DO NOT USE THIS PAGE. Go to www.johnfbell.com to download the iOS shortcut version of this. I had previously posted links directly to this page with instructions on how to use the Reading List feature within Safari to use it offline. However, this does not work well when using F500A or F999A. Thus, I am leaving this page with this note to re-direct you to use the shortcut.
This is functional, but clumsy. Unfortunately, it is the best that I can do under the restrictions that I have. I have more detail as well as instructions in the help section.
Flight information input
This is only necessary if you want to create an e-mail for the flight attendants and is not necessary for creating the times section.
Flight Info:
Flight (number only) Date Dep IATA Arr IATA Weather
Enter a list of ICAO (4 letter) codes seperated by a space in order to create an AeroWeathr pro and AviationWeather.gov link:
Favorite lists of airports for weather.
Enter lists of stations here. An example is that if you fly to Europe, you can keep a common list of common Northeast US and Canadian alternates so that you do not have to enter them everytime. You can load them into the input box and then edit the input to add origin, destination, ETP, and other alternates.
Use the 4 letter ICAO like the text box. Each list is seperated by a manual line break. Optionaly, you can add a label followed by a comma that will not load in the text box. These should reload everytime you reload the page for a new flight.
Examples:
KJFK KBOS KBGR CYHZ CYJT CYQX CYYT
Canada and Atlantic East, KJFK KBOS KBGR CYHZ CYJT CYQX CYYT
Canada and Atlantic West, CYYT CYQX CYJT CYHZ KBGR KBOS KJFK
Pilot Info:
Position Name EmpNum FA employee numbers for e-mail
This is used to create the mail link.
Use 6-digit employee numbers.
Press enter after each number so that each number is on a new line.
Times Input
Notes:
- Enter all times as hhmm without ":". Leading zeros are optional.
- The entry of the Takeoff and Landing is used to derive the taxi and enroute times. This derivation is only valid using the original planned values before entering the actual takeoff time.
From Flight Prep -> Flight Information: Sched
DepPlan
DepSched
ArrPlan
ArrSTD ETD STA ETA UTC LCL --- --- From In Flight -> Enroute Information -> Key Activities: Take off Landing
Times
This will be populated with the times section once the input has been processed.
Information for Flight Attendants
Flight Family Text
Several flight attendants have commented that they are more likely to read information that is sent via Flight Family.
1. 2. Paste into Flight Family and send to the flight attendants.
Manually copy the text if necessary. The button will not work if JavaScript is not active.
Flight Attendant Briefing e-mail
Optional:
While you can modify the e-mail after copying it from below and before sending, the input box below will allow you to include a custom section that is added to the top of each e-mail for every flight.
This uses basic HTML. Some quick basic html: The sections in the e-mail below use <h2></h2> around the text for section headings. Use <p></p> to surround a paragraph or <br /> to go to the next line.
Example:
<h2>From the Captain:</h2>
<p>Please serve first choice of meal on the fine china!</p>
1. 2. 3. Paste the text into the e-mail.
Manually copy the text if necessary. The button will not work if JavaScript is not active.
Calculators
Basic Metar Unit Conversion
meters mps C Time Totaler
Time (hhmm) Operation Total
Help
Discussion
I know that this page has a lot of tedious data entry, but it is the best I can do under the limitations that have been placed on me. While there is some tedious data input, it only takes a couple of minutes. You might find it feasible to input the pre-flight information while waiting for the flight plan to come out. When the flight plan is available in Mission+, you can then enter time information. You might also find the weather links useful while waiting for the flight plan.
The html flight plan is going away in January 2024 and is not supposed to be used now unless Mission+, the paper, and PDF are unavailable. This is meant to duplicate some of the functions of the html flight plan and is only likely to be practical on international flights.
I believe that this is compliant with all Delta IT rules.
What I would like to see:
Long-term: Improvements to Mission+ that will make this obsolete.
Short-term: Approval from Delta to allow iOS shortcuts to extract data from Mission+.
Instructions
Offline use
The best way that I have found to store and access this page for offline use is to structure this as a shortcut. The shortcut does not use any Delta data and is just used as a way of loading the page. In fact, you could trigger the shortcut by sharing any file.
Use the shortcut from a previous flight (or share any file) to load the page. Once the page is open in Edge, you can pre-populate the information. When the actual flight that you are interested in is available, go directly to the tab for this page in Edge as opposed to using the shortcut. You will probably have to borrow another pilots iPad to enter the data since Mission+ lacks split screen.
Go to www.johnfbell.com to occasionally to update to the latest version of the shortcut.
Times
The input of the times is meant to match the structure in Mission+. It is important that you use the takeoff and landing times in Mission+ before you enter the takeoff time. The code uses the planned takeoff time to derive the enroute and taxi times.
Highlighting
Select the text first that you want to highlight and then click the "Highlight" button. A limitation of highlighting is that you cannot highlight across different HTML sections. For example, you cannot highlight multiple cells in a table or multiple tables.
To unhighlight, select anywhere within the highlighted text and click on the "Unhighlight" button. This selection point must be at or after the start of the previously highlighted text that you want to unhighlight.
Basic HTML for notes and waypoint comments
You can use some basic tags in the Notes section. Use a </tag> at the end of the text. For example bolds would be <b>example text</b>
<b> for bold
<i> for italics
<u>for underline
<small>for small text
<h1> to <h6> for heading levels.
<blockquote> for indented section
Remember to close the section with </tag name>. For example <b>bolded text </b>
Feedback
thejohnbell@gmail.com
Change Log
2024/12/25 Updated instructions. 2024/12/17 Added feature to eliminate duplicate airports in weather links. 2024/12/17 Added weather links favorite list. 2024/12/16 Added weather links. 2024/12/04 Initial release.