FlightSpan™ Ops Release Notes 4.13.0

The release will occur during your normal daily maintenance window (typically between midnight to 3 am local time).

New Feature

  • Added Flight Operational Quality Assurance (FOQA) API for third-party data analysis including API key management. See the documentation for instructions. 

Enhancements

  • To ensure good contrast between map layers and EFB Own Ship icons, different EFB Own Ship colors for different map layers can now be set. See the documentation for details. 
  • The Scheduled Flight Loading Report now includes a Dangerous Goods (DG) indicator on DG loads
  • Time off status is now always displayed in scheduled flight pilot dropdowns, and the pilots may now be scheduled even when they have approved time off
  • Renamed the EFB API Tab to EFB Login and changed the column header names to be more intuitive
  • A user creating a load package (Advanced Package Management) can now create a one-time unlisted cargo item
  • Maintenance events without actual or projected start dates are now sent to the EFB
  • A new Company Custom Setting is now available to disable the “Create Manifest?” prompt when dragging a load onto the Scheduling Calendar
  • A new Company Custom Setting is now available to require an Account on cash-type Payments
  • Time labels on the left side of the Scheduling Calendar are now always visible when scrolling right to view additional aircraft
  • Documents linked to a flown scheduled flight or to an inactive waypoint can now be unlinked or deleted 
  • Departure and arrival fuel from the uploaded DFR are now stored in the database 
  • Staff members are now prevented from resolving their own duty or flight time exceedances, and notifications are not cleared if a user views their own exceedance
  • Added the {request_date} field (the requested flight date) to the Schedule Updated email notification template
  • Change history records due to database rounding differences of less than 0.01 (except for Currency Conversions) are no longer recorded
  • The flight request details sent out in notification emails have been cleaned up
  • The “Runway/Aircraft Type Data” Database Export Report has been expanded to include more helpful data
  • Itemized taxes on the Netsuite 5 billing export and added the payment transaction code to the memo

Bug Fixes

  • Payment load cost was only being partially updated when changing the cost of an open total rate from the deposit details page
  • Users with permission to view the time off types list were unable to view the list
  • Latency issue with microsoft calendar sync.
  • Holidays with additional days were not being included on the scheduling calendar when the selected date range did not include the original date
  • Split scheduled flight functionality was failing intermittently.
  • Netsuite 2 Billing Export was failing
  • Daily deposits report was not printing
  • Fuel transaction export was failing.
  • Unflown or data-entry-required non-manifest loads without an associated request or payment were deleted from a scheduled flight after the DFR was uploaded
  • Payments could be created from flight requests, causing a negative balance on prepaid accounts
  • Flight request quotes were not honoring the nominal cruise speed company setting
  • Estimate Amount on the Request Email Template was not working
  • Date inputs were failing to validate when French was selected.
  • Missing DG flag on scheduled loads list 
  • Newly created scheduled flight legs (as a result of dropping loading onto an existing scheduled flight) lacked a valid cruise altitude
  • Sometimes a linked flight was missing in the flights dropdown after the flight was closed 
  • A flight request’s connecting flight date was shown as Jan 1 1970
  • The currency setting in Company EFB Preferences displayed as an ID rather than the ISO name

New Permissions

  • FlightSpanOps
    • Settings: Company
      • API Key Access
      • API User Create
      • API User Delete
      • API User View List
      • API User Edit
      • API User View Details
      • FOQA
    • Settings: Staff / Users
      • Staff Api Keys Manage

Removed Permissions

  • None

New Company Custom Settings

  • Disable Create Manifest Prompt When Dragging Loading Onto Scheduling Calendar
  • Require Account Id On Cash Payments

New EFB Preferences

  • None

New Permissions Added To Standard Roles:

  • Admin – All FlightSpan Settings
    • FlightSpanOps / Settings: Company
      • API Key Access
      • API User Create
      • API User Delete
      • API User View List
      • API User Edit
      • API User View Details
      • FOQA
    • FlightSpan Ops / Settings: Staff/Users
      • Staff Api Keys Manage
  • Admin – All Company Settings
    • FlightSpanOps / Settings: Company
      • API Key Access
      • API User Create
      • API User Delete
      • API User View List
      • API User Edit
      • API User View Details
      • FOQA
  • Admin – All Staff Settings
    • FlightSpan Ops / Settings: Staff/Users
      • Staff Api Keys Manage

Existing Permissions Added To:

  • None

Existing Permissions Removed From:

  • None

New Standard Roles Created

  • Admin – Manage APIs
    • FlightSpanOps / Settings : Company
      • Api Key Access
      • API User Delete
      • API User View List
      • API User Edit
      • API User View Details
      • Deregister Google Api
      • Deregister Microsoft Calendar Api
      • EFB Password Update
      • FOQA
    • FlightSpanOps / Settings : Staff/Users
      • Staff Api Keys Manage
      • Staff View List
      • Staff View Details
  • Manage – FOQA Data
    • FlightSpanOps / Settings : Company
      • Api Key Access
      • FOQA

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