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Musket FMS Passenger Service Pax Database interface

Pax Database

Features:

  • Generate Client Account Statements for any period
  • Statements include transaction dates, references, due dates, status, and more
  • Set account currency per client
  • Include account summary with brought forward, totals, and closing balance

Dashboard

Flight & Crew Scheduling

Passenger Services

Client Management

Organisation Document Control

Staff Management

Aircraft Management

Maintenance Hub – MRO

Flight Operations

Quotations & Invoicing

Auditing & Reporting

Other QSS Settings

Features:

  • Create and maintain a detailed taxonomy of areas, hazards, and events to be utilised throughout the whole system
  • Determine a unique list of causal categories and factors to be utilised in corrective action submissions
  • Set up a list of external parties with a list of external users and their contact details, and specify which external entity can conduct audits and be audited
  • Define a list of notification types that can be sent in the system along with their deadline period and whether a certain notification type should restrict sign-on for users if not acknowledged
  • Specify if audits and reports should get auto generated subjects
  • Define a detailed list of possible impacted parties for the risk & hazard register

Management of Change

Features:

  • Create and conduct management of change (MoC) assessments
  • Define the date conducted, attendance register, scope and objective for each assessment
  • Link related bases/airports to an MoC assessment
  • Specify the area of each checklist item and also whether it is impacted or not
  • Assign hazards and risks to impacted items and optionally send out corrective action requests or RFIs for review to be linked to the risk & hazard register
  • Finalize and close-out MoC assessments and add impact assessment comments and request a review from team members
  • Create and maintain unique MoC checklists with applicable questions and discussion points
  • Combine checklists using MoC templates and include a default scope and objective, and define a default MoC team for each template
  • Predefine a customisable list of different MoC types/categories
  • Generate detailed MoC reports
  • Receive email alerts for any action requiring your attention

Regulatory Reports -PIC Discretion & Duty Violations

Features:

  • Capture hazards, pre‑risk and residual risk, issue findings/RFIs, and request close-out reviews
  • Manage Close‑out of reports with executive summaries and a full audit trail
  • Export full detailed reports for management and regulators

Reporting

Features:

  • Open investigation on a submitted report, view the submitted information, supply opening remarks, and specify the investigation team and their access
  • Create findings and send corrective action requests to internal users or external parties
  • Create and send requests for information (RFI) to colleagues
  • Review corrective action submissions and RFIs
  • Assign hazards, pre-risk, and residual risk to reports to link to the risk & hazard register
  • Close out reports by requesting a review from a colleague and supplying report close-out summary information and ask Musket Autopilot to assist with these summaries
  • Create and maintain company specific report categories/forms and specify the default investigation team for each report
  • Link related objects to your report category like aircraft, users, airports, clients, and more
  • Define a company specific risk matrix
  • Generate a comprehensive report for submitted reports with various filter options
  • Receive email alerts when new reports gets submitted and for any action requiring your attention

Auditing

Features:

  • Create audits by specifying start and end dates, scope, objective, and checklists to be used
  • Link different audit areas, entities, bases/airports, and aircraft to an audit
  • Conduct audits to assign different compliance outcomes to each question
  • Assign corrective action requests to internal users or external parties
  • Review corrective action submissions and assign hazards and initial/residual risk
  • Finalize and Close out audits by requesting a review from a colleague and supplying executive summaries, finding summaries, scope for improvement, and additional comments and ask Musket Autopilot to assist with these summaries
  • Create and maintain company specific audit checklists with related questions
  • Combine checklists using audit templates and include a default scope and objective, and define a default audit team
  • Specify audit team members’ access levels and responsibilities
  • Predefine different audit types, compliance types, and audit report configurations
  • Generate audit status reports with various filter options
  • Receive email alerts for any action requiring your attention

Findings & RFI Register

Features:

  • View all finding, corrective action, and request for information (RFI) details across all sections on one page
  • Review corrective action request, RFI, and extension request submissions
  • Direct in-app messaging with the responsible person
  • Export finding/request reports
  • Add standalone actions or RFIs

Risk Management

Features:

