- To manage Hobbs on your aircraft, you must first check the box for Hobbs in Aircraft (select the tail you want to edit) - Operational - Systems - Extra Systems.
- In Aircraft - Maintenance - Log, Initialize the Hobbs with a date and number of hours. This is the same process you would follow with Airframe and Engines, as well as APU (if applicable). If you are integrating with a maintenance system, also ensure that serial numbers in your maintenance software (i.e. for airframes and engines) match what shows in FL3XX in order to sync correctly.
- Save your changes.
- With Hobbs checked as an extra system, even if not initialized, all of your airframe and engine times in the Post Flight will now be anchored to your Hobbs, rather than the flight time shown in FL3XX.
- Note that the Start Hobbs will always be equal to the End Hobbs of the last closed/completed Post Flight.
- Pilots must record the actual Hobbs reading from the aircraft at the end of each flight, rather than adding flight time to the Start Hobbs in FL3XX. This is because all open/incomplete flights will show the same Start Hobbs, which is equal to the End Hobbs of the last closed Post Flight. Manually adding flight time in this situation creates errors. By entering the true End Hobbs, the system will automatically adjust once post-flights are closed, as the Start Hobbs will update based on the last completed entry.
- The Maint Report (previously CAMO Report) will be your source of truth in seeing start and end Hobbs per flight, including the ability to show incomplete flights (defined as post flight not set to OK/green).
- It is also strongly recommended to enable the setting "Check Previous Flights In Post Flight," which checks if previous flights are all closed before setting a post flight to OK.