Flight Plan
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Yes.
First, you need a userid/password set up at Leidos, which is the service iFly will use to file the flight plan. On the Leidos website be sure to click on Account | Service Provider Authorization, and set iFly GPS to "yes". I would also suggest that you fully fill out the Account | Account Holder (User) information fields. -- I find it very helpful that Leidos is able to look up my flight plan(s) by the telephone number I'm calling from when I call in for a briefing, and also to get texts and emails that allow for me to easily open/close a flight plan.
Before filing your first plan you should have the profile for your aircraft filled out in iFly, so it can pull info from that. Then load/build your flight plan in iFly. Click/tap on the Briefing/Filing button at the bottom of iFly's Flight Plan page, and then File New Plan. At that point I can't recall what happens, because I set this all up years ago. Are you prompted for your Leidos username (email) and password? Or does it just work because of the prior authorization. I think the latter.
After you file a flight plan via iFly you can find it, modify it, whatever on the Leidos website (though none of that is necessary).
First, you need a userid/password set up at Leidos, which is the service iFly will use to file the flight plan. On the Leidos website be sure to click on Account | Service Provider Authorization, and set iFly GPS to "yes". I would also suggest that you fully fill out the Account | Account Holder (User) information fields. -- I find it very helpful that Leidos is able to look up my flight plan(s) by the telephone number I'm calling from when I call in for a briefing, and also to get texts and emails that allow for me to easily open/close a flight plan.
Before filing your first plan you should have the profile for your aircraft filled out in iFly, so it can pull info from that. Then load/build your flight plan in iFly. Click/tap on the Briefing/Filing button at the bottom of iFly's Flight Plan page, and then File New Plan. At that point I can't recall what happens, because I set this all up years ago. Are you prompted for your Leidos username (email) and password? Or does it just work because of the prior authorization. I think the latter.
After you file a flight plan via iFly you can find it, modify it, whatever on the Leidos website (though none of that is necessary).
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There is one hitch that has caught me now and then, when I was re-using a flight plan with which I had previously gotten a briefing and filed with iFly. IF I didn't make the flight and also didn't cancel that flight plan, iFly wouldn't let me file it again. That seems logical enough now--except that I felt it should have timed out and was puzzled when I tried to file later and iFly popped up a cryptic message, something like "it didn't work." Eventually I realized that I had to cancel the plan manually before iFly would let me file again. I just tried it a few minutes ago and it didn't seem as cryptic as a few months ago, so maybe it was fixed. Or I got more sensible. Whatever, I think iFly should automatically cancel a filed plan a day or so after the original planned departure. (Is this just whining about something I ought to know naturally?)
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