News

June 16, 2008 - New Accumulation Line Plots

A few Line plot feature has been added today. Now you can look at graphs to see how your times have grown over time. You can either look at your whole entire flying career, or only a specefic month.

June 7, 2008 - Bugs fixed in Mass Entry page

There were a few bugs recently discovered in the mass entry feature that have just been fixed. In the mass entry (and mass edit) page, all the fields are labeled. When the user wants a particular field to be blank, the greyed out label should be left the way it is, and the site should enter no data into the database for that field. A bug was causing those empty fields to be filled in with the title of the field, so many people are now left with a bunch of remarks fields as "Remarks", instructor fields as "Instructor", etc. If you are one of these people and would like to convert those fields to blank, just click on "Mass Edit" in the corner of the logbook view, and just click on "Save" at the bottom. This will also change numeric fields (such as Dual Recieved, Actual Instrument, XC) that are "0.0" to be changed to just blank.
May 28, 2008 - New Google Maps route plotting feature

Click here to try it out. The first time you try to create a map, it may take a while, because it has to crawl google to find the coordinates. After that, the coordinates are stored in the database, so it'll generate quickly for the next time. For now it only is able to plot ICAO and US IATA airports, no navaids. Google and Airnav are both not very good at providing navaid coordinates, so until I can find a reliable source for those, you'll all have to do without for the time being.

If it can't find an identifier in your logbook, fell free to make a post on the forums, along with the identifier and the coordinates, and I'll add it to the database.
May 3, 2008 - Site Officially open to the public. Some planned additions:

-More stats options, including line graphs.
-A way to backup plane data, as well as the "Records" page when exporting.
-More color schemes

F.A.Q.

What is this, and why is it here?

Its a logbook web application. It's here to assist pilots in keeping track of their flight time. Paper logbooks are prone to getting lost or destroyed, and are a pain to create calculations ans summaries. With this site, you never have to worry about leaving your logbook at home, or at the airport, because it's always accessible from a internet ready computer, which are very easy to come by these days.

OK, I signed up, now what do I do?

Before you can do anything, you must first enter at least one plane into your plane database. Click on the "Planes" link at the top, then click on "Add New Plane". A pop-up should appear. If you don't see a pop-up, you might want to disable any pop-up blockers you may have installed. Enter all the information about the plane you'll be logging your first flight with. Once you have at least one plane in your database, go back to the Logbook page, and click "New Entry". Enter all pertinent information about the flight into the boxes.

I have a suggestion to make the site better, where can I submit it?

Click the link above to go to the forum. You don't even have to register to post a comment.

I can't figure something out, where can I get help?

Go to the forums, you can get help there.

I use Internet Explorer and the site doesn't look like it renders correctly, how can I fix this?

Install Firefox. The site was designed to work on standard compliant browsers such as Opera and Firefox. If you're using IE, the site will indeed work, but some elements won't look correctly.

The site doesn't look good on my monitor. All the text is too small/large. What can I do?

The default theme was designed for use on monitors with a minimum resolution of 1024*768. If you use a smaller resolution, your browser may have trouble rendering the pages correctly. If you're using firefox, press ctrl - to decrease the font size. This will help on monitors with a lower resolution. Alternately, ctrl + will increase font size if the text size is too small.

What do the various colors mean in the currency boxes?

If it's gray, then that particular currency requirement is not met. If it's red color, its about to expire. If it's blue then you are qualified.

I want to keep track of my helicopter instrument currency, but there is no option for it in my preferences page, what gives?

The option to keep track of helicopter instrument currency only shows up if you have at least one helicopter in your planes database. Additionally, you can only select weight-shift-control currency options if you have at least one weight-shift-control plane in your database, etc.

How does type rating currency work?

If you have a plane in your database that is designated as "Type Rating Required", that type will show up in the preferences page. Lets say you have three B-737's in your plane database. If only one is designated as "Type Rating Required", then only that one plane will be counted in currency calculations. So make sure all of your planes of a certain type have that checkbox marked.

How should I log cross-country flights?

For the Commercial, Instrument, and Private certificate, the cross country requirements say the flight must include a landing at an airport 50 NM from the point of departure. Before you've completed these certificates and ratings, it is advised you only log flights as cross country time when you actually made a landing 50 miles away. Once you've taken the commercial checkride and the instrument checkride, 50 NM cross country time has little use. If you elect, from that point on, you can log any time If you're still doing training for your instrument, commercial or private, then only log flights as cross country time when you landed at an airport with a straight line distance of 50 miles from the place of departure. For the ATP minimums, the XC column is used.

Whats the difference between the "FTD" and "Simulator" Category/Classes?

If you're did the time in a Frasca, or similar device, make sure the plane is in the "FTD" category/class. If the sim session was in a large full-motion type sim, then it should be in the "Simulator" category/class. The difference

How is the point-to-point cross country time calculated for the 135 minimums?

It goes through each row in your logbook, and adds the total time from any entry where the "route" column is not in the form "XXX-XXX" or "XXXX-XXXX". For instance, if you put "KLGA-KLGA" or "LGA-LGA" in the route column, it will not use that time in the calculation. If you logged a flight as "KLGA-KJFK", "LGA-JFK", or "LGA-JFK-BOS-LGA", it will use the total time from that column. Basically the first three letters have to match the 5th through 7th letters (or the first four letters have to match the 6th through 9th letters) for it to count the time. Be sure not to use double dashes to separate the airports ("LGA--LGA"). Also, be sure to be consistent with using either 4 letter identifiers, or 3 letter identifiers, and not both ("LGA-KLGA"), or it won't count the time.

Why do you need to know my birthday?

Its used to determine how long a 3rd class medical is good for. If you're over 40 at the time of the exam, third class privileges will expire 24 months after the exam, instead of the usual 36 months.