# Check your currencies and fix one that blocks booking

> Your Currencies page shows medicals, flight reviews, and checkouts. Anything not current can stop you booking an aircraft, including one that has simply never been signed off.

Source: https://www.aerscheduler.com/docs/scheduling/check-your-currency-status
Section: Scheduling and dispatch. For: Students, Renters, Instructors.

Open `You → Currencies` (web console). Anything that is not current can stop you
being booked on an aircraft, including a currency that has never expired because it has never
been signed off.

**Who can do this:** Students, Renters, Instructors

## Open your currencies

`You → Currencies` (web console), or Currencies in the iOS app. The page is
headed with medicals, flight reviews and checkouts, and it shows four counts across the top:

- **Current**
- **Expiring soon**
- **Expired**
- **Not signed off**

Below the counts is one card per currency, worst first, each with the currency name, a status
badge, and either an expiry date or "Awaiting sign-off".

![Your currencies](https://www.aerscheduler.com/docs/me-currencies.png)

The page is read-only for you. Your school records and signs off what is on it.

## What each status means

| Status         | What it means                                     | Can you be booked on an aircraft? |
| -------------- | ------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------- |
| Current        | Signed off, in date                               | Yes                               |
| Expiring soon  | Still valid, but the date is close                | Yes, for now                      |
| Expired        | The date has passed                               | No                                |
| Not signed off | Nothing has expired. Nobody has signed it off yet | No                                |

A currency counts as current only when all three are true: it is in date, it has not been
archived, and somebody at the school has signed it off.

## Not signed off is not the same as expired

This is the one that generates the phone call. A currency sitting at "Not signed off" has no
expiry problem at all. It has simply never been countersigned by the school, and until it is,
it counts as not current and blocks aircraft bookings exactly like an expired one does.

It is common on a brand new member: the school set the currency type up, the paperwork is in,
and nobody has ticked it off yet.

> **Tip:** If a booking is being refused and everything on this page looks in date, check the Not signed
> off count before you go any further. It is the usual answer.

## How a currency blocks a booking

Currencies are checked when the booking is created. This is always on whenever your school
has currency rules for that aircraft. A booking that names somebody who is not current for
that aircraft is refused, and the refusal names the person: "Jamie Smith does not meet
currency requirements."

The check is per resource, because a school can require different things for different tails,
for example a checkout on the complex single that the trainer does not need.

A currency rule is scoped to a group of resources, and a group can hold rooms and simulators
as well as aircraft. So a rule scoped to a group that includes the simulator or the classroom
blocks a sim session or a ground lesson the same way it blocks a flight.

## Flying with a current instructor

Some currency rules allow the flight to go ahead when a current instructor is on the booking.
If yours is one of those, adding an instructor to the booking makes the refusal disappear.

The screen does not explain that this is what happened, so it can look as though the block was
imaginary. It was not: the rule allowed the flight because an instructor is aboard, and it
assumes that instructor is pilot in command. Booking the same aircraft solo again will be
refused again.

## How to get one renewed or signed off

You cannot clear a currency yourself, and there is no button on this page to try. Send your
school the new medical, the endorsement, or the checkout paperwork, and ask them to record it
and sign it off. Once they do, the count drops and booking works again straight away.

## Related

- [Why was my booking refused?](https://www.aerscheduler.com/docs/scheduling/why-was-my-booking-refused): Every refusal message on the booking form, including this one.
- [Book your own flight or lesson](https://www.aerscheduler.com/docs/scheduling/book-a-solo-flight): The booking form these checks run against.