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Leon contains more then 8000 airports worldwide in its database, including various information about each one of them: general information, FBOs, handling agents, hotels, catering or car rentals.
The system is connected with AC-U-KWIK - one of the biggest databases dedicated to business aviation flight planning purposes (http://www.acukwik.com). The data is being updated automatically every 21 days.
It is also possible to introduce uncommon landing places to Leon, such as helipads (please contact support@leonsoftware.com).
Click on the icon on the manu bar to get a pop-up window where you can search for a particular airport or airports per country.
If you type airport ICAO, IATA or FAA code (for USA airports) in the field 'Search for airport' you will see airport details (see a screenshot on the right).
In the main screen a column Info shows an information regarding PPR (Port Permission Required) and/or SC (Slot Co-ordinated). A column Required shows an information if either an airport brief or a training is required.
Majority of the information displayed is imported from Acukwik. Some fields can not be edited, although Leon Support Team can make changes if required (contact support@leonsoftware.com).
The editable fields are those framed - you can change or add information there which will appear in blue and an icon will show next to the changed item.
Leon marks airport category (apart from cat 'A' which is not marked) by highlighting the airport code with colours:
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You are able to edit and change details in the framed fields like i.e. 'Website', 'Tower Phone', etc…
If manually added information should remain private, you should click on the icon that shows up between a field with the information and the name of the field.
If you hover the mouse over it you will see a message Click to make this field private which means that no-one apart from you can see added information. If you go for private option the icon will turn to . You can always undo that action by clicking on this icon again.
When editing Control Tower Hours field you can choose the timezone for opening hours between Local Time (LT) and UTC (Z). The zone highlighted blue is the zone that applies to Opening Hours.
Leon will not recalculate the times in Control Tower Hours automatically. Airport opening times will be checked when adding a flight based on the information in this section.
In the Control Tower Hours window you can see 3 columns, as presented in the screenshot:
As you can see in the screenshot, there are two input formats in Control Towe Hours that you can use:
Sunset/Sunrise format allows to input Control Tower Hours based on time (in hours-h or minutes-m) before/after Sunset or Sunrise.
For example if an airport opens 30 minutes after sunrise and closes 2 hours before Sunset, its opening time in Control Tower Hours field would be SR+30m and its closing time - SS-2h. Example of input in screenshot below
When the flight is scheduled to take off or land outside permitted hours the following message will display: Departure (Destination) airport is closed at the time of departure (arrival)
It is possible now to set the approval date of the handling agents or FBOs in Leon. Leon will send an email notification at 00:00 every day to the inserted email address, if the expiry date has passed. You can add an email address (or more than one divided by a comma) in the General Settings section.
In the section Handling/FBO, in the top-right corner of the pop-up window you can find the information: Not approved (click here to approve).
If you click on the active icon a calendar shows up - by selecting a day of the month you set an approval date. Once the date is selected the information Approved until (date) appears.
Leon allows to define default 2 alternate airports which will automatically show in a section OPS, tab FLIGHT.
Click a tab General and type Default ALTN1 airport's name or a code, then do the same for Default ALTN2 (not mandatory).
Once ALTN airports are defined Leon will show them in a section OPS, in brackets (you need to macr a checkbox 'ALTN' in the left-hand filter, tab 'SHOW' to get columns ALTN & ALTN2 displayed) and also in a tab FLIGHT (see the screenshot on the right).
Edit the airport data in 'Airport Directory' and click on the tab Brief / Training to mark if the Airport briefing, Online training or Training is required.
You can also set the expiry date (or prolong it) and upload a pdf file.
Airport briefs provide additional information such as:
If you want to add an 'Airport brief' to Leon, mark the checkbox Airport brief available and if necessary set the expiry date and upload a file.
To choose the expiry date of Airport Brief you need to:
If required, you can add Online Familiarization for a crew member in 2 ways:
In a section TABLE Leon highlights crew codes in when option 1 is added. Hover the mouse over the code to get a pop-up window with an information (see below).
In a section OPS an airport with marked 'Online Familiarization' is framed - when you hover the mouse over the code you will see a notice “Airport recency required”, “Online familiarization required”.
You can also add an information to Leon if a particular crew member needs a Airport Recency (either on the aircraft or simulator).
Just like with 'Online Familiarization' - you can add a Airport Recency either from 'Airport Directory' by marking a checkbox Airport Recency or from Personal Endorsements, tab Airport Recency.
If you are a Flight Support Company which deals with aircraft chartering, aviation services, consulting, etc. and you want changes in Airport Directory sections: Brief/Training or Category to be applied also to operators using your 'Airport Directory', you can simply mark a checkbox Apply changes to all operators using (name of your operator) Airport Directory.
In other words - if you change i.e. Airport Category in you Airport Directory for airport LTN from A to B and that checkbox is marked - all operators you deal with will be affected with this change.
To add a new Handling Agent/FBO to an airport in Airport Directory, you have to go to Handling/FBO tab and click on Add new button. This will open Add new handler field where you can input the details of the new handling agent.
Fields “Name” and “Email” are mandatory. If Name field is empty, Leon will not save the handler. If Email field is empty while trying to save the handler, Leon will display error message that says: Error: Email field cannot be empty.
Once the mandatory fields are filled in, you can click on one of the buttons located at the bottom of the page: ✔ will save the listing, ✘ will cancel it.
Saved Handling Agent will show at the bottom of the list and the listing will have a different background.
It is also possible to delete personal Handling Agent/FBO. In order to do it you have to click on a handler you would like to remove and press Delete button. This gives 2 options, why the handler is being deleted: