The CREW TIMELINE panel has been implemented for fast, legible and intuitive reading & editing of the roster. It displays all the data you need for the perfect planning of duties for the crew.
To access a new duties roster hover the mouse over a section CREW and click CREW TIMELINE.
The Legend, which explains what particular icons or indications mean, can be found by clicking the icon
Flights added in a section OPS appear in Crew Timeline as a blue belt. The line starts with the reporting time, then there is a belt (which lenght means flight's duration), then the line showing the lenght of the minimum rest.
If you click the blue belt at the bottom belt Leon will show flight's details, such as: schedule, airports codes & names, trip no, crew, quotation, who created the trip and when, tags.
If there is FTL violation Leon shows the line in red - click on the flight to get an information at the bottom with FDP & Duty details.
When the Crew is assigned to the Simulator flight in section OPS, this 'Simulator' will appear in 'Crew' part of the 'Crew Timeline'.
The Simulator will display as a purple belt and will indicate the length of the duty as well as the line suggesting the EOBT.
Clicking on the purple belt will display the simulator details in the bottom section.
All positionings added in a section OPS show in a similar way to flights. The belt shows the positioning's duration, then the line shows the lenght of the minimum rest.
Duties pre-defined in a section Duties Setup as Included in FTL calculations show as colour belts, which lenght means the duration of a particular duty time.
All duties pre-defined as Off show as belts throughout the entire day.
If split duty is used to extend the maximum Flight Duty Period (FDP), Leon will indicate such break with a blue rest bar between the two sectors of the trip.
As you can see in the example below, the break between the two sectors are marked blue to indicate where it was applied. The split duty margins will remain black/red along with the remaining part of the rest bar after the last sector.
'Weekly Rest' for this purpose is considered as 36h free of duties including two local nights in 168h period. 'Weekly Rest' is marked with 2 vertical lines and the numbers '36' in between.
The period indicated by the lines covers:
Caution: The weekly rest has a slightly different role in Leon Mobile app than in Crew Timeline. In Crew Timeline it appears at the latest time when it should be applied, while on the Crew mobile application it applies always when conditions are met. That's why indicated weekly rest may not match in both applications.
The filter in the 'Crew Timeline' section is located in the top bar and it is divided into 3 sections:
On the options-bar, right between 'TO' date-range and 'NOW' button, you can find a drop-down box where you can select preferred timezone (UTC or Base time - the Base defined in General Settings).
You can create crew rosters in draft mode by navigating to Settings and selecting the General Settings tab. Within this tab, locate the Crew Panel section and choose the Manual Publish option. Please note that after changing this setting, it may take up to 24 hours for the changes to take effect. Leon is responsible for duplicating FTL calculations for all crew members, which requires additional processing time. If the Auto Publish option is enabled, the ability to create drafts will be disabled automatically.
Once you have enabled Manual Publish, the Drafts ON/Drafts OFF toggle and the Publish buttons will become visible in both the Crew Timeline and Crew Calendar sections. By switching the toggle to Drafts ON, any changes made to the crew rosters will be saved as drafts and marked with a pink underline. These drafts will not be visible to the crew until they are manually published. Conversely, switching the toggle to Drafts OFF will disable draft mode, allowing changes to be visible to the crew immediately based on the current publish settings.
To publish drafts, make sure you have reviewed all necessary changes to the crew rosters while in draft mode. Once satisfied, click the Publish button to make these changes visible to the crew. This ensures that all roster updates are accurate and properly reviewed before being shared.
To assign crew to a flight, right-click on the flight-belt and choose option ASSIGN CREW - Leon will show available crew in separate tabs (Cockpit, Cabin, Maintenance, UAV and Other).
It is possible to select a BASE (as long as it is defined in General Settings) or filter crew by labels.
If a crew member has assigned another duty (i.e. OFF or Holiday) - Leon will show duty code in red.
Sometimes crew show on red background - hover the mouse to view details: it can be FTL violation, certificate expired or expired currency.
Already assigned crew are displayed with circled line.
It is possible to add new Crewmembers or edit existing Crewmembers directly from the “Crew Timeline”.
