Create flight records

Flight records are often created through Flight APIs, but if you have complete paper records, you can enter this information manually into Maintenix. You can create flight records for historical flights – for latest flight or for a flight that occurred earlier.

If you have the correct permission, you can create flight records from the Inventory Details page, Flight History tab.

If you are creating more than one flight record for the same aircraft, create them in any order, but create only one flight per aircraft at a time. If flights for the same aircraft are created simultaneously, the usage accrued values (which are updated based on arrival dates) can be inconsistent.

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.

To save you time when you enter flight dates, your administrator can enable the FLIGHT_ENTRY_COPY_ACTUAL_DT global parameter. When this parameter is enabled, the date that you enter in the Actual Departure Date field is copied to the other date fields in the Departure & Arrival area. You then edit the copied dates and times which updates the usage accrued values.

  1. On your to-do list, Fleet List tab, select the radio button for the aircraft whose completed flight record you want to create.
  2. Click Create Flight.
  3. On the Create Flight page, Flight Information area, provide the following information:
    • Type a Flight Name in the following format: < flight number> <destination airport code> < date>.
      Note: This field is auto-populated in the following format: <aircraft OEM part number> <aircraft serial number> <current date><flight number>. The flight number is set to 1 if you create a flight for an aircraft which has no flights logged yet for the current date. The flight number is incremented for every subsequent flight created on the current date. You can keep this name or modify it if needed.
    • Type a Description for the flight.
  4. On the Create Flight page, Departure & Arrival area, provide the following information and click OK:
    • Type a Departure Airport code.
    • Type the Departure Gate number.
    • Select an Actual Departure Date by clicking and selecting the date from the calendar, and then typing in the time.
    • If needed, change the Scheduled Departure Date and the Up Date if they are different form the actual departure date.
    • Type an Arrival Airport code.
    • Type the Arrival Gate number.
    • Select an Actual Arrival Date, by clicking and selecting the date from the calendar, and then typing in the time.
    • If needed, change the Scheduled Arrival Date and the Down Date if they are different form the actual arrival date.
    • Select the Move aircraft to arrival location check box if you want Maintenix to update the location of the aircraft and all its installed items to the arrival location specified.

      With this check box selected, Maintenix changes the current location of the aircraft to the specified arrival location. If the check box is cleared, the current location of the aircraft is not changed. The check box is normally cleared if your system is using a flight following system. The check box is normally selected if your system is not using a flight following system.

    After you enter the actual arrival date, the Usage Accrued area displays usage values that are based on the actual arrival date. The CYCLES delta defaults to 1, but you can change this value. After you enter either the actual departure date or the up and down dates, the HOURS usage values update. By default the hours delta value is the difference between the up and down dates (or the arrival and departure dates if the up and down dates are not entered), but you can change the delta value. For more information, see Recording usage.
    Note: It is possible for the TSN usage values to change between the time that you enter the actual arrival date and the time that you click OK. This can happen when a preceding or following flight record is created and the usage values are updated in the database (which updates the values that appear for the date that you entered in your record).