The EFB puts your entire flight briefing on your iPad. You dispatch directly through SimBrief from inside the app, then fly with your fuel numbers, weather, approach charts, load sheet, and full OFP a tap away. No switching apps, no hunting for files.
The EFB is a Premium feature and works with SimBrief for flight planning.
First-time setup
Two things to do before your first flight — both in Settings → Premium → EFB.
1. Enter your SimBrief Pilot ID. This is the number on your SimBrief profile page. Without it the dispatch button stays disabled. The SimBrief tutorial explains where to find it.
2. Choose a chart provider (optional — skip if you don’t need in-app charts). Under Charts → Provider, pick one:
- ChartFox — free service with broad worldwide coverage. Tap Link Account and sign in with your ChartFox credentials. Once linked, charts open natively inside the EFB.
- Navigraph — uses the full Navigraph Charts interface embedded inside the EFB. Requires an active Navigraph subscription.
- None — disables the Charts section entirely. Everything else still works.
Opening the EFB
Tap the EFB widget — the document icon that appears in the corner of the screen while you’re on a deck. If you don’t see it, check that the EFB widget is enabled in Settings → Interface → Widgets.
Dispatching your flight
When no flight plan is loaded you see the dispatch form. The required fields are minimal:
- Origin and Destination — ICAO codes. Start typing and matching airports appear in a dropdown. If you’re already parked at a gate, the origin fills in automatically from your position.
- Aircraft — pre-filled from your loaded aircraft’s ICAO type code and registration. If you have a SimBrief Airframe ID set in My Hangar, that’s used instead for airframe-specific performance data.
That’s all you need. Tap Dispatch with SimBrief.
SimBrief opens right inside the app. Set your route, adjust fuel policy, add alternates — the same dispatch you’d normally do on the SimBrief website, without leaving Flight Deck ONE. When the plan looks right, tap Done — Fetch Plan at the top. The plan loads into the EFB instantly.
More dispatch options
Tap More Options in the form to expand additional fields before you dispatch:
- Routing — paste a specific airway string or leave it blank for SimBrief to route automatically. Set a specific cruise level here if you have a preference.
- Alternates — up to three alternate airports.
- Runways — specific departure and arrival runway designators.
- Payload & Performance — passenger count, cost index, and extra fuel beyond SimBrief’s calculation.
- Options — toggle NOTAMs and nav log inclusion in your briefing.
The toolbar
Once a plan is loaded, the toolbar at the top gives you four actions:
- New Plan (+ icon) — clears the current plan and resets the dispatch form. Your aircraft fields stay filled in. If a plan is already loaded you’ll be asked to confirm.
- Fetch from SimBrief (↓ icon) — re-fetches your latest SimBrief plan without going through the dispatch form. Useful when you’ve updated the plan on the SimBrief website separately.
- OFP Preview (document icon) — opens the full briefing PDF: your complete Operational Flight Plan exactly as SimBrief generated it.
- Header toggle — shows or hides the flight header bar at the top of each section (origin → destination strip with times and weather badges). Hide it when you want more vertical space for charts or tables.
Sections
With a plan loaded, the sidebar on the left lists all available sections. Tap any to switch.
Overview
The summary of your entire flight on one screen.
Airport strip. Origin and destination side by side, alternate on the right. Each airport shows a colour-coded weather badge: VFR (green) · MVFR (blue) · IFR (red) · LIFR (purple). Scheduled times are shown for each. The planned runway appears below the airport name when SimBrief has one.
Schedule row. Date, planned departure and arrival times (UTC), total air time, and block time — at a glance.
Key figures. Cruise level, cost index, AIRAC cycle, ETOPS status, average wind direction and speed for the route, headwind/tailwind component (positive = tailwind), average outside air temperature deviation from ISA, and average fuel flow.
Fuel breakdown. Ramp fuel, take-off fuel, planned burn, landing fuel, contingency, reserve, extra, and alternate burn — all in the units your SimBrief profile uses (kg or lbs).
Weights. Estimated take-off weight, zero-fuel weight, and landing weight alongside their maximum limits. Any weight that exceeds its maximum turns red.
Route summary. The planned route string and any step-climb levels, shown at the bottom of the overview.
Route
Your full route as filed, in a table. Each row is one waypoint:
- IDENT — waypoint name. Your departure and destination airports are highlighted in the accent colour. Top-of-climb (TOC) and top-of-descent (TOD) markers appear in cyan.
- FL — planned altitude at that fix.
- LAT / LON — coordinates in degrees and minutes.
- HDG — magnetic heading for the leg.
- DIST — leg distance in nautical miles.
- FUEL — planned fuel on board at that fix. At the destination this turns green if you’re landing with fuel remaining, red if the plan shows zero.
