Pilot Check-in Edits

The pilot no longer needs to call you for a correction#

Until now, everything the pilot saw during mobile check-in was read-only: the forecast on the WEATHER card, the flight times on the FUEL card, the takeoff hour. When reality on the field differed — the takeoff got delayed, the measured wind or temperature was off — the pilot had to call the operator, who edited the flight in the admin app.

From now on the pilot corrects a small, deliberate set of values directly on the check-in screen, via the pencil on each card:

• WEATHER — the measured outside temperature, ground wind (speed and direction) and pressure (QNH). The spare-lift figure on the LIFT card recalculates immediately. Once the pilot has entered a value by hand, the automatic forecast no longer overwrites it for that flight.
• LIFT — the maximum envelope temperature used in the lift computation, when it differs from the balloon’s default.
• FUEL — the planned flight time and the available flight time.
• Flight info — the takeoff hour and the flight comment.

Everything else stays read-only: balloon, pilot, date and location remain operator decisions, and changing the hour never triggers any passenger communication.

Signed means locked — but no longer forever#

After the pilot signs off, all these values are locked: the signature attests exactly the numbers on screen. New in this release: a signature can be cleared (with confirmation). The go/no-go checks reset, the values unlock, and the flight counts as not signed off until the pilot signs again — so a wrong value no longer stays wrong just because it was signed too early.

Every change on record#

Each edit is written to an append-only log: who, when, which value, old → new. Signing off and clearing a signature are logged too, including a snapshot of the signature itself. You will find the log in two places:

• Flight detail → “Pilot check-in” panel — the full history for the operator.
• On the sign-off screen itself — right above the signature pad, so the pilot sees exactly what he is about to attest.

Passenger weight corrections made during check-in (a known weight changed on the scale) appear in the same log.