Engine meter
Engine meter is the general term for whatever hour meter an aircraft carries: a Hobbs meter, a tach meter, or any other running-time gauge. Each aircraft sets its own display label.
A syndicate’s engine meter label is the meter’s name; typical values are “Hobbs” or “Tacho” but anything is allowed. It is used wherever the meter itself is named, such as the tech log’s “Tacho Hours” column and the Flight logs don’t follow on alert (“started at 1234.5 h on the Hobbs”). The two readings have start and end names of their own, which default to the meter’s name followed by Start and End (“Tacho Start”, “Tacho End”) and can be changed on the Usage capture screen.
Engine meter is one of the time measures Syndik8 can bill on. The others are block time (off-blocks to on-blocks) and airborne time (takeoff to landing). The billed measure picks which one drives the hourly charge.