Skydio Cloud offers customizable Post-Flight Reports to help you capture the real-world impact of your agency’s drone operations, meet FAA compliance, and streamline internal record-keeping. Post-Flight Reports provide a clear process for tracking important data that can help demonstrate program success, improve operations, and drive informed decision-making. 

Post-Flight Reports are automatically linked to your organization’s flights in Skydio Cloud and will be presented to pilots directly in Remote Flight Deck after landing (default).

Use the Post-Flight Report to:

• Showcase the value of your drone program to leadership, city councils, and communities
• Track key metrics for your use case
• Identify trends and opportunities to improve your drone operations
• Meet FAA compliance
• Track flight issues

What's included?

The following fields are automatically completed by Skydio:

• Pilot
• Flight start/end time
• Flight duration
• Drone ID
• Launch address
• Launch coordinates

For DFR customers, Organization Admins have the option to include DFR outcomes questions in their Post-Flight Report, which include:

• CAD/CFS ID
• Type of Incident
• Did the drone arrive first on scene?
• Did the drone clear the call without patrol resources?
• How did the drone assist with the call?
• Other notes

All customers have the ability to customize report questions for their use cases. For example:

• Airspace authorization
• Issues with flight
• Pilot and VO information
• Mission details
• Aircraft damage or loss of communication

Using Post-Flight Reports

Flights conducted with the X10 Controller or Remote Flight Deck flights without a Dock (that have Media Sync) will appear within Flights > Reports in Skydio Cloud. A Post-Flight Report will be attached, but the form does not automatically appear for X10 Controller pilots after landing.

• Organization Admins should add controller pilots as a Cloud User role if the pilot is expected to fill out the report within Skydio Cloud

[accordion heading="Organization Admins"]

Settings

To access the settings for your Post-Flight Report, navigate to Settings > Post-Flight Report and toggle ON Enable Post-Flight Report.

• Select Preview Report to understand how the report appears for pilots
• For DFR Command customers, decide whether to include DFR outcomes questions in your Post-Flight Report
  • Decide whether to make these DFR outcomes questions required or optional
• Decide if the report should pop up automatically in Remote Flight Deck post-flight or only be available in Skydio Cloud

Creating a Post-Flight Report

Select Customize Report to add custom questions to the form. Add questions by:

• Dragging and dropping the question type directly into the workspace
• Selecting the ellipsis menu (...) next to Add Question and select your desired question type

Customize your question title, description, settings, and selection options. Select Preview Report to view how the report appears for pilots.

• Save your changes

Editing a Report

• After a report is Submitted it will no longer be editable by pilots, but admins have edit override access to all Post-Flight Reports
• To edit a submitted report, select View on a submitted form, then Edit

Viewing Reports

In the Reports > Flights tab, you’ll see a column for Post-Flight Report. Statuses include:

• Submitted – View the submitted report in read-only mode. Once a report is submitted, only admin edits are permitted
• Not Submitted – Open the report to edit or complete it
• Continued Response – An earlier flight as part of a multi-flight operation

Exporting Report

Select Export CSV within Reports > Flights will also include DFR Outcomes Report data.

[/accordion]

[accordion heading="Pilots"]

Completing a Report

After landing, a pop-up will prompt you to complete the Post-Flight Report. You have the option to either complete and submit the report immediately or save to complete at a later time in Skydio Cloud.

• If your Organization Admin has disabled automatic pop-ups, you can complete your form in Reports > Flights
• If your Organization Admin has marked questions as required, you must complete all required questions before submitting (you can still save for later if required fields are incomplete)
• If the flight is part of an ongoing operation that requires a multi-flight response, select Ongoing Response? to skip the form and continue operations

Report pop-up after landing

View when Continuing response in another flight? is selected

A report that was saved to fill out at a later time

Exporting Report

Select Export CSV within Reports > Flights will also include DFR Outcomes Report data.

[/accordion]