# Add the standard airworthiness inspections > Maintenance, then Add inspections, then leave the mode on Standard set. All seven AVIATES items are ticked to start. Untick what does not apply, say when each was last done, and pick the tails. Source: https://www.aerscheduler.com/docs/maintenance/add-the-standard-airworthiness-inspections Section: Maintenance and squawks. For: Owners, Admins, Technicians. `Maintenance → Add inspections` (web console), and leave the mode on **Standard set**. All seven AVIATES items start ticked. Untick what does not apply to your operation, fill in when each was last done, pick the tails, and click **Add**. **Who can do this:** Owners, Admins, Technicians ## Add the standard set 1. **Open Maintenance and click Add inspections** The button sits in the top right. You need at least one aircraft in the fleet first; the dialog says so if there are none. 2. **Leave the mode on Standard set** This is the AVIATES airworthiness set. All seven items are ticked to start. Three extras, **Oil change**, **ELT battery replacement** and **Registration renewal**, sit under "Also common" and start unticked. ![Add inspections, Standard set](https://www.aerscheduler.com/docs/add-inspections-standard-set.png) 3. **Untick anything that does not apply** Each row shows the regulation it comes from and a caveat line. See the table below. 4. **Fill in When was it last done?** Enter the **Date** the work was last performed and the **Meter reading** at that time. Leave both blank only if the work was just done. 5. **Pick the tails under Applies to** Tap the tail numbers this should cover. Picking none leaves **Add** disabled: an inspection with no tails never comes due. 6. **Click Add** One rule per preset appears under `Maintenance → Inspection rules` (web console), and a live inspection appears against each tail you chose, counting down straight away. The standard set works the same on a customer's aircraft: its tail is in the **Applies to** list, and its owners are reminded too. See [Choose when reminders go out](https://www.aerscheduler.com/docs/maintenance/who-gets-maintenance-reminders-and-squawk-alerts#choose-when-reminders-go-out). ## Which ones to untick | Item | Untick it when | | ------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Annual inspection | Never. Every aircraft owes one. | | 100-hour inspection | The aircraft does not carry persons for hire and is not used for instruction for hire. | | VOR check | The aircraft is not flown IFR. | | Static system and altimeter | The aircraft is not flown IFR. | | Transponder check | Rarely. Keep it unless the aircraft has no transponder. | | ELT | Never. | | Airworthiness Directive review | Never. | > **Note:** The presets are starting points, not compliance rulings. The calendar ones are tracked in real > **calendar months** now, so an annual applied to an aircraft signed off in February comes due at > the end of February the following year, not 365 days later. Every preset is fully editable after > you apply it, and you can add your own on top. See > [Add your own inspection](https://www.aerscheduler.com/docs/maintenance/add-your-own-inspection). ## Track the registration's expiry A US certificate of aircraft registration expires seven years after the last day of the month it was issued in (14 CFR 47.40). **Registration renewal** tracks that like any other inspection: 84 calendar months, warned 180, 60 and 30 days out to the shop and, on a customer's aircraft, to its owners, because the owner is the one who renews it with the FAA. It never grounds the aircraft unless you turn that on. Add it **on its own**, not ticked alongside the others, and put the **issue date** printed on the current certificate in **When was it last done?**. Left blank, it counts seven years from today. When the new certificate arrives, sign the renewal off with its issue date and the next seven years start from there. Keep a copy of the certificate itself under [Aircraft papers](https://www.aerscheduler.com/docs/maintenance/aircraft-papers). ## Fill in when the work was last done This is the field people skip, and it is the one that decides when your first reminder arrives. Left blank, the countdown starts today at the aircraft's current meter, which is right for a brand-new aircraft and wrong for every aircraft a school already operates. ![Add inspections, When was it last done?](https://www.aerscheduler.com/docs/add-inspections-last-done.png) > **Careful:** Enter one meter reading with more than one tail selected and that same reading is applied > to all of them, whose meters differ. The form shows an amber warning when this happens. > Add the aircraft one tail at a time instead. Full detail in > [Set when an inspection was last done](https://www.aerscheduler.com/docs/maintenance/set-when-an-inspection-was-last-done). ## Pick the tails under Applies to **Applies to** is a multi-select. If you opened the dialog from an aircraft's own Maintenance card, the tail is already fixed for you and there is nothing to pick. Adding a tail later works either way round: open that aircraft and use `Aircraft → the tail → Maintenance → Add` (web console), or edit the rule's list directly with **Choose aircraft** in its **…** menu under `Maintenance → Inspection rules` (web console). See [Change which aircraft an inspection covers](https://www.aerscheduler.com/docs/maintenance/change-or-stop-tracking-an-inspection). ## Only the annual and the 100-hour ground the aircraft Of the standard set, only **Annual inspection** and **100-hour inspection** carry the **Grounds the aircraft** flag. When one of those comes due, AerScheduler takes the tail off the line by itself. The rest (VOR, AD review, transponder, ELT, static system and altimeter, oil change, ELT battery) come due, show as overdue, and notify the people who need to know, but the aircraft stays bookable. You can change that on any of them afterwards under `Maintenance → Inspection rules` (web console). See [When AerScheduler grounds an aircraft by itself](https://www.aerscheduler.com/docs/maintenance/when-aerscheduler-grounds-an-aircraft). ![Aircraft detail, Maintenance](https://www.aerscheduler.com/docs/aircraft-maintenance-tab.png) ## If one of them fails to add The presets are applied one at a time rather than in a batch, so a partial failure names exactly what did not land: "Added 6. Couldn't add: Transponder check." Add the named item by hand with **Add inspections → Recurring** and you are done. ## Doing it on an iPhone The app can apply the same standard set from an aircraft's page, for that tail only. > **Careful:** The app's preset sheet has no **When was it last done?** field. Anything set up on the > phone starts counting from today at the current meter. On an aircraft that is already > partway through its interval, add the inspections from the console instead, or fix the > starting point afterwards from > `Maintenance → Set up → the rule → edit which aircraft` (mobile app). ## Common questions **Can AerScheduler remind us when an aircraft's registration expires?** Yes. Registration renewal, under Also common in the standard set, tracks the 7-year expiry of a US registration (14 CFR 47.40) as 84 calendar months from the issue date on the certificate, warned 180, 60 and 30 days out, to the owners of a customer aircraft too. It does not ground the aircraft unless you turn that on.