Log a flight you already flew

If you didn’t press Start flight before you went, log the flight with Log a flight after you land. Use it for engine runs and taxi time that moved the hobbs too.

1. Open Log a flight. On a computer, it’s the Log a flight link on the dashboard’s Recent flights card. On a phone, press More, then Log a flight.
2. Admins only: under Pilot, choose who flew. It starts on Myself.
3. Set the Date to the day you flew. It starts on today.
4. Under Route, enter FROM and TO. For a local flight, fill in FROM and press Local flight — same field. If the aircraft never left the ground, switch on Ground only — no flight instead and leave the airports out.
5. Under Hobbs, enter the End reading. Start is filled in for you from the last flight. If the aircraft has a tach meter, enter End tach.
6. Under Fuel, check Start gal and enter End gal. Start gal is filled in with the fuel RampMates thinks is on board. Change it if the gauges said something else. If you fueled before the flight, see fuel and receipts.
7. Choose the Price per gallon: From purchase, or Manual to type what you paid.
8. Press Log flight.

The Details part of the form has a few optional extras:

• Add takeoff/landing times to find the real flight track. Fill in both Takeoff (local) and Landing (local). Rough times are fine. RampMates uses them to look up where the aircraft really flew, and the Logbook shows that track instead of a straight line.
• Bill the hangar, not the pilot. Switch this on for a flight you didn’t fly for yourself, like a maintenance run or a repositioning leg. A ground-only entry is always billed to the hangar.
• Comments, and Attach a squawk to this flight.

On a phone

Log a flight opens as a full page, with a Back button at the top. Log flight stays pinned to the bottom of the screen.

Log a flight someone forgot

When the hobbs jumps between two flights in the log, the Logbook marks the missing time with Unlogged flight — … to … hobbs. It shows when the Logbook’s All chip is on. Whoever flew those hours, or an admin, fills them in:

1. Open Logbook and press the Unlogged flight line.
2. Admins only: choose who flew. It starts on Myself.
3. Set the Flight date. It starts on today, so change it to the day the flight happened.
4. The start is fixed at the earlier flight’s ending hobbs. Ending hobbs starts at the next flight’s starting hobbs. Lower it if the flight didn’t cover the whole gap.
5. Enter the Starting fuel (gallons) and Ending fuel (gallons).
6. Enter From (airport) and To (airport), or tick No actual flight – ground/maintenance only.
7. Press Save flight.

You can also start from Log a flight. Press Backfilling a forgotten flight? Set your own start hobbs, then enter the Custom start hobbs. It has to be at or after the previous flight’s ending hobbs, and at or before the next flight’s starting hobbs. If the aircraft has a tach meter, fill in Start tach too.

Things to know

• The date has to agree with the hobbs. A hobbs meter only counts up, so a flight at a higher hobbs can’t be dated before a flight at a lower one.
• One flight at a time. While a flight is in progress on the aircraft, Log a flight opens the close-out form for that flight instead. Nobody can log another flight until it’s closed.
• Admins can log for anyone in the hangar. Pilots log only their own flights.

If something goes wrong

• “This hobbs range overlaps an existing flight.” You can also get “…can’t be before the previous flight’s end_hobbs…” or “…would overlap the next flight’s start_hobbs…”. The readings run into a flight that’s already logged. Check the readings, or fill the gap from its Unlogged flight line, which knows the limits.
• “This flight is dated … Hobbs only moves forward, so …”. The date doesn’t fit between the flights on either side of it. Both forms start on today’s date, so a flight from last week needs its date changed.
• “end_tach (…) must be greater than start_tach (…)” when filling a gap on an aircraft with a tach meter. The Unlogged flight form has no start tach. Log the flight from Log a flight instead, with Backfilling a forgotten flight? open and Start tach filled in.
• “This aircraft tracks tach time – end_tach is required”. Enter the ending tach. The Unlogged flight form lets you leave it blank, but the aircraft needs it.
• “start_fuel_gallons (…) is more than 5 gal below the current known fuel level (…)”. RampMates expected more fuel on board than that. Check the reading, or have the previous flight’s ending fuel corrected.
• “Request failed with 422”. The form sent something RampMates can’t accept, and this is all it says about it. Most often the ending fuel is higher than the starting fuel. With the track times, fill in both, with the landing after the takeoff.