Flight types

Classify your operations and control how each flight logs time, pre-fills, and checks crew

Flight types classify every flight by purpose (Training, Ferry, Rental, OPC…) and drive a surprising amount of the system: how logbook time is credited to each crew member, what the flight form pre-fills, whether a slot can be booked, and which certificates the crew must hold. Getting them right once means the rest of Flylogs behaves correctly for every flight of that kind.

Each flight type belongs to your company. A starter set is created automatically when you sign up (tailored to your operation — school, commercial, special operations), and you can add, edit, reorder or remove them at any time.

Where to configure

Company Settings → Flight Types. Click New flight type to add one, or a row to edit it. Drag rows by the handle to change their order.

Options

Name

A short label shown wherever the flight type appears (flight form, schedule, logbook, reports). Keep it brief — it's rendered as a compact badge.

Color

A colour used for the flight type's badge on the calendar, schedule and lists, so different operations are easy to tell apart at a glance. Pick one manually or let Flylogs derive it from the name.

Description

Optional free text to remind managers what the type is for. Shown under the name in the flight types list.

Pilot time classification

The most important setting. For each of the three seats — PIC, SIC and Supervisor — you choose how the time flown on this flight type is credited to that person's logbook:

Value	Credits
PIC	Pilot in Command time
PICUS	Counts toward the pilot's PIC total; also reported separately
SIC	Second in Command time — only credited on multi-pilot aircraft
FI	Counts toward PIC and FI totals; also reported separately
Dual	Dual instruction received
CRI / IRI / TRI / FIFI / SFI / EXA	Instructor & examiner roles — count toward PIC and FI totals; each also reported separately
Supervisor	Reported separately only — not rolled into PIC or FI
None	Time is not logged for that seat

So a Training type is typically PIC = FI (the instructor logs PIC + FI time) and SIC = Dual (the student logs dual received); a Rental type is PIC = PIC, SIC = None.

Multi-pilot only: SIC time is credited only when the aircraft is marked multi-pilot. On single-pilot aircraft a seat set to SIC logs no time. (This preserves the behaviour of the retired Copilot classification.)

Default flight condition

Optionally set VFR or IFR as the type's default. When a crew member picks this flight type on the flight form, the flight's Rules field is pre-filled with that value (you can still change it per flight). Leave it empty for no default.

Visible on scheduling

A toggle that controls whether the flight type appears in the self-booking / scheduling flight-type picker. Turn it off for types that should only be used when logging a flight after the fact (e.g. Test or Ferry), and on for the everyday operations crew book themselves onto.

Order

The position of the type in every flight-type list. Drag rows in the flight types page to set it — put your most-used types at the top.

Required certificates

Define, per seat (PIC / SIC / Supervisor), which certificates a crew member must hold to occupy that seat on this flight type — for example a licence, Class 1 medical and single-engine rating for the PIC, but only a medical for a student SIC. The three seats are independent, and a seat with no requirements imposes none. See Document & Certificate Requirements for how these are checked across the app.

How flight types affect the rest of Flylogs

Flights

• Classification & reports. Every flight carries a flight type; it's how flights are grouped and filtered in logbooks, exports and statistics.

• Logbook time. The PIC / SIC / Supervisor classifications above decide exactly what time each crew member's logbook receives — and how it rolls up into their PIC / FI totals.

• Rules pre-fill. Choosing the type on the flight form sets the flight's VFR/IFR rules from the type's default flight condition.

• Crew documentation. Under each selected PIC/SIC on the flight form, a badge names any required certificate that person is missing or expired for that flight type.

Schedules, dispatch & booking

• Booking picker. Only types with Visible on scheduling enabled can be chosen when booking a slot.

• Crew compliance. When a manager assigns crew in the schedule editor, each crew card shows Docs OK or lists exactly which required certificates are missing/expired for that seat, and can block the save. The pre-flight dispatch briefing shows the same per-seat checklist. In self-booking, a flyer who doesn't meet the type's requirements is always warned, and is stopped from booking only when Require pilot documentation is on and Allow self-booking without valid documents is off. Validity is evaluated for the scheduled time, so a certificate that expires before the flight ends is flagged.

Trainings

Training missions reference flight types, tying a syllabus exercise to the flight type (and therefore the time classification) used to fly it.

Logbooks & reports

Because the time classification is set on the flight type, pilot totals, currency and statistics all derive from it — change a type's classification and future flights of that type log accordingly (past flights are unaffected).

Deleting a flight type

Deleting is a soft delete: the type is hidden from new flights and schedules but existing flights that already reference it keep their classification and history. The delete dialog tells you how many flights currently use the type before you confirm.