Squawk
A squawk is aviation jargon for a reported defect or discrepancy against an asset — anything from “low oil pressure” to “sun visor broken”. The term comes from the clipped radio transponder codes pilots squawk to controllers, and has been extended to cover every non-routine observation a pilot makes about an aircraft.
In Syndik8, any member can report a squawk and pick a severity: grounding, caution, or info. Only confirmed grounding squawks block bookings. Caution and info squawks are visible for awareness but do not affect availability.
Squawks move through a short lifecycle — pending, open, deferred, resolved, dismissed.