Aircraft view

The aircraft view allows registering and modifying aircraft. The following illustration shows the view.


The view is sorted by registration by default. This can be changed using the view's menu to sort by aircraft type. Another menu items optimizes the column widths of this view. Every menu item is reachable by the view's menu as well as by the context menu.

The register an aircraft open the wizard using the resp. menu item. The command can also be given using the following tool bar button: . The new aircraft wizard lets you enter all the attributes visible in the table's columns and the aircraft class, which is used to determine the class rating necessary to fly the aircraft.

Double clicking an aircraft, executing the resp. menu item or clicking the tool bar button opens the wizard to edit an aircraft. However, the registration cannot be changed.

Deleting an aircraft is only possible if the aircraft is not used by a flight. If you try to delete such an aircraft, error messages are issued describing the flights and giving the flight logs of the flights using that aircraft. The aircraft is not deleted in this case. If the aircraft is not used by if it is the default aircraft of some person only a warning is issued; the aircraft is deleted and the default is empty afterwards.

Use the filter action to select the aircraft which should be displayed in the aircraft view. This way you can hide for example aircraft you did charter only once. The filter only has effect for this view. The selection of aircraft in other dialogues which are not visible in the aircraft view is still possible. Selecting no aircraft disables the filter. Please note if the filter is active and a new aircraft is entered it will not be visible in the aircraft view!

Using the selection in different views or wizards

The aircraft selection may be used when recording a new flight. Dragging an aircraft and dropping it into the flights view opens the wizard to record a new flight and sets the dropped aircraft.