PIREP Form Help
| Pilot ID | Ask your hub manager for a pilot ID if you do not have one. This uniquely identifies you and it is required. |
| Flt Code | This is your scheduled flight code for this trip. It must be in the master flight schedule. |
| Hub | Click the drop-down arrow and select your hub. The hub is where the scheduled flight comes from. So, if this is a charter flight, then select "CHR'. Otherwise, select your assigned hub. |
| Flt Date | Enter your flight date in yymmdd format like 040229 - or - leave this field blank and it will use today's date. |
| Flt Time | Enter the elapsed flight time in hours (i.e. 1.4). |
| Flt Plan | Select a flight plan type from the drop-down list. |
| Origin | Enter the departure airport ICAO (i.e. NZAA). |
| Destination | Enter the arrival airport ICAO (i.e. NZWN). |
| Eng Start | Enter the time you started your engines in 24 hr. hhmm format (i.e. 0845). |
| Eng Cut | Enter the time you shut down your engines in 24 hr. hhmm format (i.e. 1145). |
| Acft Code | Select your aircraft from the drop-down list. |
| Fuel Used | Enter your aircraft fuel consumption in pounds. Do not enter commas (i.e. 23456.6). |
| Route | Briefly describe your route of flight. (i.e. KDFW(18L) BYP J66 J6 J230 J42 KLGA(4)). |
| Weather | Briefly describe the destination weather (i.e. 05016KT 10SM OVC025 05/01 A3021). |
| Comments | Briefly enter any trip comments. |
Question: Can I use the back button on my browser
after submitting a PIREP to submit another one?
Answer: No, this may cause you to submit a duplicate
PIREP by mistake. The best way to enter another PIREP is to
click on the button with the "Eyeglasses" with the
red "X" through it on the PIREP form that you just
submitted. This will give you a new PIREP entry form to fill
out.
Question: In discussing flight numbers (Flt Code),
the "Help" page for the new PIREP submittal form in
VAHQ says "This is your scheduled flight code for this
trip. It must be in the master flight schedule." How
will this interface with the flight numbers for special
flights (like charters, for example) which are
not scheduled hub flights?
Answer: I designed the flight assignment application
so that the hub manager only has to enter the pilot's PID
and the existing flight number to add a pilot flight
assignment. They don't have to enter the ICAO for the
origin airport, nor the destination airport. They also
don't need to enter the start time and arrival time. All
of this information is read by the computer from the master
flight schedule. So, if you want to add a flight to a
pilot's assignment list, the flight's parameters must
first be entered in the master flight schedule by the hub
manager. If the flight that you want to add to the
pilot's assignment list does not exist in the master
flight schedule, then you will get an error message. The
PIREP entry form does not look up the flight code to see if
it exists. But, if the PIREP flight does exist in their
assignment list, then it will be automatically removed from
their assignment list by the computer when they post their
PIREP for it. Our hub managers will check their hub
assignment boards from time to time to see if the hub pilots
are doing their assigned flights. When they see that a pilot
has no remaining assignments, then this means that the pilot
has submitted PIREPs for them when their flights were
completed.
Question:Why do we have a limit of twenty-four
hours on a flight?
Answer: The reason I built this into the PIREP
program is because we do not have in-flight refueling
capability yet. We also do not have the capability to fly for
over twenty-four hours on one tank of fuel. Some limit is
also required so someone cannot post 9999999.9 hours of
flying time from Sydney to Auckland.
If you are flying one of our long charter flights for double time credit and it takes you 12.5 hours, then please don't post 25.0 hours because the system will not accept it. For double hours you are supposed to post the trip twice for 12.5 hours each. Just make sure that you add a comment to the second trip saying that this is extra credit for a double time flight.
The reason for this is because we want the ACTUAL flying time posted in the PIREP (and your log book) for statistical purposes. For instance, if we wanted to compute the average time and fuel consumption it took for everyone to fly from Sydney to Auckland, then it would look odd that it took someone twice the amount of time to get there on about the same amount of fuel as anyone else. That would be a feat worth noting.
Still have questions? You can always contact your hub manager via email for one-on-one help.