In order to do that you simply need to:
To replace crew, mark a flight (or flights) and right-click with the mouse, then select 'REPLACE CREW' option.
Leon will show a pop-up screen with names & codes of assigned crew - click on a field next to it (showing 'No change') and a drop-down list of available crew will show. Leon shows only crew with ratings for the aircraft assigned to the selected flight.
Select crew and click 'SAVE' - a confirmation of replacing crew will show in top-right corner of the page.
To swap aircrafts on flights select at least two flights by mouse click while holding CTRL key, then select 'SWAP AIRCRAFTS' option.
Leon will exchange flights only between aircrafts of the same type.
'Move up' function
This functionality allows you to move a selected Crew member to the top of the Crew List. To use this function you need to click on the crew member and select 'MOVE UP' option, as per screenshot. It is possible to move up a number of crew members, one at a time. The Crew members will then display by the selection order in which they were moved.
Crew search
In the filter > field 'Crew member' type crew name/surname or code and select him from the list. You can add more name to the searching list. You can also use quick search option by clicking on a key 'F' on your keyboard, type in the Crew member in the 'Crew member search' pop-up window and press enter. Leon will only display this particular Crew member.
To bring back view for all the crew you need to either remove the Crew from the 'Crewm Member search' in the filter or simply 'Reset' the filter.
Virtual Aircraft
It is now possible to see and service 'Virtual Aircraft' in the Crew Timeline.
'Virtual Aircraft' will be displayed at the bottom of the list in the 'Flights' section of Crew Timeline. It will also be available in the 'AIRCRAFT' filter.
Crewing options available to the 'Virtual Aircraft' are exactly the same as for standard fleet and include assigning crew, deleting crew, copying crew, etc.
Flights assigned to 'Virtual Aircraft' are displayed in light grey (for ferry flights) and in dark grey (for flights with PAX). This is caused by the lack of indication of minimum crew required on such an aircraft.
Duty info
It is possible to view duty information in 2 ways:
Using keys
For quick using of some options in Crew Timeline you can use particular keys on the keyboard. Select the flight and use keys as follow:
To check FTL Details on a particular flight either double-click on the flight (in the Crew part of the screen), or right-click with the mouse and select FTL Details - Leon will show a pop-up window which is divided into 2 parts:
Click on 'View FTL Sheet' to get FTL Sheet report.
Leon shows the dot next to crew code, which can be defined in a section Settings > Crew Currency and can be activated in the filter under the three-dot icon in the top right corner of the page.
The colour of the dot shows the current state of the crew currency by displaying the dot either in green, amber or red colour. If you hover the mouse over the dot a tooltip will appear with detailed information about the status of crew currency (see screenshot on the right).
LEON is able to monitor Crew fatigue in the Crew Timeline panel, with the help of Safte-Fast integration. Before, it was possible to check crew fatigue analysis for a single crew (by right-clicking with the mouse over his/her code) - now it is also possible to check it for all crew, in a selected period of time.
Once the integration with 'Safte-Fast' is enabled, in the top-right corner of the page an icon will show - click it, then click 'Run Safte-Fast analysis' link.
To show the level of Crew fatigue, Leon will highlight lines in either orange or red colour.
The orange colour of the line indicates:
Effectiveness ≤ 77
Reservoir ≤ 75
Percent below criterion › 10
The red colour of the line indicates:
Effectiveness ≤ 65
Reservoir ≤ 65
Percent below criterion › 20
It is also possible to send the rostered data to FRMCs SAFE manually.
To do it you need to:
The rosters should then be uploaded to FRMSc SAFE.
To add positioning in the Crew Timeline - either before the planned sector or as a stand-alone positioning - you need to follow the below steps:
Tab MISC contains additional options:
Hovering the mouse over the '?' icon located by the STD/STA inputs will display a tooltip with time values in UTC/LT/BT.
Once the positioning is added it is also possible to add further positionings, edit existing positioning and deleted the positioning. You simply need to click on the existing positioning and choose the relevant option.
