Glossary

Terms used throughout the documentation.

Reviewed 2026-10-14 · FSHangar App (Windows) 1.4.2

Term	Meaning
AD	Airworthiness Directive.
EASA	European Union Aviation Safety Agency.
FH / FC	Flight hours / flight cycles.
Connection token	The code that links the Windows app to your FSHANGAR account.
SimBrief	The flight-planning service whose plan Flight Prep uses.
Ferry	Repositioning an aircraft to the departure airport from Flight Prep.
One-flight extension	Permission to fly one flight past a scheduled task's limit, offered in Flight Prep.
INOP	An inoperative item known before the flight.
Work order	A tracked maintenance action.
Defect	A technical issue represented for an aircraft.
Compliance	Recorded fulfillment of a modeled requirement.
Recurrence	A requirement becoming due again after fulfillment.
Reputation	Your weighted score from 0% to 100%, built from Pilot, Fleet, Financial and Integrity components; see the Reputation System V2 article.
Component points	Points added to or removed from one reputation component; not the same as reputation percentage points.
Pending flight (reputation)	A flight whose airborne time or airports are not proven yet; it changes nothing until it is scored.
Telemetry	Aircraft and simulator data received by the app.
SimConnect	The simulator interface used by the app.
Persistence	Keeping an aircraft's modeled state across sessions.
System degradation	A change reducing system capability, distinct from a native add-on failure.
FSGAP_SDK	The shared aircraft abstraction layer used in integration work.