Overview

There are several different types of data that can be entered into APDL. Depending on your particular situation, you may or may not need to use all of these types of data.

If you are not using the Airline Schedule Importer, you will need to make all entries manually.

Trips

Creating a Trip

Creating a trip can be done from the Calendar View or Schedule View. To create a new trip, tap on the appropriate blank day. On the popup window, select "Create Duty Period". This will display a "New Duty Period" window. You must enter the trip number and tap save to continue. Duty on and duty off times may be entered if desired. If you leave the duty times blank, they will be automatically calculated according to your Airline settings. You will now be on the Trip View in "Edit Mode". Tap the "Add Segment" row to add a segment to Day 1 of the trip. Enter the appropriate payroll category, flight number, departure, destination, and scheduled times in order to continue. When entering times, tap the active row to close the time editor or tap the next row to edit the next time. Tap save to return to the trip view. Continue adding legs until you have added all legs for that day.

To add another day to the trip, tap the "Add Duty Period" row. This will display another Duty Period window. An alternate method to add another day to a trip is by tapping on a blank day immediately following a trip on the Calendar View or Schedule View.

Repeat the process above to continue adding days and flights to your trip. When finished entering all legs of the trip, tap the "Done" button at the top right of the screen to exit Edit Mode.

Creating a Split Duty Trip

Split duty is a special case that has to be created in APDL slightly differently than a standard trip. As the regulation specifies, split duty flying is considered a single duty period. It must be created in APDL as a single duty period as well. To create a split duty trip, create a trip as described in Creating a Trip above. When adding the first leg, set the regulation to "Part 117 Split Duty". Create another leg in the same duty period (same day) as the first leg and select "Rest Opportunity" as the payroll category. Set the scheduled times as appropriate for the rest opportunity. Create another leg in the same duty period and set the regulation to "Part 117 Split Duty". When setting the OOOI times for this leg, be sure to choose the correct date since it may need to be cycled forward by one day to reflect the correct flight date while being in the same duty period as the previous flight and rest opportunity.

A correctly entered split duty trip looks like this

This is an incorrectly entered split duty trip. Even though these examples use exactly the same OOOI times, entering a split duty trip like this will cause legality errors. APDL sees this as two separate duty periods with insufficient rest between.

Reserve

Creating a Reserve Availability Period

Creating a Reserve Availability Period (RAP) can be done from the Calendar View or Schedule View. To create a new Reserve Availability Period, tap on the appropriate blank day. On the popup window, select "Reserve Availability Period". This will display a "New RAP" window. Enter RAP begin and end times and tap save to continue. You will now be on the Trip View. 

Adding legs to a RAP functions exactly as described in Creating a Trip above.

Creating an Airport Standby Period

Creating an Airport Standby Period can be done from the Calendar View or Schedule View. To create a new Airport Standby Period, tap on the appropriate blank day. On the popup window, select "Airport Standby". This will display a "New Duty Period" window. Enter duty on and off times and tap save to continue. You will now be on the Trip View. 

Adding legs to an Airport Standby Period functions exactly as described in Creating a Trip above.

Non-Flying Duty

Creating a Non-Flying Duty Period

To create any type of non-flying duty, follow the same initial steps as outlined in Creating a Trip. After the duty period has been created and you are on the Trip View, create a "leg" and change the payroll category to the appropriate selection. Depending on the selection chosen, the "Leg View" layout may be adjusted to reflect the appropriate options for that type of duty.

Resetting Rest

If you need to reset your rest time for any reason, you must create a duty period in APDL. There could be various reasons you may need to reset your rest time, such as an exceptionally long delay in reaching your hotel after landing on the last leg of the day, an interruption in your rest period by crew scheduling, or any task required by your company for any reason. These reasons could include bidding, at home online training, or contacting crew scheduling while off duty for an assignment. If these items are not entered, APDL will continue to calculate rest from the last time you were released from duty. This could potentially result in an undetected illegal rest situation.

To create a non-flying duty period to reset your rest calculation, create a new duty period on the appropriate day. On the "New Duty Period" page, give the duty period a name and set the duty on and duty off times appropriately. If you did some kind of at home training and a start and end time are appropriate, enter those. If your rest was interrupted by contacting scheduling, logging in to a required company system, or some other unforeseen circumstance that simply restarts your rest period, just enter a duty period of at least 1 minute in length. This will restart the rest calculation in APDL. You can verify that rest has been correctly adjusted by viewing the timeline at the bottom of the Legality Legality Report Page.