OK, I am getting ready to prepare for an actual VA inaugural flight and so I chose a flight and came to the pilot briefing form. These are my observations:
- NOTAMs: I get some invalid security cert. from the supposed FAA site. Anyway, perhaps it would also be nice if one could have a link to a virtual NOTAM to complement a real life one. Sometimes flying organizations have their own airport NOTAMs.
- Charts. The links for the arrival and departure charts actually points to www.airnav.com to search charts there. It totally omits the fact that one may have also inputted an URL to an airport chart when one created the airport in the database. To make this complete it would be a good idea to complement the airnav link with the link (if any) that the user has defined for THAT airport when the airport was added to the database. I think this was an accidental omission.
- Weather maps always default to US even though the airports are not in the US. Perhaps it should check the region code (K for USA) to determine whether it applies or not. Better yet, one can configure URLs for weather depending on the region so that the right map (if available) appears automatically.