Before you request a report

The report is built from the request form and from what is already in your account. Five minutes of housekeeping makes every future report sharper.

Pick the aircraft from your aircraft list rather than typing something close to it. The record carries the registration, manufacturer, model, engine count and type, seats, cruise speed and the equipment flags — and the analysis uses all of it: aircraft suitability, fuel and endurance, performance at altitude, and whether an instrument approach is even an option for you.

If you fly a school's aeroplane, use the school's record rather than a duplicate of your own. Duplicates drift, and the report then reasons about the wrong aeroplane.

Your experience is read straight from the logbook:

Baseline totals carried over from a paper logbook count. If you have not entered them, do that first: the report will otherwise judge a 2,000-hour pilot as a 40-hour one.

Your home airport and your airport list feed the "have you been here before" reasoning and the quick looks in the detail panels.

Nothing from the Pilot Vault, nothing from your documents, and nothing from another pilot. The report reads your flights, your aircraft, your airports, and what you type into the form.