Aviation Helper

Release notes · 2.7.x

What's new

Aviation Helper is developed continuously. This is what arrived in which version – the app announces new versions itself.

2.7.x

  • Payment reconciliation: upload the bank statement from e-banking and have incoming payments matched to the invoices via their reference; if you want, the club reminds members once about open invoices (optional module, see Help).
  • Payouts: create the instructor settlements as a single payment file for your e-banking instead of typing them one by one; the debit on the bank statement marks them as paid (optional module, see Help).
  • Invoices: Every QR-bill carries a payment reference, so an incoming payment can be matched to its invoice; IBANs are validated on save (see Help).
  • Flight assignments: A taken assignment can be linked to its reservation - from "Find a slot" or via the Flight assignment field of the reservation form; the date shows on the dashboard card, in the assignment book and in the timeline, and handing back can delete the reservation with it (see Help).

2.6.x

  • Printing: boarding passes and vouchers straight from the app - on an office printer, a ticket printer on the Raspberry Pi or an ATB device. Templates are designed in the editor instead of as an XSLT file (optional module, see help).
  • Overview: an "Inbound" timeline on the dashboard, an inbox for notifications, and an expandable statistic for aircraft and for members (see help).
  • Accounting: a report with the VAT figures, the social insurance figures of the instructors and the sightseeing share; the invoice run detects periods that were billed already (see help).
  • Training: the training progress shows the history per month and the state of every single lesson (see help).
  • Reservations: a trip with several legs, occupancy across day boundaries including night flights, and aircraft can be limited to selected members (see help).
  • Toolbox: FlyOuts for club trips, SplitFlaps to share the expenses, and a flight calculator (see help).
  • General improvements, stability and performance.

2.5.x

  • Flight assignments and vouchers: an assignment can be changed afterwards, the voucher is chosen right in the form - everywhere with the same list and a search box (see help).
  • Various improvements to stability, speed and usability.

2.4.x

  • Toolbox: a set of tools for pilots with the Swiss ICAO chart, a density altitude calculator and the club's own links (see help).
  • Theory lessons: book, request, confirm and bill classroom teaching - including theory checks in the training record (see help).
  • Resources: the simulator is a resource type of its own - no check flight rules, no aircraft quota (see help).
  • Usability: member lists have a search box and mark inactive members; help references lead straight to the right chapter.
  • Various improvements to stability, speed and usability.

2.3.x

  • Flight assignments: an assignment book for lesson and sightseeing flights - record it, take it with one tap and close it in the logbook; sightseeing pilots are a classification of their own with a yearly check (see help).
  • I want to fly: more start times per suggestion, days as their own block, and student pilots see their usual training aircraft first (see help).
  • Various improvements to stability, speed and usability.

2.2.x

  • Accounting: a menu of its own for club owners with the invoice run, open items and exports; every invoice comes with a traceable breakdown, delivery also by push (see help).
  • Reservations: an occupancy overview across all aircraft and the guided way "I want to fly" to the next free window (see help).
  • Training: every student pilot can be assigned a primary instructor; other instructors go through a request (see help).
  • Lesson flights: mark them in the logbook, keep the guest as a club contact for the follow-up and credit the flight in the training record later (see help).
  • Logbook: official check flight with handover to capzlog.aero (see help).
  • Club licences: training record, passenger flights and flight assignments can be enabled per club.
  • Various improvements to stability, speed and usability.

2.1.x

  • Data protection disclosure: the complete data extract per Art. 25 FADP as a PDF, directly from member management and logged (see help).
  • Vouchers: overview with tabs and search, unique numbers with a club prefix on the PDF, redeeming in the logbook by number (see help).
  • Various improvements to stability, speed and usability.

2.0.x

  • App: AviationHelper can be installed as a standalone app and reports new versions by itself.
  • Push notifications: enabled per device and configurable per message type; tapping a notification opens the item it is about (see help).
  • Training record: the paper syllabus lives in the app - lesson goals, assessments during the debriefing and checks per training level (see help).
  • Instructors: keep your own availability, accept or decline lesson requests on the dashboard (see help).
  • Reservations: a waiting list that moves you up automatically, the state visible everywhere, a reason when deleting (see help).
  • Appearance: the app follows the light/dark setting of the device.
  • Various improvements to stability, speed and usability.

1.29.x

  • Invoices: Flight instructor invoices are now available.

1.28.x

  • Dashboard: Syllabus progress widget available for members and for instructors.
  • Reservations: New flag 'free seat' available so other members can ask and join.
  • Aircraft: New flag 'simulator' available to define an aircraft as a simulator.

1.27.x

  • Logbook: Field Comment added. Save instructor and entry member the same person are no longer allowed.
  • Reservations: If instructor and member the same person, a warining will be displayed.
  • Logbook/Invoice: Instructors are now able to adjust the briefing- and debriefing-time for each logbook entry.
  • Syllabus: Students/Pilots are able to assign logbook entries to their assigned syllabus.
  • DropBox: New function to use a read only dropbox folder for club members.

1.26.x

  • Reservations: Small error with time selection corrected.
  • Voucher: When changing the status, you will first be asked whether you really want to set it that way.
  • Invoice: When changing the status, you will first be asked whether you really want to set it that way.

1.25.x

  • Dashboard: The block time is now also displayed in "my flights this month".
  • Dashboard: Owners have detailed statistics per aircraft.
  • Logbook: The block time is now also displayed in the table.

