Your first sign-in

Open the invitation

You will receive an email titled Set up your Wingcert sign-in for your airline, sent on behalf of the person who invited you.

1. Open the email and select Set up sign-in.

2. You arrive at Set up your passkey. Your name, work email and airline are shown, so you can check the invitation really is for you.

The link works once, for 48 hours

If it has expired, been replaced by a newer one, or been withdrawn, you will see This link no longer works. Nothing is wrong with your account — ask whoever invited you to send another. See Invitation link expired.

Choose how you will sign in

On your own laptop, tablet or phone: a passkey

1. Under Name this device, type something you will recognise later, such as Work laptop.

2. Select Create passkey. Your device asks for your fingerprint, face or screen lock.

3. That’s it. Wingcert never sees your fingerprint or face — your device keeps those, and only tells Wingcert that it recognised you.

On a remote desktop or a shared machine: an authenticator app

A passkey cannot reach you through a remote desktop (RDP, Citrix and similar), because the browser is running on a server, not on the machine in front of you. Choose Use an authenticator app instead. The full steps are in Use an authenticator app.

Then, optionally, a PIN

Next you are offered Choose a PIN: six digits for stepping back to a terminal during your shift. You can select Skip for now and set one later from your account — but until you do, you sign in fully each time. See Your six-digit PIN.

The pre-flight checks

The first time you open the compliance workspace, it greets you with Welcome aboard and a boarding pass: your airline, who invited you, the job you were given, and how many checks are left. Each check is short, and everything you enter can be changed later in your profile.

Check	What you do
How should we show you?	Tell colleagues what to call you, choose your timezone, and optionally add a photo. Your full name comes from WingcertID.
Is this your job?	Confirm the job you were filed under — it decides what you can do here. Select That’s right, or This isn’t right: whoever set you up is told, and you carry on working.
Your signature	Draw or upload your signature (a PNG) and the title you sign under. It is printed on what you certify — reports, acknowledgements, tests. Tick the confirmation and select Adopt this signature.
Your flight bag	Only if your airline asks new starters to read something. Select Read it for each document, then Sign. Finish unlocks once everything is signed.

When every check is complete you will see You have control, followed by the modules your job opens.

Which timezone?

UTC is the default, because it is what flight plans, tech logs and regulator filings are written in. Pick your local zone only if you would rather read dates that way. You can change it any time in your profile.

Signing for a document is evidence

Your signature in the flight bag is recorded against the exact revision you read — not just its number. That is why there is no way past this step: its whole value is that it was not optional.