Squawk
A squawk is aviation jargon for a reported defect or discrepancy against an asset: anything from “low oil pressure” to “sun visor broken”. The term comes from the clipped radio transponder codes pilots squawk to controllers. It has since been extended to cover every non-routine observation a pilot makes about an aircraft.
In Syndik8, any member can report a squawk and pick a severity: grounding, caution, or info. Only open grounding squawks block bookings. Caution and info squawks are visible for awareness but do not affect availability.
Squawks move through a short lifecycle: pending, open, deferred, resolved, dismissed. Deferring a grounding squawk returns the asset to service and restores any suspended bookings for the deferral period; when the deferral date passes, the asset is grounded again automatically unless the squawk was resolved first.