Maintenance
What is due, what is broken, and what that does to the schedule
Maintenance tracking is only worth anything if it changes what the club can do. A due list that nobody reads is a spreadsheet with better fonts. Here the due dates and the squawks reach into the booking form.
Due by date or by hours, whichever comes first
An annual is a date. A 100-hour is hours. An ELT battery is a date. An oil change is hours, sometimes with a calendar backstop. FlightWay tracks each interval on its own terms and surfaces whichever limit arrives first, recomputed nightly against the meters the flights are actually posting.
That means the due list moves as the aeroplane flies, rather than as somebody remembers to update it.
Squawks with consequences
Any member can raise a squawk from a phone before they leave the aeroplane, with a severity and, optionally, a photograph. Maintenance is notified straight away. A squawk marked critical grounds the aircraft: it leaves the booking form, existing bookings are flagged, and check-out is blocked until it is resolved.
Resolving one is a record, not a tick. Corrective action, the tach and hobbs it was done at, who signed it off, and any attached logbook page stay with the squawk. The timeline shows what was said and when, so the history of a recurring problem is in one place.
Airworthiness directives
FlightWay carries the FAA AD catalogue and lets a club curate applicability, because "does this AD apply to our serial number" is a human judgement, not a lookup. Once curated, each applicable AD carries its compliance record: how it was complied with, at what time in service, recurring or terminated, and when it next comes due.
This is a tracking aid. The signed logbook entry and the IA’s signature remain the legal record, and FlightWay is explicit about that rather than implying it has replaced them.
Components, and the histories that follow them
Engines, propellers, magnetos and radios have their own times, their own overhaul intervals and their own paperwork. Tracking them at the component level is what lets a club answer the questions that come up when selling an aeroplane or planning a reserve: how many hours on this engine, when was that prop overhauled, what has been changed since.
Who gets told
Notifications are per category and per member, so the A&P hears about squawks without being copied on every booking, and the board hears about a grounding without subscribing to oil changes. On the SMS add-on, a grounding squawk can go by text, because that is the one that needs to interrupt somebody.
Last updated 18 August 2026.