Flight duty limits, calculated from actuals.
FlightStratix includes a full EASA ORO.FTL flight and duty tracker that runs in real time calculating block hours, flight duty periods, rest requirements, WOCL, split duty, crew currency, and cumulative limits from actual journey log data. Not planned estimates. Not Excel formulas. Not someone's memory.
Still tracking flight duty limits on a spreadsheet?
A flight hour calculator in Excel is not a flight and duty tracker. It doesn't enforce rest. It doesn't check WOCL. It doesn't know what split duty is.
The 28-day tracker that's been wrong since November.
One operator's block hour spreadsheet had a stale rolling-window formula off by 4 hours. Nobody noticed because the cell looked right. The regulator noticed during audit. A fly time calculator in Excel doesn't replace a proper FTL engine.
FTL calculated from planned times, not actuals.
Your crew's FDP is calculated from the schedule, not from wheels-off/wheels-on. A 30-minute delay that pushes a crew member over their duty limit doesn't show up until someone manually re-counts. Flight data monitoring requires actuals.
Rest periods tracked nowhere.
EASA requires minimum rest between duty periods 12 hours at home base, 10 hours away. Most spreadsheet flight and duty trackers don't even have a column for it. Split duty? WOCL encroachment? Not a chance.
"When was the last time Capt. Vega did 3 landings?"
90-day landing currency isn't tracked in most crew scheduling systems. It lives in a pilot's memory or a separate logbook. Expired currency discovered at the ramp, not during crew planning.
A duty-time engine that thinks like a dispatcher.
Not a spreadsheet overlay, not a simple flight hour calculator a real-time rules engine that checks every crew member against every applicable limit.
28-day, 90-day, 12-month live.
Cumulative block hours calculated in real time from actual journey log entries. Approaching limits trigger amber. Exceedances trigger red. A flight hour calculator that never goes stale.
Maximum FDP enforced per sector count.
FDP limits based on reporting time, sectors, time zone crossings, and acclimatisation state. Extensions, split duty, and augmented crew all calculated per EASA ORO.FTL.
Minimum rest calculated and enforced.
12 hours at home base, 10 hours away from base (or local night + 8 hours, whichever is greater). Reduced rest provisions calculated when applicable. Not estimated from the schedule.
Window of Circadian Low, properly handled.
FDP reductions for duties encroaching 02:00–05:59 local time calculated automatically. Split duty rest credits applied when on-duty breaks meet minimum duration.
90-day landings, type recency, training.
Landing currency tracked from actual journey log entries not from a separate logbook. Type recency, training currency, and qualification validity all monitored with 30-day / 7-day alerts.
EASA, FAA, GCAA configurable per company.
EASA ORO.FTL as default. FAA Part 117 and GCAA CAR-OPS rules configurable per company. Run a mixed fleet under different regulatory frameworks from one flight and duty tracker.
FTL fed from journey logs. Not from the schedule.
Every FTL calculation is sourced from actual post-flight data real off-blocks, on-blocks, wheels-off, wheels-on, fuel burn, and PAX count entered by the pilot after landing through the crew portal.
One click before dispatch. Green or red.
Select crew, set times, hit "Check Crew FTL". The flight and duty tracker batch-checks everyone against their full FTL status rest, block hours, FDP, WOCL, currency. See how this integrates with flight dispatch →
A flight hour calculator is not a flight and duty tracker.
A fly time calculator tells you how many hours a crew member has flown. That's one number. FlightStratix enforces the full regulatory framework.
| Capability | Flight Hour Calculator | FlightStratix FTL Engine |
|---|---|---|
| Cumulative block hours | ✓ (manual) | ✓ (auto from logs) |
| FDP limits per sector count | ✕ | ✓ |
| Rest period enforcement | ✕ | ✓ |
| WOCL encroachment reduction | ✕ | ✓ |
| Split duty credits | ✕ | ✓ |
| 90-day landing currency | ✕ | ✓ |
| Pre-dispatch feasibility check | ✕ | ✓ |
| Journey-log-fed actuals | ✕ | ✓ |
| Multi-regulation (EASA/FAA/GCAA) | ✕ | ✓ |
| Crew portal with self-service | ✕ | ✓ |
Need a simple flight hour calculator? Use our free fuel calculator → or look up airport data →
FTL tracking is one module. Crew management is the full system.
The flight and duty tracker connects to crew scheduling, the crew portal, document compliance, and journey logs in one platform.
What FTL on a spreadsheet actually costs.
A flight and duty tracker running on Excel doesn't just risk compliance it risks your AOC.
AOC review triggered.
A crew member flying over their 28-day block limit because the spreadsheet formula was stale. The regulator finds it during a scheduled audit. The finding triggers an AOC review that costs months and legal fees.
Cancelled trip → lost client.
FTL violation discovered at the ramp. No legal crew available. Trip cancelled. Client lost. The cost of one cancelled charter leg exceeds a year of flight operations software.
Exposure without evidence.
A fatigue-related incident where the operator cannot demonstrate FTL compliance from actual records. The insurer reviews the claim. The flight data monitoring trail is a spreadsheet with a broken formula.
Stop tracking duty limits in Excel.
Start enforcing them in real time.
Book a 30-minute walkthrough of the flight and duty tracker running on live crew data, or start a free trial and explore with your own operation.