# See every aircraft's ADs, and search the AD library

> Maintenance has two AD views. Fleet ADs lists every aircraft's Airworthiness Directives in one list, grouped by aircraft or by status, and you decide them right there. The AD library searches every AD published since 1995 by number, maker, model or any word, and shows which of your aircraft each one names.

Source: https://www.aerscheduler.com/docs/maintenance/airworthiness-directives-across-the-fleet
Section: Maintenance and squawks. For: Owners, Admins, Technicians.

Under `Maintenance` (web console), **Fleet ADs** lists every aircraft's Airworthiness
Directives in one list, and the **AD library** searches every AD the Federal Register has
published since 1995. Decide an AD from the fleet list exactly as you would on the aircraft:
it is the same decision, kept with who made it and when.

**Who can do this:** Owners, Admins, Technicians

## Fleet ADs

With **Find them for me** chosen under `Settings → Airworthiness Directives` (web console), **Fleet ADs** shows the ADs that name each aircraft's airframe, engine or
propeller, the same list each aircraft's **ADs** tab shows, for the whole fleet at once. A shop's
customer aircraft are included.

Use **Group by** to switch between two ways of reading it:

- **Aircraft**: each aircraft, then its ADs under **To review**, **Applies** and **Not
  applicable**. Answers "what does this aircraft still need decided?"
- **Status**: each AD once, with the aircraft it names beneath it. Answers "which of our
  aircraft does this AD touch?"

Choose a row to read the AD beside the list. The **…** on a row, or **Decide** at the foot of
the AD, marks it **Applies** (track it as an inspection, or nothing to track) or **Not
applicable** with a reason, or sends it **Back to review**. See [Review the ADs for an
aircraft](https://www.aerscheduler.com/docs/maintenance/review-the-ads-for-an-aircraft) for what each answer means.

The search box searches AD numbers, titles, makers, subjects and tail numbers, and the
**Aircraft** filter narrows the list to the tails you pick.

On Home, **ADs to review** under **Needs you** counts the ADs nobody has decided yet. In the app
it opens them grouped by aircraft; tap one to read it and decide.

## The AD status report

`Reports → AD status` (web console) lists every AD the library holds against each
aircraft with its status: **Applies** and the inspection tracking it, **Not applicable** and
why, or **To review**, with who decided and when. For an AD tracked as an inspection it adds
whether it recurs or is one-time, when it was last done and the method of compliance written on
that sign-off, and when it is next due (a date, or a meter reading for an hour interval). Group it by aircraft, status or AD, and
export it for an inspector. It covers what the library reaches: ADs published since 1995 that
name the aircraft's make and model, engine or propeller. Keep the ADs it cannot reach (older
ones, or ones against parts the aircraft record does not name) tracked by hand.

## On a work order

On a job, **Add → ADs to review** puts the aircraft's ADs on it as findings, so AD research is
part of the annual. It adds one item for each AD nobody has decided yet, and one for each AD
inspection that is overdue or due soon. Pressing it again adds only what is new.

An AD item reads **Decide AD …**: that opens the AD on the aircraft, and deciding it there
marks the item done. AD items are the shop's own research, so they are never sent to the owner
or counted among the findings waiting for an answer. An AD inspection item is done when the
inspection is signed off, like any other.

## The AD library

**AD library** lists every AD published since 1995, newest first, and checks for new ones daily.
Type in the search box to find:

- **An AD by number**, whole or by its start: `2013-11-11`, or `2013-11` for every AD in that
  issue.
- **Words anywhere in it**: a maker, a model, a part. `lycoming crankshaft` finds the ADs that
  mention both.

The **Type** filter narrows it to airplanes, engines, propellers and so on. Choose an AD to read
it laid out as the Federal Register prints it. When the organization finds ADs for you, **On your
aircraft** lists the aircraft it names and where each one stands.

## When a new AD is published

AerScheduler checks the Federal Register every day. When a new AD names one of your aircraft,
owners, admins and technicians are told by email and push, and it appears in the inbox. The
message names the AD and the aircraft, and opens that aircraft's ADs (or **Fleet ADs** when it
names more than one).

Every Monday, the same people get one email listing how many ADs are still undecided on each
aircraft, with a button to **Fleet ADs**. It comes only when something is waiting.

To stop these, turn off **New ADs for our aircraft** on `Notification settings` (web console), or **New ADs** under `Settings → Notifications` (mobile app) in the
app. They come only while the organization has **Find them for me** on.

> **Important:** An AD the library lists against an aircraft is one worth reading, not one that applies. ADs from
> before 1995 are not in the library at all.

## Related

- [Review the ADs for an aircraft](https://www.aerscheduler.com/docs/maintenance/review-the-ads-for-an-aircraft)
- [Choose how much AerScheduler does about Airworthiness Directives](https://www.aerscheduler.com/docs/maintenance/choose-how-we-handle-airworthiness-directives)
- [Track Airworthiness Directives](https://www.aerscheduler.com/docs/maintenance/track-airworthiness-directives)
