Aircraft Maintenance Warning!

[Karl]

Why do I, from time to time, get the following warning?


Aircraft maintenance warning

Some aircraft in your fleet have expired maintenance checks or they are grounded. Please see more details from Aircraft section
It tells me that the A check has - or will expire soon.
The A & B checks are set correctly for this schedule.

Why this ominous warning?

[Sanabas]

Usually because when you assigned the schedule, the B check hadn't been done for a couple of weeks. Can happen if you're switching schedules between planes, too. If you put a schedule on a plane early in the month, and the B-check is 3 weeks old at that point, you won't be prompted to do the B check straight away. By the time the scheduled B check gets done, it's now 7 weeks old, and so you'll see the expired warning.

Same deal with an A-check. Plane was scheduled to have A-check on Monday, you give it a new schedule on a Sunday, and the new schedule has A-check on Saturday. Result is the plane goes 12 days without an A check, and so is flagged as expired. As long as you haven't forgotten to schedule checks, it won't be a problem, and you can just ignore the warnings.

[Karl]

As long as you haven't forgotten to schedule checks, it won't be a problem, and you can just ignore the warnings.

You can understand, however, how this type of severe warning can be alaming!

[stansu]

As long as you haven't forgotten to schedule checks, it won't be a problem, and you can just ignore the warnings.

Do you mean the warning won't result in an immediate CI and/or alliance score hit?

If so, how many days of buffer would the system give me before the CI hit happens, for A check and B check respectively?

Another thing that sometimes happening to me is: I add flight schedule for a to-be-delivered A/C but forget to add maintenance. The a/c will neither be flagged nor show up in the "Aircraft" overview which shows a/c without maintenance check since the a/c is not yet delivered. When I log back in 12 real-life hours later, I see such a maintenance warning. If there is a grace period, would it apply to this case too?

Thanks

[Sanabas]

Yes, the grace period would apply to that case, too.

However, I have no idea how long the actual grace period is. Not something I want to test.

[myoung8800]

Is it a good idea to have a few aircraft sitting to cover routes for planes in maintence?

[exchlbg]

It only makes sense when this idle aircraft is busy most of the year flying the schedules of aircraft in maintenance.It needs a lot of management,though.You need to be online every day to check and change schedules.
Other possibility is changing schedules so, that your aircraft in maintenance is serving the schedule with the lowest income to minimize losses.
That also needs a lot of online-time to keep track.

[brique]

Switching the highest/lowest earners is not that awkward : you can see when its due for mx and can change it days/weeks in advance, both will carry on flying until the due date when the lame duck then goes into limbo and the high flyer picks the low-hanging fruit whilst running up the flagpole and saluting the on-going profit/cost ratio determinants... erm... yeah... something like that...

[RibeiroR]

Is it a good idea to have a few aircraft sitting to cover routes for planes in maintence?

Doesn't.

[exchlbg]

Doesn´t what ? The question was answered under which circumstances it might be an idea to consider. If you like to oppose that, plaese make clear, why.