Monitoring Deadlines

Skylog can monitor the time limits of your licences, ratings, the 90 day passenger rule, the medical, and language proficiencies. The results are displayed in the time limits charts view.


The view looks for the selection in the flight log view or the person view (the latter only if a pilot is selected). If the selection becomes invalid, because either the selection is cleared or the selected person is not a pilot, the time limits view remembers its person and does not change. The selected pilot is shown in the view in the chart's headline, see pictures above. If no pilot is selected initially the charts are empty in the new view.

The reaction to the selection in the person view can be configured in the preferences.

ATTENTION: The check flights are computed based on the heuristics that any flight with a flight instructor is a check flight. This is not generally true. Possibly the property of being a check flight is added to a flight later.

Skylog can warn if licences, class ratings, or the medical are about to expire. To enable this feature check the option to warn about deadlines. You can also configure the period of time a warning is issued before the date of expiration.

Unlimited licences are not shown, e.g. EASA PPL(A) or FAA PPL(A). For this licences only ratings and language proficiencies are drawn.

An EASA LAPL(A) does not expire. For this licence a rating is shown. The rating's label indices whether the rating may be exercised.

Licences

The validity of licences is depicted as bar in a Gantt chart. The exercisability time interval is shown by the green line inside the bar. The yellow line is the time interval where this licence cannot be exercised wrt. to the fact known today. The bar is labelled with the no. of days the licence is exercisable. The label is shown only if the preference setting “Show labels above items in the validity Gantt chart” is active. When the mouse pointer hovers above the bar additional information is displayed in a tool tip: Dates of validity and criteria necessary to restore the exercisability of the licence.

Ratings

The validity of the ratings are shown as bars in the Gantt chart (together with licences, etc). The yellow line inside the bar represents the time interval to satisfy the criteria to revalidate the rating. If the preference setting “Show labels above items in the validity Gantt chart” is active, a label above the bar displays the no. of days the rating is still valid. Information about the revalidation is shown in the tool tip (satisfied or missing criteria). For an unlimited ratint the inner bar is green if the rating can be exercised, otherwise it is yellow. Label and tool tip indicate how long the rating may be exercised resp. which criteria must be fulfilled in order to exercise the rating..

For the instructor rating the yellow line marks the shorter renewal period. If the preferences for labelling the bar is active, the time to the shorter renewal period is shown. The picture below shows an example.


You can select the ratings to display using the filter, click . The filter is used for the passenger rule view and this view. An empty filter is equivalent to a filter with all elements selected.

The remark at the end of this page is important for helicopter pilots!

90 day passenger rule

The 90 day passenger rule tab either uses the class ratings registered in the pilot's licences or the ratings needed to fly the entered flights if no licences have been entered.

For each rating the view shows the class and how long the rating is still valid.

If the pilot holds a licence containing a night rating, the passenger rule is evaluated also for the night rating. It is not evaluated in which licence the night rating is contained. The JAR FCL rule 1.026(b) is used: The rule must satisfied for the day and one take-off and landing by night is required. This is also German law by now.

We cannot check, if the take-off has been by night; only the used rating is evaluated.

Currently only class ratings, NVFR and aerobatics are shown. Aerobatics is evaluated according to German law: LuftPersV §122(1,4): 50 aerobatics flights are needed after the test for the rating, 3 aerobatics flights in the last 90 days and the passenger rule is satisfied for the class of a/c. The number of aerobatic flights after the examination is shown as tooltip for the gauge. (The tool tip is not visible in the new view if the passenger rule is not satisfied; but there is an extra tab for the details of the aerobatic passenger rule. It is visible if the preference setting “Show details of passenger rule for aerobatics” is active.)

You can select the ratings to display using the filter, click . The filter is used for the ratings view and this view. An empty filter is equivalent to a filter with all elements selected.

Medical

The view displays the validity of the medical in the Gantt chart together with licences and ratings. The yellow line indicated the period of time to renew the medical. This is also the time to warn about the expiration (see above).

Periods of validity, extension and exercisability criteria

In the following table the periods of validity and the criteria are summarized. The data is taken from the German text book about aviation law „Der Privatflugzeugführer, Band 5, Luftrecht“ written by Wolfgang Kühr, published October 2003. This is my interpretation of the book's contents, this may be wrong!

Licence

class rating

validity

Extension

Exercisability

PPL(A), PPL(N), PPL(H)


60 month


for the resp. licence:
12h on SEP, TMG or UL in the previous 24 month, 6h of them as PIC, 12 take-offs and landings and a check flight of at least 1h

FAA PPL(A)

EASA PPL(A)


unlimited




SEP

24 month

an examination flight or at least 12 month before the rating expires 12h of flight, 6h of them as PIC, 12 take-offs and landings and a check flight of at least 1h

analogous to the extension but 24 month in the past


TMG

24 month

analogous to SEP bit the check flight can be substituted by any other check flight for another class rating

like SEP

EASA LAPL(A)

SEP(land) and TMG

unlimited


12h on SEP or TMG as PIC in the previous 24 month, 12 take-offs and landings and a check flight of at least 1h


SET

24 month

an examination flight at most 3 month before the rating expires



MET, MEP

12 month

an examination flight at most 3 month before the rating expires


PPL(UL)


unlimited


12h flight in the previous 24 month, 6h of them as PIC, 12 take-offs and landings and a check flight of at least 1h

Glider pilot licence (GPL)


unlimited


25 take-offs in the previous 24 month, of them 5 for each launch method



The renewal criteria for the instructor rating are set in the preferences. The table below shows the options available.

FAA instructor ratings are not implemented in Skylog for now.


Option

Description

Default

No. of days for the longer renewal time period

Two time periods are relevant for the renewal of the instructor rating: The longer period is currently as long as the validity of the rating (3 years). For this period and the shorter period certain criteria must be fulfilled.

See JAR FCL 1.315 resp. 1.355

1096

3 years = 1096 days (assume one leap year)

No. of days for the shorter renewal time period

Currently the shorter time period for the renewal lasts one year.

See JAR FCL 1.355

365

Flight time needed for the longer period (hrs)

See above, wrt. JAR FCL 1.355 currently 50 hours in Germany

50

Flight time needed for the shorter period (hrs)

See above, wrt. JAR FCL 1.355 currently 15 hours in Ge

15

No. of flight tasks to issue in the renewal time period

Currently mot demanded by JAR or EASA FCL

The option can be used to measure the no. of flight tasks issued required to remove the restriction from a restricted permission FI(A) (rp)

This criterion is wrt. the longer time interval if the option below is not set

0

Hrs. of flight required to be proved for the flight tasks in the renewal time period

Currently mot demanded by JAR FCL

The criterion refers to the no. of hours a flight student flies solo to execute a flight tasks issued by the instructor

This criterion is wrt. the longer time interval if the option below is not set

0

Flight tasks criterion is wrt. the shorter time period

The two option above are wrt to the longer time period if this option is not set

False (i.e. Unset, i.e. wrt. to the longer time period)

An examination is always needed for the renewal

Wrt. to JAR FCL is an examination required only if the criteria above are not satisfied or the further training course has not been proved

false



For JAR FCL PPL(H) licences the type rating is more important than the class rating:

Licence

type rating

validity

Extension

Exercisability


Helicopter type

12 month

an examination flight or at least 3 month before the rating expires 2h of flight as PIC and a check flight of at least 1h



Type ratings are not implemented in Skylog for now. Therefore a helicopter pilot cannot determine from the times view whether he or she can execute a planned flight!