Apple Watch app

What it is

The Syndik8 Apple Watch app is a wrist front-end to the same booking and billing engine the phone uses. It has two halves:

Glance: complications, a Smart Stack widget, and a small app that show your next booking, your balance, and your aircraft’s availability. The glance covers every syndicate you belong to, one page per syndicate, with your default syndicate first.
Flight capture: a step-by-step wizard that stamps your times and location as you tap, lets the Digital Crown set meter readings and airfields, and submits a real usage log against your booking.

It pairs with the Syndik8 app on your iPhone. The watch is a separate device with no direct access to the phone’s data, so everything it shows or sends travels over the Watch connection to your paired iPhone.

Who can use it

Any member with an Apple Watch paired to an iPhone that has Syndik8 installed and signed in. The capture flow follows the same rules as logging a flight on the phone; you can only capture against your own confirmed booking.

Where to find it

Install Syndik8 on the paired iPhone first, then add the watch app from the iPhone’s Watch app (see Install the watch app).
Requires an Apple Watch and an iPhone with Syndik8 installed. There is no standalone watch-only mode.

Fields / options

Glance surfaces

Surface	Shows
Watch app	A page per syndicate, default first; each with that syndicate’s next booking and balance. Swipe or turn the Digital Crown to move between them.
Smart Stack widget	The next-booking and balance summary for your default syndicate.
Complication	A single Syndik8 complication you add to a watch face. What it shows adapts to the moment (see below).

There is one Syndik8 watch complication, not several. What it shows changes with the situation, in priority order:

A flight is ready. When a booking is ready to fly, it becomes a launcher: it shows the aircraft registration, lights up, and tapping it opens straight to Start Flight.
Otherwise, availability. When you have a favourite aircraft (or your syndicate has only one), it shows that aircraft’s availability.
Otherwise, a quiet brand mark. With nothing to surface, it settles to a plain “Syndik8”.

It renders in whatever shape the watch face slot uses, showing a little more or less by shape:

Circular: a “free today” gauge when showing availability; otherwise the brand mark.
Corner: an inner glyph with a curved label around the edge. The curve is a “free today” gauge with the aircraft name for availability, the registration when a flight is ready, or the brand mark when idle.
Inline (the single line of text above some faces): “Fly (registration)” when a flight is ready; “(aircraft) free” or “(aircraft) busy” for availability; your next booking otherwise; or “Syndik8” when there is nothing to show.
Rectangular (the richest): for availability it shows the aircraft name, a five-day weather-style strip (a row of day blocks coloured by how booked each day is, with a bar marking the days you have booked yourself), and your next booking. When a flight is ready it shows “Ready to fly” and the registration; otherwise it shows your next booking and balance.

Capture controls

The capture wizard presents one step per screen so the Digital Crown always drives the control in front of you:

Flight buttons: bookend the times your syndicate records: brakes off/on for block time, takeoff/landing for airborne time, or the full sequence when both are recorded.
Digital Crown: sets the engine-meter readings (when a meter is captured), scrolls the list of nearby airfields, and scrolls the review summary.

Behaviour rules

The glance shows the last data your phone synced. Like the home-screen widget, it reflects what the iPhone app last had; so the phone app needs to have run and synced. If you have not chosen a default syndicate, the glance prompts you to set one in the phone app first.
It follows your default syndicate, not the in-app selection. The complication and Smart Stack widget anchor to your default syndicate so an ambient surface stays stable. Set your default (and your favourite aircraft) in the phone app (see Choose your default syndicate, tab and aircraft).
Dates match your account settings. Booking and debit dates on the wrist use your chosen clock format and date order, the same as in the app.
Flight mode arms near your slot. 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 with the glance one swipe away. This works across all your syndicates, so a live booking on any of them arms the wrist. The capture binds to that booking’s own syndicate for billing.
Capture mirrors what the syndicate captures. Tapping Start Flight opens the wizard full-screen so a stray swipe can’t drop you out mid-capture. The steps follow the syndicate’s capture mode: the engine-meter steps appear only when a meter is read; the airfield and landings steps appear for every aircraft; and the flight screen records block time, airborne time, or both.
Capture submits a real usage log. A captured flight is submitted as a usage log through the same path the phone’s Log Flight screen uses, and is billed server-side. You do not need to re-enter it on the phone.
The watch asks you to confirm no known defects, exactly as the phone does. Before you submit, the watch shows a “No known defects” confirmation, the pilot-in-command’s per-flight declaration. If the aircraft has a defect to report, you finish the flight on your phone instead: the watch does not collect defect details, it only handles the clean “no known defects” case.
An offline capture is still logged. If your phone has no connection when you finish, the flight is saved on the phone and uploaded automatically when it next syncs; there is no separate draft to submit.
The watch carries no airfield data. Nearby-airfield lookups are answered by the paired iPhone, so the airfield list needs the phone within range.