ``` With it, a script, a spreadsheet or RogerATC can read your own data — aircraft, aerodrome cards, notes, flight plans, logbook and profile. The only thing it can write is the sessions RogerATC sends. Every request carries the key in a header: *Request shape* ``` GET https://api.rogeratc.app/v1/… Authorization: Bearer rat_live_… ``` - Copy it with the copy button, never from a screenshot, and never paste it anywhere public. - If you think somebody saw it, tap **Rotate key**. The old key stops working at once, so give the new one to RogerATC Setup and to every other integration. - The full reference is on rogeratc.app, in the API documentation. ## Using it with RogerATC RogerATC is the AI air traffic controller for X-Plane 12, and it needs a Copilot EFB account. Linking takes three steps: - Copy your key from **Settings → API access**. - Enter your OpenAI key, and any optional ones, in **Settings → Keys used by RogerATC**. - Paste the EFB key into **RogerATC Setup** on your computer and link it. ### The RogerATC screen - **Your plugin:** whether it is linked, when it was last seen, your installations (operating system, RogerATC and X-Plane versions), launches, sessions, time on frequency and transmissions over 7, 30 and 90 days, and a notice when a newer RogerATC is available. - **Sessions:** one per X-Plane flight, newest first, with readback accuracy, say-agains, response times, stations, aerodromes and aircraft. Deleting a session removes it from every device. - **Live console:** with the live link switched on in RogerATC, the aircraft on a map with its altitude, speeds, heading, squawk, COM1 and wind, and buttons to ask the controller for instructions — holds, course reversals, radials, DME arcs, approaches of every kind, SIDs, STARs, circuit work and more. The pilot hears them on the radio; one that does not fit, or is not in the pilot's own X-Plane data, is refused with a reason. > RogerATC always sends a statistics summary of each session to your account — times, aircraft, aerodromes and counts — and, only if you choose *Full* in RogerATC, a trimmed transcript. It never sends audio, navigation data or a track. ## Privacy and your data - Your data lives in your account and on your devices. On a shared tablet, each pilot signs in with their own account and sees only their own data. - What syncs: aircraft, checklists, flight plans, plannings, logbook, aerodrome cards, notes, documents, assistant conversations and memory, messages, RogerATC sessions, and your settings and layout. - The assistant's requests go from your device straight to the provider you chose, not through our servers. Your licence number and medical are out of reach of every assistant tool. - Your Resilience reflections are private: they are not shared with copilots and never leave through the API. - Notifications are off until you switch them on, device by device, and say who wrote, never what. - **Settings** lets you make a backup file, sign out (this device keeps its copy), reset the account or delete it permanently. ## Troubleshooting #### A feature is missing, or the app looks out of date The app never updates itself, so nothing reloads the screen in flight. Open **Settings → App version** and tap **Check for updates**; **Update now** appears only when there is something new, and a banner also tells you when a new version is available. Update on the ground, with a good connection. #### I cannot sign in Signing in needs a connection. Check the email and password, use **I forgot my password** if needed, and if the account was never confirmed, enter the six-digit code from your email. A paused account keeps its data; it works again once it is resumed. #### Data is missing offline Only what was downloaded before is available. Next time, run the sync before you leave, install the app on the home screen and make sure storage is persistent. #### Two devices disagree Tap **Sync now** on both, with a connection. The account section in Settings also has an integrity check. #### A map layer or a source shows nothing The chosen source probably needs a key. Open **Settings → Data sources**, add the key, and use the test button for that source. #### RogerATC says the account is not linked Copy the current key from **Settings → API access** — if you rotated it, the old one no longer works — and paste it into RogerATC Setup. ## An aid, not the authority Copilot EFB is an advisory planning and cross-checking tool. It is **not an approved or certified device**, its map is not certified navigation, and phone sensors are shown as advisory. The AIP, the official NOTAMs and MADHEL, your aircraft's flight manual and its instruments are always the primary reference, and the decision is always the pilot's. --- © RogerATC · https://rogeratc.app