Recording flights

Flight records help you keep aircraft inventory records accurate by recording the aircraft usage accrued, and the movement of aircraft from airport to airport. Flights are often created automatically in Maintenix through integration with external systems using the Flight API. You can also record flights on aircraft inventory manually.

You can record the most recent flight, edit historical flights, or if required, you can create a record for a flight that occurred before the most recent. Based on the flight dates that you enter, Maintenix adds the flight to the flight history in the appropriate sequence. If there are following flights already recorded, Maintenix updates their accrued usage values.

Flight records include the following general information used for tracking purposes:

• Flight name and master flight number: The flight name is mandatory. The master flight number is optional and is used to indicate that this is one leg in a multi-leg flight.
  Note: You can assign each flight in Maintenix to a master flight. The master flight number (a text value that can have numbers or letters) is recorded on the Flight Details page. If there is a master flight number recorded for a flight, clicking the master flight number takes you to the Master Flight Details page. The Master Flight Details page displays a list of all flights with that master flight number. The flights are listed according to whether or not they are historical. Summary information is provided, and you can click the hyperlink to go to the Flight Details page for each flight listed on the Master Flight Details page.
• Operation type: The operation type categorizes the flight according to its operational purpose. For example, is it revenue-generating, a ferry flight, or a test flight?
• Flight reason: The reason for the flight.
• Log reference: The log reference provides a link to the flight's entry in the flight log-book.
• Departure and arrival details: The actual departure and arrival locations and dates and possibly the scheduled departure and arrival dates.
  • The actual departure date is the date and time that the aircraft leaves the gate. The actual arrival date is the date and time that the aircraft arrives at the gate. These dates determine the where a flight record is added in the flight sequence for the aircraft and are used to calculate usage accrued during the flight.
  • The up and down dates record when weight is off the wheels at take-off and when weight is on the wheels at landing. These dates are used to automatically calculate usage accrued during the flight.

When you create a flight, the up and down dates are optional, but if you leave them blank, Maintenix populates these fields with the values entered for the actual arrival and departure dates.