  • Link various sources of hazards and their associated risk to a single risk and hazard register
  • Define risk indices, associated risks, areas, impacted factors, risk controls & mitigation, and root causes to a hazard
  • View all linked sources and their related details for a hazard
  • Auto-generate associated risks, risk controls & mitigation, and root causes for a hazard with Musket Autopilot (integrated AI functionality)

Notifications & Tags

Features:

  • Create tags/notices with different tag types, validity periods, deadlines, and more
  • Target a specific audience (Applies to all users or select Roles and/or specific users)
  • Attach documents for users to read before acknowledgement
  • Acknowledge tracking: View acknowledged and unacknowledged users with timestamps
  • Send an email to unacknowledged users with one click

Overview

Features:

  • Corrective Actions overview by status (Approved, Overdue, On‑time, Pending review, etc.)
  • Reports chart categorising unopened, active, and closed reports
  • Active Audits bar shows audits Pending Start, In‑Progress, Pending Close‑out and other states
  • Risk Assessment Comparison compares pre- and post risk assessments according to your predefined risk tolerabilities
  • Findings per hazard graph that highlights hazards causing the most findings

Other Quote Settings

Features:

  • Quote Configurations – Define multiple configurations with company details, document code format, default aircraft base, distance units, quote currency, VAT %, discounts, turnaround times, and more
  • Document Layout – Define various formats for quote and invoice documents including bespoke terms and conditions
  • Quote Fields – Add custom fields to capture bespoke data on quotes

Services & Fees

Features:

  • Allocate various airport services and their related fees to auto-generate on quotations
  • Set up aircraft specific or aircraft type cost profiles according to distance or flight hours including other related standard fees and/or distance shortfall fees
  • Assign airports to specific classes per country with their related services and fees
  • Populate different handling companies and fuelling providers with related contact details

Routes

Features:

  • Add predefined routes to be used in quotes, with predefined distances, costs, and other applicable fees.
  • Routes can be assigned for use by specific aircraft or aircraft types

Quotes

Features:

  • Generate quotes with flight details with various fees for aircraft, airport, enroute, and general.
  • Define discounts, VAT, quote currency, cost calculation type (distance/hourly), different aircraft cost profiles, and more
  • Auto-populate various fees including landing, approach, parking, passenger, navigational, distance shortfall, and more
  • Copy previous quotes for easy quote generation, or create different quote templates
  • Create proforma invoices from single or multiple quotes to send to clients
  • Create invoices from single or multiple quotes including payment methods and due dates
  • Cancel and credit note invoices and view a full history of all invoices and credit notes for each quote
  • Submit approved quote flights directly to your flight schedule with all related details
  • Generate quote summaries to send to clients
  • Generate invoice reports with various filters for internal or external distribution

Maintenance Actions

Features:

  • Build nested maintenance programmes (e.g., basic inspections, class‑specific checks, life‑limited components) with task types, applicable aircraft and intervals (hours, cycles, landings, periods)
  • Produce a Scheduled Maintenance Actions Report
  • Set up and define Maintenance references, Minimum Equipment Lists, Repair Categories, stores and suppliers, plus rules for extensions and job‑card requests
  • Ability to define whether the maintenance interval source must derive from post flight actuals or manual logbook entries.

Technical Directives

Features:

  • Records Technical directives (ADs/SBs) with code, type, category, title, notes, published and effective dates.
  • Lets you submit new technical directives and record notes about compliance or applicability
  • Specify initial or recurrent intervals per technical directive
  • Link technical directives to specific aircraft, aircraft types, engines, propellers, or parts
  • Specify terminating action per technical directive

Tools & Equipment

Features:

  • Build a hierarchy of tool & equipment categories and types
  • Add tools & equipment with related details including:
    • Manufacturer
    • Part number
    • Serial number
    • Location
    • History and more
  • Track date renewed and next due date with visual and email alerts
  • Keep attachments, change history, and comments
  • Generate a Tools & Equipment Items Report for export/print

3rd Party Operators

Features:

  • Maintain a directory of external companies for which maintenance is done including their related details
  • Aircraft and parts can be assigned to third party operators

Inventory

Features:

