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The system tells you
what's missing.

From confirmed trip to wheels up. Auto-tags surface what's incomplete. Hotels and ground transport book from inside the trip. FRAT pulls live weather and NOTAMs into one risk number.

01 — Auto-tags

Six rules that watch your trips for you.

need_catering, need_crew_hotel, need_crew_ground, need_eapis, empty_leg, invoiced. Each one points at a real data gap. Manual tags with colliding names are auto-suppressed.

Trip #18738 · Acme Corp
need_crew_hotel Overnight at KORD — no hotel confirmed
need_catering Leg 1 catering pending
empty_leg Leg 3 reposition — published Avinode
02 — Pilot self-claim

Fill an open leg by email.

One click on a magic link. No account needed. Contractors accept — or partially accept — in seconds.

from: dispatch@yourop.com
We have 3 legs Mar 14–16 — KTEB, KORD, KAPF. CJ3+, PIC needed. Block: 8.2h.
Accept
Decline
Link expires in 14 days · partial accept supported
03 — FRAT × weather

Risk because of weather, not in a separate app.

METAR, NOTAMs, winds aloft, runway margin, crew duty, aircraft grounding — all feed one score. Dispatcher confirms; doesn't fill out a static questionnaire.

FRAT · Trip #18738 Moderate · 11
+3 KORD TAF: IFR after 14z
+2 Headwind component 38 kt
+3 NOTAM — KORD 10L closed
+3 Departure 04:30 local
04 — Hotel + ground

Book the room. Watch the expense appear.

Crew hotel and ground transport book from inside the trip via FlightBridge. Confirmed cost lands as a draft expense automatically. The need_crew_hotel auto-tag clears itself. No phone call, no separate spreadsheet.

Crew hotelGround transportFlightBridge syncAuto-expense draftAuto-tag clears
Overnight KORD · 14.5h crew rest
Book Hilton KORD × 2 rooms 14:02z
FlightBridge confirms · $412 14:18z
Draft expense · Hotel $412
need_crew_hotel cleared
05 — Reserve cascade

Policy enforced in code.

FAR floor — can't be lowered. Your org policy on top — can only go up. Per-aircraft override on top of that — can only go up. Same cascade for IMC extra and taxi fuel.

FAR 91.167 / 135.223Org policyPer-aircraft overrideValidation in code
FAR 91.167(a)(2) 45 min
Floor · immutable
Your org 60 min
Policy · only upward
N881TQ (King Air) 90 min
Aircraft override · only upward

Every dispatch touchpoint.

From service booking to flight release to customs filing — all on one trip page.

Pilot self-claim by magic link *

Fill an open leg with a contractor in one click. 14-day token, partial-accept supported, no account required.

eAPIS / customs filing

Crossing time, point, direction, cancelled state. Stale detection re-flags filings when leg times drift after you've filed.

Empty-leg marketplace publishing

Per-channel approve / withdraw to Avinode and your public site. Independent asking price and notes per channel.

FRAT with live weather + NOTAMs

Risk factors auto-derived from destination METAR, winds aloft, runway margin, crew duty, and aircraft grounding state. Not a static questionnaire.

Three-level fuel reserve cascade

FAR 91.167 / 135.223 floor, your org override, your per-aircraft override. Only adjustable upward. Enforced in code, not policy memo.

Flight release with chief-pilot gating

10-item checklist signed before dispatch. Chief pilot required for sign-off. Logged with who and when.

Weight & Balance *

Aircraft profile with loading stations and envelope polygon. Point-in-polygon CG check, MTOW/MLW/ZFW limits, downloadable manifest.

FlightBridge dual-channel sync

Push on every edit. Webhook inbound. Five-minute deferred-poll fallback with advisory lock. One-hour stale detection surfaces broken connections.

Trip change log *

Every leg edit, crew swap, status change with previous and new values. Crew-notified and pax-notified flags so silent changes don't slip out.

Customer intake completion

Pre-trip questionnaire with partial-completion state. Filter for trips where passenger docs are pending without scrolling individual records.

Trip sharing with PII toggle

Public or private URL. Redact passenger names and contact info for FBOs and handlers without exposing them.

* Delivered via Tropic EFB, our pilot-facing companion app. Tropic EFB is available with Tropiq FMS for all crew on your roster.

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