Features
Everything FlyCue does
Two views — the plot and the cues — plus the rig display, the sync, the remotes and the paperwork that hold a show together around them.
01 — The plot
Know what's on every bar
The line set schedule, kept where everyone can see it. Click any cell to edit.
| Bar No. | Colour | Item / Scenic Element | Type | Weight (kg) | WLL (kg) | Distance to SL (m) | Notes / Warnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HC | House Curtain | House Curtain | 246 | 500 | 0.76 | Bring in for scene changes as required | |
| 1 | Border 1 | Border | 38 | 350 | 0.96 | Masks the house tabs track and the scrim head | |
| 2 | Legs 1 | Leg | 54 | 350 | 1.17 | Standard masking, both sides | |
| 3 | Black Scrim | Backdrop | 34 | 350 | 1.32 | In at preset, out for the forest, back in at Midnight | |
| 5 | LX 1 | Lighting | 214 | 350 | 1.71 | Dead hung — does not fly | |
| 7 | ½ Tabs | Tabs | 88 | 350 | 2.11 | Two ops on the rail | |
| 9 | Forest Cloth | Backdrop | 96 | 350 | 2.56 | Slow out — no snatch | |
| 12 | Kitchen Flat | Backdrop | 118 | 350 | 3.10 | Flown with the truck — confirm method | |
| 15 | LX 3 | Lighting | 406 | 350 | 3.73 | Over WLL — six movers added at tech. Confirm loading | |
| 18 | Ballroom Cloth | Backdrop | 104 | 350 | 4.33 | Stars and cyc read through the arch | |
| 21 | Star Cloth | Backdrop | 67 | 350 | 4.96 | Power feed via the bar — check the loom is clear | |
| 24 | Cyc | Cyclorama | 58 | 350 | 5.56 | Tension the bottom pocket before the first out |
Line sets
Bar number, scenic element and a type — House Curtain, Border, Leg, Tabs, Backdrop, Cyclorama, Traveller, Lighting, Audio, Empty.
Weight & WLL
Record item weight against the working load limit for that set. Anything over the limit shows up in red on the plot.
Colour coding
Sensible defaults by scenic type — legs, borders, cyc, drops — then a full picker with a curated palette if you want your own. Colours carry through to the cues, the rig view and the paperwork.
Distance to setting line
Keep the upstage/downstage geography of the rig with the rest of the data, and sort the plot by it.
Dead positions
As many intermediate trims per bar as you need — Dead 1, Dead 2 — each with its own height and colour, called by name in a cue instead of re-describing a height every time.
Notes & warnings
Two ops on the rail, slow out, confirm rigging method, check clearance — the things that never make it onto a spreadsheet.
Show picture / logo
Upload an image to sit on the printed paperwork header.
PDF hanging-plot import
Upload the venue's own line-set schedule as a PDF and FlyCue parses the table — bars, items, weights, distances — straight into the plot. No retyping a house rig you didn't build.
CSV in and out
Export the plot, the cues or both. Import auto-detects which one a file is from its header row. Both are the Admin's to run — an import can overwrite everything.
My Venues
Save a house's line sets as a reusable rig, typed or read out of its PDF, and recall it whenever a production goes back in. Shareable across a House licence, so the resident crew maintains the house layout once and every visiting show sees it.
Printable flying plot
Landscape or portrait, with your show credits in the header.
02 — The cues
Call the show, cue by cue
A cue stack that behaves the way a fly floor actually works — including when you go back.
Preset
Standby, then GO
The standby bar shows the cue that's next and every bar it moves, so the operator sees what's coming before it comes.
Moves, not rows
One cue can carry any number of bar moves. Each has a bar, an action (IN / OUT / a named dead), a speed and an operator.
Scene, moment and notes
"Midway through Getting Out of Town", "Wait for the flat and lounge to come on before the ¼ tabs" — the calling context lives with the cue.
Dividers and holding slides
Section headers for House Open, Act 1, Act 2 and any scene break — plus explicit holding slides where the show pauses, so the interval is a thing in the stack rather than a gap in it.
BACK that tracks
Step backwards and the rig state steps back with you — no mental arithmetic about which bars are where.
Presets
Mark an act preset so the state at the top of each act is explicit rather than remembered.
