Flying Rhino
RHINO AVIATION

Preflight Planning

Goal

This page is the shortest practical path to get a new installation ready for actual use: create the aircraft type, create the aircraft, confirm fuel types and templates, and then build the first loading and flight.

Step 1. Sign In and Confirm Permissions

  1. Sign in with a user account that can add and modify aircraft types, aircraft, and templates.
  2. If the account is missing those permissions, use an admin account to grant them or attach the correct role.

Step 2. Confirm Fuel Types

  1. Go to Admin → Fuels if you are an admin.
  2. Make sure the fuel types you intend to use already exist, with correct density and units.
  3. Create any missing fuel types before defining aircraft buckets that depend on them.

Step 3. Create the Aircraft Type

  1. Go to Aircraft Types.
  2. Create the type designation, subtype, manufacturer, and name.
  3. Enter basic empty weight and applicable max weights.
  4. Enter or select the V-speeds data.
  5. Define the W&B envelope points.
  6. Define the buckets, their stations, laterals, and display order.
  7. If the default schematic planview is not sufficient, use Upload Planview in Buckets and Anchors to select a PNG image. The image must be 3 MB or smaller.
  8. Adjust bucket anchors and labels on the planview.
  9. Save the type to commit the planview image, buckets, anchors, and labels together.
  10. Enable “Use hard-coded legacy M20K runway performance” only for aircraft types that should use the built-in M20K performance model when no imported table profile is present.
  11. After the type exists, use the Performance Profiles card to parse and import a Cessna-style table PDF if this aircraft type uses table-based runway performance. If the type’s selected V-speed set includes the needed short-field and normal speeds, the Cessna import will derive normal-technique tables from those speeds; otherwise it will fall back to the configured generic multipliers.
  12. Resolve any save-blocking warnings, such as envelope min/max conflicts or unconfirmed approach-category mismatches.

Step 4. Create the Specific Aircraft

  1. Go to Aircraft.
  2. Create the registration.
  3. Select the aircraft type created in the previous step.
  4. Enter aircraft-specific empty weight and empty CG values.
  5. Select the default template if one should follow this aircraft.

Step 5. Load a Template

  1. Go to Templates.
  2. Upload a new RTF or DOCX template if the desired one does not already exist.
  3. Confirm the template thumbnail looks correct.
  4. If needed, generate Blank True and Blank False copies to verify the template logic.
  5. Use Template Authoring Guide if you need to create or revise the source template.

Step 6. Build the First Loading and Flight

  1. Go to W&B and enter the initial loading.
  2. Go to Flight and enter the route and timing.
  3. Refresh Weather.
  4. Review the weather and runway performance cards.
  5. Generate the form.