What's new: book the headset with the plane, and know how much fuel is in it

Reserve the Gear, Not Just the Plane

If your club has listed shared equipment (a spare headset, a portable ADS-B receiver, the airport bike), you can reserve it the same way you reserve an aircraft.

• With a flight. The reservation form has an Equipment picker. Tick what you need and it's booked for the same window as the flight. Move the flight and the gear moves with it; cancel it, or finish early, and the gear is released too.

• On its own. The New Reservation dialog has an Equipment tab for a ground day. Filter the calendar to a single item and the dialog opens on that tab with the item already chosen.

• On the calendar. Equipment bookings show in violet, leading with the item's icon. The filter is now a multi-select, so you can view one aircraft and the headset you'll take, and nothing else.

• Backups. If someone already holds the item, your booking becomes a backup and is promoted automatically when theirs is cancelled or shortened, exactly like an aircraft backup.

• Notifications. You're told in the app when a booking is created, changed by an admin, cancelled, or promoted, and you get a reminder a day before a standalone booking starts.

Only clubs that have set up equipment will see any of this.

Fuel Remaining, Before You Leave the House

For aircraft your club has set up for fuel tracking, finishing a flight now asks for the fuel left in the tank (or in the left and right tanks). With a single tank the figure is suggested from the fuel you added and can be corrected. Manual log entries ask for the same.

Your Next Flight card on the dashboard shows each tank's level against its capacity: green when there's plenty, amber in the middle, red when it's low, and "Not yet reported" until a pilot records one. You'll know whether to plan a fuel stop before you're standing on the ramp.