The method of adding a flight is particularly suitable for OPS department or for operators that want to enter the schedule and crew members at the same time (normally crew is attached to the flight as the next step, after the schedule is created). In this metod it is also possible to add crew positioning before/after the operation and/or their office work. It contains more detailed operational properties in comparison to other editing methods (for example you can specify ICAO flight type or flight rules under which you are going to fly).

If you add more then one sector - even if they are not on the same day - all of them will be automatically connected into a trip. You can select all legs of the trip to print documents, or only some particular ones

Trip edit screen

The very first tab from the screen - Trip Info - allows to enter the schedule and specify other trip properties. At the top of the form, you can specify:

• Aircraft registration - if you select it, aircraft type will be filled out automatically.
• Aircraft type - you can select aircraft type only without specifying aircraft registration. This is useful if you know what aircraft type is going to fly a particular trip but you do not know which tail.
• Type - (ICAO flight plan type). This is one letter code according to ICAO: S-scheduled, N-non-scheduled, G-general, X-other.
• Status - Option - not confirmed, Flight - confirmed, Quotation
• Trip type - commercial, flight for owner, training flight, simulator , technical, ambulance, crew private
• Flight rules - according to ICAO codes: I-IFR, V-VFR, Y-IFR changing to VFR, Z-VFR changing to IFR.

Below list of sectors within the trip, column meanings are:

• Yellow icon on the left represents type of crew activity. Flight is the default one but you can also choose positioning icon or office icon . Specifying type of crew activity is not possible in any other flight editing method.
• Flight number - automatically filled out if selected aircraft is configured to use specific flight number as the default one (see Fleet section)
• Date of departure.
• STD/STA - Scheduled times of departure and arrival. STA can be calculated by Leon if relevant field are filled in in Fleet section
• ADEP/ADES - Airports of Departure and Destination.
• Crew reporting time - AUTO by default (according to your OM part 7) but can be overwritten to custom hour.
• Flight schedule - you can specify airport codes both in IATA and ICAO codes.
• Alternate airport.
• COM - Commander (PIC) - please do not confuse with CPT (Captain). Usually CPT = PIC but it is not always the case. Commander is by default CPT or Instructor but it can be overwritten.
• Crew positions (CPT, FO etc) - positions showing here depend on the settings in Functions section. Leon can suggest crew if requested in Operator Settings.

Adding a flight is quite a simple task and requires filling in the fields in Trip info screen. Depending on the activity you want to add, you can choose between 3 icons, choose an aircraft (registration or type) and the rest of the fields.

When crew is added Leon will refresh FDP calculation and inform whether:

• FDP: Correct
• FDP: Flight Duty Period is too long
• FDP: Rest is to short

If you don't add crew at this point, Leon will calculate general FDP for a flight:

Adding a flight is usually a smooth process however there are situations where Leon issues warnings during the process. The most common warnings are:

• Endorsements warning - crew have invalid endorsements. Such crew can still be added to a flight if planned with Instructor on-board and this option is marked in Operator settings - General tab.

• Duty Collision - crew assigned on a different duty during the time of a new flight.

• Aircraft Collision - Aircraft assigned to another flight during the time of a new flight.
• Maintenance - Aircraft scheduled for maintenance during the time of a new flight.

• HIL - Aircraft has Hold Item List open during the time of a new flight.

If any of these happen, you can make changes before saving (different crew or aircraft) or you can save gnoring warnings however this will be reflected in the Flights List