Show Time: running the flight line on the day
Run the flight line from a phone or tablet: start each slot, tick pilots off as they land, pause flying, look after the commentary, and put the show on a big screen.
How to start
- Flight line tab: tap Start the show with the first slot. Flying now shows in green; tap each pilot when they've landed.
- Next starts the following slot. Skip moves past a slot that isn't ready, and Put back brings it back.
- Pilots get a heads-up one slot before they fly and a 'get ready' alert when they're up next, plus a reminder before each day's first slot. The board shows who has been told.
- Pause flying for wind, weather, full-size aircraft, an incident on the field, a short break or anything else (with an optional note): a Flying paused banner shows on every screen, and Resume flying gives the slot its time back.
- Commentary tab: who's flying now and next, with each pilot's About me, display plan, flights and hours, the model they're flying (photo, type, flights), their notes, certificates and build logs, and their cheers.
- Comments from the crowd wait until the commentator taps Show or Hide; questions only come to the commentator - Reply, or mark them Answered on air. The Spectators switches turn comments, questions and cheers on or off, with a slow mode.
- Big screen: open it on a laptop or smart TV and tap Full screen - who's flying with their model photos, up next, the clock, the weather, the QR code and the latest comments. It stays awake and updates by itself.
- At the end tap Finish the show: the public page becomes a recap (pilots, flights, time in the air, cheers, crowd favourite, what flew) and pilots are asked to add their show flights to their logbook.
Tips
- Several of the crew can run the board from their own phones - everyone's view updates live.
- Finished by mistake? Reopen the show. If nobody presses Finish, the show finishes itself a few hours after its end.
- Junior pilots show by first name only, and nobody can send comments or questions about them.