​The following terms are frequently used within Private Radar:

 

Agenda: A user's calendar.

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ATS: Aircraft Tracking System.

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Booking: A planned flight/simulator, or theoretical class in the Schedule Module.

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Check-In:  Finalize a flight or simulator session check-in to manually record times (when a flight or simulator session is finished). Check-in is automatic with the flight tracker.

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Class: A class of users in a course (e.g., 'Class of 2020'), created in the Courses Module.

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Currency: The currency determines whether a pilot can fly solo, with or without passengers. A pilot is current if he has flown a certain number of times in the past. This is determined by the number of landings completed on a specific aircraft type. By default 3 landings in the past month for flying solo with passengers, and 3 in the past three months for flying solo without passengers. Currency can be configured in the Administrator Settings.

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Dashboard: Overview of key information.

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Flights:  A flight or simulator event that has occurred. Flights can be created in different ways; manually, from check-in, automatically from a booking, or a flight-tracker. 

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Footprints:  Electronic log of users' actions, i.e., modifications, on bookings and flights.

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Group:  A group of users that can be used to filter your users, send a mass mailing, create a booking, and assign a specific profile for access requirements throughout the software. You can create groups in the Users Module.

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Instruction:  Dual.

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Module: Interoperable software component within Private-Radar, e.g. "Schedule", "Flights", “Aircraft”, “Users”, and "Courses".

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Private Booking: Private bookings can only be seen by users whose profile has permission to view private bookings. Private bookings do not send notifications to the participants. 

 

Privilege: A privilege is the given option a user has to access a functionality.

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Public Booking:  Public bookings can be seen by users whose profile has permission to view the schedule. Public bookings send notifications to the participants. 

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Publish:  To transform private bookings into public bookings.

 

Role: Defined level of access given to a selection of registered users, e.g., student, instructor, accounting department, ops manager. A role is a set of privileges for each user that can give or limit access to complete modules, tabs, or specific actions. A user must have a role and email to access Private-Radar.

 

Schedule: Chronological presentation of the program. Including aircraft bookings, flight lesson bookings, simulator session bookings, theoretical lesson bookings, and instructors' activities.

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Squawk: Aircraft issue/defect that is subject to review and/or maintenance, e.g. autopilot inoperable, landing light not working...

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Tracker: Flight tracking & recording device installed in an aircraft as part of the ATS.

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Tracking: Real-time monitoring and automatic recording of flight times and routes with the tracker.

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User: Individual, i.e., staff, student, instructor, added in the Users Module database that can be given access to Private-Radar by having an assigned role and an email address.

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User Account:  A user account is the user’s name and password to sign in to Private-Radar.

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User Information: This refers to the student’s personal information list displayed in a box next to the user’s picture.

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