  • Add or manage parts and part types with all their related details including part numbers, serial numbers, assignments, and more
  • Group parts by Part Type, showing part numbers and the total quantity of parts
  • Assign parts to different components or move to stores
  • Allows adding of documents and comments for each part

Maintenance Aircraft

Features:

  • Manage maintenance aircraft and their related engines and propellers
  • Create and assign new engines and propellers with all their related details
  • Move engines and propellers to other aircraft or to stores
  • View full assignment history of engines and propellers

Ad Hoc Tasks

Features:

  • Add one-off maintenance jobs
  • Assign the task to an aircraft, airframe, engine, propeller, or specific component/part
  • Set due criteria by date or utilisation (flight hours, landings, cycles, engine hours, propeller hours)
  • Printable job cards, attachments, tech-log links, and a full review/approval audit trail
  • Request/review extensions, capture sign-off, and export history for compliance and trend reporting

Defers &
Defects

Features:

  • Tracks defects by code, description, defective part, aircraft, discovery date, and more
  • Submit new MEL or Non-MEL defects and link them with specific components or parts
  • Link MEL defects with a specific aircraft MEL for specific due intervals
  • Submit and/or review extension requests on MEL defects
  • Create maintenance jobs for specific or multiple defects with related work sheets

Maintenance Tracker

Features:

  • Lists every active aircraft with maintenance status indicators (maintenance overdue, upcoming, or in progress)
  • Access the Maintenance tracker of each aircraft to view all defects, technical directives, and scheduled maintenance tasks with their remaining intervals
  • Create maintenance jobs for single or multiple maintenance tasks with auto generated work sheets for each job
  • Generate detailed maintenance tracking and forecast reports
  • Access and capture Logbooks data for each aircraft.
  • Generate Aircraft Utilisation reports with all relevant airframe, engine, and propeller details and metrics
  • View all current and historical Job Cards with their related details in one place

Post‑Flight Actuals

Features:

  • Capture all post-flight actual details for single or multiple flights at a time
  • Optionally copy flight following data to post-flight actuals
  • Upload all related flight documentation for historical records
  • Receive system generated issue alerts for possible faulty post-flight actual data

Flight Following

Features:

  • Update flight status and log diversions and/or delays with linked delay codes
  • Capture flight details (departure/arrival times, passenger info, fuel figures, etc) live as they happen
  • Send out movement messages to impacted parties
  • Generate a Flight Following Report for operational overview.

Dispatch

Features:

  • Create new dispatch packages from your published flight schedule.
  • Dispatch packages includes crew briefs containing all flight and related details, passenger manifests, general declaration forms, and any other uploaded documents
  • View, edit, or export dispatch packages
  • Keep track of the full dispatch history

Aircraft Document Structure

Features:

  • Ensure no certificate, permit, or manual falls through the cracks with built‑in tracking and automatic emails
  • Build a hierarchical Aircraft Library tree
  • Set each document type as mandatory or optional
  • Specify default validity periods for specific documents

Fleet Management

Features:

  • Record aircraft registration, serial number, operator, nationality, model, passenger seating capacity, maximum take‑off weight (MTOW), and more
  • Enable or disable an airframe for Flight Operations, Maintenance Hub, and Documents
  • Manage a dedicated library per aircraft: assign required documents, store issue/expiry dates, upload files, and view status
  • Receive email alerts when aircraft documents are about to expire
  • Customise engine positions and post‑flight data fields when a type differs from the default
  • Generate comprehensive Aircraft Documents Reports showing document validity across your fleet, colour‑coded and with clickable links for quick review

Aircraft Types

Features:

  • Maintain each aircraft type’s ICAO designator, manufacturer, model(s), weight category, engine type/count, and class
  • Configure multiple models (e.g.  PAX vs Cargo) under one type
  • Enable or disable each aircraft type for Flight Operations, Maintenance Hub, and/or Documents
  • Build Default Flight Data Fields—pick which values (Fuel fields, Hobbs, tach time, pax quantities, etc.) are required
  • Specify which fields must be mapped to maintenance hours and crew hours, or flight operations forms
  • Specify Default Engine Positions and their fields to be captured in post flight actuals
  • Set crew seat configurations per type/regulation to ensure correct rostering

