LogTen Pro X

Good to see my decision not to dive into LogTen Pro was a smart decision. Find me an electronic logbook platform that works on a mac and iPhone that doesn't nickel and dime me every time they come out with an update and I'll join in. I'll even pay $200 initially if no other additional charges are expected and zero in-app purchases exist.
 
jtrain609 said:
Huh. I've been wondering if I was going to have to make the upgrade because the program starts falling apart. I haven't seen any problems like that, but I also have a lot of duplicate airports in the database. Like if I add a note to an airport, it'll create a duplicate with the note attached, but it hasn't created any problems.
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I had 6, and since they didn't bother to update with iOS 8 for syncing with iCloud, I was syncing between my iPad and iPhone to have a backup. I then noticed after syncing between the two that all my new flights block times were being erased. It would keep the flight time but would get rid of the block times, and if you go in to edit the block times it would then delete the flight time.

After emailing support, they said its an error after updating to iOS 8 and they weren't going to fix it. Seeing as I have all my flights entered into LogTen Pro and not wanting to lose it, I decided to bite the bullet and upgrade. Hoping that since its a subscription, they'll want to keep us and won't screw with the pricing in the future. Seeing how APDL is $150 a year also helped my decision to keep LogTen Pro.
 
Had a neat program called AeroLog from a place called Polaris Micro system. This is back in the day where you bought a program, got a disk, and a real paper manual and everything. It worked pretty darn well.

These days, I'd need to download a DosBox for it to work.

At least with Excel, you can still read files from 20 years ago.

Had a Palm PDA with a log program that would import my schedule. Thought it was cool...for a while. Palm battery died, time marches on and the data on it has gone to where the woodbine twineth.

Still got my little red books, though. Pens still work, last time I checked.

Richman
 
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After being a very early adopter of LogTen (circa 2005), I'm back to little red books and an excel spreadsheet. I realized that I was spending a ton of money capturing data points I just did not need. It's much simpler, and I'm much happier.
 
I'm tempted to transcribe all the entries in LogTen back into a paper logbook until this mess gets straightened out.

APDL looks decent, but inapplicable for my type of flying and at a ridiculous pricepoint; perhaps NC Software is under the impression that companies will supply it to their flight crews.

Funny how overnight we went from having a strong, viable logbook platform to ... well, nothing.

-Fox
 
I used the Palm version of APDL for years, and I liked it. I tried this most recent version and did not like it at all.

Quite honestly, all I would want from a mobile logbook platform is an App that allows user customizable fields that I can download in a .csv format and import into Excel. Nothing more, nothing less. I found a very cheap app that does something like that, but it hasn't been updated in awhile and crashes a lot. So I'll be sticking with my little red book.
 
surreal1221 said:
Good to see my decision not to dive into LogTen Pro was a smart decision. Find me an electronic logbook platform that works on a mac and iPhone that doesn't nickel and dime me every time they come out with an update and I'll join in. I'll even pay $200 initially if no other additional charges are expected and zero in-app purchases exist.
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Then you should look into http://www.mccpilotlog.net/
They support ALL platforms, although the MacOS is still in Beta. I love it and their support is fantastic.
I bought the Enterprise version which gives you everything and NEVER expires. Even if they change to a subscription service in the future they explicit say that it will not affect old users.

/Johnny
 
I had an app called Climb! For a while that was mobile and Mac OS X but they stopped supporting it years ago. Was perfect for what I needed. Wished they brought it back.
 
Johnny Beau Bekkestad said:
Then you should look into http://www.mccpilotlog.net/
They support ALL platforms, although the MacOS is still in Beta. I love it and their support is fantastic.
I bought the Enterprise version which gives you everything and NEVER expires. Even if they change to a subscription service in the future they explicit say that it will not affect old users.

/Johnny
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Is the one on the Mac any good? Not a lot of info on them but I read the Mac version isn't so great.
 
IMHO, I would stay away from any program that keeps your data hostage. It can do this a number of ways...proprietary data formats, restricted export processes (IE through the web) or subscriptions that make the program drop dead (old data not accessible).

Just not worth the hassle.

Richman
 
Acrofox said:
I'm tempted to transcribe all the entries in LogTen back into a paper logbook until this mess gets straightened out.

APDL looks decent, but inapplicable for my type of flying and at a ridiculous pricepoint; perhaps NC Software is under the impression that companies will supply it to their flight crews.

Funny how overnight we went from having a strong, viable logbook platform to ... well, nothing.

-Fox
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Any chance you can program django? Flightlogg.in is abandoned but open source. I think it could make a great starting point.
 
Johnny Beau Bekkestad said:
Then you should look into http://www.mccpilotlog.net/ They support ALL platforms, although the MacOS is still in Beta. I love it and their support is fantastic. I bought the Enterprise version which gives you everything and NEVER expires. Even if they change to a subscription service in the future they explicit say that it will not affect old users. /Johnny
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Thanks for the heads up. I'll absolutely take a look at it.
 
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