The list of aircraft of a company is very unfriendly. If you have more than 4 airplanes (very common) and all of them are of the same type, is very time consuming do the maintenance manually (that is cheaper) for each of them.
You must make visible the plane scrolling the list, but is very difficult to tell it from other planes of the same type because there is no way to identiy each one individually. You click on the aircraft, do the maintenance and, when you come back to the list page, the list of the aircraft resets its position and shows the first plane of the list. Then you have to scroll and look for the next one, but as there is no way to identify individually the aircraft maybe you get confused and click on a plane that you had maintained before, oh, hell, you come back and the list is reset again, oh, hell hell hell, and so on. Very very time consuming. And you could set the automatic maintenance, but doing it manually is cheaper.
Possible solutions to this:
- Please don’t scroll back the list when you return to the list page. Then you’ll be positioned in front of the plane you’ve just maintained and it’s easy to know which one is next.
- Allow a way to identify each plane individually. A simple autonumeric non editable field would do.
- Also it would be great if you could see the list of the aircraft as a VERTICAL list, in form of a common grid, instead of this horizontal stack. Not so difficult to do this in XAML.
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Making the overview useful might also be a way. Currently that list is completely useless and the details shown inaccurate and never updating.
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I find this interface the big time-sink and unfriendly solution to the “virtual businesses requests”. The current state of aircraft list basically prevents aircompanies growth as it steals time from actually flying towards unnecessary complexity of aircompanies management tasks.
What I suggest:
Airplanes list should be table-alike with the ability to sort by the columns like:
- service start (when the aircraft has been bought)
- requires maintenance
- last maintenance done date
Would be good if the table also includes this info:
- total maintenance expence lifetime
- total income lifetime
- current maintenance price (including non-managed prices (managed maintenance does not do all the stuff))
- current sell price
- Tail number (!)
- Current airport ac is based on
There should be one button “Maintain All” with the checkbox to confirm even maintenance out of the managed maintenance scope is done. Few clicks across all companies owned is better then ultra-micro-management task it is now.
Either checkbox or context menu item to maintain selected aircraft(s)
Leave the ability to dive in to the aircraft view with all the details for better details investigation / choice of components to maintain for “short of credits” situations.
The ability to set own Tail Numbers would be interesting.
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As the pervious post also wrote, showing the tail nr. Better said aircraft registration is highly desirable.
In aviation everything is done with the AC registration.
So a simple label added to the screen with some plain text PH-ABC, N3175P, D-ABYL or whatever the registration of the aircraft is.
This is the only way to recognise an airplane in the list.
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