iphone logbook program reviews?

[JustaNumber]

Can anyone review the available logbook programs for the iphone? The two that I know of are FltCrew iLog and Coradine's Logten Mobile/Pro. Are there any others? How do they compare to APDL for airline pilot use? My Palm is refusing to cooperate anymore and is just begging to be replaced. I am frustrated with devices that just don't work! Any detailed opinions?

 

[Amish RakeFight]

"Ceci n'est pas une pipe."

Thread Hijack:

JustaNumber, where did you find the airline pilot rendition of Rene Magritte's "The Son of Man"?

Was that photoshopped?

 

[TNPILOT]

I have an iPhone and use FltCrew Log. So far (just a week using the program) I am pleased. No more red book to deal with, it keeps flight times and expenses. It has a lot of other stuff on it as well regarding weather and airport info...nice to have but I don't use it much. My only complaint is that the program occasionally crashes but not enough to be of concern.

 

[JustaNumber]

Thread Hijack:

JustaNumber, where did you find the airline pilot rendition of Rene Magritte's "The Son of Man"?

Was that photoshopped?

It is not a pipe. I photoshopped it myself; I was going to call myself "the Son of ASA" but I didn't think anyone would get it.

 

[JustaNumber]

I have an iPhone and use FltCrew Log. So far (just a week using the program) I am pleased. No more red book to deal with, it keeps flight times and expenses. It has a lot of other stuff on it as well regarding weather and airport info...nice to have but I don't use it much. My only complaint is that the program occasionally crashes but not enough to be of concern.

Can it easily sync to another electronic logbook program? Can you put in night and instrument time? How about keeping track of duty limits?

I was hoping to find a device/program combination that was rock solid reliable; it seems that may just be a pipe dream? (Or not a pipe dream, for the Amish guy).

 

[ImbracableCrunk]

I know one of the APDL guys, and a while ago he told me to stay away from the iPhone. I'm going to take that as they're not going to support them for a while.

I have seen a demo where someone had created a Palm emulator for the Iphone, but that hasn't been released yet.

I miss APDL, but I don't miss my Treo.

This doesn't log anything, but I take a screenshot of my month's schedule and make it my wallpaper. One click, and there's what I'm doing for the month.

 

[TNPILOT]

Can it easily sync to another electronic logbook program? Can you put in night and instrument time? How about keeping track of duty limits?

I was hoping to find a device/program combination that was rock solid reliable; it seems that may just be a pipe dream? (Or not a pipe dream, for the Amish guy).

From what I hear it can sync fine with other electronic logbooks however I can't say for sure since I don't keep an electronic log. To answer your question about night and IMC...yes it does, as well as approaches, out/off/on/in, inc. Overall it does what I want it to.

 

[cfi_greg]

You would think that for $60 those APDL people would try to keep their customers happy and make an iphone app, sh*t they would probably charge $80 for it anyway. There I go thinkin again.

 

[ASA_Aviator]

Can anyone review the available logbook programs for the iphone? The two that I know of are FltCrew iLog and Coradine's Logten Mobile/Pro. Are there any others? How do they compare to APDL for airline pilot use? My Palm is refusing to cooperate anymore and is just begging to be replaced. I am frustrated with devices that just don't work! Any detailed opinions?

I have Logten on my mac and iPhone. I love it. Don't know about the others.

 

[Amish RakeFight]

It is not a pipe. I photoshopped it myself; I was going to call myself "the Son of ASA" but I didn't think anyone would get it.

Very cool avatar. I'm sure some others may have recognized it subliminally. If The New Yorker magazine ever ran a piece on airline pilots, I would think that this photoshopped version would be a perfect photo to accompany the article. The style fits right in. Also, your user name would work well as the articles title. "Just a Number." Those three words alone describe and connotate so much in the airline industry.

C'est la vie. :beer:


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[JustaNumber]

Very cool avatar. I'm sure some others may have recognized it subliminally. If The New Yorker magazine ever ran a piece on airline pilots, I would think that this photoshopped version would be a perfect photo to accompany the article. The style fits right in. Also, your user name would work well as the articles title. "Just a Number." Those three words alone describe and connotate so much in the airline industry.
C'est la vie. :beer:
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Thanks for the compliments. We certainly are little more than just numbers. Hopefully The New Yorker will put some numbers on a check for me at your excellent suggestion ;-).
:beer:

 

[JustaNumber]

So far (just a week using the program) I am pleased. . . . My only complaint is that the program occasionally crashes but not enough to be of concern.

Please don't take this personally, but isn't it amazing how software engineers have conditioned us to accept mediocrity? Imagine if our one-week-old cars just didn't start occasionally for no good reason. Or what if our jet engines just flamed out "occasionally"? We need to stop buying this crap until it works right!

P.S. Thanks for your experiences though, TNPILOT.

 

[Hovernut]

LogTen on the MacBookPro, and LogTenMobile on the iphone (2G). Syncs wirelessly with the MBP, and has never crashed. Keeps track of EVERYTHING. Highly customizeable. If you have other than LogTen/MacOS on the laptop/mainframe, the mobile will output a CSV file that can be imported by other logging programs.

You can import your schedule with the APDL converter, too. I mistakenly bought APDL for the Palm when I meant to buy for the PPC and they wouldn't exchange it. That, plus NC's failure to support Mac other than telling us to run BootCamp or virturalization software is why I dropped them.

http://www.coradine.com for LogTenPro and Mobile

Great mobile wx app: navmonster.com/mobile

 

[GearUpLightsIn]

LogTen on the MacBookPro, and LogTenMobile on the iphone (2G). Syncs wirelessly with the MBP, and has never crashed. Keeps track of EVERYTHING. Highly customizeable. If you have other than LogTen/MacOS on the laptop/mainframe, the mobile will output a CSV file that can be imported by other logging programs.

You can import your schedule with the APDL converter, too. I mistakenly bought APDL for the Palm when I meant to buy for the PPC and they wouldn't exchange it. That, plus NC's failure to support Mac other than telling us to run BootCamp or virturalization software is why I dropped them.

http://www.coradine.com for LogTenPro and Mobile

Great mobile wx app: navmonster.com/mobile

Thanks for that info. I don't have a Mac and I wondered if I could import into a PC.

As for the NC Software (APDL) people, they always sound like arrogant pricks on the NC blog boards. I think their attitude towards their customers and the market in general are kind of like IBM in the 80's. They got to be hot sh!t and were convinced that they knew better than the market what direction personal computing should go in. It is also why most PC's don't say IBM anywhere on them anymore. Even if my IBM history sucks, it does, you can see where I am going with NC and APDL.

 

[fly4funcrj]

LogTen on the MacBookPro, and LogTenMobile on the iphone (2G). Syncs wirelessly with the MBP, and has never crashed. Keeps track of EVERYTHING. Highly customizeable. If you have other than LogTen/MacOS on the laptop/mainframe, the mobile will output a CSV file that can be imported by other logging programs.

You can import your schedule with the APDL converter, too. I mistakenly bought APDL for the Palm when I meant to buy for the PPC and they wouldn't exchange it. That, plus NC's failure to support Mac other than telling us to run BootCamp or virturalization software is why I dropped them.

http://www.coradine.com for LogTenPro and Mobile

Great mobile wx app: navmonster.com/mobile

BINGO. I have left them and don't look back.. I just wish there was a way to take my log book pro data and import/export it to a mac logbook program