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Turbine Cycle Tracker

Track turbine cycle limits per component — current cycles vs limit with remaining-life badges per serial.

turbine rotating components age by thermal cycles, not hours — a start-to-shutdown counts even for a five-minute repositioning hop.

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⚠️ Not for operational decisions. This is a record-keeping and planning aid only — not certified avionics, not a source of regulatory truth. Always verify against official sources (FAA/EASA) and your operator's approved documents before flying.

Free turbine cycle tracker: every component with serial, current cycles and limit, plus remaining-life badges that go amber at 10% left. jump, tour and trainer operations accumulate cycles many times faster than hours, inverting the usual maintenance math.

About Turbine Cycle Tracker

Jump, tour and trainer operations accumulate cycles many times faster than hours, inverting the usual maintenance math — that's the sentence this tracker exists to make harmless. Background: turbine rotating components age by thermal cycles, not hours — a start-to-shutdown counts even for a five-minute repositioning hop. Each entry pairs a serial with its current cycles and limit; the badge shows remaining life and flips amber inside the final 10%, red at zero. It's the difference between component retirement as a planned line item and as an AOG discovery.

How to use Turbine Cycle Tracker

  1. 1Add each component with serial, current cycles and its limit.
  2. 2Update current figures whenever aircraft times update.
  3. 3Plan overhauls and budgets off the remaining-life badges; export as needed.

Why use Turbine Cycle Tracker?

  • Per-serial rows: part, serial, current cycles, limit
  • Remaining-life badge per component — amber at 10%, red at zero
  • Encodes the real-world trap: jump, tour and trainer operations accumulate cycles many times faster than hours, inverting the usual maintenance math
  • Update once per aircraft-times update; always reconciled
  • CSV export feeds budgets, pre-buys and annuals

Frequently asked questions

Is the limit on turbine cycle mandatory or advisory?+

Under Part 91, manufacturer intervals like this are largely advisory — you may operate on condition — but the advisory label hides real teeth: jump, tour and trainer operations accumulate cycles many times faster than hours, inverting the usual maintenance math. Insurance positions, 135 program requirements, resale value and plain risk management all push toward tracked compliance, and the tracking itself is nearly free. The expensive version is re-deriving component history at pre-buy time.

How do I establish current times for components with patchy records?+

Anchor each component to its last documented event — overhaul release tag, 8130-3, installation logbook entry — and accrue forward from the aircraft times since that date. Where no anchor exists, the conservative convention is to assume the worst (time-expired or unknown-since-new) and price decisions accordingly. Enter your best-evidenced figure here with the anchor noted in the notes field; a documented assumption beats an optimistic blank.

What happens to my entries if I clear my browser?+

Clearing site data deletes locally stored entries — that's the price of a genuinely private, server-free design. Protect yourself with the one-click CSV download before any cleanup, OS reinstall or device change: re-importing history later beats reconstructing it from memory.

Can I get my data out if I switch systems later?+

Always — the CSV export is a complete, lossless dump of your component life record, generated locally in one click. Import it into commercial software, archive it with your files, or post-process it in a spreadsheet. No lock-in is deliberate: data you can't take with you isn't really yours.

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