PilotsLog Ver 1.0
User Documentation
Pilots Log is a logbook app designed for the iPad, to be used in landscape mode. It will store
your logs and remind you if your medical is out of date, or if you are not current for carrying
passengers during day or night flight. That information is stored in the PilotsLogprefs
accessible in the normal location.
The main logbook screen looks similar to the following at the startup. It may or may not
display alerts, depending on your information entered. Below is shown an alert of Night Currency,
indicating it's expired. There are also alerts for Day and Medical Currency.
Once you select OK, PilotsLog will be able to accept input as shown below.
In the top Navigation Bar, you will notice the edit button, which can be used to
delete entries, the button which will display the logbook totals as shown below.
The + button will add an entry to the logbook as detailed below.
For your convenience, the screen will shift upwards when the keyboard appears,
thereby allowing one to see the data being entered.
Finally, the search button in the Navigation Bar will present the following
View.
One may perform case insensitive searches of your logbook by partial match, thus
reducing the need to type the full text being searched for. The fields
able to be searched are; Date, Type, Registration, PIC Name, Position,
Passenger, From, To, and Comments. One may enter data in each field to narrow
down the results returned.
The results are shown like the main logbook view. In that view as well as
this one, the button will display the entire log entry in another view.
Unlike the main view, one cannot edit, nor delete what is seen here.
One may import logs from another app by first exporting them in a csv format.
You must make the import the very first thing you do, do NOT enter ANY data, or the import will not happen.
You will install the app, go to the standard apple preferences, select PilotsLog, and set the website host
field to the appropriate website and filename. An example of that format is;
http://www.yourhost.com/~yourname/AviationLogBook.csv
The program will import the log upon its launch. If one needs to redo this step, one must erase the app and reinstall it.
The following illustrates the options available in the PilotsLog prefs. For your convenience the information here will
be used to prepopulate the logbook entries you make.
If one intends to import logbook entries in CSV format, the fields must be exported and formatted per the following criteria.
10/12/2010,C-182,N4545T,DUAL,John Doe,Elizabeth Doe,MBY,UIN,1,1,1.2,1.3,1.2,1.3,0,.5,1.2,1.3,3000.0,3002.5,Lunch
The fields must contain the following values, although they may be blank, but must still be delimited by the ","
Date,Type,Registration,Position,PICName,Passenger,From,To,DayLandings, NightLandings,PicDay,PicNight,DualDay,DualNight,IfrActual,IfrHood,DayXcnty,NightXcnty,HobbsStart,HobbsEnd,Comments
If the import does not see the correct number of parameters in the fields, it will skip them.