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Maintenance

Maintenance tracks what each airframe is due for and when it was last done. Find it under Maintenance in the nav for the whole fleet at once, or on a single aircraft’s Maintenance tab.

Maintenance is part of the always-on compliance floor — it isn’t behind a module switch.

Maintenance items

An aircraft carries maintenance items: propeller replacement, motor inspection, battery cycle check, whatever the airframe actually needs. Each item has an interval:

  • Flight hours — “Every 50 flight hrs”, counted from the aircraft’s logged hours.
  • Calendar days — “Every 180 days”, counted from the last service date.

An item can carry a second interval too — hours or days, whichever comes first. The status reflects the worse of the two.

Status

StatusMeaning
OKUnder 90% of the interval.
Due Soon90% or more of the interval used.
OverdueThe interval has been reached or passed.

Status recalculates when you record a service — and also whenever a flight log changes the aircraft’s hours, so an hours-based item goes due on its own, without anyone remembering to check.

An item going overdue raises an alert.

Applying a template

Rather than typing every item by hand, open an aircraft and use Apply maintenance template. Templates come from a catalogue: some are specific to an aircraft model, others are universal. Applying one creates its items on that airframe in one action.

Each template carries a confidence label, and the label is the point:

LabelWhat it means
Manufacturer-confirmedPublished by the manufacturer, with a source citation.
Community estimateNot manufacturer official.
SampleNot manufacturer official — verify before relying on it.
Pending reviewNot yet reviewed — verify before relying on it.

Nothing that isn’t manufacturer-published is ever presented as though it were. Treat a community or inferred interval as a starting point to adjust against your own manufacturer documentation.

Applying a template again is safe: it refreshes thresholds without wiping the name, baseline or status you’ve adjusted on an item.

Custom items

+ Add custom item creates an item that no template covers — a name, a primary interval, and optionally a second one. Requires at least a Member role.

Recording service

Log Service on an item records what was done and resets its clock:

  • Date performed
  • Flight hours at service — required for a flight-hours item, since that’s what the reset is measured from
  • Performed by
  • Notes
  • Attach receipt / sign-off — a PDF or image, filed into your document library against that service entry

Saving it resets the item’s last-service point and recomputes its status in one step.

Log Service is restricted to the workspace’s Billing manager (the account holder). Every other maintenance write — adding a custom item, applying a template — only needs Member. This is a tighter floor than the rest of the module.

Each item keeps its service history, newest first, with the hours at service and whatever notes were recorded — which is what an aircraft-scope compliance report prints.

Airworthiness

The fleet view rolls maintenance status into a single status-at-a-glance badge per airframe: Grounded, Maintenance overdue, Maintenance due soon, or Airworthy. A manual grounding always wins over maintenance state — if you’ve grounded an airframe, that’s what you see, regardless of what its items say. See Fleet.

“Airworthy” here means nothing is overdue and nobody has grounded it. Tobren Operations tracks your maintenance record; it does not certify airworthiness, and a compliance report doesn’t either. That determination stays yours.

What’s next

  • The airframes these items belong to → Fleet
  • Overdue work that reaches you → Alerts
  • Receipts and sign-offs on file → Documents