Automated flight plan filing and submission

Purpose

1.1. Streamline the process of flight plan creation, validation, and submission to aviation authorities and internal systems for air taxi operations.
1.2. Automatically pull aircraft, crew, weather, and route data to pre-fill required fields, minimizing manual intervention.
1.3. Ensure real-time compliance checks, error mitigation, and rapid response to scheduling or regulatory changes.
1.4. Reduce turnaround time and eliminate paperwork, enabling on-demand, scalable air taxi services.
1.5. Provide secure digital records and confirmation of filings for audit trails and operational oversight.

Trigger Conditions

2.1. New charter booking or customer flight request in CRM or flight management system.
2.2. Assignment of aircraft and crew to a pending mission.
2.3. Manual request by operator through internal dashboard or via email/voice command.
2.4. Scheduled routine flights requiring regular filings.
2.5. Detection of regulatory updates or NOTAMs affecting flight plans.

Platform Variants

3.1. FlightAware Firehose API
• Function: Receive real-time schedule triggers and inject flight data; configure endpoint with operator credentials.

3.2. ForeFlight Dispatch API
• Function: Auto-create and submit flight plans; setup OAuth2, map template fields to Air Taxi ops data.

3.3. RocketRoute API
• Function: Parse routes, optimize based on live weather/NOTAMs; set authentication token and callback target.

3.4. Eurocontrol NM B2B Web Services
• Function: File/validate plans within European airspace; configure sFTP push with XML templates.

3.5. Leidos Flight Service (DUATS successor)
• Function: File VFR/IFR plans in the US; provide pilot credentials and aircraft profile in API call.

3.6. FlightBridge Integration
• Function: Synchronize flight schedule and crew manifest before plan submission; webhook configuration for ‘OnScheduled’ trigger.

3.7. Salesforce API
• Function: Detect charter sale/completion and push customer itinerary to flight ops system; configure outbound message on new booking.

3.8. IBM Weather Company Data API
• Function: Enrich plan with live weather, optimize path on hazards; config endpoints and route impact rules.

3.9. DocuSign REST API
• Function: Obtain digital airline/operator signoff pre-submission; configure template doc and webhook ‘Envelope Completed’.

3.10. Microsoft Outlook Graph API
• Function: Monitor for flight operations approval emails; use rule-based filter for ‘Flight Plan Approval’ subjects.

3.11. Slack Incoming Webhooks
• Function: Notify dispatcher channel with plan status and alerts; configure channel and field mapping.

3.12. Zendesk API
• Function: Create/update flight support tickets based on filing outcome; set macro trigger for ‘Plan Submission Failure’.

3.13. AWS Lambda
• Function: Run custom validation or route-calculation scripts post-data fetch; configure cloud function trigger.

3.14. Google Drive API
• Function: Auto-upload finalized plan PDFs; set folder path and versioning configuration.

3.15. AFTN Messaging Gateway
• Function: Relay filed plan to ATC via formal aeronautical message; map plan fields to AFTN format.

3.16. PagerDuty API
• Function: Escalate failed or urgent plan-related issues to ops team; configure service and alert rules.

3.17. Twilio Programmable Voice
• Function: IVR phone-in flight plan confirmation for operators; configure call flow to interact with flight plan system.

3.18. Google Sheets API
• Function: Log all flight plan filing actions; setup auto-append row for each successful/failed submission.

3.19. Jira Cloud REST API
• Function: Create issue for each rejected plan requiring manual review; configure project key and event mapping.

3.20. Dropbox API
• Function: Archive digital plan copies for compliance; configure monitoring folder and naming schema.

3.21. Okta SSO
• Function: Enforce user authentication for sensitive plan submissions; config SAML integration.

3.22. SAP Concur API
• Function: Correlate flight plans with expense entries for accounting; configure workflow connector on flight confirmation.

3.23. HubSpot CRM API
• Function: Update client journey/status post-plan-filing; configure webhook for ‘Flight Planned’ object event.

Benefits

4.1. Slash manual data entry, reducing human error and ensuring data consistency.
4.2. Provide instant feedback and alerting for plan issues, minimizing operational delays.
4.3. Achieve compliance with regulatory and internal standards through validated digital workflows.
4.4. Centralize digital records, streamlining audit and reporting requirements.
4.5. Enable rapid scale-up for increased flight volume without increasing administrative workload.