Maintenance Center

Published 7 October 2026, Updated 7 October 2026

1. Purpose and audience

The Flight resources maintenance center is the operational workspace for controlling aircraft availability, squawks, maintenance visits, scheduled unavailability, technical follow-up, utilization, and reliability trends.

This chapter is written primarily for the Person Responsible of the Maintenance Control System. It is also intended for maintenance managers, operations managers, quality personnel, auditors, and other authorized staff who need to understand whether a flight resource can be released or what action is still outstanding.

The Maintenance Center supports decisions; it does not replace the aircraft technical record, approved maintenance data, an authorized release, or engineering judgment. Before changing an aircraft state, always verify the registration, the current flight position, the limiting squawk, and the intended effective time.

[SCREENSHOT: maintenance-center-overview | Capture: Full Flight resources maintenance center showing the title, all available main tabs, the Resources grid, lower action buttons, and the logged-in user's visible controls.]

2. Access and permission-dependent views

The page changes according to the responsibilities granted to the signed-in member. This is intentional.

Access level	Typical experience
Maintenance view	Can review resources, squawks, dashboard information, trends, and other visible records, but cannot perform management actions.
Audit access	Can review information needed for oversight. Management-only tabs and private material are hidden.
Squawk or maintenance management	Can manage squawks and maintenance states and can see the Status board, AMO manager, private files, private notes, and History.
Resource management	Can add, modify, deactivate, reactivate, and configure resources, subject to the organization’s access rules.
AI maintenance access	Can see the AI tab when the feature is active for the organization.

If a button, tab, edit field, or right-click action described in this chapter is absent, first confirm the member’s assigned responsibilities. A missing control is usually an access difference, not a display failure.

[SCREENSHOT: maintenance-center-access-comparison | Capture: Side-by-side example of a management view and a view-only/audit view, highlighting the tabs or buttons that are intentionally hidden.]

3. Page organization and saved layout

The main workspace contains these tabs:

Tab	Main purpose
Resources	Current fleet status, next-due information, maintenance state, AMO, utilization, and quick actions.
Squawks	Fleet-wide squawk list and aircraft selector view.
Dashboard	Availability, activity, pilot-squawk, AMO, and tag statistics.
Status board	Management-only exceptions requiring review before release.
Risk Heatmap	Aircraft/type-normalized squawk trends by system tag.
AI	Weekly interpretive maintenance reliability assessment, when enabled and authorized.
Task	Maintenance follow-up tasks. This tab stays at the right of the tab bar.

The tabs between Resources and AI can be dragged into a preferred order. The order is saved for the current member. Moving a tab changes only its position; it does not change data or permissions.

Many grids also remember personal display choices. When a result looks unexpected, reset filters, show inactive records if relevant, and refresh before concluding that information is missing.

[SCREENSHOT: maintenance-center-tab-reorder | Capture: A main tab being dragged to a new position, with the fixed Task tab visible at the right.]

Guide chapters

• Resources and fleet status — Read the fleet grid, status indications, toolbar, maintenance state, and resource actions.
• Adding and configuring resources — Create resources and configure General, Details, Operations, and Competencies.
• Squawks and postponements — Use fleet squawk views and manage creation, limits, warnings, closure, renewal, and files.
• Data Sheet and Operations — Review time data, mandatory next due, Scheduler availability, operational values, and tracking.
• Files, Daily Records, Scheduler, and History — Manage files and notes, reconcile activity, block maintenance time, and review history.
• Dashboard and statistics — Interpret availability, activity, pilot-squawk, AMO, and tag charts.
• Status Board — Resolve maintenance-control exceptions and no-release conditions.
• Risk Heatmap and AI assessment — Use normalized trends and the weekly AI assessment as decision support.
• Maintenance tasks — Create and follow registration-specific maintenance work.
• AMO management — Maintain Aircraft Maintenance Organization records and assignment history.
• OpenAviation synchronization — Select, transfer, verify, and troubleshoot eligible Flight Record activity.
• Printing and reports — Produce resource lists, utilization statistics, charts, and flight-record reports.
• Operational workflows and troubleshooting — Follow start-of-day, maintenance-visit, return-to-service, weekly, and troubleshooting checklists.