A flight risk assessment that fills in the weather for you
Most FRATs make you estimate the environment yourself. The Pilot Fitness Test computes the Environment category from your briefing's own route data and lets you focus on the honest questions only you can answer.
What a FRAT is
A flight risk assessment tool is a structured pre-flight self-check the FAA encourages every pilot to use. The PAVE framework organizes it into four categories: the Pilot (rest, fitness, currency, stress), the Aircraft (maintenance, equipment, fuel, performance), the enVironment (weather, terrain, airspace, night), and External pressures (deadlines, passengers, the cost of cancelling). The discipline is answering honestly before the flight, when the answers can still change your plan.
How the Pilot Fitness Test works
The Environment category fills itself in from the same data your briefing already computed: proximity to your personal minimums, route-relevant convective, icing, and turbulence advisories, TFR conflicts, terrain clearance at your planned altitude, night portions, and data gaps. You answer the Pilot, Aircraft, and External questions on a four-step scale from no concern to serious concern.
Scoring is fully deterministic — fixed weights and bands, with non-compensatory hard stops: a serious item cannot be offset by favorable points elsewhere, which is how a real FRAT is supposed to behave. Every driver behind the score is listed, so the result is an explanation, not a black box.
An optional aircraft profile adds capability screens — an icing advisory on the route in an aircraft not approved for known icing, a planned altitude above the service ceiling or without supplemental oxygen aboard — the places where the machine you fly changes what the weather means.
What it deliberately does not do
The check never changes your weather verdict — during the beta it is informational while the weights are calibrated against real flights. AI never scores it. Your individual answers are never retained. And no score, in either direction, is authorization: the final go/no-go decision rests with the pilot in command.
Frequently asked questions
Does the Pilot Fitness Test change my weather verdict?
No. It is informational while the scoring is calibrated with real flights during the beta. The weather verdict and your test result are shown side by side as two separate reads on the same flight.
Are my questionnaire answers stored?
No. Your individual answers are used to calculate the assessment and are not retained after the briefing is completed. Only the category scores and non-medical factor labels are kept.
Does AI score the risk check?
No. Scoring is fully deterministic — fixed weights, published bands, and non-compensatory hard stops. AI plays no role in computing the score.
Can I fill it out after reading the weather?
Yes. Answer the questions before generating the briefing, or skip them and complete the check afterward from the results page — whichever fits how you make your go/no-go decision.
Try it
The Pilot Fitness Test is available on every briefing during the free beta. Start a briefing or read how the analysis works.