What can Flight Status Manager do for me

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• What can Flight Status Manager do for me?

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Flight Status Manager will bring computerized
record keeping to your Flight Department at a
very reasonable cost. It will replace the grease
board or spreadsheet you now use. Aircraft and
crew readiness items can be at every computer in
your office. One centralized location that
everyone can access. Immediately see the
readiness of Aircraft and Flight Crew on the Main
Menu Window of Flight Status Manager.
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This is the Main Menu. In the Due Summary box
you can see the next items due within the flight
department. Each item tracked is customizable by
the user allowing the option to track an item or
not, and change the alert time or hours.
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Storing your Flight Log in a Relational Data
Base will bring you a rich history of information
about your flight department and become an
essential tool for managing it. Data entry
errors are reduced by consolidating record
keeping to the Flight Status Manger System. This
data is implemented to construct reports, alert
management and crew members of up coming items
due, and track flight and duty times. The
program increases communications across the
Flight Department and is useable across your
Local Area Network.
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Easily manage your next crew training event by
having all crew information in one location with
alerts to when an event is coming due. The next
slide shows and example of the Pilot Information
Form. Select the options check box to track an
item, then enter the next date the item will be
due and set the alert warning time in days or
hours. If you would rather enter the date the
item was last accomplished, you can and then
adjust the alert time as necessary. Negative
numbers for alert times are acceptable. So if
you wanted to set an item due to a date in the
future, you could set the alert at -30 days
before.
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Set alert time Days or Hours here.
Select the options check box to track an item
There are two custom user fields that you can
rename to fit your needs. Clicking on the
Training Tab is shown in the picture below.
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Only a pilot entered into this form will be
available for entry into a flight log.
Only the fields you have selected to track will
appear here. If an item is within the set alert
time it will be highlighted in yellow. Some of
the pilot information here is included in
reports.
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Aircraft Readiness Tracking Aircraft Items
Due Keep track of items that your Maintenance
Tracking System does not or that the information
is not in a form that is readily available. The
Aircraft Items Due Form operates the same as the
Pilot Information Form. Select the option check
box to track an item, and then enter the next
date the item will be due. Next set the alert
warning time in days or hours. If you would
rather enter the date the item was last
accomplished, then adjust the alert time as
necessary.
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There are eight customizable fields that you can
rename to fit your needs, and four custom fields
for recurring ADs.
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Flight Status Manager Aircraft tracking is in no
way meant to replace or compete with your
Aircraft Maintenance Tracking System. This is a
tool to present the readiness state of the
aircraft to the flight crew. This Aircraft
information is meant to assist in compliance of
FAR 91.409. The Flight Status Report in the
next slide is generated from the Aircraft
Tracking information and is intended to be
provided to the flight crew before each home base
departure. This report provides the Flight Crew
with the necessary information needed for flight.
This form would also be a great tool in the
event of an FAA ramp inspection.
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Flight Log Entry is made easy with the Flight Log
Entry Form. Calculations are programmed to
reduce mistakes and speed entries. White boxes
indicate where data can be entered. Fields with
gray background are auto-calculated. In this
example, entering the Time Off and Time On
represents flight time which is auto-calculated.
A default setting is then added to the flight
time to produce block time. This block time
additive can be adjusted from the Options Menu to
meet your needs. There are other Options for
this form an Option to enter flight and block
time manually, and an option to not use Time Off
or Time On at all, only flight and block time.
If this flight was preceded with crew overnights,
they can be recorded here.
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To begin a Flight Log Entry select an aircraft
from the Aircraft Selection drop down box. This
action brings the current aircraft data into the
form.
Next a date is selected.
All totals for aircraft times are computed by the
program. The TAB key will move the curser to the
next input field.
Next APU time is entered (if the aircraft has no
APU this field is not visible. Provisions are
also made for three engine aircraft.).
The last flight date recorded for this aircraft
is shown in the Previous Flight box.
Select the flight crew, flight code for each leg,
etc.
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A unique feature of Flight Status Manager is its
fuel price computation. Flight Status Manager
tracks the average price of fuel on board for
each leg. As shown in the Previous Flight box
there are 345 gallons of fuel on board purchased
at an average price of 4.73. Flight Status
Manager looks up the information from the
previous Flight Log. Now as fuel is purchased,
Flight Status Manager uses the gallons purchased
at a given price and computes the average price
of fuel on board for each leg. An adjustment of
gallons on board will need to be made from time
to time to compensate for fuel density,
maintenance fuel, APU fuel, etc. This can be
done by noting the beginning fuel and entering it
in the Ground Fuel Adjustment box. Clicking the
Expense Tab allows expense entry for each leg.
Fuel purchases and other expenses are entered
here. As fuel purchases are entered the average
price of fuel is displayed in the Price of Fuel
Used row. This illustration shows how much the
difference in fuel cost affects each leg and
future legs to come. Keeping this awareness in
front of your crew members will benefit fuel
costs.
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Clicking on the Pilot Flight Data button will
bring up the Pilot Flight Data Entry Form which
will auto-fill flight and duty time information
from the underlying Flight Log.
As fuel purchases are entered the average price
of fuel is displayed in the Price of Fuel Used
row. This illustration shows how much the
difference in fuel cost affects each leg and legs
to come.
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Assumptions are made with the auto-fill so you
will need to check each field for correctness.
Auto-fill of this form uses a default show time
before departure and a default time for post
flight duties. These default times can be
changed from the Options menu. Or the duty times
can be adjusted manually here.
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Return to the Flight Log and click on the Flight
Log Report button to obtain this Flight Log
Summary Report.
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The next few slides are various report examples.
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A complete version of Flight Status Manager is
available for down load at http//www.fltstatus.co
m. This version comes with a Demo database
containing more than five years of data. You can
use this data to see the benefits Flight Status
Manager can bring to your operation.
You can also use this Demo data for training
employees on the program. When you are ready to
use your own data, click on tools menu and
select, Change User / Demo Mode. This will
bring up a window allowing you to switch back and
forth between modes.
After the forty-five day trail period, you will
be required to purchase a permanent license. You
can return to http//www.fltstatus.com to do
this.
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Purchase of one license allows installation on
one main or server computer and as many
workstations as you need. Workstations must be
part of the same Local Area Network in order to
attach to the database. Telephone based setup
assistance is included with the purchase price.
We can come to your location for an additional
cost if needed. No annual renewal fee is
required. Your purchase allows you to use the
program on one main computer and registration
will need to be made from that computer. You
may, at your discretion, purchase continued
program updates and technical support at twelve
month intervals.
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Thank you for your interest in Flight Status
manager. This program is authored by a corporate
CL604 Captain having more than 24 years
experience in general aviation.
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System Requirements  Windows Vista, Windows XP,
Windows 2000 Pentium III or Equivalent 512 RAM 50
MB Storage Screen Resolution 1040x768 Internet
connection for automatic program updates.