Ramp out and ramp in a flight
Ramp out records the departure Hobbs and tach and takes the aircraft off the line. Ramp in records the return readings, puts it back, and moves the booking to Awaiting review. These two steps are what turn a plan into a billable flight.
For owners, admins, dispatchers, instructors, students and renters
Open the booking and use the Dispatch section. Ramp out records the departure Hobbs and tach and takes the aircraft off the line. Ramp in records the return readings, puts the aircraft back, and moves the booking to Awaiting review. These two steps are what turn a plan into a billable flight.
Staff can ramp any booking. Everybody else can ramp the bookings they are on, and the maintenance they scheduled themselves.
Ramp out#
Open the booking
The section headed Dispatch carries a Not started badge.
Press Ramp out
Both readings are already filled in from the aircraft's current Hobbs and tach.
Confirm or correct the readings
Both are required. Readings carry one decimal place, for example 1014.2.
Press Ramp out
The badge becomes In flight, the aircraft is marked off the line, and a Ramped out line with both readings is written to the booking's timeline.
Ramp out is refused if the aircraft is already out on another booking, if the aircraft is grounded (maintenance is the exception), or if somebody on the booking is grounded.
Ramp in#
Open the booking when the aircraft is back
The section now asks for the ending readings.
Press Ramp in
Hobbs and tach are pre-filled from the recorded out readings.
Type the ending readings
Hours flown is worked out and shown live as you type, so a mistyped digit is obvious before you save.
Press Ramp in
The aircraft goes back on the line and the badge becomes Awaiting review.
Ending readings below the recorded out readings are refused. The difference between out and in is what the flight is billed on, so a reading that runs backwards would produce a negative flight.
Instruction time on a dual#
The ramp in modal offers Instruction time (hrs). On a flight it is optional extra detail, billed at the instructor rate.
On a booking with no aircraft it is the only figure recorded, and it is required. The help text under the field changes to match. See Close out a ground lesson.
What locks once the aircraft is out#
From the moment a booking ramps out, its start time, its aircraft and its crew are frozen. They are part of the flight record now.
The Edit reservation button disappears from the web console entirely at that point. The one thing you can still change is when the aircraft is due back, by dragging the trailing edge of the block on the board. Hovering the block says so.
The overnight minimum notice#
If the booking spanned nights and your school charges a minimum per night away, the ramp in modal says so live, before you save, in plain numbers: how many nights, what the minimum is, and what the flight will bill instead of what was flown.
It is repeated at every close-out step until the invoice exists, because the person ramping the aircraft back in is often not the person who booked it. See Book a trip that keeps the aircraft overnight.
A booking with no meters#
Nothing ramps in a classroom. A Ground booking, or any booking with no aircraft, never sees these two steps. Its button reads Review times, it asks for instruction time only, and it goes straight from Not started to Awaiting review in one press.
This keys off the reservation type first, so a ground lesson booked sitting in an aeroplane still behaves that way.
If you entered the wrong reading#
Open the booking and choose Correct times, on the reservation panel in the console or Update Details in the app. On a booking with no meters the console calls it Correct instruction time.
You can only correct the figures the booking already has. A flight ramped in on Hobbs alone offers Hobbs and nothing else, and a ground lesson offers its instruction time. This is a correction, not a way to record a flight nobody ramped, so it opens once the aircraft is back and not before.
Next: Sign off a flight with your PIN, which is what actually produces the invoice.
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