Logbook Pro

purpel

purpel

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I was looking at buying it and I had a couple questions.

Does the standard version let me save the logbook as a file? Can I send that file to my email as a backup instead of buying the cloud storage?

What features did you guys/gals buy and what version?
 
I have the standard logbook pro edition, and I also bought the cloud sync feature for a year. The sync feature is great because I have the logbook pro program on my desktop and use the app on my ipad to input flights and then it syncs to my desktop, Every 30 days I save the desktop file for back-up. So far this is working great for me. It was a pain in the yea... putting all my flights in from the beginning but worth it in the long run.

just my two cents
 
It works fine, but the ui is archaic and the developer is a jerk. Wouldn't even acknowledge huge bugs in APDL years ago, much less fix them. No glaring bugs in Logbook Pro though.

I refuse to pay for their cloud sync, I'm perfectly content doing manual exports and imports. Of course I also can't be bothered to enter data every leg on my phone (did that for awhile with APDL, it got old QUICK). I just export my schedule once a month, import it to Logbook Pro, fill in landings, estimate night and instrument, bam done. Using it on my phone is way too much work.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus that ate your iPhone.
 
Pretty much the same as Ralgha. It's a good program, and quite powerful if you know how to use it. The support is a bit supercillious and angry, though. If you're tech savy, just do it in Excel. If you're lazy (like me), buy it.
 
Hey guys thanks for the responses. I am also curious do you have to pay for the program annually or is it just a one time fee?
 
One time fee for the software. If you want the sync it is a yearly fee.

They really haven't been good about support. Part of the issue is that they didn't write the code for APDL so they can't update/support it. They have promised ”better” apdl like features in the new version of logbook pro, but that's been ”coming soon” for several years now.
 
I use Logbook Pro. It could certainly use some modernization... Saving to a file is a piece of cake, and you can send/store that file anywhere you want. I believe you can also export your logbook to Excel, but don't quote me on that. Check out the documentation on their website to know for sure. It's easy enough to work with once you get the hang of it. I'd suggest watching the videos they have on their website to get an idea of how to get yourself started. http://www.nc-software.com/videos.aspx

Not to thread jack, but...

What is APDL?

Ralgha, you say you "just export my schedule once a month". Where are you exporting it from and what does it look like once it's in Excel format?
 
APDL was Airline Pilot's Daily Logbook. It was a logbook designed specifically for airline pilots to be used on PalmOS (and the old Windows CE I think). It was a replacement for the little "red book" that people would use. The Logbook Pro people bought it a number of years ago with promises that they would make it amazing, and I don't recall them ever doing anything with it at all aside from adding the ability to import directly into Logbook Pro.

It had a nasty bug that would cause your decimal times to be off by .1 occasionally after importing, and the Logbook Pro developer denied that there was any such bug. I went so far as to point out exactly how to reproduce it (I think I went that far, it was a long time ago) and he still refused to acknowledge it, so it was basically useless. Every time I imported I'd have to go over the entries anyway to fix the errors it made. That, combined with my just not wanting to enter numbers every leg, made me ditch it.

I export my schedule from my airline schedule. It has everything except landings and night/imc/approaches and it's all drawn from ACARS time reporting so I don't have to manually do any of it except for what I mentioned.
 
Anyone else have problems with the sync not being the same on the desktop screen verse the ipad screen? my total number of flights and hours are off by about 10 hours
 
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