Flight Operations Documents & Aircraft Manuals

Updated 30th April 2026

With electronic flight bag apps, managing aircraft manuals and flight documentation is easier than ever... especially when it is included within pilot briefings and flight phase workflow!

A centralised EFB document library ensures pilots always have the latest, most accurate manuals at their fingertips.

What are flight operation manuals?

Flight operations manual are traditionally bulky documents containing all of the critical information for operating an aircraft under normal, abnormal or emergency conditions.

Aircraft operating manuals are critical; containing procedures and instructions for the flight crew to operate aircraft safely.

Flight operation teams must ensure that their crew always have the correct and latest aircraft operations manuals.

Air cargo operators for example, may require manuals related to long haul ETOPs, payload information, fuel policies and load control. Having this information readily available helps protect margins and reduce operational risk.

Aircraft manuals & up-to-date flight documents

Document library enables flight operations to efficiently manage and distribute aircraft manuals and documents, from a central point, to specific EFB devices for a given aircraft or fleet.

Moving your flight operations documents to the skybook EFB ensures all manuals remain up to date, with simplified version control and auditability.

Pilots always have access to the documents relevant to their current flight.

Easily update aircraft documents

Organise all documents within a structured, aircraft or fleet-specific folder system designed to support compliance.

Updating manuals is simple, reupload to the relevant folder and apply expiry dates to keep everything current and controlled.

Files auto download on the pilots EFB device when the pilot selects sector briefing. Only documents relevant to the specific aircraft or fleet are delivered, minimising unnecessary downloads.

With skybook, our EFB manager simply uploads new training documentation to the relevant aircraft folder, such as the B737-300. When a pilot selects their sector, the briefing pack is automatically generated and downloaded within the EFB.

Because the sector is linked to the aircraft type, the latest documents are always included and instantly available in the document library.

It is recommended that flight operation teams regularly check and make any required amendments which they can submit to the International Aviation Authorities to review.

What type of aviation documents?

The EFB document library supports PDF and XML formats up to 30mb per file, enabling a wide range of flight ops documents, such as:

Policies & procedures, routes, charts, MEL, operational and maintenance manuals, crew information, flight summaries, training content, and historical flight data.

Benefits to aviation document library

• Flight crew access up-to-date manuals relevant to their sector
• Centralised point for documentation
• Easy to update for the whole flight crew
• Save printing costs and time
• Streamline auditing and compliance process

Improve management of your flight manuals and documents, with document library on the skybook EFB.

Learn more about what skybook can provide for your flight operations.

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