Feature Tour

Crew Companion offers pilots many features to help create, manage and improve their flying schedules. Some features target the most senior pilots while some target the most junior but most features are extremely useful to everyone. There's literally too many to quickly summarize here so please take the quick tour below!

Layout overview

Crew Companion is designed to meet your schedule improvement needs by quickly gathering all pertinent scheduling information and clearly painting the picture of your current flying assignments and landscape of potential trip trading opportunities. It has a large monthly calendar display with a summary of work hours and pay. Trips and trade information are displayed above the calendar depending upon what you have selected from the left Side Panel. Creating criteria-based trades or 'Smart Trades' is a snap and will automatically create a bulletin board post to expand your trading possibilities. Vacation drops, pilot to pilot trades and other direct trades are also easily handled.

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Create 'Smart Trades'

Smart Trades or criteria-based trades are an integral part of SkyNet trip trading. See how many matches, and specifically which trips match your criteria as you create them so you don't get unpleasantly surprised. The count goes yellow at ten and red at five matches remaining. It will automatically create a trade board post to greatly enhance your trading opportunities. Concise tips are provided to help you refine your trades.

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Trade Board System and Trade Proposals

Our Trade Board system allows SkyNet trip trading to achieve its true potential by automatically creating posts from your Smart Trades and making it easy to propose and submit trades with other pilots who want the very trips you want to trade! No need to guess whether you may be wasting your time and precious trades with 'Potentially Open' trips. You'll know exactly what trips are tradable and easily communicate with other pilots about potential pilot to pilot trades.

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Drag-n-Drop Trading

Lineholders & Reserves trade/pickup trips with a simple drag, drop, & click. Drag trips onto My Skynet Trades, My Trade Board Posts, My Pickup Requests, or your Calendar for quick and efficient trading.

'Shop' trips in your line for legality and fit

Scroll through any list of trips (All, Open, Trade Board Posts, or those matching your criteria) to see how that trip fits in your schedule. Pay and hours differences are noted and legality is checked 'on the fly' and our patent-pending visual trip details paints the picture instantly of all important details. Scroll using arrow keys to shop other trips in the list. Up/Down changes ID's and Left/Right changes dates within an ID with multiple dates. Green dots show the other available dates. Convert the shopped trip to a trade with a single click on the blue diamond.

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Notification System

You can create unlimited notifications which will notify you of any new open trips that match a certain set of criteria that you define. If you are a lineholder, you can also be notified when new trips are posted to the Pilot to Pilot Trade Board. You can also set your notification methods so you can receive those messages by e-mail message, text message or voice message.

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Aggressive Pickup Function

As a reserve pilot you can perform a Direct Aggressive Pickup for a specific Open Trip or define a set of criteria for a Smart Aggressive Pickup. Arm the aggressive pickup in seconds, sleep soundly while Crew Companion attempts the pickup at 0'dark thirty or whenever it opens.

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View Video Tutorial - Direct Aggressive Pickup (length: 5:04)

View Video Tutorial - Smart Aggressive Pickup (length: 5:22)

Reserves Available Display

Get the latest list of Reserves Available with a single click and sort the list as desired and even right click to pull other pilots Calrec.

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1-Click Preflight

A single click will pull and display ready to print the latest Pltid, Pltbrfs, Door Codes, Layover city and Hotel info. You can easily print or export the 1-Click Preflight data and it can be formated and edited to include only the information you care about.

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Apollo Flight Planner

The Apollo Flight Planner within Crew Companion will easily let you create a query and store it for later use. You can create as many queries as you like and edit, delete, print, and save them as a favorite for quick and easy access.

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Line Builder

The Line Builder is a must for lineholders senior enough to cherry pick trips! It has been created as a way to allow you to quickly browse the monthly bidfile and create a potential line for submission to PBS. It performs over 30 legality checks, calculates pay totals including carry-in and carry-out and allows for input of known absenses such as training and vacation.

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Seniority Analyzer

The Seniority Analyzer provides pilots with a clear picture of what equipment they can hold and where they can hold it and can show whether they will likely be able to hold a line or be on reserve. It even has the capability to look at bump bids (BMPBIDS) systemwide to see what other pilots intend to do during the next round of bumps and can use this information to “Predict the Future” and show what the expected Roster List (ROSLST) might look like once the bump round is complete.

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1 Page Display of Trip Details

See Open Trips and Trade Board IDs with select trip details and calendar all on one page for quick trip trading decision making. Print or switch to Raw Data view for easy use.

"Visual" Trip Details

Patent-pending timeline display gives concise snapshot of trip details. Quickly see the segments of a trip, layover information, trip pay time, field layover, and more!

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Calendar Exporting and Printing

Export your monthly schedule to Outlook, iCal, Google Calendar and more in several available formats. You can choose to print your calendar in several sizes and formats as well. If you are an FFDO, you can even format your schedule for a quick copy/paste into the TSA Importer.

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FFDO Schedule Exporting

Formats your schedule accurately to cut & paste to TSA FFDO Importer. Just click on Calendar, Show FFDO.

Unimatic/Apollo Access

Direct terminal access with screen logging and numerous automated trip trading functions.

SkyNet Access

One-click launch/login with quick launch buttons for frequently used pages including CrewNet, PBS and Weblist. SkyNet password is required for an auto-logon.