Aircraft capabilities

Aircraft capabilities are a tool for summarizing the types of flights and services an aircraft is able to perform at the present time. Engineers configure aircraft capabilities, but maintenance controllers revise the current capabilities when required. For example, after deferring a fault, you reduce an aircraft's current ETOPS capability level.

To report an aircraft's capability, you must consider both its configured capability (what capability the aircraft has been built to embody), and what its current operating capability is (which factors in any temporary limitations). Maintenix allows you to update both the configured and current capabilities of the aircraft. This information is useful for the users responsible for aligning aircraft tail numbers to flight numbers.