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Entering a flight after the fact

How to record a flight that happened when the system was not in front of you, with its times and counters, so the record and the invoice still reflect what actually flew.

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Sometimes a flight happens away from the screen: a fly-away, a busy Saturday, a moment when nobody was at the desk. You can still record it properly afterwards.

Enter what actually flew

A flight can be entered after the fact with its real details: the times, the counters the flight ended on, the aircraft and the people, and the outcome. So the record reflects what happened, not a gap where a flight should be.

It is marked as entered later

A flight recorded after the fact is honest about being so. It carries who entered it and when, distinct from a flight closed out live at the aircraft. Nothing is disguised as having been captured in the moment when it was not.

The rest still follows

Once entered, a back-dated flight behaves like any other: the counters update the aircraft's hours, the lesson result reaches the training record, and the charge is raised. So a flight that happened off-screen still reaches the invoice and the record rather than being lost. See Closing out a flight.

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