Choose how much AerScheduler does about Airworthiness Directives
Four choices, and nothing is on by default. Do nothing about ADs, track them here yourself, have AerScheduler watch newly published ADs for ones naming your fleet, or say that applicability is tracked in another system such as ADlog or AVTRAK. Also explains what a serial number buys you and why we never decide that an AD does not apply.
For owners and admins
Nothing about Airworthiness Directives is on by default. WebSettings → Airworthiness Directives has four choices: do nothing, track them here yourself, tell us they are tracked somewhere else, and a fourth that is not built yet. The same page shows what we could actually match for each of your aeroplanes.
Why this is a choice and not a feature#
Plenty of schools use AerScheduler for oil changes, annuals and the 100-hour, and have no interest in us being involved in Airworthiness Directives. Plenty of others already pay for ADlog, AVTRAK or a Tdata subscription and have a mechanic who owns the whole question.
Turning a catalogue on for those schools would not be a helpful default. It would be several hundred candidate directives nobody asked for, attached to a subject where a flood of alerts teaches people to stop reading alerts.
So it is off, and it stays off until somebody chooses otherwise.
The four choices#
Not here
We do nothing about ADs. Maintenance works exactly as it does now.
You can still set an inspection's Where this comes from to Airworthiness Directive if you want the badge and the permanent compliance record. That is recordkeeping and it costs nothing. Nothing is proposed, nothing is watched, nobody is notified.
I track them here
You enter the ADs, we keep the records. The AD badge, the permanent compliance record, the Compliance log and the Airworthiness compliance report.
We still do not tell you which ADs apply. You add the ones your IA or your AD subscription identifies.
Watch for new ones (not available yet)
This is not built. The option is on the page so you can see where we are going, and it cannot be selected.
When it exists, it will read newly published Airworthiness Directives and flag the ones naming your make, model or serial number, and somebody at your school will decide for each one whether it applies to a given aeroplane. That decision will be recorded against a name and a certificate, and it will be permanent.
Until then, nothing in AerScheduler watches for new Airworthiness Directives. Whatever you use today to find out that one has been issued, keep using it.
Somewhere else
Applicability is tracked in another system. Name it, and we propose nothing and watch nothing.
The name is printed on any AD document we produce, so a reader knows where the authoritative list lives rather than assuming it is ours.
What a serial number buys you#
An AD names the aircraft it applies to by make and model, and usually by a serial number range: "Model PC-12/47E airplanes, manufacturer serial numbers 2001 through 2999". Two 172s parked next to each other are frequently not both affected.
The same settings page shows, per aeroplane, how precisely we could match:
- By serial. We can check the range an AD names and tell whether your aeroplane falls inside it.
- By model only. We can tell that an AD mentions your make and model, but not whether your particular aircraft is in the affected range. You will be shown more candidates than actually apply, and somebody has to read them.
- Not enough detail. We do not know the make or model, so we cannot propose anything.
Adding a serial number is the single thing that improves this. It is on the data plate, and it is on the aircraft's registration.
Who can change this#
Owners and admins. Not an office manager with the settings grant, and not a technician.
Turning the catalogue on changes what every technician at the school is asked to review, which makes it a decision about how the school runs rather than a preference.
Changing your mind#
Switching modes never deletes anything. Compliance records are permanent regardless, so a school that turns the catalogue off keeps every record it has already signed, and a school that switches to Somewhere else keeps its history and simply stops being offered new candidates.
Related#
Still stuck on this?
Email support@aerscheduler.com and tell us what you were trying to do. We answer.