Capture a flight on your watch

Capture a flight from your wrist. The watch walks you through one step per screen, stamps your times and location as you tap, lets you set meters and airfields with the Digital Crown, and submits a real usage log against your booking, the same log you would create on the phone’s Log Flight screen.

Before you start

Install the watch app and sign in on the paired iPhone (see Install the watch app).
You need your own confirmed booking, the same as logging a flight on the phone.
Keep your iPhone within range. The watch asks the phone for nearby airfields and submits the flight through the phone.

Open the capture wizard

When a booking is ready to fly (in its slot, or within two hours either side of its start), the watch opens to a Start Flight screen (the glance is one swipe away). Tap Start Flight to open the wizard. It runs one step per screen, and the Digital Crown always drives the control in front of you.

The steps mirror exactly what your syndicate captures:

Airfields and landings appear for every aircraft (departure, arrival and the landings count) because a landing fee can apply even when the flight is billed on block time.
Meter steps appear only when your syndicate reads an engine meter (such as a Tacho or Hobbs). When it bills purely on time, there are no meter screens.
The flight screen follows the times your syndicate records: brakes off and on for block time, takeoff and landing for airborne time, or the full sequence when both are recorded.

A typical airborne aircraft that reads a meter runs: departure airfield → start meter → flight → end meter → landings → arrival airfield → confirm no defects → review.

Work through the steps

Departure airfield (aircraft): turn the Crown to pick your departure from the nearby list, ordered by distance from your GPS fix.
Start meter (when a meter is read): turn the Crown to set the starting reading. It seeds from the continuity value but you can correct it down if needed.
Flight: the buttons match the times your syndicate records: brakes off then on for block time, takeoff then landing for airborne time, or the full sequence (brakes off → takeoff → landing → brakes on) when both are recorded. The watch stamps each time and your location, and shows the live phase timers with the active phase brightest.
End meter (when a meter is read): turn the Crown to set the finishing reading. It seeds from your confirmed start and can only climb.
Landings (aircraft): set the number of landings.
Arrival airfield (aircraft): pick your arrival from the nearby list.
Confirm no known defects (aircraft): the pilot-in-command’s per-flight declaration, the same one the phone requires. Tap No known defects to continue. If the aircraft has a defect to report, finish this flight on your phone instead; the watch does not capture defect details, only the clean confirmation.
Review: scroll the summary with the Crown, confirm the aircraft and figures, and Submit.

What happens on submit

Phone online: the flight is submitted straight away as a usage log and billed in the normal way. Immediately after you submit, the watch shows Sent to iPhone; once the phone has logged it the screen updates to Logged. There is nothing more to do on the phone.
Phone offline: the flight is still logged; it is saved on the phone and uploaded automatically when the phone next has a connection. There is no separate draft to submit.

Check it worked

When the submit succeeds, the flight appears as a usage log against the booking; check it from the booking’s usage-logs section on the phone or web, exactly as for a flight logged on the phone.