Regulatory Reports
PIC Discretion & Duty Violations

Features:

  • Capture hazards, pre‑risk and residual risk, issue findings/RFIs, and request close-out reviews
  • Manage Close‑out of reports with executive summaries and a full audit trail
  • Export full detailed reports for management and regulators

Timesheets

Features:

  • View and record sign-on/off periods
  • View duty period and FDP period durations
  • Submit PIC Discretion and Duty Violation reports
  • Filter according to duties with PIC Discretions and/or Duty violations

Flight & Duty Tracker

Features:

  • View current Flight, Duty and FDP totals per person
  • FDP Overview timeline for all staff including duty phases and rest/off periods, plus indicators for current and maximum flight hours, duty hours, non-flight duty hours, and off day evaluations
  • Built‑in Rest evaluation (preceding rest, local nights, off‑day counters) with a live list of Applicable Rules

Crew & Staff Register

Features:

  • View assigned roles, endorsed positions, and base assignments
  • View and update staff compliance documents and receive notifications when items are about to expire
  • Check Operational Recency (General, IFR, Night) by aircraft type/class
  • See Flight Experience Summary totals by type/class
  • Manage and assign staff endorsements
  • Export a General Staff Details Report for audits or management reviews

Tools & Equipment

Features:

  • Build a hierarchy of tool & equipment categories and types
  • Add tools & equipment with related details including:
    • Manufacturer
    • Part number
    • Serial number
    • Location
    • History and more
  • Track date renewed and next due date with visual and email alerts
  • Keep attachments, change history, and comments
  • Generate a Tools & Equipment Items Report for export/print

Bases

Features:

  • Add company bases and link each to the correct airport and time zone
  • Base data feeds scheduling, rosters, auditing, reporting, and notification targeting
  • Quickly view airport details of each base

Notifications & Tags

Features:

  • Create tags/notices with different tag types, valid periods, deadlines, and more
  • Target a specific audience (Applies to all users or select Roles and specific users)
  • Attach documents for users to read before acknowledgement
  • Acknowledge tracking: View acknowledged and unacknowledged users with timestamps
  • Send an email to unacknowledged users with one click

Document Review

Features:

  • Raise review requests per document issue/revision; assign one or multiple reviewers
  • Approve or Reject document reviews with remarks and a full audit trail
  • Request subsequent reviews on later revisions

Document Control

Features:

  • Organise company documents with different folders and document types
  • Store editable and hard‑copy files and track their published status, expiry, and more
  • Receive email notifications when documents are about to expire
  • Fine‑grained access for any document
  • Create a notification when publishing a document in one easy step
  • Access to shared company documents on the mobile app (even when offline)

Pax Database

Features:

  • Generate Client Account Statements for any period
  • Statements include transaction dates, references, due dates, status, and more
  • Include account summary with brought forward, totals, and closing balance

Tickets & Manifests

Features:

  • Generate QR‑coded e‑tickets per passenger with full itinerary
  • Issue group tickets for multi‑passenger, multi‑sector journeys
  • Produce Passenger Manifests with crew/aircraft details and PIC signature line

Bookings & Tickets

Features:

  • Work from a flight list tied to your published schedule
  • Add single passengers or group bookings across one or multiple sectors
  • Capture passenger details including ID/passport, nationality, weight, luggage, dietary needs, and more
  • Attach supporting passenger documents
  • See aircraft capacity, passenger counts, categories, and occupancy at a glance

Long Term Assignments

Features:

  • Record long term duty types and assignments for staff members across countries
  • Record staff travel between different assignments
  • See assignment history and total days per duty/location

Crew Rosters

Features:

  • View all staff duties at a glance
  • Assign flight duties, non-flight duties and rest/leave for staff members
  • View individual staff schedules in a calendar-style layout
  • Identify gaps, conflicts, and unassigned days
  • Edit schedules in line with compliance limits

Airports

Features:

  • Add and manage airports with codes, coordinates, and custom names
  • Link documents, charts, and runway details for each airport
  • Record and view known hazards, alternates, and operational restrictions

Schedule Planner

Features:

