Aircraft and directory
Two libraries sit behind your logbook: the aircraft you fly, and the people, companies and airports your flights point at. Nothing in this area logs a flight, but your totals are counted through all of it. So a mistake made here doesn’t look like a mistake — it looks like a wrong number somewhere else.
Read E1 and E3 before you edit anything. The rest will be there when you need them.
| Guide | What it gets you | |
|---|---|---|
| E1 | The Hangar | The Aircraft screen, which is two lists and not one |
| E2 | Add an aircraft | One tail in the Hangar, correct first time |
| E3 | Aircraft types, and what editing one changes | The type/airframe relationship, and exactly which tails a type edit can correct. Read it before you fix a typo |
| E4 | Simulators and training devices | Sessions that stay out of flight time and land on the right 8710 row |
| E5 | HUD configuration | Head-up display hours, as a number you can see |
| E6 | The Directory | People, Orgs and Airports, and where your own record lives |
| E7 | People and employment history | Crew records, and dates that quietly decide who your flights are attributed to |
| E8 | Organizations | The companies the logbook attributes hours to |
| E9 | Airports | A catalogue of 84,442 airports, narrowed to the ones you use |
| E10 | Find duplicates in the Hangar and Directory | Two records that are the same thing, collapsed into one, with the flights kept |
| E11 | Read one aircraft’s analytics | The five views behind a Hangar card — where one tail has been, and what it’s worth to your career |
Two things worth knowing first
The navigation label and the screen name differ. You tap Aircraft in the navigation, and the screen that opens is headed Aircraft Hangar, or Hangar on a window narrower than 800 pixels. Directory opens a screen headed Directory. This area uses the on-screen names throughout.
Nothing in this area is Pro-only. Every aircraft, person, organization and airport feature described here works on a free logbook.
Words this area introduces
Hangar — the list of individual aircraft you fly. One card per tail.
Airframe, or tail — one physical aircraft, identified by its registration or its fleet number. This is what you pick when you log a flight.
Type — the model an airframe is: a catalogue entry shared by every tail of that model, with its own tab, list and editor. Editing a type can correct the tails still following it, one field at a time (E3).
Designator — the ICAO code for a type: C172, B738. It isn’t unique.
Doc 8643 — the ICAO type catalogue that comes with the app: 10,020 entries covering 2,640 designators. Most types you need already exist.
Snapshot — a value copied onto a flight when it was saved, rather than looked up fresh every time. Every flight carries three: aircraft type, operator and owner. They don’t all behave the same way (E3).
Simulator device class — FFS, FTD or ATD, set on a type, or on a single session in the flight-entry form. A device class is the only thing that keeps a session out of your flight-time totals (E4).
HUD configuration — how a head-up display is fitted across the two crew seats of one airframe: None, Captain, or Captain + F/O.
Organization — any company in the logbook: airline, operator, flight school, manufacturer, owner. One list doing four different jobs.
Employment history — the dated jobs recorded on a person. On your own record, they decide which of your flights get attributed to an operator (E7).
Seeded — reference data that came with the app rather than created by you. Seeded airports can’t be deleted and can’t be merged away.
Set aside — in Find Duplicates, “file a copy in the Review queue and decide later”. It removes the record from where it was, and it isn’t an undo.
Self person — your own Directory record, badged YOU and pinned above the People list. It can’t be deleted (→ A9).