Digital logbook

Eight professions, eight sets of fields

A pilot logbook and a drone maintenance logbook have almost nothing in common, so they are not forced into one form. Each profession gets the fields its own records actually need.

• Mechanic — Part-66 categories A, B1, B2, B3 and C, ATA chapters, plus structures, composite, paint, interiors, CAMO, planning, technical records and quality tracks
• Pilot — single and multi-engine time, day and night, IFR, PIC, copilot, dual and instructor time, take-offs and landings
• Cabin crew — duty hours, flight number and role
• Ground staff — task, location, equipment and hours
• Remote pilot — operation category, VLOS, EVLOS or BVLOS, aircraft specification and authorisation reference
• UAV technician — airframe, motor and battery hours, components and actions
• Mission commander — crew, sorties, area covered and SORA reference
• Drone instructor — trainee, course, training type, hours, result and competency

Verified by the person who was there

Add a supervisor or instructor when you record an entry and they receive an e-mail asking them to confirm it. The entry stays marked as pending until they answer, and then carries a verified badge — or a rejection, which is equally honest. Entries can also be kept as drafts while a job is still open.

That single step is what turns a self-declared list into a record another party has reason to trust.

Getting the record out again

Export to a properly paginated PDF with a declaration page and page numbering, suitable for handing to an authority or an employer. Or share it as a link that stops working after three days and can be revoked before then — so a prospective employer can read your logbook without you e-mailing a permanent copy of your career into someone else’s inbox.

Manned and unmanned, same standard

Four of the eight logbook types are for unmanned operations. Drone work is bought by the same airports, MROs, energy companies and insurers that buy crewed work, and it is starting to be audited the same way. Remote pilots and UAV technicians get the same record-keeping and the same verification flow as everyone else.

Related

• Vault — certificates & licences
• Aviation jobs
• Drone Zone