Capabilities & permissions¶

AeroKing controls access with capabilities — small, specific permissions such as "view the calendar" or "create invoices". Your role comes with a default set, and an owner or an administrator holding permissions.manage can grant or remove individual capabilities — either for a whole role or for one person.

This page is a reference for administrators and owners. Everyday users don't need it, but it explains exactly why you can (or can't) see a given area.

How access is decided

Start with the defaults for your role (or, for flying members, your rank — each rung inherits the ones below it).
Apply any school-wide changes the owner made to those defaults.
Apply any per-person grants or removals.

The result is your effective set of capabilities. The owner always has every capability.

Capability catalogue¶

Capabilities are grouped by area. Most areas have a view level and a manage level (view = see it, manage = change it).

Capability	What it allows
`aircraft.view`	View the aircraft fleet list
`aircraft.manage`	Edit aircraft details & the fleet
`maintenance.view` / `maintenance.manage`	View / manage maintenance records
`logbook.view` / `logbook.manage`	View / manage the aircraft logbook
`users.view`	View members & user records
`users.manage`	Create/edit users & assign roles
`calendar.view`	View the booking calendar
`calendar.manage`	Create/edit any booking
`invoicing.view` / `invoicing.manage`	View / create & edit invoices
`accounts.view` / `accounts.manage`	View / manage member accounts
`vouchers.view` / `vouchers.manage`	View / create & redeem vouchers
`training.view`	Access training material
`training.manage`	Build courses, lessons & learning materials
`grading.submit`	Submit exam / assessment scores
`grading.manage`	Conduct exams / manage assessments
`ppr.view` / `ppr.manage`	View / manage PPR requests, spots & rate card (add-on)
`documents.view` / `documents.manage`	View & download / upload, verify & delete documents
`forms.view` / `forms.manage`	View / build digital form templates
`hr.view`	Self-service leave, permits & policies
`hr.manage`	Approve leave & administer HR
`compliance.view` / `compliance.manage`	View / build the compliance programme
`reports.view`	View dashboards, overview & reports
`settings.manage`	Edit school settings
`permissions.manage`	Edit roles & access permissions
`plugins.view` / `plugins.manage`	Use / enable & configure add-ons
`bookings.request`	Request a booking (held by flying members)
`lesson_summaries.view` / `lesson_summaries.comment`	View / comment on lesson summaries

Default capabilities by role¶

These are the platform defaults. Your school may have adjusted them.

AdministratorStaffEngineerInstructor (qualified)StudentSocial

Members, calendar, invoicing & accounts, vouchers, aircraft (view), training (build), PPR, documents, forms, HR (view and manage), compliance (view and manage) and reports. Not grading by default (can be granted).

Calendar (view & manage), PPR (view & manage), documents (view & manage), forms (view), HR self-service and compliance (view). No finance by default — an owner typically extends this for a front desk that takes payments.

Aircraft (view & manage), maintenance (view & manage), aircraft logbook (view & manage), HR self-service and compliance (view). Operational areas like calendar/members/finance are granted as needed.

Builds up the ladder: calendar (view → manage), grading.submit, HR self-service, compliance (view), documents (view) and forms (view).

Training (view), request bookings, and view/comment on their own lesson summaries.

Training (view) only — a non-flying club membership.

The membership rank ladder¶

Flying members hold a rank, and each rank inherits everything below it:

student → qualified_pilot → trainee_instructor → qualified_instructor → examiner

Rank	Adds on top of the rank below
`student`	Training view, request bookings, own lesson summaries
`qualified_pilot`	(rents aircraft — inherits student access, used without the training pages)
`trainee_instructor`	Calendar view, grading.submit, HR & compliance self-service, documents & forms view
`qualified_instructor`	Calendar manage
`examiner`	grading.manage (conduct exams)

Social sits outside the ladder and doesn't accumulate.

Changing permissions (administrators)¶

Go to Settings → Permissions:

Change a role preset to adjust the default for everyone in that role or rank.
Open an individual to grant or remove specific capabilities for just that person — these per-person overrides win over the preset.

Least surprise

Prefer adjusting the preset when a change should apply to everyone in a role, and per-person overrides only for genuine exceptions. It keeps the model easy to reason about later.

Add-ons still gate their pages

Even with ppr.manage, the Handling pages only appear if the Handling/PPR add-on is enabled for the school. Add-ons and capabilities both have to line up.