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Maintenance
Fleet Status
The first thing you'll see in the Maintenance tab is your Fleet Status - a live snapshot of every aircraft in your fleet showing:
- Current aircraft status
- Latest Hobbs and Tach time
- Location of the aircraft
- Any next due services
- Open squawks
Squawks
Inside the Squawks tab, anyone in the flight school - admins, instructors, or students - can report an issue on an aircraft. When a squawk is submitted it shows up as an open squawk visible to the whole team. Importantly, an open squawk alone doesn't ground the aircraft or block reservations, but it does notify people that there's an issue so nothing goes unnoticed.
When you're ready to act on a squawk, you can move it to a Work Order. When creating a work order, you'll set the date and time range that the aircraft is out of service. Once the work is done, you can resolve the work order to close it out, or simply close the maintenance block manually.
Inspections
Next to squawks is the Inspections tab, which surfaces any inspections that have been logged inside the aircraft's profile. This keeps your inspection history accessible right from the maintenance view without having to navigate away.
Maintenance Blocks
You can also create a maintenance block directly from the schedule by selecting Maintenance as the activity type and setting a start and end date and time. Once that block is in place, it works as a hard stop - anyone who tries to create a reservation during that window will be blocked from doing so.
It goes one step further than that too. If maintenance is due at a specific Hobbs time - say 225 hours - and someone tries to add a reservation that would push the aircraft past that threshold, the system will notify them that the reservation shouldn't be created because maintenance is coming due.
Maintenance blocks are visible to everyone in the flight school. You'll also see a status badge on each aircraft in the Aircrafts tab showing whether the aircraft is available or currently in maintenance, so nobody has to guess.
