Operations
Grounding
Marking an aircraft as not available to fly - for maintenance, an expired inspection, or an open airworthiness-critical squawk.
In practice
The word is simple; the enforcement is what matters. A grounded airplane that still shows bookable on the schedule is an incident report waiting for a date. Well-run operations wire grounding into scheduling so the status change removes the airplane from the calendar automatically and notifies affected bookings - no reliance on every member reading the group chat.
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See it with your own aircraft.
Add your aircraft and your rates, then see the schedule, the squawks, and the ledger all work off one record. No card required.