Your dashboard and the Action Required list
What the dashboard shows, and why the Action Required list is worth clearing before anything else.
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The dashboard is the screen you open at seven. It is the whole school on one page: who is flying, what is ready, and what needs a decision before the first aircraft moves. You are not meant to go hunting through menus first thing in the morning, the dashboard brings the day to you.
What the dashboard shows
The board is arranged so the most time-sensitive information is highest:
- Today's flying: how many flights are booked, dispatched, airborne and back, so you can see the shape of the day at a glance.
- Aircraft readiness: how many aircraft are serviceable and ready, and which are not, with the reason.
- Action Required: the list of things that need a person to decide or act, described below.
It is the same picture for everyone who needs it. Operations, the duty instructor and the head of training are looking at one current screen, not three copies that disagree.
The Action Required list
This is the part worth clearing before anything else. Action Required is not a notification feed you scroll past, it is a worklist the system generates from the actual state of the day.
Items appear here because something genuinely needs a decision, for example:
- A 100-hour check is due before a booking that depends on the aircraft.
- An instructor rating or a student medical is about to expire.
- A lesson record has not been signed.
- A defect has been raised and bookings against that aircraft need attention.
- A part is running low and needs reordering.
Each item carries why it is there and a way to act on it, so clearing the list is doing the day's decisions in one place rather than discovering them one crisis at a time. An item leaves the list when the underlying situation is resolved, not when you dismiss it, so the list is always telling you the truth about now.
It is scoped to you
You see the items your role is responsible for. An instructor sees their own students and flights; an accountable manager sees everything. The board underneath is the same, but the worklist is yours.