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Embracing E-Logbooks: A Modern Pilot's Guide to Digital Flight Records

Are you ready for electronic logbooks? E-logbooks offer unmatched security, convenience, and organization compared to traditional paper logs. With features like automated entries, support across multiple devices, and comprehensive data tracking—including pictures and flight properties—you can enhance your flying experience. However, be aware that they lack official FAA sanction and may pose acceptance challenges with some FAA examiners. Explore pricing options, data transfer methods, and ensure you find a platform that fits your needs before diving in.

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Embracing E-Logbooks: A Modern Pilot's Guide to Digital Flight Records

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  1. Should I use an e-logbook?? Mark Estabrook February, 2103 Are You ready for Electronic Logbooks?

  2. Is It Time to Dive In? E-Logbooks provide • Security • Back ups • Convenience • Paperless cockpit • Entry is easy and optionally automated • Multiple devices (on-line, smart phone, tablet, paper) • Multiple data formats (e.g. insurance) • Expansion of data • More notes • Pictures • ~100 flight property data fields if you want them, versus ~20 you have in the usual Jeppesen logbook • Data Analysis & Alerts • Currency • Locations • Aircraft • Etc. etc.

  3. However… E-Logbooks Lack • FAA Official Sanction (although they haven’t said no). • But FAA Advisory Circular 120-78 presents criteria for determining the acceptability of digitally signed records • FAA Examiners may not fully accept them (check before you go) • Alex Roman has checked with one local examiner who has said he’ll only accept ‘real’ CFI signatures • Different programs have different approaches to CFI sign off • ‘finger’ signing • Electronic signatures (on-line verification via CFI) • The ‘big’ programs cost money, the cheap but the ‘little’ ones may or may not be around long term • The comfort & feel of paper

  4. What are the options? • Professional or General Aviation • Access • Online only • Smartphone & Tablet only • Android • iOS • Online & mobile • Price from $0 to ~$80 Aviation Pilot Logbook IntelliPilot Pilot eLog LogTen (Sporty’s) … and Others

  5. What Do You Look For? • Price (Charley, Gary R. and I are cheap and use myflightbook, Matt is rich and uses LogBook Pro) • Options for input of historical data • Options for output of data (easy transfer to a new program if you want) • Works on your preferred platforms (PC, MAC, iPhone, Android Phone, iPad, or Android Tablet • Some method for CFI electronic signature that might be upgraded when the FAA supports it

  6. How Does it Work(mini IPAD w/myflightbook example) • Getting started • Flight Entry • View of Records • Logbook • Flight totals by properties • Currency • Hours by aircraft flown • Map & summary of airports flown to • Instructor sign off • Other ‘stuff’

  7. Getting started • Start from where your current log book leaves off - or - • Transfer data from your current logbook • From a CSV file (e.g. excel) • By hand (ugh) • Typically done on-line via PC/MAC then synched to your mobile application

  8. Flight Entry as it Appears on the iPAD • Large comments section • Easy engine start, option for speed based logging • Enter flight properties • Add a picture, link to facebook!

  9. After Logging Flights, What Do You Get? – Quick View • See your last any number of flights

  10. Flight Totals by Property

  11. Currency • Which highlights what has expired and when current items will expire

  12. Summary of Aircraft Flown • Pictures can be added

  13. A Map Highlighting Airports Visited • Airports visited

  14. Textual Summary of Airports Visted

  15. Instructor Sign off • Meet your CFI on-line and get all sign offs and endorsements electronically on line • Also your instructor can literally sign your logbook entry with the touch screen

  16. Other Stuff Monthly Trend Analysis & Other ‘Stuff’ on Line • Flight trends • FAA Forms

  17. Other StuffTracking Plane Currency

  18. What About my iPhone? • Same format as the iPAD • Use finger scroll to access all fields • Phone, Tablet & on-line all stay synchronized real time

  19. Bottom Line • I’m in, but keeping a my log book current with any BFRs, endorsements, etc. • One of our Local FAA examiners will only accept paper/ink sign off of CFIs • Myflightbook also recommends keeping a written record of sign offs • Encouraging CFI(I)s that I work with to use myflightbook.com

  20. Thank you… Questions & Discussion

  21. ZuluLogElectronic Signatures • FAA Advisory Circular 120-78 presents criteria for determining the acceptability of digitally signed records. These criteria are: • Uniqueness. An electronic signature must identify a specific individual. No one else must be able to produce an electronic signature identical to that of a specific individual. ZuluLog.com uniquely identifies each individual user through a combination of the following methods: unique user name; user-selected password; unique email address; SSL security certificates; and security policies which restrict access to sensitive information to senior personnel. • Significance. An electronic signature must represent unambiguously the intent of the signer to indicate the truthfulness and correctness of the document or record being signed. All records entered into ZuluLog.com as a form of official record-keeping are considered to be signed when a user clicks on the Save button or otherwise expressly causes a record to be saved to the system's database. Under ZuluLog.com's Terms of Use, users agree to save only true and correct data when the site is used for record-keeping. An individual may not use ZuluLog.com's software without agreeing to the Terms of Use. • Scope. It must be clear which specific document or record an electronic signature applies to. ZuluLog.com's entry screens and record import screens have discrete save functionality; although single or multiple records may be saved at once, it is always clear what is being saved, and therefore which records the electronic signature applies to. • Security. Individuals must be prevented from affixing another individual's signature to a document or record. ZuluLog.com uses various means of securing user data, including but not limited to: unique usernames and passwords; SSL encryption; database-level encryption; firewalls; physical security; data access logs; secure record amendment and deletion mechanisms; and data access policies, including mechanisms of disabling access to terminated employees and users. • Non-repudiation. Once a digital record is signed, the signer must not be able to credibly deny having signed the record. ZuluLog.com's security features and access logs make it very unlikely that a signature could be duplicated, or a signed record altered. • Traceability. The signer of a document must be able to be positively identified. ZuluLog.com accomplishes this through mechanisms described above.

  22. CFI Signature in the Logbook • Request signature on-line • Your logbook is then updated (see green)

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