It is also possible to check Changes history by going to Edit Positioning and clicking on the clock icon in the upper right corner of the window.
To add a new Simulator duty from the Crew Timeline - once it is already performed - select date range, crew member, right-click the mouse and select 'ADD SIMULATOR' option.
Once a pop-up window shows, you can initially fill it in with the following details: Aircraft type, Date, ADEP, ADES, BLOFF, BLON, Crew (CPT and FO), and optionally the Notes.
Additionally, when adding a SIM session to Leon - whether from 'OPS' section or 'CREW TIMELINE'/'CREW CALENDAR' - it is possible to select multiple Approaches:
as well as multiple Approach types:
After the SIM is performed, you can fill in the rest of the details that applied during the SIM session.
Added SIM duty will appear with the black line of minimum rest required after the duty. It will also appear in the OPS panel with the already filled in Journey Log.
Added SIM duty can always be edited and its details can be changed. It is also possible to delete a particular crew from SIM and/or delete the SIM duty completely.
Once the simulator is added, the details as well as the tags and the notes will appear in the bottom bar.
Option to record flights as line training and line check is also available in the Crew Timeline section.
If you select a particular flight, or several flights, with the right click of the mouse, from the drop-down context menu you can select the Add Training option.
Once selected a Create flight training pop-up window will open up. In the window under Type, from the drop-down menu, it is possible to mark the flight as training by selecting either Line Check or Line Training. In the same pop-up window, it is also possible to add Planner or Pilot notes. At this moment the notes show only in the bottom bar, showing them in Raport Wizard will get developed in later stages.
Line Training will mark the flight with a yellow symbol in the top left corner of the selected sector or series of sectors
Line Check option will mark the flight with a purple symbol in the same place
If the notes are added, both the Planner notes as well as the Pilot notes will appear at the bottom panel when clicking on the Line training/Check tile:
Once the training is added, an option to Edit Training is possible when right-clicking on the flight.
More information on including/excluding the crew on the Line Training from the total crew composition on the flight can be found here.
A new feature to add hotel reservations for crew members has been implemented. Under the 3-dot icon, it is now possible to switch an option to show Required hotel. Once this option is marked, Leon will show icon at the end of each day for which the hotel is booked, except the check-out day, if a crew member ends his flight duty outside of his home base and the aircraft also lands outside its home base. If only one of these conditions is met, Leon will not suggest the Hotel booking. The red H letter indicates that the hotel has not been reserved. Once you click on the icon a Hotel booking pop-up window will open. In the pop-up window it is possible to select:
The Timeline view indicates the hotel booking in the following way:
The hotel options are presented based as follow:
The below screenshot represents the hotel booking for two crew members with the check-in on 17 Feb and the check-out on 19 Feb. The H icon appears at the end of each day on 17 Feb and 18 Feb, except the 19 Feb which is the check-out day.
If manual publication of drafts is enabled a pink background will appear indicating the change requires publication.
If you right-click on the hotel icon from the context menu you can choose from 3 options:
If the crew, in a given time range, performs a series of flights ending at the same airport out of the home base, adding one hotel reservation for the selected timeframe will mark all hotel icons as booked. This saves the crew planners from adding a hotel reservation after each flight separately.
In a situation where the destination airport is different from the airport at which the hotel was originally booked (e.g.in a case of flight diversion) the required hotel icon will display in red.
Additionally, a new scope has been added to the Report Wizard section called Hotel Booking where it is possible to generate a report with hotel reservations and filter out hotel bookings by selected Airport and Status (untouched, requested, and confirmed).
Leon allows to delete multiple duties across different dates and different crew members. Just hold Ctrl key select duties to be deleted and right click the mouse and select Delete Duties. You can also use Shift key to delete multiple duties for one crew member.
The process of deleting duties is very similar to editing duties:
Leon will now mark the flight block with a red zigzag line if the last airport of landing does not correspond with the next airport of take off. This will indicate that aircraft repositioning needs to be added. Analogical situation will happen with the crew section if the airports between last and next duty do not correspond. This will indicate that crew positioning needs to be planned between the two duties.