The Fleet Management topic covers everything from adding and removing aircraft in your fleet, setting up maintenance schedules for each aircraft type, to scheduling and documenting the completion of maintenance.
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1. Introduction to FlightSpan™ Ops
Video Version Overview FlightSpan consists of two major components: FlightSpan Ops, which is hosted on a cloud-based server and runs in a browser. And FlightSpan, which is an Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) app which runs on an Apple iPad. To oversimplify, a flight consists of three basic steps: Planning the Flight A customer submits a…
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2. Getting Started
Video Version Account setup Request your new account from your company FlightSpan™ Ops administrator. They will send you an email with a temporary password. When you log in, FlightSpan Ops will open the reset password screen. After you click Change Password, you will be logged out and will have to log back in using the…
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3. Navigation
Video Version User Permissions Access to data in FlightSpan™ Ops is customized based on user permissions. If you can’t access information that you need, communicate with your company FlightSpan administrator about giving you additional permissions. For example, Maintenance Controller may have a fairly short list of permissions, Whereas the company administrator may have permissions that…
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4. Help
Video Version Integrated Help Throughout FlightSpan™ Ops, wherever you see a small question mark, hover your mouse over it for information about the meaning of the area or field. Also, important pieces of data have been enhanced to show additional information. Enhanced Data is underlined with a dashed line. Hover the mouse over the data…
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5. Scheduling Calendar Features
Video Version The Scheduling Calendar is where the flight schedule is built and where the Flight Coordinator will spend most of their time. It is where flight requests can be assembled into flights, or where flights can be created from scratch. It contains all the necessary crew and aircraft availability information so that good scheduling…
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6. Additional Calendar Views
Video Version Monthly View The monthly view, which can be accessed from the Schedule menu, is particularly useful for the Flight Coordinator to maintain the big picture. Each staff member can be assigned their own color code from the Staff Detail page. Each aircraft type also can be assigned its own color code from the Aircraft…
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7. Aircraft Assignment
Video Version On the left side of the Scheduling Calendar in the Stats section, you can view aircraft availability. Hover over the aircraft to display upcoming maintenance events. If the company setting for forecasting overage hours is enabled, the number in parentheses are the overage hours, and are included in scheduling forecast calculations. In this…
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8. Fleet Management
Video Version Aircraft of a given type can be customized in multiple ways; details are in the subsequent documents. If you need to add a new aircraft make or model to your fleet, contact FlightSpan Support for assistance. Individual aircraft of a given make and model that already exist in your instance of FlightSpan™ Ops…
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9. Aircraft Type Additional Settings
Edit Performance Aircraft are created in FlightSpan™ Ops with carefully designed performance parameters. However, if your organization operates a given aircraft significantly differently from the defaults set in FlightSpan, you may want to refine the performance numbers to match your operation (climb and cruise power settings being the most commonly adjusted parameters). The permissions for…
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10. Aircraft Type Settings
Multiple settings can be customized for your operation for each Aircraft type in your fleet. From the Aircraft Type List, click on the model aircraft to be edited. Select the aircraft type category and class. Toggle Active to No to deactivate an aircraft type. If desired, set the common name of the aircraft type to…