Home airfield
The home airfield is the airfield an asset is based at. For aircraft it determines where event fees apply: landing and touch-and-go fees are charged only when a flight’s arrival matches the home airfield. Fly away and land elsewhere, and those fees are waived for that log; the time-based usage charge is unaffected.
How it is resolved
Section titled “How it is resolved”When a log is priced, Syndik8 resolves the home airfield in this order:
- A per-asset home airfield, set on the add/edit asset screen. This field only appears in a multi-asset syndicate, where each asset can have its own base.
- The syndicate default home airfield, set on the Asset rates screen. In a single-asset syndicate this is the only place it is set; in a multi-asset syndicate it is the fallback for any asset without its own.
If neither is set, there is no home airfield and no event fees are charged for any log. (The Asset rates screen disables the home-airfield fee fields until a home airfield is set, so you cannot configure a fee that would never apply.)
The arrival is compared to the resolved home airfield ignoring case and surrounding spaces (so egmc, EGMC and EGMC all match). On the capture screen the departure and arrival fields placeholder-default to the home airfield: leave them blank for a local flight and the home airfield is recorded (so a home landing is billed its fee), or type a different airfield when you fly away. You only have to enter an arrival by hand when no home airfield is configured.