Managing maintenance and squawks

The Maintenance tab on your aircraft page is the unified workbench for everything that needs doing on the airplane: one table holding your maintenance items and your Airworthiness Directives, sorted most-urgent first. Instead of keeping inspections in one list, ADs in another, and squawks on a sticky note, you work them all from the same place.

Finding what matters with filters

The primary filter row splits the table into All / Recurring / ADs / Squawks / One-Time. Secondary filters narrow further: by due window (overdue, next 30/60/90 days, further out, or no date yet), by status, and by component scope — airframe, engine, propeller, or appliance. A common workflow before an annual is filtering to overdue-plus-90-days and walking the list with your A&P.

Hour-based countdowns are always labeled with the clock they run on — tach or Hobbs — so you know exactly which meter a number refers to. (Not sure why that distinction matters? See Tach time vs. Hobbs time.)

Reporting a squawk

A squawk is anything you noticed that isn't right — a rough mag, a soft brake, a nav light out. Squawks carry a priority (critical, high, normal, or low) and move through a simple lifecycle: Open until the work is done, then Resolved.

1. 1

   Add the squawk

   From the Maintenance tab, report the squawk with a description and a priority. Write it the way you'd brief your mechanic — specific beats vague.
2. 2

   Work it

   Open any row's detail drawer to see its full history, add context, or mark it complete. Items that don't apply to how you operate can be muted so they stop competing for attention.
3. 3

   Close it with paper

   When the work is done, upload the supporting document directly from the squawk's row — the record links to that squawk and closes it in one motion. The same works from an AD row. See Uploading documents for how parsing works.

ADs in the same table

Your aircraft's ADs appear alongside maintenance items, and the compliance tiles above the table summarize where your AD records stand at a glance. Each tile corresponds to a record state — see The five AD compliance states for what each one means. When several ADs are still missing the mechanic's certificate details, the Record A&P signoff batch action collects them so you can fill in the signoff details in one pass instead of hunting row by row.

Squawks across your whole fleet

If you have more than one aircraft, there's also a fleet-wide squawks view under Dashboard → Maintenance → Squawks — every open squawk across all your aircraft in one list, useful for deciding what gets attention first.