Flight type aircraft restriction
September 2026 · Flights & Fleet
A flight type can now be tied to the aircraft it actually belongs on. A simulator type on the simulators, a multi-engine type on the twins, a tow type on the tug — instead of every flight type being offered on every aircraft in the fleet.
The same release moves the flight type form out of its pop-up and onto its own page.
Why we built it
Flight types drive logbook credit, scheduling and crew requirements, but until now they had nothing to say about metal. A school with two simulators, four singles and a twin offered all of its types on all of its aircraft, and the only thing stopping ME being logged on a Katana was somebody noticing. The mismatch surfaced late — in a logbook, a report, or an audit — rather than at the moment of choosing.
How it works
Open Flights → Flight types and edit a type. The new Aircraft card has one switch and a list.
Switch off (the default). No aircraft attached — the type can be flown with any aircraft in your fleet. Every flight type you already have is in this state and stays there; nothing changed for them.
Switch on, aircraft ticked. The type can only be flown with the aircraft you ticked.
An empty list is "no restriction", never "no aircraft allowed" — the same convention pilot attributions already use. Two details that follow from it:
Ticking every aircraft is not the same as ticking none. The full fleet ticked is still a closed list, so an aircraft bought next year will not be able to fly that type until someone adds it. If you mean "anything", leave the switch off.
Parking an aircraft keeps it on the list. Marking an aircraft inactive does not quietly widen a restriction; the link waits for it to come back.
Restricted aircraft show as green tags under the type in the flight types list, so the fleet mapping is readable without opening every type.
Or set it from the aircraft
The aircraft edit page gained a matching Flight types card, so you can approach it from whichever end is quicker — one type across two simulators, or one newly delivered aircraft across the three types it may fly.
It is one relationship seen from two sides, so a change in either place shows up in the other. The empty state keeps the flight type's meaning rather than the aircraft's: an aircraft with nothing ticked is not grounded — it flies every flight type that has no aircraft attributed at all, which is the normal state for most of a fleet.
The flight type form is now a page
Creating or editing a flight type used to open a pop-up. It now opens as a full page, with each group of settings on its own card — basic information, pilot time classification, default flight condition, aircraft, required certificates, visibility.
Practically: more room as flight types keep gaining settings, a link you can send someone, and a browser back button that behaves.
Where you'll see it
Flight form. With a restricted type chosen, aircraft outside its list are greyed out in the picker. If the aircraft was picked first, or an older flight predates the restriction, a warning under the aircraft field names the allowed ones — "ME can only be flown with FL-YLS, FL-DHG, FL-INS, FL-YME".
Schedule Manager. A booking whose aircraft is not on the type's list shows a caution in the booking form.
Auto Pilot. Never proposes a mission on an aircraft its flight type is not allowed on — no simulator sessions on real aircraft, no flight lessons on a simulator.
None of these block a save: a flight logged after the fact may legitimately predate the restriction, so we would rather flag it than refuse it. If your operation wants it to refuse, tell us.
See Flight Types → Aircraft for the full reference.
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