Pilot Currency and Readiness: Licenses, Ratings, Flight Hours and Checklists
Pilot currency is the difference between legally fit to fly and grounded on a technicality, and the Currency section keeps it visible: every license, medical and rating expiry alongside flight-hour recency, so nothing lapses without warning.
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What flight currency and readiness actually mean
Currency (/currency) is a personal readiness tracker for pilots, built in the spirit of LogTen's currency view but wired to your own platform data. It answers one blunt question at the top of the page: are you fit to fly today, or is something about to lapse? A single hero banner rolls every document up to the worst case, so 'Needs attention', 'Expiring soon', 'Under control' or 'All current' is legible at a glance.
Readiness has two halves. The first is document validity — licenses, medicals, ratings and language proficiency that all carry expiry dates set by regulators. The second is recency — recent flight experience, because a valid certificate does not make you current if you have not flown. The tracker shows both on one screen instead of leaving you to reconcile a wallet of cards against a paper logbook.
- Overall status banner derived from the worst-case document (expired > critical > soon > current)
- Document validity: licenses, medicals, ratings, language proficiency
- Flight recency: last flight, flights and hours over the last 90 and 180 days
- Data is read from your own profile documents and sealed logbook — no separate spreadsheet
Expiry buckets: expired, 30-day and 90-day windows
Every tracked document is sorted into a colour-coded bucket by days remaining, so triage is instant. Expired means already past its date; critical is 30 days or fewer; soon is 90 days or fewer; current has more than 90 days of headroom. Lifetime credentials and documents without a date are labelled separately rather than faked into a deadline.
A summary strip counts how many documents sit in each bucket, and the tracker surfaces the single nearest deadline by name — for example, 'Next deadline: Class 1 Medical — in 18 days'. That turns a shoebox of certificates into a prioritised to-do list where the most urgent renewal is always on top.
- Expired — validity date already passed, status needs restoring
- Critical — 30 days or fewer to expiry
- Soon — 90 days or fewer to expiry
- Current — more than 90 days of headroom
- Lifetime / no date — flagged separately, never counted as a false deadline
Flight recency from a sealed, tamper-evident logbook
Recency is computed from sealed flight entries in your digital logbook — not from a number you type in. The tracker reads your last flight date and how many days ago it was, then counts flights and hours in the last 90 days, flights in the last 180 days, and your total sealed entries. Because the source records are tamper-evident, the recency figures are evidence, not estimates.
The last-flight figure carries a quiet warning system: it stays neutral while you are active, turns amber past 30 days, and flags red past 90 days, nudging a currency flight before a rating quietly goes stale. This is the same recency data that feeds your verifiable pilot CV in the Career section, so staying current also keeps your public profile strong.
- Last flight date and days since last flight
- Flights and hours logged in the last 90 days
- Flights logged in the last 180 days
- Total sealed logbook entries
- Colour warning on last flight: neutral, amber past 30 days, red past 90 days
Documents, authorities and verified vs self-reported status
Each document line shows its kind (license, rating, medical or language), the issuing authority, its number, the raw validity text and a computed expiry chip. Crucially, each also carries a trust status: self-reported, under review, or verified. A verified badge is only set after the credential is checked against the registry, so a reader can tell a confirmed licence from an unconfirmed claim.
The validity field is deliberately forgiving. A tolerant parser reads ISO dates, DD.MM.YYYY, MM.YYYY, plain text like 'Apr 2027', a bare year, and words like 'lifetime' or 'unlimited' in English or Russian. If a date genuinely cannot be read it is marked 'date not recognised' rather than silently dropped, so you always know what the tracker could and could not interpret.
- Kinds tracked: license, rating, medical, language proficiency
- Each shows authority, document number and raw validity text
- Trust status: self-reported, under review, or verified against the registry
- Tolerant date parser: ISO, DD.MM.YYYY, MM.YYYY, 'Apr 2027', year-only, 'lifetime'
- Unreadable dates flagged as 'date not recognised', never faked
Using Currency as a pre-flight compliance checklist
Because every deadline and recency figure lives on one screen, Currency doubles as a personal compliance checklist. Before a flight, a trip or a job application you can confirm in seconds that the licence, medical, ratings and language endorsement are all valid and that recent experience meets the operation you are about to fly.
Currency is read-only by design: it computes from what you keep elsewhere. When a chip goes amber or red, one link takes you to your profile to edit or add the document, and the tracker updates. Nothing is entered twice — the checklist reflects the single source of truth you already maintain.
- One-screen pre-flight check of licences, medical, ratings and language
- Confirm recent experience matches the intended operation
- Jump straight to your profile to renew or add a document
- Read-only tracker: no duplicate data entry
How it works
- Add your licenses, medical, ratings and language proficiency in your profile, each with its validity date.
- The tracker parses every validity date and sorts each document into a bucket: expired, 30-day, 90-day or current.
- A hero banner rolls everything up to the worst case and names your single nearest deadline.
- Recency is computed from your sealed logbook: last flight, flights and hours over 90 and 180 days, total entries.
- The last-flight cell turns amber past 30 days and red past 90 days to prompt a currency flight.
- When a document nears expiry, follow the link to your profile to renew it; a verified badge appears after a registry check.
FAQ
What is the difference between currency and validity?
Validity is whether your licence, medical or rating is still within its expiry date. Currency also requires recent experience — you can hold a valid certificate yet not be current to carry passengers if you have not flown enough recently. The tracker shows both: expiry buckets for documents and recency counts from your sealed logbook.
How are the 30-day and 90-day buckets defined?
Each document is sorted by days remaining until its expiry date. Expired is already past; critical is 30 days or fewer; soon is 90 days or fewer; current has more than 90 days of headroom. Lifetime credentials and documents with no date are labelled separately, not forced into a deadline.
Where do the flight recency numbers come from?
From sealed, tamper-evident flight entries in your digital logbook, not from a typed-in figure. The tracker reads your last flight date, counts flights and hours in the last 90 days, flights in the last 180 days, and your total entries — so the recency figures are evidence rather than estimates.
What does the 'verified' status on a document mean?
A document starts as self-reported, can move to under review, and is marked verified only after the credential is checked against the registry. Until then it is clearly labelled as unconfirmed, so anyone reading your profile or CV can tell a confirmed licence from a self-reported claim.
Know you are legal to fly today
Licenses, medical, recency — one readiness screen instead of mental math.
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