Maintenance

In this article, we will show you how to set up standard maintenance checks and insert them in the N-OC schedule Gantt for a specific aircraft registration.

Setting up a new Maintenance Check

The maintenance concept consists of:

• Reference Activity
• Maintenance Type
• Maintenance Service
• Maintenance Filter.

Reference Activity

Reference Activities are used to define the color of the Maintenance block.

Reference Activities are created under Editor > Company > Reference Activities.

Data Type: must be “Vehicle” (Aircraft).

No Conflict: must be unchecked to trick a station conflict.

User Groups: (for planning).

Maintenance Types

Must be linked to the Reference Activity.

You can choose a Reference Activity from the dropdown list.

Linked to the Reference Activity:

MAINT - Maintenance

or

Linked to the Reference Activity:

AC - A-Check 

Maintenance Service

You can define the various kinds of maintenance checks that need to be available from the N-OC Gantt. 

Typically, these are defined by Station and Company as shown in the image below:

First, enter the Name of the service and select a Company (provider of the service) and Station, where the Service will be performed. Select the Active checkbox and optionally the Default checkbox.

Specify details of the service - Maintenance Type, Aircraft Filter, Validity, Default Length, Sorting, Maximum, and Frequency (days of availability).

After clicking the ADD button, the service is added to the saved list of services below and you can enter another Type.

A service can be deleted from the list by checking the box next to the service and clicking the DELETE button.

Do not forget to click the SAVE button before closing the window.

Maintenance Filter

Creating maintenance filters:

1. SEARCH for maintenance filter.

2. Add a NEW maintenance company.

3. Define the Maintenance Filter.

Inserting Maintenance Checks

To insert a Maintenance check, hold down/left mouse (or right ) and click the Gantt on the aircraft registration row until this window appears:

Note:

The maintenance option becomes available after a right-click an aircraft row in between flights / legs and your group parameter MaintenanceSchedule is active.

Select Maintenance 

A window like the one shown below appears.

Note:  Where you click in the Gantt will determine the proposed start time for the maintenance check, which can be revised after the window is opened. 

The end time is taken from the default duration (in minutes) as defined in the Maintenance Service window - "Default Length".

You can optionally change the date, and the start/end time.

Click the NEXT button to complete the execution of inserting a maintenance activity in the schedule Gantt.

The Background color of the note may be changed in the Note Types.

Any related messages are shown here.

Click the SAVE button.

The Maintenance check is then displayed on the Gantt.

Example

The colored triangle in the top right corner indicates the maintenance activity has an additional note.

Right-click the maintenance check to edit the check or to add a note.

Show Maintenance Conflicts