The Alabama Flight Tracking System was brought online to help fix the problem of inaccurate and tardy flight time reporting in the Alabama Wing. The system was designed to collect information on each hour of flight time put on each of the Wing's aircraft in regard to what type of mission was flown, the duration of the flight, and the maintenance cost of that flight.
The AFTS works very similar to how information is entered onto the "Aircraft Flight Log." The idea is that after a flying "session" (a session may consist of more than one sortie), a member will enter the beginning/ending hobbs/tach time of the flight(s) and the mission symbol of those flights.
This system brings several huge advantages to both members of the Wing as well as Wing HQ. First, it eliminates the need for members to do math in summing up the months total flight hours and hours by mission. In the case where flight time is either duplicated or not counted, an error flag is raised denoting the entry error.
At the end of the month, the AFTS automatically calculates how much maintenance expenses each aircraft generated. These expenses are broken down into groups based on if those expenses will be covered by the Consolidated MX Program or if the wing will be responsible for billing members and paying those expenses to NHQ.
| May Flight Time Totals | MX Tracking | |||||
| Aircraft | Current Location |
Managing Unit |
Type | May Hours | Oil Due In | 100Hr Due In |
| N1432E | 1A9 | 032 | C182R | 31.8 | 19.7 | 69.7 |
| N261CA | KPLR | 118 | C182T | 15.6 | 30.2 | 80.2 |
| N5404E | MDQ | 119 | C182R | 7.1 | 14.1 | 20.1 |
| N784CP | TCL | 024 | C182T | 25.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| N854CP | BHM | 090 | C182T | 28.5 | 40.1 | 42.1 |
| N924CP | DHN | 029 | C172S | 15.6 | 20.5 | 17.3 |
| N9388X | EET | 132 | C182R | 9.4 | -962.1 | -958.4 |
| N9522X | 1A9 | 032 | C182R | 18.3 | 13.8 | 50.2 |
| N9540L | BFM | 005 | C172P | 22.4 | 16.7 | 66.7 |
| N9678A | 02A | 117 | C172P | 5.2 | 37.1 | 87.1 |
| N97477 | MSL | 055 | C172P | 36.3 | 10.4 | 10.7 |
| N98410 | AUO | 113 | C172P | 0.7 | 18.9 | 20.7 |
| N99532 | EKY | 087 | C172P | 18.8 | 28.9 | 28.9 |
| Total | 235.2 | |||||
| <10 Hrs | <5 Hrs | <0.5 Hrs | ||||
| FY12 Flight Time Summary | ||||||
| Aircraft | Current Location |
Managing Unit |
Type | FYTD Hours |
Monthly Avg |
Projected FY Total |
| N1432E | 1A9 | 032 | C182R | 139.5 | 18.2 | 218.1 |
| N261CA | KPLR | 118 | C182T | 107.2 | 14 | 167.6 |
| N5404E | MDQ | 119 | C182R | 102 | 13.3 | 159.5 |
| N784CP | TCL | 024 | C182T | 84.8 | 11.1 | 132.6 |
| N854CP | BHM | 090 | C182T | 88.8 | 11.6 | 138.8 |
| N924CP | DHN | 029 | C172S | 150.4 | 19.6 | 235.1 |
| N9388X | EET | 132 | C182R | 97.1 | 12.7 | 151.8 |
| N9522X | 1A9 | 032 | C182R | 59.1 | 7.7 | 92.4 |
| N9540L | BFM | 005 | C172P | 121.5 | 15.9 | 190 |
| N9678A | 02A | 117 | C172P | 59.8 | 7.8 | 93.5 |
| N97477 | MSL | 055 | C172P | 137.1 | 17.9 | 214.3 |
| N98410 | AUO | 113 | C172P | 70 | 9.1 | 109.4 |
| N99532 | EKY | 087 | C172P | 144.1 | 18.8 | 225.3 |
| 2012 Flight Data Integrity & MX Downtime | ||||||||||||
| Aircraft | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
| N1432E | 5 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 5 | |||||||
| N261CA | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | ||||||||
| N5404E | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| N784CP | 0 | |||||||||||
| N854CP | 3 | 3 | 5 | 0 | ||||||||
| N924CP | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| N9388X | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| N9522X | 1 | 17 | ||||||||||
| N9540L | 2 | 16 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| N9678A | 0 | 0 | 10 | |||||||||
| N97477 | 5 | |||||||||||
| N98410 | 1 | |||||||||||
| N99532 | 12 | |||||||||||
| indicates a discrepancy in the flight data integrity. |