Schedule and record maintenance

Maintenance in echoMike is a dated job with a task checklist attached to a piece of equipment. Complete the tasks, sign it back into service, and it becomes a permanent entry in that item’s technical logbook.

Before you start

You need the Manage equipment permission. Without it the maintenance list is readable but Schedule maintenance is not shown.

Have the item in your fleet first. Maintenance attaches to an existing equipment record, not the other way round.

Steps

1. Open the maintenance list

   Go to Equipment in the organisation section and choose the Maintenance pane. It lists Upcoming and Finished work, filtered by a range such as Next 30 days or Past 3 months.

2. Schedule it

   Select Schedule maintenance. Pick the Equipment — search by name, category, asset tag or serial — and give it a Title such as 100-hour service.

3. Set the technical log category

   Choose from Routine maintenance, Inspection, Defect, Rectification, Repair, Configuration change or Other. This is what shows in the item’s technical logbook, so pick the one an auditor would expect.

4. Build the task checklist

   Add the individual Tasks, or start from a Template if your organisation has one. Each task is ticked off separately, so the list is a live record of how far through the job you are.

5. Set the date

   Pick a Date, then confirm with Schedule. For work that repeats, switch Repeat on first — see the options below.

6. Work the tasks and sign it off

   Open the maintenance record when the work happens and tick each task. Task progress counts them as 5 of 7 complete. When the item is safe to fly, expand Return to service, add an optional sign-off note and select Sign off return to service.

Options

Make it recurring

Switch Repeat on and set a Frequency of Daily, Weekly or Monthly, how often with Every, and how many Occurrences to create. Weekly recurrence takes On days; monthly takes Day of month.

Schedule from the item itself

Every equipment detail page has its own Maintenance section with a Schedule button, scoped to that item. It is quicker when you already have the record open.

Cancel or remove one

Delete maintenance in the detail dialog removes a scheduled job that is no longer needed.

What happens next

The record appears in the item’s technical logbook as a Maintenance entry, showing its task progress as its figure and flagging Returned to service once you have signed it off. The item’s Open maintenance readout drops by one.

Until then, echoMike surfaces it as it approaches: the home workbench reads Due today, Due tomorrow or Due in 4d, the fleet row reads Maintenance due soon or names the date, and the item’s status pill reads Maintenance.

The readiness check PDRA01_MAINTENANCE_CURRENT reads the maintenance due date on each airframe assigned to a job. When nothing is overdue it reports DJI M350 has no overdue maintenance. When something is, it reports DJI M350 has maintenance overdue since 2026-06-14 and it is a blocker — a flight clearance cannot be recorded until the maintenance is done or the aircraft is swapped.

Troubleshooting

“No upcoming maintenance in this range.” Nothing is booked inside the range you are looking at. Widen it to All upcoming.

Schedule maintenance is not shown. You do not have the Manage equipment permission. An organisation administrator grants it — see Why can’t I see this?.

The readiness check still blocks after the work is done. The check reads the airframe’s maintenance due date, not the maintenance record on its own. Sign off Return to service and confirm the aircraft’s next due date has moved forward on its equipment record.