Sort and reorder
Drag cues to reorder, or insert where they belong and put the stack back in order with Sort by Cue #.
Go to cue, without skipping
Jump to cue 14 and FlyCue runs the stack forward to get there, applying every move on the way. The rig state is what it would be if you'd fired them all.
Cue display, your way
Identify each move by bar number, by scenic item, or both — in the list and in Fullscreen Mode.
03 — Rig view
The whole rig, at any point in the show
Every line set drawn between OUT and IN, showing where it sits after any number of cues. Set the home positions first — the legs, the masking, the smother that are dead in before anyone arrives — and the drawing stays honest however much you jump around.
04 — Running the show
Fullscreen for the rail, Show Mode for safety
Two modes for performance: one that makes the cue readable from across the fly floor, one that stops anyone editing it.
Preset
Show Mode
Editing locked. The stack still moves — anyone signed in can fire GO and BACK — but nobody can change a cue mid-run.
Colour that survives a dark wing
Custom bar colours render as a muted field with the colour as bright accent text, not a saturated block. Legible at distance without burning anyone's night vision.
Kiosk mode for a wallboard
Join a spare monitor by code with no account and it lands in a locked Fullscreen display — the current cue, live, and nothing anyone walking past can touch.
Anyone can call it
Any signed-in operator can fire GO and BACK — the stage manager from the corner, or the fly floor on their own cue. Everyone lands on the same cue.
05 — Sync & crew
Everyone on the same cue
Share the show code with every phone, iPad or computer that should track along live. Cue changes and GO/BACK sync instantly to everyone connected.
Cloud Sync SYNCED 01:12:04
Share the show code below with every phone, iPad or computer that should track along live — cue changes and GO/BACK sync instantly to everyone connected.
Account & Access
Sign in as the Admin to manage the show and its people, as an Editor to build it, or as an Operator to fire GO/BACK. Anyone who hasn't signed in sees Fullscreen Mode only.
Button Mode
A fullscreen remote with just two giant buttons — GO and BACK — sized for a phone. Open it on a phone joined to the same show while a laptop elsewhere shows the full cue view.
Show File
Save this entire show — Plot, Cues, colours, show details, picture — as a single file on your computer. Load it on any other device to pick up exactly where you left off, with no account or internet needed.
Paperwork & Printing
Choose page orientation, then print either document. Print every move, or just one operator's — cues with no moves for that operator are left off their sheet.
Dead Positions
Intermediate "dead" trims remembered per bar. Add one on a move's Action field and it's available for the rest of the run.
Four roles, granted per show
The Admin starts the show, manages people and runs any import. Editors build and run it. Operators fire GO and BACK and print their own sheet. Viewers watch. Every role is per show — Admin on yours means nothing on anyone else’s.
Join by code
Anyone with a FlyCue account can be added to the show as an operator with its six-digit code — read it out over comms and they're on. Or invite by email and they set their own password.
Custom show code
Rename the show's six-digit code to something easy to read out over comms.
Button Mode link
A link that opens straight into the GO/BACK remote, with the operator login already embedded. Save it to a phone's home screen.
My Shows dashboard
Every production on one list with its Admin and join code beside it — one click to switch, and a box to add someone else's show by code.
Show credits
Director, designer, head mechanist, mechanists, fly supervisors, fly operator, automation operator, venue, dates, company — printed on the paperwork header.
Download Show File
Plot, cues, colours, show details, picture — the whole show as a single file on your computer.
Load Show File…
Open it on any other device and pick up exactly where you left off. No account, no internet.
Print Flying Plot
Landscape or portrait, credits in the header.
Print Fly Cue Sheet
Everyone's moves, or one operator's — cues with nothing for them are left off.
06 — Offline & paperwork
No signal, no problem
Venue Wi-Fi is not a dependency. FlyCue runs entirely local — save the show to a file, carry it on a USB stick, load it on the next machine.
And when someone wants it on paper — a producer, a visiting crew, the show file, the wall by the lock rail — print the flying plot and the fly cue sheet straight from the app.
07 — Paperwork
Two documents, straight from the show file
Both print with your show credits in the header, the date, and the count — so the copy on the wall says what it is and when it was run off.
