The duty roster, rebuilt around your aircraft

The duty roster has been rebuilt. It is the tool for the evenings when you want to fly but do not want to spend twenty minutes choosing a flight: pick an aircraft, and it builds you a connected day of real scheduled flying around it.

The aircraft comes first

You start by choosing a type. The roster then looks up which carriers genuinely operate that aircraft out of the airport you are parked at, and flies the entire duty for one of them. There are 124 types in the fleet to choose from, and every leg comes from the live schedule, so a Ryanair 737 day looks nothing like a KLM Cityhopper one.

If you would rather not choose the airline yourself, the roster picks one in proportion to how much schedule it actually has on that type at that airport. You can also start somewhere else entirely: choosing another airport repositions you there when you accept the roster.

Same day, or a night stop

You now say what shape of trip you want. A same-day roster fits inside one duty and finishes where it started. A night stop deliberately rests away from base and brings you home the next day. Both are planned against real flight time limitations, EASA ORO.FTL.205 or FAA Part 117 depending on where you are, so when the duty clock runs out you are given a rest rather than an illegal twenty-hour day.

Their timetable or yours

Keep the published schedule and a connection means the next real departure after your ground time is up. Or set your own times, and each leg departs exactly one turnaround after the previous arrival, on a round five minutes, starting at least fifteen minutes from now.

Turnarounds are now a band rather than a single figure: short is 15 to 25 minutes, medium 25 to 60, long one to two hours. Every connection on the roster stays inside the band you picked, and if the schedule cannot manage it you are told what had to give instead of quietly receiving a four-hour sit.

Nothing is booked until you accept

A generated roster is a draft. Nothing is bid, you are not repositioned and no paperwork is issued until you accept it, so regenerating costs you nothing. You can also change the settings on the draft itself and rebuild without starting over. Once accepted, every leg goes into your bids and a crew duty sheet is emailed to you as a PDF.

That sheet is reissued after each leg you file, carrying the times you actually flew next to the plan, along with the registration, touchdown rate and score. The latest copy of every roster is kept on your profile, including rosters still in progress.

Somewhere new

There is an option to only land at airports that are not yet in your logbook. Returning to base does not count as a destination, so it works alongside finishing where you started.

Awards

Seventeen roster awards have been added, covering completed rosters and sectors flown, full duty days, multi-day pairings, the number of operators and types you have rostered on, and consistency: finishing a roster without skipping a leg, and running one to schedule throughout.

In the Flight Logger

Version 1.12.2 of the JSV Flight Logger shows each booked flight's scheduled departure on the home screen and counts down to the next one, so you can see which leg you are due on without opening every briefing. That version is not released yet and will follow shortly.

The duty roster is at Duty Roster in the menu. There is a full guide in the library: Building a Duty Roster and Your Crew Duty Sheet.