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Glossary of Terms

The following terms are frequently used within Private Radar:

 

Agenda: User's calendar.


ATS: Aircraft Tracking System.


Booking: A planned flight/simulator, or theoretical class in the Schedule module.


Check-In: Finalize a flight or simulator session. Check-in to manually record times (when a flight or simulator session is finished). Check-in is automatic with the flight-tracker.


Class: A class of users in a course (e.g., "Class of 2020"), create in Courses module.


Currency: The currency determines whether a pilot can fly solo, with or without passengers. A pilot is current if he has flown a certain number of times in the past. This is determined by the number of landings completed on a specific aircraft type. By default 3 landings in the past one month for flying solo with passengers, and 3 in the past three months for flying solo without passengers. Currency can be configured in the Administrator settings.


Dashboard: Overview of key information.


Flights: A flight or simulator event which has occurred. Flights can be created different ways; manually, from check-in, automatically from a booking or a flight-tracker. 


Footprints: Electronic log of users' actions, i.e., modifications, on bookings and flights.


Group: A group of users that can be used to filter your users, send a mass mailing, create a booking, and assign a specific profile for access requirements throughout the software. You can create groups in the Users module.


Instruction: Dual.


Module: Interoperable software component within Private-Radar, e.g. "Schedule", "Flights", “Aircraft”, “Users”, and "Courses".


Private: Private bookings can only be seen by users who are given the profile right to view private bookings. Private bookings do not send notifications to the participants. 


Profile: Defined level of access given to a selection of registered users, e.g., student, instructor, accounting department, ops manager... You can create profiles and completely customize the access rights. A user must have a profile and email to access Private-Radar.


Public: Public bookings can be seen by users who are given the profile right to view the schedule. Public bookings send notifications to the participants. 


Publish: To transform a private bookings into a public booking.


Schedule: Chronological presentation of program. Including aircraft bookings, flight lesson bookings, simulator session bookings, theoretical lesson bookings, and instructors' activities.


Squawk: Aircraft issue/defect that is subject to review and/or maintenance, e.g. autopilot inoperable, landing light not working...


Tracker: Flight tracking & recording device installed in an aircraft as part of the ATS.


Tracking: Real time monitoring and automatic recording of flight times and route with the tracker.


User: Individual, i.e., staff, student, instructor, added in the Users Module database that can be given access to Private-Radar by having an assigned profile and an email address.

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