Grade a lesson when you close out the flight
The intended path. Close out the booking as usual, then grade and sign the lesson in the Training record section. Flight and ground hours are already filled in from the Hobbs and the briefing time.
For instructors and admins
This is the intended path. Close the booking out the way you always do, then scroll to the Training record section on the close-out sheet, click Grade this lesson, check the lesson and the grade, and click Sign lesson. Flight and Ground are already filled in from the Hobbs delta and the briefing time.
Close out the flight as usual#
Nothing about training changes the close-out. Enter the Hobbs readings and the briefing time exactly as you would on a rental. See Close out a flight and bill it.
If the student is enrolled on a course, you will already have seen a grey Next up strip on the booking form when the flight was made, naming the lesson the syllabus suggests and how far through they are. Nothing is committed there: you pick and grade the lesson at close-out, once you know how it went.
Find the Training record section#
Scroll down the close-out sheet. There is one block per student per enrollment, headed with the course name and the lesson the syllabus suggests next.
Check the lesson, the grade and the hours#
Click Grade this lesson
Check the Lesson dropdown
The first unfinished lesson is preselected. Lessons that have already been flown are prefixed with a tick. Change it if you flew something else.
Set the Grade
The dropdown here offers S, U and I.
Check Flight and Ground
Flight is prefilled from the Hobbs delta and Ground from the briefing time. Both are editable, so trim them if the numbers on the sheet are not the numbers you taught.
Type Notes
What the student did, and what to work on. This is what an inspector reads.
Sign the lesson#
Click Sign lesson. In one action the record is saved, signed, frozen, linked to this booking, and its hours fan out into a ledger credit for every requirement the lesson credits. The section then reads "<Lesson> signed and credited to <Course>."
The student's countersignature is a separate step they do themselves from WebMy training. The record sits at Awaiting student until they do, with its hours already counted.
Two students on one booking#
Every student on the booking gets their own block, with their own lesson, grade, hours and notes. Two students in one aircraft are graded separately, and each signature credits only that student's record.
When the section does not appear at all#
The Training record section is hidden unless all of this is true:
- the booking type is dual, ground, sim or solo
- at least one student is on the booking
- that student is enrolled on a course
- the course has a lesson whose type matches the booking (dual and solo offer flight lessons, ground offers ground lessons, sim offers sim lessons)
- you are staff, or one of the instructors assigned to that booking
A rental, a guest flight or a maintenance booking shows no trace of it rather than guessing. So does a dual flight for somebody who is on no course. If you expected the section and it is not there, work down that list: the usual answer is that the student was never enrolled, or the booking was made as a rental.
What close-out grading cannot do#
| Not here | Where instead |
|---|---|
| A simulator hours field. Device time typed into Flight is credited as aircraft time, so the course's simulator ceiling never applies to it. | Grade sim lessons on the iPhone app, which has a SIM field on a simulator lesson. |
| Per-task grades against your ACS codes. | The iPhone app. |
| Save as a draft. The close-out signs in one action. | Grade from the student's training record, which has Save draft. |
| Grades other than S, U and I. A course with its own scale has its signature refused here. | Set the grading scale explains the trade. |
Under Part 141, grading out of syllabus order shows a warning and does not stop the signature.
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