Aerodrome

The Aerodrome settings group contains local operational defaults that control landing fee behaviour for your organisation. These settings are particularly important if your organisation operates as an aerodrome operator and needs to charge landing fees on applicable flights.

How to access Aerodrome settings

1. Open Settings from the main menu.
2. Select the Aerodrome group.

Fields

Landing fee amount

• What it does: Defines the monetary amount charged as a landing fee per applicable flight.
• Field type: Numeric input.
• How to change it: Enter the desired amount in the landing fee amount field and save.
• Operational impact: The value you enter here is the fee that will be applied to flights when landing fee logic is active. Changing this value affects all future applicable flights immediately. It does not retroactively change fees on flights that have already been logged.

Landing fee active

• What it does: Enables or disables the landing fee logic across the organisation.
• Field type: Toggle (on/off).
• How to change it: Switch the toggle to on to activate landing fees, or to off to deactivate them. Save your changes.
• Operational impact: When set to on, the landing fee amount is applied to all applicable flights. When set to off, no landing fees are charged regardless of the amount configured. Toggling this setting takes effect immediately.

Common tasks

Setting up landing fees for the first time

1. Open Settings and select the Aerodrome group.
2. Enter the landing fee amount you wish to charge.
3. Switch the landing fee active toggle to on.
4. Save your changes.
5. Verify by checking the next applicable flight to confirm the fee appears.

Temporarily suspending landing fees

1. Open Settings and select the Aerodrome group.
2. Switch the landing fee active toggle to off.
3. Save your changes.
4. The landing fee amount is preserved so you can reactivate it later without re-entering the value.

Changing the landing fee amount

1. Open Settings and select the Aerodrome group.
2. Update the numeric value in the landing fee amount field.
3. Save your changes.
4. The new amount applies to all future applicable flights from this point onward.

Good practices

• Set the landing fee amount before activating the toggle to avoid a period where flights are charged an incorrect fee.
• Inform pilots and staff before activating or changing landing fees, as the change is immediate and affects all applicable flights.
• If you need to suspend landing fees temporarily (for example, during a maintenance period), use the toggle rather than setting the amount to zero. This preserves your configured fee for easy reactivation.
• Periodically review the landing fee amount to ensure it reflects your current operational costs.