Help

The square of nine dots at the top right of every page opens Hangar Flying’s apps — Home, the Panel Designer, the Marketplace and Help — on this site and the Panel Designer alike. Home shows a card for each app with what is waiting for you there. Help is now one page for every app, in sections, with one search across all of them; it opens at the section for the app you came from.

List an aircraft, a project or kit, an airpark home or lot, a hangar or a tie-down, and find them at hangarflying.com/marketplace. Type an aircraft’s registration number and the FAA registry finds it for you; then photos (up to thirty), a video, documents, the engine and propeller, and List it. Buyers search by make, model, year, price, total time and state, save a search and get an email when something new answers it, ask questions on the site, and research the aircraft from its card. Nobody’s email address is shown, and Hangar Flying takes nothing from the sale. Listings are a dollar a day, and there is no charge during the opening offer.

If you have an account on the Hangar Flying Panel Designer, sign in here with the same email and password — your account is made here as you sign in, with your name and your membership, and your Panel Designer account carries on exactly as before. New to Hangar Flying? Create an account is on the sign-in page. The page that holds your name, email and password is now called Profile, in the menu under your name; old bookmarks still find it.

The product is light only now. The dark appearance and “follow my device” are gone, and so is the chooser for them in the menu under your name — every page reads the same on every machine, whatever that machine is set to. The colors that carry meaning have not moved: red still stops a signature, amber still waits, green is still settled. And the icon in the browser tab, in your bookmarks and on a phone’s home screen is now the Hangar Flying mark itself — the same one hangarflying.com wears. A tab left open from before may keep the old icon until you reload it.

On the Equipment page, a part the site recorded from a logbook entry carries a "from the logbook" chip and a line — "From the Airframe log, page 3" — that leads to the entry it was read from, so it is never mistaken for one somebody typed. And when a book finishes reading, the airframe serial its entries name is compared with the aircraft’s: if they differ, the book’s page says so at the top, the bell rings, and the email that announces the book says it too. Nothing is refused on that account — the entries, clocks and parts are recorded as before — but the doubt is stated where a person can settle it against the page.

As a book finishes reading, every part its entries say was installed, replaced, overhauled or inspected — the engine, the magnetos, a standby attitude indicator, the ELT — is recorded on the Equipment page under its system, with the manufacturer, model, serial and part number as the entry wrote them and a note naming the page it came from. Directives and service documents are then checked against each as with any recorded part. A part the entries say was removed is marked removed on that date, and a part already recorded from its plate is left as it is. The bell says how many were recorded and leads to Equipment to check them.

When a book finishes reading, the annual or condition inspection its entries record sets the aircraft’s last-inspection date, from which the next one is computed, and the ELT battery, transponder, altimeter and other recurring items the entries show done are started — each told on the bell with the entry it came from. A date already on file is never moved backwards. An entry that did several things — an annual that also replaced the ELT battery — counts for each. Anything the site could not set is offered at the top of Coming due with an Agree button.

A photograph read was taking a minute or more; it now answers in a few seconds. The line under each part saying where its numbers are was checked through: the engine data plate is riveted to the crankcase (a Lycoming’s at the left rear, ahead of the accessory housing), not the accessory case; the governor is on the accessory housing pad on most engines; the alternator is belt-driven at the front on most Lycomings; and parts that are rarely marked now say so.