First of all I would like to thank the developers from ncsoftware for creating this very brilliant logbook software, and always trying to answer all the questions and suggestions from all over the world. T H A N K S !!
What I can say to the topic above is, that anybody who is using your software can create the logbook he would like to have or which meets the JAR-FCL 1.080 Requirements of JAR - OPS in good old europe. I will now tell you what it look like.
First we need the DATE , than the ROUTE (DEP and DEST), DEP Time and ARR Time (same as IN and OUT),Aircraft Data ( Make,Model,Variant,Registration), Single Pilot Time,Multi Pilot Time,Duration, Name of Pilot in Comand,Take Offs and Landings (Day and Night),Operational Condition Time (Night,IFR), Pilot Function Time (Pilot in Comand,Co-Pilot,Dual,Instructor), Synthetic Training Device Session(Date,Type,Session Time) and last but not least Remarks.
As I said avove, you can create and configure the software how you need it. But now my Problem starts if I would like to print my logbook in the Jeppesen style format. Is there any way to print the logbook in the Jeppessen style format with the Name of the PIC in the printout? I tried it with creating my own tamplate and when lets say I rename the topic Glider in Name of PIC and then trying to get the customized Text field from the logbook which contains the Names of the PIC its not possible. Its hard for me to explain this, but I hope you can understand what I mean. I think it would be a great advantage if we could modify the Jeppessen Print out in that way that we can print the rows from the logbook as we would like to have them and delete or rename the rows we would not like to have on the print out.
The next 'Problem' for most european users is the Time conversion. You are absolutely right when you say in the forum that we can enter the time data in the format hh:mm and the software auomaticaly converts it in the decimal time format. For the European users it would be better if the software is not converting the time format, so that we have the duration and all other relevant times always in the format hh:mm !!
Another Idea is to implement a tool which allows us to put a personal flight schedule which is in the .pdf or .xls or .doc or other document form, send to us from the company via e-mail, convert this data directly in the outlook calender. For example the schedule contains a flight on 20/08/03 From Frankfut (FRA) to Washington D.C (IAD) Call sign is LH 418 and a usual flight time of 7h 50min. The tool yould then enter the data directly to the outlook calender as follows. Date 20/08/03 Check in FRA 07:00 Dep. 08:00 Flighttime 7:50 ARR 15:50
and check out 16:20 all times UTC.
To give you an Idea what it could look like take a look at
www.flugbuch-online.de this is a very nice and unique feature I think.
So I hope you can understand what I would like to tell you and it would be very nice if you could find some time to read and answer my question and suggestion. Maybe you´re implementing the Idea in one of the next update. Would be very nice to hear from you.
Best Regards and keep up the very good work !!!!