Documents and currency
Two halves of one subject. The first half is the paper: medicals, proficiency checks, line checks, ratings, and the scans that prove them. The second half is what the app does with that paper — it checks it, and your logged flights, against a shipped list of regulator rules, and tells you which ones you still meet.
Read G5 before anything after it. The second half doesn’t mean much without it, and skipping it can leave you trusting a green row that should have been red.
| Guide | What it gets you | |
|---|---|---|
| G1 | The Document Store | The screen your certificates live on, and how to read one card |
| G2 | Add a document and its scans | A record the currency engine can actually find |
| G3 | Renew a document | This year’s medical added to last year’s, rather than beside it |
| G4 | Document history | The older versions of a document, and why none of them is red |
| G5 | How currency is worked out here | The model everything after this depends on. Read it first |
| G6 | Turn on currency tracking | A populated Currency Status card |
| G7 | Choose your authorities and operations | A card cut down to the rules that apply to you — and a way to find a rule that’s missing |
| G8 | Read the currency card | Every number, word and colour on the card turned into something to act on |
| G9 | Understand a single rule | An answer to “why is this row red?”, and the regulator’s own words |
| G10 | Duty and rest limits | The Duty & Rest card read properly — and the four checks on it that are only partial |
Three things worth knowing first
Neither half has a tab. Both live on the dashboard, and both are also reachable through your own profile card → Profile Settings → PILOT IDENTITY, the way every other setting is (→ A9).
A dashboard tile isn’t a shortcut to the screen. The dashboard card and the settings row both open the Document Store screen. Tapping an individual tile on the dashboard strip instead asks whether you want to Renew that record or Edit details — and editing isn’t renewing (→ G3).
All of this is advisory. The app makes you agree to that before it’ll check currency at all, and it means it. The rules it ships were checked against the published regulations on a stated date. They aren’t your operator’s manual or a certification, and they can’t see everything a regulation asks about. Nothing in these ten guides replaces reading the regulation you fly under.
Words this area introduces
Document — one certificate and every renewal of it. A medical and the four medicals before it are one document, not five.
Record — a single dated entry inside a document. What you fill in on the Add Certification sheet. The app also calls a record an Event.
Supersession — the newest record in a document is the one that counts, and every older one becomes history rather than an alarm.
Scan — an image or PDF attached to one record. Each renewal carries its own.
Currency — the app’s answer on whether a requirement is still met right now: valid, expiring, or expired.
Authority — a regulator whose rule set you’ve switched on. Six ship: FAA, TCCA, EASA, UK CAA, CASA, CAANZ. You can have several on at once.
Rule — one shipped requirement belonging to one authority, such as Part 61
Day Pax / 61.57(a). There are 111. You can’t write, edit or delete one; the
only control you have over a rule is a switch.
Operation — the part of the regulations a flight was flown under: Part 91, Part 135, CAR 705, Part-CAT. The app calls it an operating context. Some rules only apply to one.
Lookback — the window a rule counts inside: 90 days, 6 calendar months, 60 months. For a medical it’s the validity period, and for some medicals it changes with your age.
Acknowledgement — the one-time confirmation that you, not the app, are responsible for knowing your legal currency. No currency checking works until you’ve given it, and it follows the logbook to every paired device.
Duty period — Report to Release on one flight, as you logged it. The app calls it a flight duty period, and every duty limit counts in them (G10).
FDP — flight duty period. The FAA and EASA both cap a single one, by the time you reported and the number of sectors you flew.
Sector — one leg. The number of sectors matters because more of them shorten the maximum duty period you may be given.