What Go/No-Go is and is not
What it is
A Go/No-Go report is a written risk analysis of one specific flight: your route, your aircraft, your times, your fuel, your load — and your logbook. It is assembled from live aviation weather, NOTAMs, airport and runway data, terrain and obstacle data, airspace, winds aloft, sun and moon times, and your own recent experience, then written up in plain language.
It is not a template with your numbers dropped into it. A night arrival into mountainous terrain in an aircraft you have twelve hours in reads very differently from a local daylight circuit in the aeroplane you have flown for years, and the report says so in different words.
What you get
Every report contains:
- A verdict — GO, CAUTION, NO-GO, or "insufficient data" when a needed source could not be reached
- An overall risk level and a one-line headline
- An executive summary — the flight in a paragraph
- Critical factors — what actually matters, each with its operational effect
- Positive factors — what is working in your favour, because risk is a balance
- Eight assessments — pilot readiness, aircraft suitability, departure, en route, destination, alternate, NOTAM review, fuel and endurance
- Hazard bars — a visual snapshot of up to seventeen hazard categories
- Missing or stale data and items to resolve before you launch
- Detail panels — the raw picture behind the narrative
What it is not
- Not an authorization. Nothing in Log Scan Pro dispatches, releases or approves a flight. You are pilot in command.
- Not a replacement for your preflight briefing. Official sources remain your authority.
- Not for navigation. Nothing in a report is to be used as a navigation source.
- Not a weather forecast of its own. It reads published aviation products and explains them against your plan.
- Not a judgment of you as a pilot. When it raises recency or time in type, it is reporting your logbook against this flight, nothing more.
Who can run one
Any signed-in pilot. A one-time guest purchase is also available for someone without an account — the same report, bought once, with the request form and the waypoint explainer shown fresh every time.
What a guest report does and does not read
A one-time guest report is a complete analysis of the flight you entered: the route, the aircraft you type into the form, the weather, NOTAMs, terrain, airspace and your planned times. It is the same engine a signed-in pilot uses.
What it does not read is any pilot background. There is no account and no logbook behind a guest purchase, so the report has no way to weigh your total time, time in this make and model, how recently you have flown, your night or instrument currency, or whether you have been into these airports before. Those sections come back marked not assessable rather than analyzed — the flight is still assessed in full, but the pilot-experience side of the risk picture is left blank.
Two optional questions you can answer
Because there is no logbook behind a guest report, the request form offers two optional questions under About You:
- Certificate and ratings — the same list used in the Pilot Profile, from student through commercial with or without the instrument rating.
- Approximate total flight hours — a band rather than a number: under 50, 50 to 99, 100 to 249, 250 to 499, 500 to 999, 1,000 to 2,499, or 2,500 and up.
Both have a Prefer not to say option, and leaving them alone changes nothing.
Answering them is worth the two taps. The rating tells the report what you are able to do with this flight — whether a marginal ceiling, a low forecast or an IFR plan is a normal day or a hard limit — and the hours band sets the tone on night arrivals, crosswinds, long legs and high-density-altitude fields. What they are not is proof: the report takes them exactly as stated, says so, and still leaves recency, time in type and currency for you to confirm. They can add caution; they can never, on their own, turn a report into a GO.
If you keep your logbook elsewhere — paper, a spreadsheet, another app — the report is still useful. Signing up and entering at least your baseline totals makes the pilot-experience sections fully specific, and your first three reports are complimentary either way. See Reports, pricing and refunds for the full detail.