Sky DutyWhat a flight and duty tracker does
"Flight and duty tracking" means keeping a record of two things: the duty periods a crew member works, and the flight time they log. A department needs that record for its own planning and history — to see who has been flying, how much, and when they were on duty. Sky Duty is flight and duty software in that sense: it tracks and stores those records so they are easy to review, not buried in a notebook or a group text.
One thing to be clear about up front: Sky Duty is a tracking and record-keeping tool, not a legality calculator. It does not compute Part 117 or flight-duty-period limits, and it does not tell you whether a crew member is legal to fly. It keeps the record of duty periods and flight time; interpreting that record against the regulations that apply to your operation stays with you. The rest of this guide is about how Sky Duty captures that record cleanly.
Track duty periods from your schedule
Duty starts on the schedule. In Sky Duty, scheduling is a Gantt board where aircraft are rows and trips are bars, and each trip carries the crew assigned to it. When you build a trip and assign a pilot, you are also creating the record of that assignment — the scheduled times, the legs, and the crew all live on the same trip.
Because the schedule is shared and offline-first, a dispatcher can lay out the week and every assigned crew member sees their own duty on their device. Multi-leg trips keep each leg attached to the trip container, so a long day of positioning and revenue legs reads as one duty period rather than a pile of disconnected entries. That is the duty half of the tracker: a clear record of who was scheduled, on what, and when.
Track flight time from your logbook
Flight time comes from the logbook. When a scheduled flight closes out, the logbook entry fills in from the trip — Hobbs, tach, PIC, SIC, and approaches — so the hours a crew member flew are recorded without anyone typing the same flight twice. The flight and duty tracker is not a separate app you have to keep in sync; the flying you schedule becomes the flight time you log.
From those logged entries, Sky Duty also tracks currency — day and night landings and instrument approaches — so a pilot can see where they stand at a glance. The full logbook exports to PDF and CSV, which makes it straightforward to pull a record of flight time for a checkride, an insurance review, or your own department files.
Keep the record in front of your crew
A duty and flight time record is only useful if the people it covers can see it. Sky Duty generates ICS calendar feeds, so scheduled duty shows up in whatever calendar app a crew member already uses. Roles and permissions decide who sees what — a dispatcher runs the whole board while a line pilot sees their own trips and hours — all against the same underlying records managed through fleet and crew settings.
And because everything is offline-first, none of this depends on a signal. A pilot can start a flight, mark it landed, and log the hours from a ramp with no coverage; the record syncs when the device reconnects. The duty period you scheduled and the flight time you logged end up in the same place, on every device, automatically.
What Sky Duty does not do
It is worth stating plainly, because it is a common question. Sky Duty does not calculate Part 117 or FDP legality, it does not run rest requirements, and it does not flag a crew member as legal or illegal to fly. Those are legality determinations, and Sky Duty is deliberately a record-keeping tool rather than a calculator that makes them. If your operation needs formal duty-time legality computation, that is a different category of tool.
What Sky Duty gives you is the underlying record — clean, current, and in one place — of the duty periods your crew worked and the flight time they logged. If the flight-and-duty tracking app your team used has gone quiet, Sky Duty is a modern, actively maintained way to keep that same record, built into the schedule and logbook you already run the operation on.