1.24.x

  • Billing packages: Billing packages can now be created and settled directly with the bills.
  • Clubmanagement: Members can be marked as "inactive". As a result, they can no longer perform actions in the club and are no longer listed.
  • Logbook: Administrators can mark flights so that they are not charged.

1.21.x

  • Reservations: In the case of reservations lasting several days, the until date could no longer be extended.
  • Logbook: Fuel uplifts can now also be set for logbook entries. Additionally, non-homebase fuel can be billed as vouchers.
  • Voucher: Error when creating the invoices corrected.
  • Reservations: Instructors could be overbooked, this has now been corrected.

1.20.x

  • Invoices: Separate invoices can now be issued for corresponding flight instructors. Must be activated by the club owner in the member settings for the flight instructor.
  • Aircraft: Flight time only log entries are now possible, without displaying the hourmeter values.

1.19.x

  • Voucher: Vouchers can now be created and managed (including automatic crediting when creating the invoice)

1.18.x

  • Dashboard: New element with flight summaries.
  • Logbook entries: It's now possible to send logbook entries to the electronic flightbook Capzlog.aero (see under help for configuration details).
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  • Clubmanagement: Charter contracts and training agreements for members can now be managed.
  • Clubmanagement: If charter contracts and/or training agreements are activated, it can be defined under the security rules whether a reservation is allowed without one of the contracts.
  • Clubmanagement: Emergency contacts can be managed by the members themselves. At least one emergency contact must be available, otherwise a corresponding message will appear on the dashboard.
  • Aircraft: Date error correction in flight time reports for owners.
  • Invoices: Define in the club settings wether your invoices has VAT or not.
  • Invoices: Can be exported for accounting in the formats: CSV, MT940 or ISO20022

1.17.x

  • Aircraft: New feature to define the owner of an aircraft, the club odr a member. If the owner is a member, invoice data can be added and with the menupoint "Print Aircraft Flight Summary" the given invoice document for the owner can be generated.

1.16.x

  • Clubmanagement: It's possible to activate security rules per club (max. days since last check-flight, max. days since last flight in general).
  • Club-member: Can add his own custom validation, which will NOT affect reservations. It's just for own use on the dashboard.
  • Dashboard: Members has a graphical view of the current validations, days till next check-flight and days since last flight.
  • Reservations: If the security-rules are activated in the club and specific validations matches, new reservations can only be created WITH an instructor.

Examples in Reservations:

Warning n days till next check-flight:
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Check-flight required:
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Example Dashboard Club Validations:
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Example Dashboard Custom Validations:
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1.15.x

  • Invoices: Memberselection is available while creating invoices by club-owners. It's now possible to create single, time-different invoices.

1.14.x

  • Aircraft: Club-owners can create flightsummary reports per aircraft
  • Club-member with classification "instructor": gets notified about reservations that name them as the instructor
  • Reservations: Bugfix multiple storing of the same reservation
  • Reservations: Club-owners can create maintenance reservations, which will be displayed in special color. And calendar feeds for maintenance entries will be slightly different displayed
  • Reservations: Own reservations will be displayed in a slightly darker color than reservations from other pilots

1.13.x

  • Invoices: Club-owners can re-generate and re-send single invoices
  • Dashboard: New column with payment state (on mobile devices only on landscape display mode)
  • Club-member with classification "instructor": New flag to enable notifications via email when booked as instructor

1.12.x

  • Logbook entries: Order changed, flight as first position, because the change of the date sometimes had resets the hourmeter
  • Logbook entries: Error fixed, already changed hourmeter settings could be lost
  • Logbook entries: Error fixed, already changed landing settings could be lost
  • Logbook entries: Hourmeter has additional buttons for adding +/-1h, +/-5m, +/-1m
  • Logbook entries: Club-owners can edit/add entries for members
  • Logbook entries: Sort order fixed
  • Logbook entries: Old value for landing counter has new buttons: +/-1 landing
  • Invoices: Club-owners can mark invoices as "paid" or "pending"
  • Invoices: Club-owners can delete invoices
  • Invoices: Additional search flag for "pending invoices" added
  • Flight costs: Club-owners can add special costs, e.g. for aircraft owners
  • Reservations: Visualization error fixed when the reservations is longer than one week

1.11.x

  • Member search error fixed: when user logins pending, the search not worked properly
  • Logbook entries times: new order Block off, Airborne, Landing, Block on
  • Invoices: Club-owners has a flag to only show his own entries

1.10.x

  • Hourmeter and Landings: show "old values" as first element
  • Hourmeter and Landings: additional buttons to add or remove values
  • Hourmeter old value: new button for manually edit hours
  • Landings: bugfix to correctly take last value from last entry
  • Dashboard: show abbreviation of week day at my next reservations

1.9.x

  • This relase notes added
  • Help and documentation added
  • small bugfixes

1.8.x

  • Phone number for members added
  • Filtering for members
  • Hyperlink for phone and e-mail in memberlist
  • Calendar (ical) events now contains participants (pilot and instrrcutor if available)
  • Calendar (ical) events contains hyperlinks to direct make a phone call

1.7.x

  • Language support for english and germen
  • Default language will be asked from browser
  • New menu button to manually swtich language

1.6.x

  • Generating invoices as pdf

< 1.6.x

  • Initial creation of the application