Maintenance
A defect is a state change, not a note.
Raise a snag and the aircraft grounds itself across the schedule, the bookings that depended on it are named, and dispatch will not release it.
Fleet · today
Northstar3 bookings affected today
- 11:00PPL Ex 12L. Novak · Capt. Reid
- 13:30CircuitsR. Patel · Capt. Osei
- 15:00PPL Nav 2S. Ahmed · Capt. Reid
G-FLYF grounded — open defect (brake bind).
A defect is raised on aircraft G-FLYF. Its status changes to open defect and the row turns amber, the three bookings that depend on it today are flagged with their student, instructor and lesson, and the dispatch control is disabled with the reason that the aircraft is grounded.
Raise it once.
A defect is captured with its severity and any restriction. From that moment the aircraft carries the state everywhere, not in a book someone has to remember to read.
The schedule feels it.
A grounding makes the aircraft unbookable and the dispatch gate refuses to release it. A restriction is narrower — DME unserviceable means VFR only, so circuits stay and the instrument lesson goes.
Everyone affected is named.
Every booking that depended on the aircraft is surfaced with its student, instructor and lesson, so you can move or cancel them in the same minute, not discover them at the desk.
Cleared by a release.
A defect cannot just be marked closed. It is cleared by a release that returns the aircraft to service and makes it bookable again automatically, with the reporter told what happened.
Fleet · today
Northstar3 bookings affected today
- 11:00PPL Ex 12L. Novak · Capt. Reid
- 13:30CircuitsR. Patel · Capt. Osei
- 15:00PPL Nav 2S. Ahmed · Capt. Reid
G-FLYF grounded — open defect (brake bind).
A defect is raised on aircraft G-FLYF. Its status changes to open defect and the row turns amber, the three bookings that depend on it today are flagged with their student, instructor and lesson, and the dispatch control is disabled with the reason that the aircraft is grounded.
defect, and every dependent booking is named
aircraft dispatchable past a grounding
The cost
Finding out at the aircraft is the expensive version.
When an aircraft goes tech, the fix is rarely the problem. The cost is the bookings nobody told: the student who drove in, the instructor left idle, the slot that could have flown someone else. FlyerOS names them the moment the defect is raised, while you can still do something about it.