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.
- On your to-do list, Fleet List tab, select the radio button
for the aircraft whose completed flight record you want to create.
- Click Create
Flight.
- On the Create Flight page, Flight
Information area, provide the following information:
- 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).