- WIND — forecast wind at that fix.
Step-climb levels (if your plan includes them) are shown above the table — each step with the fix where the climb is planned and the altitude to climb to.
Map
Your filed route drawn on the map, with your aircraft’s live position overlaid. Pan and zoom as you would on the main World Map. Useful for a quick sanity-check of the routing before departure, or for watching your progress along the plan mid-flight.
Charts
Airport charts for your departure, destination, and alternate. The sidebar on the left is where you navigate; the main area is where charts open.
Selecting an airport. At the top of the sidebar, tap a pill to filter charts for that airport: ORIG (green) for departure, DEST (blue) for destination, ALTN (orange) for alternate. The list updates immediately.
Filtering by chart type. Below the airport pills, type pills appear for the categories available at that airport — GND (ground layout), SID, STAR, APP (approach), and others. Tap one to narrow the list. Tap it again to clear the filter.
Opening a chart. Tap any row in the list to open that chart in the main area. If the chart has a specific runway, a runway badge appears on the row so you can find the right plate quickly.
Pinning charts for your briefing. Swipe right on any chart row and tap Pin. Pinned charts collect in the Pinned view — accessible via the pin icon at the top-left of the sidebar. In the Pinned view, charts are sorted logically by airport role: for your departure, ground layout and SIDs come first; for your destination, STARs and approaches come first. This gives you a clean briefing order without any manual sorting. Swipe right again to unpin; swipe left to remove the chart from your collection entirely.
Adding charts. Tap Add Charts at the bottom of the sidebar to fetch charts for any airport — not just the three in your plan.
When an airport isn’t covered. If your chart provider has no charts for a particular airport, the main area shows three fallback options: open it through Navigraph’s embedded interface, enter a custom URL manually, or load a local PDF you’ve placed in the app’s Documents folder. Enable Always use for this Airport before confirming and the choice is saved — next time that airport comes up, it opens your fallback automatically.
Custom chart sources
ChartFox and Navigraph cover most airports, but regional aerodromes and smaller fields often have gaps. You can set a permanent fallback for any airport so that tapping it in the Charts section always opens the right page.
Go to Settings → Premium → EFB → Custom Chart Sources, tap Add Source, enter the airport’s ICAO code and the URL. You can also add a source directly from the Charts section — when a gap page appears, expand the Custom URL option, paste the URL, enable Always use for this Airport, and tap Go. It’s saved immediately and applies from that point on.
Alternatively, right from the Charts sidebar: tap the gear icon next to an airport’s type filter pills to add or edit a custom source for that airport without leaving the EFB.
Weather
Three cards across the top — one each for your origin, destination, and alternate. Each card shows:
- WIND — direction, speed in knots, gust if reported, variable range if applicable.
- VIS — visibility in metres, or CAVOK.
- CEIL — lowest broken or overcast layer, or CLR if none.
- TEMP — temperature and dew point in °C.
- QNH — altimeter setting in hPa.
- WX — present weather codes when reported (rain, snow, fog, etc.).
Tap Raw METAR on any card to see the full METAR string. Tap TAF to expand the terminal area forecast for that airport.
Enroute conditions. Below the cards, a table lists every waypoint in your flight plan with the forecast wind (direction and speed), wind component in knots (green for tailwind, red for headwind), outside air temperature, and ISA deviation. ISA deviations beyond ±10°C are highlighted — warmer than ISA in red, cooler in blue.
Load & Balance
Your load sheet from the dispatch: passenger count, cargo, payload, zero-fuel weight, take-off weight, and landing weight. If your SimBrief airframe profile includes centre-of-gravity data it appears here too. Use this to cross-check your FMC weight entries before departure.
Performance
Take-off and landing performance from your dispatch. Switch between the two using the tabs in the sidebar. Data shown depends on your SimBrief airframe configuration — typically speeds (V1, VR, V2 for take-off; VREF for landing), assumed temperature or flex setting, and field length requirements.
Documents
The full OFP briefing package as a PDF — the same document SimBrief generates, rendered natively inside the app. Scroll through it just as you would on the SimBrief website. If your dispatch included NOTAMs or a nav log, they’re part of this document. Tap the OFP Preview button in the toolbar for the same thing without leaving whichever section you’re on.
Flying another leg
Tap New Plan (+ icon) in the toolbar. A confirmation appears if a plan is already loaded — confirm and the form resets. Your aircraft type, registration and airline carry over; the route fields clear so you’re ready to file a fresh leg immediately.
If you updated your plan in SimBrief separately — for example changed the fuel on the website — tap Fetch from SimBrief (↓ icon) instead. This pulls the latest version of your plan without going through the dispatch form again.