Managing flights

Flight management is built for the field: big buttons that read well on a phone, rare actions kept out of the way.

The Planche is organised in tabs: Planche (today's flights, as cards), All flights (the full list), Schedule and Engine time. On a phone the tabs sit at the bottom of the screen and the + Declare button stays within thumb reach; on a tablet they are at the top.

One card, one big button

Each card's big button is always the next logical action:

Flight state	Button	Effect
Declared	Take off	Records the takeoff time
Airborne	Land	Records the landing time (and the engine meter if the machine has one)
Landed, not certified	Certify	The pilot confirms the flight
Certified or validated	Duplicate	Prepares an identical new flight

Everything else is behind the ⋯ button: Edit, Duplicate, Delete. Anyone can delete, after a confirmation, as long as the flight is neither validated nor from OGN.

Billing a flight

In Edit, the Billing section (collapsed by default) sets who is billed: a club account, the passenger, the instructor who pays for the lesson, or one of the two pilots of a shared flight who pays for all of it.

Engine time by machine

Machine	What is asked
Pure glider	No engine fields
Self-launching glider	Meter and engine time only when launched "Autonomous"
TMG, plane	Starting meter required when declaring (last known reading suggested), final meter and landings when landing
Tow plane	Nothing on the towed flight: tow times are entered in the Engine time tab

Certify or validate?

Certification (by the pilot) happens on the Planche tab. Validation (by the instructor or duty manager) happens on the All flights tab, which also filters and groups.