PilotsLog Ver 1.2
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 It will store your logs and remind you if your medical is out of date, or if you are not current for carrying passengers during day or night flight.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 settings.
The main logbook screen looks similar to the following at the startup. It may or may not display alerts, depending on the information you entered into the settings prefs. Below is an example of an alert for Night Currency, indicating it's expired. There are also alerts for Day and Medical Currency.
Once you select OK, PilotsLog will be at the main view screen, as shown below.
In the top Navigation Bar, you will notice the edit button, which can be used to delete entries. 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, 2008 is the search I will perform.
One may also perform case insensitive combined searches of your logbook by partial match, thus reducing the need to type the full text being searched for. The fields that are available 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 similar to the main logbook view. In that view as well as this one, the (i) button will display the entire log entry in another view. Unlike the main view, one cannot edit, nor delete what is seen here.
On the bottom toolbar, the (i) button will display the logbook totals as shown below.
One may import logs from another app by first exporting them in a csv format. After you 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 selecting the import icon on the bottom toolbar, and then choosing “Import From CSV". The “Restore LogBook from iCloud” option can only be used when you sign into the iCloud account on your iPad. It restores your backup.
When you wish to backup your logbook to iCloud, simply select the export icon to the far right on the bottom toolbar, then choose the “Backup LogBook to iCloud” option. You must be signed into iCloud from your iPad for this to work.
The following illustrates the options available in the PilotsLog prefs. For your convenience the information here will be used to pre-populate 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,ElizabethDoe,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 skips that line.https://linkmaker.itunes.apple.com/en-us/details/1101550295?q=pilots%20logbook%20student&country=us&media=appstore&genre=all