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remind you if your medical is out of date, or if you are not current for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 PilotsLog
prefs
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.