Aircraft asset type

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

Admin: add, edit, and remove aircraft.
Member: see the aircraft, book it, and log usage against it.

Where to find it

Syndicate → Assets → Add Aircraft creates an aircraft.
Existing aircraft appear under Syndicate → Assets and carry a flight icon.

Fields / options

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

When you add an aircraft, the create-asset form takes:

Field	Required?	Notes
Name	yes	Free text, up to 100 characters (for example “G-QSYN Cessna 172”).
Registration number	no	Aircraft registration, for example `G-QSYN` or `N12345`. Up to 50 characters. Used to match bookings during import.
Description	no	Free text, up to 500 characters.
Hours on the meter now	no	What the aircraft’s engine meter reads at the moment it is added. The field starts at `0`; left there, no reading is recorded and the aircraft shows Not recorded until one is entered — here or later from Edit Asset. Once given, all later usage is added to it, 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. On this form it appears from the second aircraft onwards — that is, while you are adding it, not after the syndicate already holds two; a single aircraft’s home airfield is set on the Asset rates screen, or on the setup wizard’s aircraft step when the syndicate is first created.

Icon: an aircraft icon.

What the detail screen shows

Opening an aircraft from the Asset tab shows its photo, status, and a Quick Stats card. The card’s rows are:

Row	What it shows
<Meter>	The engine meter reading, under the syndicate’s own name for its meter (“Hobbs”, “Tacho”, or whatever the admin set on the Usage capture screen). Until somebody has stated a reading it says Not recorded.
Brought forward	The opening reading the aircraft was set up with, shown only when one above zero was given.
Airframe hours	The aircraft’s accumulated airframe time — a separate figure from the engine meter, and the one an airframe-time check is judged against. Shown when the syndicate captures block or airborne time; Not recorded until a figure has been stated.
Next check and Annual due	The next usage-based and calendar-based maintenance items.
Landing Cycles	The running landing-cycle count, or Not recorded.

The asset list shows the same meter and airframe figures in short form on each aircraft’s card.

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-QBBN and GQBBN match 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.