Layout Overview

Side panel

The panel on the left side controls what information is displayed on the calendar and in the trips and trades panel. The month displays at the top and can be easily changed. Below that is ‘All Trips’ which displays all known trips in the trips display area whether they are open or covered. ‘Available Trips’ combines the displays of ‘Open Trips’ with all trips posted to the Trade Board for potential trade. When ‘My Trips’ is selected, the display shows details for your own trips. ‘My Skynet Trades’, ‘My Trade Board Posts’, ‘My Proposals’, ‘Proposal to Me’ will list the trade requests for those and pilot to pilot trade proposals made by you and to you are displayed next. ‘My Notifications” will list any notifications created.  Intro Tutorials, Tips and a Help search window and occasionally Login Messages and Program update availability information is shown at the bottom of the side panel.

Calendar and Summary Section

The schedule is displayed in a single month view with all ‘owned’ trips displayed as well as any appropriate comments. Trips paid as scheduled but not flown are displayed as well. The patent-pending timeline display paints a quick picture of flights, deadheads, airport sits and layovers. Monthly totals such as flight time, pay time, away from home time, days off and pay gross pay are displayed. When a potential trip is being ‘shopped’ in your calendar, the monthly totals will indicate how the totals would change and the trade into and trade away trips are clearly indicated in the calendar display. Double-clicking the calendar displays the calendar in a window suitable for printing or exporting in several formats such as Outlook and the standard iCalendar format.

Trips section

Trips matching the side panel selection display in the top main section. The default columns can be sorted, sized, deleted or other columns can be added depending on what data you want to see. Double clicking a trip pops up a window with the complete details suitable for printing or exporting. New trips will display bold to catch your attention. Trade Board posted trips will be green for other pilots and orange for your own. A legend is provided for a complete explanation of all icons and flags.

Trades section

When My Trips, My Skynet Trades, My Trade Board Posts, My Proposals or Proposals to Me are selected from the side panel, the Trips Section alters slightly to display a summary of all trades within the selected category. When a single trade request is selected from the side panel, details about that trade are displayed just above the calendar section. If the selected trade is a smart trade, trips matching that criteria are displayed above the trade section otherwise, Available Trips are shown there to allow for drag-n-drop trading. Special options such as Min Monthly Pay time, Pilot-to-Pilot, Vacation Drop, Trade status and legality status are also displayed and accessed here. Pilot to Pilot Trade proposals can be accepted, rejected or canceled here as well.

Popups

It isn’t practical to fit all the data on one page so some information will appear in popups. This includes Smart Trade dialog, Trip Details, Trade Board Post information, trade criteria and proposals. The schedule also displays in a similar window to the Trip Details allowing easy printing and exporting. A SkyNet browser window gives full access to all Skynet pages and a Unimatic terminal window allows complete access to Unimatic. When a layover cities links is clicked info such as airport, weather, hotel info and what to do in the city as well as advertised specials will display in your default browser.

The main menu items provide one method to perform almost all actions although most can also be performed easier such as by dragging and dropping, double clicking or right clicking on items. The Toolbar just below the main menu provides quick access to many main features and capability. Right clicking on various program sections provides many different options depending what section is clicked. The bottom Status bar displays Internet, Unimatic and SkyNet connection status as well as indicating what task was performed last or is currently being performed.