Flightspan™ Ops Release Notes 4.3.4

Flightspan™ Ops 4.3.4 comes with added capabilities for predicting pilot duty time.

New Features

  • Added ability to create, track, and manage staff future planned duty time via a staff roster. See the Rostering documentation, and revised Interpreting the Data documentation.

Enhancements

  • Added duty time types (Flight, Ground, Maintenance, Office, and Standby) to duty times to allow for improved reporting and fatigue management.
  • Added warnings to schedules that will cause an exceedance of the fatigue rules.
  • Added support for images on report custom elements.
  • Added Total Overrides to rate structure giving the ability to override total or subtotal based on specific load criteria.
  • Allow amphibious and rotorwing aircraft to be assigned to two chart types so they can access airport charts when needed.
  • Added max_payload to flight_legs table to be stored by the EFB
  • Added cash account name and number to search when searching payments by “Payment Method”.
  • Added a company setting “Completely Disable Public Portal” to completely disable the public flight request and schedule portal.
  • Added better sorting and labeling to the waypoint inspection list.
  • Added ability to track yearly vacation hours per staff user. (When submitting a time off request, enter “Vacation” in the reason field.)
  • Added ability to “Smart Split” loads automatically creating a new load with remaining pax and cargo counts. (From a Payment, split the load and edit the split load with the box checked prior to saving.)
  • Added ability to set select start of day, now, or end of day on the Staff Fatigue Status panel.
  • Added Create Payment Button to Cargo On Standby list view to allow for easy creation of payments.
  • Added Payment ID and Payment Loads ID before receipt number on printed manifest.
  • Added rate adjusted distance on Rate Sheet by Waypoint report instead of calculated distance.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug causing the pilot fatigue status panel Current Period to start at the wrong time.
  • Fixed bug with request load not dragging onto a scheduled flight because a scheduled leg from the same request uses an airport type incompatible with the aircraft.
  • Fixed bug with Receipt Series Date filtering not working.
  • Fixed bug with flight request additional flight time not adding cost to flight.
  • Fixed a bug with a Google Sync error when the schedule calendar user does not have PII permission.
  • Fixed bug with Rate Sheet by Distance report not working.
  • Fixed bug causing occasional erroneous warning about aircraft and route incompatibility
  • Fixed first scheduled flight leg could not be deleted even if it is not the only leg on the schedule.
  • Fixed a bug with inserting a scheduled flight leg sometimes scrambling leg order.
  • Fixed the schedule delete button failing after a schedule status change.

New Company Custom Settings:

  • Completely Disable Public Portal
  • Disable Unregistered Public Flight Request Submissions
  • Disable Staff Rostering
  • Respect Duty Time Types For Exceedances
  • Default Max Number Of Vacation Hours For New Staff
  • Default Staff Vacation Cycle Start Date For Tracking Vacation Hours
  • Always Smart Split Eligible Loads

New Permissions:

  • FSO / Staff / Roster Calendar
  • FSO / Staff / Roster Create
  • FSO / Staff / Roster Bulk Create
  • FSO / Staff / Roster Bulk Delete
  • FSO / Staff / Roster Delete
  • FSO / Staff / Roster Edit
  • FSO / Staff / Roster View Details
  • FSO / Staff / Roster View List

Roster Permissions added to:

  • Admin – All FlightSpan Settings
    • FSO / Staff / Roster Calendar
    • FSO / Staff / Roster Create
    • FSO / Staff / Roster Bulk Create
    • FSO / Staff / Roster Bulk Delete
    • FSO / Staff / Roster Delete
    • FSO / Staff / Roster Edit
    • FSO / Staff / Roster View Details
    • FSO / Staff / Roster View List
  • Admin – All Staff/User Settings
    • FSO / Staff / Roster Calendar
    • FSO / Staff / Roster Create
    • FSO / Staff / Roster Bulk Create
    • FSO / Staff / Roster Bulk Delete
    • FSO / Staff / Roster Delete
    • FSO / Staff / Roster Edit
    • FSO / Staff / Roster View Details
    • FSO / Staff / Roster View List

New Standard Roles created:

  • Manage – Roster
    • Roster Calendar
    • Roster Create
    • Roster Bulk Create
    • Roster Bulk Delete
    • Roster Delete
    • Roster Edit
    • Roster View Details
    • Roster View List
  • View – Roster
    • Roster Calendar
    • Roster View Details
    • Roster View List