Aircraft asset type
What it is
Section titled “What it is”Aircraft is the asset type Syndik8 was built for first, and it carries the assumptions of general-aviation syndicate operation. Usage comes from the Hobbs meter in engine hours, landings are counted towards maintenance cycles, and open squawks decide whether the aircraft is airworthy.
At launch, every new asset you add in a syndicate is created as an aircraft.
Who can use it
Section titled “Who can use it”- Admin: add, edit, and remove aircraft.
- Member: see the aircraft, book it, and log usage against it.
Where to find it
Section titled “Where to find it”- Syndicate → Assets → Add Aircraft creates an aircraft.
- Existing aircraft appear under Syndicate → Assets and carry a flight icon.
Fields / options
Section titled “Fields / options”Built-in defaults
Section titled “Built-in defaults”The aircraft type ships with these defaults:
- Usage metric: Hobbs hours. Usage is recorded in hours from the Hobbs (or equivalent) meter.
- Track landings: on. Usage logs accept a landing count and a touch-and-go count per flight.
- Requires pilot currency: this default is set on for the aircraft type, but it has no effect today. It does not block bookings or raise a warning.
Fields on an aircraft asset
Section titled “Fields on an aircraft asset”When you add an aircraft, the create-asset form takes:
| Field | Required? | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Name | yes | Free text, up to 100 characters (for example “G-DEMO Cessna 172”). |
| Registration number | no | Aircraft registration, for example G-DEMO or N12345. Up to 50 characters. Used to match bookings during import. |
| Description | no | Free text, up to 500 characters. |
| Opening hours (brought forward) | no | The aircraft’s starting meter reading (engine/Hobbs hours). Defaults to 0, and zero is accepted. All later usage is measured against this baseline, and it feeds previous-tacho pre-fill on the first logged flight. |
| Home airfield | no | Free-text ICAO code (uppercased). The aircraft’s base airfield, which sets where landing and touch-and-go event fees apply. It appears only once the syndicate has a second aircraft; a single aircraft’s home airfield is set on the Asset rates screen. |
Icon: an aircraft icon.
Behaviour rules
Section titled “Behaviour rules”- The add-asset flow creates aircraft only. Every new asset is created as an aircraft; there is no asset-type chooser.
- Registrations are matched case-insensitively and punctuation-agnostically.
G-BBBNandGBBBNmatch the same aircraft when importing bookings from a CSV. - Usage is recorded in decimal hours. A flight’s hours are entered as a decimal reading, the way a Hobbs meter shows them.
- Landings and touch-and-gos are per-log counts. They roll up to the aircraft’s running landing-cycles total for maintenance intervals measured in cycles.
- Grounding squawks block confirmed bookings. An open grounding squawk marks the aircraft non-airworthy and moves affected confirmed bookings to suspended; see airworthiness rules.
See also
Section titled “See also”- Usage log fields: what goes into a flight log
- Airworthiness rules: how Syndik8 decides an aircraft is airworthy
- Home airfield: where landing and touch-and-go fees apply