📚 RTTG Portal — Help & Training

Portal home → Aircrew Tracker tile (opens /currency.html).

Your home for currency, flight hours, your profile, and logging flights. You only see yourself and the aircraft you're trained on. Tabs across the top: Currency · Flight Time · ATP · My Profile · Flight Log.

Currency tab — your readiness

Colored dots show your status at a glance: current · due within 30 days · overdue/not current · not qualified / N/A. It covers your Part 107, Flight Physical, and per-aircraft currency.

Flight Time tab

Your total flights and total hours, plus hours per aircraft. Click your row to expand the last 30 days of flights.

My Profile tab

1. Update your Part 107 number / issue / expiry and Flight Physical due date.
2. Tick your skills and projects.
3. Click Save. (A few fields like access level and quals are set by an admin.)

Flight Log tab — logging a flight

Option A — Flight Timer (recommended for live flying):

1. Pick your Aircraft and Operation, add optional notes.
2. Tap Start Flight at takeoff. The timer keeps running even if you lock your phone or switch apps.
3. Tap End Flight at landing. It fills in the hours for you (rounded to 0.1) — adjust if needed, then Save.

Option B — Log a single flight: type the date, aircraft, hours, operation, and notes, then Add Flight.

Fixing a flight — "Your flights"

1. Scroll to Your flights on the Flight Log tab.
2. Edit to correct a typo (date, aircraft, hours, operation, notes), then Save.
3. Delete to remove a wrong entry (e.g., a duplicate) — you'll be asked to confirm.

Portal home → Shift Monitor tile (risk.rttg.net/monitor), or it opens automatically when you Launch Shift Monitor from the Risk Assessment.

Watches live conditions during your shift and builds your end-of-shift report.

During the shift

The monitor shows a shift countdown, winds at altitude, METAR, animated radar, and storm/lightning alerts. Keep it open on a second screen or tab while you fly.

End-of-shift report

1. Open the Shift Report Builder and fill in the fields: date, RTTG flights, any customer/non-RTTG pilots, location, and your turnover / observations / incidents.
2. Fill in Aircraft Flown and Total Flight Time (hrs) — these log your hours to the Aircrew Tracker.
3. Click 📋 Generate Report. A popup opens with a review and three choices:
   • 💬 Post to Slack — opens a popup to pick the channel and post. This also auto-logs your flight time (aircraft, hours, and your RTTG flight count) to the Aircrew Tracker.
   • ✉ Email (Gmail) — opens a pre-filled email.
   • 📄 DOCX with Images — downloads a Word document.

Portal home → Risk Assessment tile (risk.rttg.net).

The mandatory pre-shift GO / NO-GO. You complete it, get it approved, then launch the Shift Monitor.

1. Read & Initials / connectivity gate: on entry you'll run a quick connectivity / speed check and acknowledge it before the form opens.
2. Part 1 — Weather: the app auto-pulls the forecast for your shift window. Click "Verify" to cross-check against weather.gov, and set the cloud ceiling from the TAF (this one isn't auto-filled). Edit any cell if your local observation differs.
3. TFR / NOTAM: check the status badge, then always open the FAA NOTAM Search link and confirm there are no conflicts.
4. Parts 2–4 — Operator, Observer, Mission factors: answer each row honestly (experience, currency, rest, terrain, airspace, night/BVLOS/over-people, etc.).
5. Part 5 — Mitigation: select the safeguards in place (these lower your score).
6. Read the gauge: it shows your risk level and who must approve — low = PIC self-authorize · moderate = IO/SO · high (or any single max-severity item) = Shift Manager / DO.
7. Send to Approval — posts the assessment to the risk-assessment Slack channel (with a PDF link) for sign-off.
8. Once cleared, click Launch Shift Monitor.

The exact score thresholds are shown live on the gauge — read the on-screen level and required approver rather than memorizing numbers.

Portal home → Read & Initials tile (/ri.html).

Your required-reading sign-off. It tracks that you've read current SOPs, updates, and training items.

1. The banner tells you where you stand: all clear, required reading, or something you read was updated.
2. On the To-do tab, click an item to open it and read/watch it (documents, videos, and slides display inline).
3. Type your initials (2–5 letters) and an optional note, then Submit initials.
4. The item turns green and moves to the Previously initialed tab.

Portal home → Map Export tile (risk.rttg.net/map-export.html). A newer tool — features may still evolve.

Download map tiles for a flight area so you have a basemap in the field or in your ground-control station (GCS) when there's no signal.

1. Pick your area: search an address and click Go, or Draw box on the map, or use Map view, or upload a KML/KMZ.
2. Choose a basemap source. Prefer the Clean / ToS-safe options (USGS Imagery, USGS Topo, Esri World Imagery, OpenStreetMap).
3. Set zoom levels — 14 to 16 is plenty for most flight planning. Watch the tile estimate box and keep it under the 8,000-tile cap.
4. (Optional) add pins, lines, boxes, labels, or a labeled grid (A1, B2…) for sectors.
5. Export. For most GCS apps choose MBTiles. Other options: XYZ (QGIS), KMZ (Google Earth), GeoPDF (print/tablet). Elevation: DTED.
6. Load the downloaded file into QGroundControl / your GCS.