  • View both published and unpublished flights in a single planning tool
  • Spot potential compliance issues or duty violations before they happen
  • Visual alerts for maximum duty hours, rest periods, and FDP limits
  • Add, edit, or reschedule flights using real-time validation
  • Publish flights directly once all checks are passed

Flight Schedule

Features:

  • Schedule individual flights or set up repeating flight schedules
  • View only published flights with all their related details for complete operational clarity
  • Monitor FDP compliance, crew pairing, and aircraft assignments per flight
  • Timeline (Gantt) view to spot overlaps, gaps, or tight turnarounds at a glance
  • Receive warnings for crew operational and document recency
  • Leave comments on flights for other staff or crew members

Reporting & Action Requests

Features:

  • Submit various kinds of reports
  • View status of each submitted report
  • Submit additional submissions on a report
  • Receive notifications when a submitted report has started and closed investigation
  • Receive and action requests for information
  • Receive and action corrective action requests
  • Request time extensions on pending actions
  • Direct messaging between yourself and the requestor

Company Documents

Features:

  • View and access published company documents shared with you
  • View status of documents and expiry dates
  • Download company documents (if authorized)
  • Full offline access via the mobile app

Your Recency & Documents

Features:

  • All your personal and operational documents in one place
  • Receive alerts on document expiration
  • Edit and update your documents (if authorized)

Your Recency & Documents

Features:

  • All your personal and operational documents in one place
  • Receive alerts on document expiration
  • Edit and update your documents (if authorized)

Your Timesheets

Features:

  • View individual duties, sign on/off, and their durations
  • Track personal regulatory compliance and historical duty records
  • Submit duty violation and PIC discretion reports
  • Add or edit sign on/off periods

Your Flights & Recency

Features:

  • See upcoming and past assigned flights with all their related details
  • View and edit flight status
  • Add/edit post-flight data (if authorized)
  • Aircraft and personal document status alerts
  • Receive personal operational recency alerts
  • View regulatory compliance for each sector
  • Submit duty violation and PIC discretion reports
  • Leave comments on individual flight sectors

Roster & Duty Calendar

Features:

  • Calendar-style overview of all personal duties, leave, off days
  • Visual FDP and rest compliance
  • Show off day calculations

Notifications & Tags

Features:

  • Receive notifications such as company memos, safety bulletins, notices, etc.
  • Acknowledge notifications and their attachments
  • Re-read historical notifications

Personal Dashboard

Features:

  • Real-time FDP, Duty, and Rest compliance tracking
  • View Off Day evaluation
  • Track Operational Recency including general, IFR, and night recency

Main Dashboard

Features:

  • Sign on and off with the click of a button
  • View various alerts customized according to your role
  • Submit various types of reports
  • Quick overview of today’s flights

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Data Security You Can Trust

Features:

  • Control who can view accounts, add/edit receipts, and allocate receipts
  • Apply feature‑level rights (view/edit/full) by role
  • Keep financial actions limited to authorized personnel

Real-time ledger transparency

Features:

  • Account summary by period: debits, credits, closing balance
  • Detailed transaction list: invoices, credit notes, receipts, allocations, due dates
  • Status indicators (e.g., Paid, Allocated, Unallocated, Partially paid)
  • Open and export original documents (invoice/receipt/credit note) directly from the ledger

Smart Receipt Allocation

Features:

  • Record receipts in foreign or local currency with configurable exchange rates
  • Allocate a single receipt across single or multiple invoices
  • Generate professional receipt PDFs instantly
  • See running balances update in real time
  • Maintain a clear allocation history for auditability

Statements Made Simple

Features:

  • Generate Client Account Statements for any period
  • Statements include transaction dates, references, due dates, status, and more
  • Include account summary with brought forward, totals, and closing balance

Invoice in Seconds

Features:

  • Open a client’s Quotes & Invoices workspace directly from their profile
  • Create proforma/invoices, and link quotes to operational planning (as applicable)
  • Preview and download billing documents from within the client context

Know Your Clients

Features:

  • Create and edit client profiles (POC, contacts, address, VAT, etc)
  • Quick‑access to client accounts and their quotes & invoices
  • Set account currency per client
  • View live account balance

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