Cinderella
FLY CUE SHEET
Fly Operator: Alex Marsh
| Cue | Bar | Item | Action | Speed | Operator | Scene / Moment | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A C T 1 | |||||||
| Act 1 Preset | HC | House Curtain | IN | — | — | Preset | Set before the house opens |
| 9 | Forest Cloth | IN | — | — | |||
| 3 | Black Scrim | IN | — | — | |||
| 21 | Star Cloth | IN | — | — | |||
| FLY Q1 | HC | House Curtain | DEAD 1 | Slow | Alex | Overture | Curtain slightly out to reveal the band |
| FLY Q2 | HC | House Curtain | OUT | Fast | Alex | Overture | Curtain out on the last bar of the overture |
| FLY Q3 | 3 | Black Scrim | OUT | Slow | Alex | Into the Forest | Hold until the LX crossfade has completed |
| FLY Q4 | 21 | Star Cloth | OUT | Std | Priya | Daybreak | Straight after the birdsong sting |
| FLY Q5 | 12 | Kitchen Flat | IN | Std | Priya | Sc 1–2 Transition | Check the truck is clear before it comes in |
| FLY Q6 | 12 | Kitchen Flat | OUT | Std | Priya | Clearing for the Transformation | Flat away first, then the cloth |
| 9 | Forest Cloth | OUT | Std | Alex | |||
| FLY Q7 | 18 | Ballroom Cloth | IN | Slow | Alex | Transformation | Hold for the LX bump — cut cloth in first, stars and cyc behind |
| 21 | Star Cloth | IN | Std | Tom | |||
| 24 | Cyc | IN | Slow | Priya | |||
| FLY Q8 | 7 | ½ Tabs | IN | Std | Priya | Sc 3–4 Transition | Tabs in first — hold the cloth until the staircase is clear |
| 18 | Ballroom Cloth | OUT | Std | Alex | |||
| FLY Q9 | 7 | ½ Tabs | OUT | Std | Priya | Back to the kitchen | Two ops on 12 — call it long |
| 12 | Kitchen Flat | IN | Std | Alex | |||
| FLY Q10 | 3 | Black Scrim | IN | Std | Alex | Midnight | As the clock strikes — in on the first chime |
Cinderella
FLYING PLOT — LINE SET SCHEDULE
Fly Operator: Alex Marsh
| Bar No. | Item / Scenic Element | Type | Weight | WLL | Dist. to SL | Notes / Warnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HC | House Curtain | House Curtain | 246 kg | 500 kg | 0.76 m | Bring in for scene changes as required |
| 1 | Border 1 | Border | 38 kg | 350 kg | 0.96 m | Masks the house tabs track and the scrim head |
| 2 | Legs 1 | Leg | 54 kg | 350 kg | 1.17 m | Standard masking, both sides |
| 3 | Black Scrim | Backdrop | 34 kg | 350 kg | 1.32 m | In at preset, out for the forest, back in at Midnight |
| 5 | LX 1 | Lighting | 214 kg | 350 kg | 1.71 m | Dead hung — does not fly |
| 7 | ½ Tabs | Tabs | 88 kg | 350 kg | 2.11 m | Two ops on the rail |
| 9 | Forest Cloth | Backdrop | 96 kg | 350 kg | 2.56 m | Slow out — no snatch |
| 12 | Kitchen Flat | Backdrop | 118 kg | 350 kg | 3.10 m | Flown with the truck — confirm method |
| 15 | LX 3 | Lighting | 406 kg | 350 kg | 3.73 m | Over WLL — six movers added at tech. Confirm loading |
| 18 | Ballroom Cloth | Backdrop | 104 kg | 350 kg | 4.33 m | Stars and cyc read through the arch |
| 21 | Star Cloth | Backdrop | 67 kg | 350 kg | 4.96 m | Power feed via the bar — check the loom is clear |
| 24 | Cyc | Cyclorama | 58 kg | 350 kg | 5.56 m | Tension the bottom pocket before the first out |
Filtered per operator
Choose Both, or a single operator. Cues with no moves for that person don't appear on their sheet at all.
Act and scene bands
Dividers print as act bands so the sheet reads in the same order as the running order.
Ink-friendly colour
Colour tags print as light tints rather than the darker on-screen treatment — paper doesn't glare, so it doesn't need dimming.
Credits in the header
Director, designer, head mechanist, mechanists, fly supervisors, fly operator, automation operator, venue, location, dates and company — whichever you fill in.