Rhino Aviation Preflight
Purpose
The site brings together aircraft setup, aircraft-type definitions, passenger and fuel/load planning, route entry, airport/weather/performance review, and form generation. The intent is that a pilot can move from stored reference data to a usable flight plan and form package in one place.
Main Areas
Aircraft Types
View type-level empty data, W&B envelope, buckets, optional custom planview image, planview anchors, runway-performance profiles, and fuel-use performance profiles. Users with the relevant permission may also create and edit types.
Aircraft
View a specific airplane using one aircraft type. Users with the relevant permission may also edit registration and basic empty data.
Passengers
Store and search reusable passenger records with private/public visibility rules.
W&B
Build the current loading for an aircraft, view the planview, check payload and remaining limiting capacity, and review the envelope result summary.
Flight
Enter route, ETD, ETE, alternates, runway overrides, optional single-leg cruise altitude and power, refresh weather, review runway performance and approximate fuel estimates, and generate the form.
Airports
Look up airport reference information by identifier, internal ID, name, or city; review communications, TPA, calm/preferred runway, and runway-end details; and enter private or permitted global airport-data overrides.
Templates
Manage form templates, preview thumbnails, replace or disable templates, generate blank forms for review, and author source RTF or DOCX templates using token and conditional syntax.
Admin
Personal preferences include separate VFR/IFR flight minima and single-leg/multi-leg favorite templates. Admin-only pages manage users, roles, fuels, system notices, config, and related functions.
Typical Order of Use
- Create or verify the aircraft type.
- Create or verify the specific aircraft.
- Load or verify passengers and fuel/load data in W&B.
- Enter the route and timing on the Flight page.
- Refresh Weather.
- Review weather, runway selection, and runway performance.
- Generate the form from the chosen template.
- Save the flight when you want to keep the route and associated state.