Are You ready for Electronic Logbooks?

1. Should I use an e-logbook?? Mark Estabrook February, 2103 Are You ready for Electronic Logbooks?

2. Is It Time to Dive In? E-Logbooks provide • Security • Back ups • Convenience • Paperless cockpit • Entry is easy and optionally automated • Multiple devices (on-line, smart phone, tablet, paper) • Multiple data formats (e.g. insurance) • Expansion of data • More notes • Pictures • ~100 flight property data fields if you want them, versus ~20 you have in the usual Jeppesen logbook • Data Analysis & Alerts • Currency • Locations • Aircraft • Etc. etc.

3. However… E-Logbooks Lack • FAA Official Sanction (although they haven’t said no). • But FAA Advisory Circular 120-78 presents criteria for determining the acceptability of digitally signed records • FAA Examiners may not fully accept them (check before you go) • Alex Roman has checked with one local examiner who has said he’ll only accept ‘real’ CFI signatures • Different programs have different approaches to CFI sign off • ‘finger’ signing • Electronic signatures (on-line verification via CFI) • The ‘big’ programs cost money, the cheap but the ‘little’ ones may or may not be around long term • The comfort & feel of paper

4. What are the options? • Professional or General Aviation • Access • Online only • Smartphone & Tablet only • Android • iOS • Online & mobile • Price from $0 to ~$80 Aviation Pilot Logbook IntelliPilot Pilot eLog LogTen (Sporty’s) … and Others

5. What Do You Look For? • Price (Charley, Gary R. and I are cheap and use myflightbook, Matt is rich and uses LogBook Pro) • Options for input of historical data • Options for output of data (easy transfer to a new program if you want) • Works on your preferred platforms (PC, MAC, iPhone, Android Phone, iPad, or Android Tablet • Some method for CFI electronic signature that might be upgraded when the FAA supports it

6. How Does it Work(mini IPAD w/myflightbook example) • Getting started • Flight Entry • View of Records • Logbook • Flight totals by properties • Currency • Hours by aircraft flown • Map & summary of airports flown to • Instructor sign off • Other ‘stuff’

7. Getting started • Start from where your current log book leaves off - or - • Transfer data from your current logbook • From a CSV file (e.g. excel) • By hand (ugh) • Typically done on-line via PC/MAC then synched to your mobile application

8. Flight Entry as it Appears on the iPAD • Large comments section • Easy engine start, option for speed based logging • Enter flight properties • Add a picture, link to facebook!

9. After Logging Flights, What Do You Get? – Quick View • See your last any number of flights

10. Flight Totals by Property

11. Currency • Which highlights what has expired and when current items will expire

12. Summary of Aircraft Flown • Pictures can be added

13. A Map Highlighting Airports Visited • Airports visited

14. Textual Summary of Airports Visted

15. Instructor Sign off • Meet your CFI on-line and get all sign offs and endorsements electronically on line • Also your instructor can literally sign your logbook entry with the touch screen

16. Other Stuff Monthly Trend Analysis & Other ‘Stuff’ on Line • Flight trends • FAA Forms

17. Other StuffTracking Plane Currency

18. What About my iPhone? • Same format as the iPAD • Use finger scroll to access all fields • Phone, Tablet & on-line all stay synchronized real time

19. Bottom Line • I’m in, but keeping a my log book current with any BFRs, endorsements, etc. • One of our Local FAA examiners will only accept paper/ink sign off of CFIs • Myflightbook also recommends keeping a written record of sign offs • Encouraging CFI(I)s that I work with to use myflightbook.com

20. Thank you… Questions & Discussion

21. ZuluLogElectronic Signatures • FAA Advisory Circular 120-78 presents criteria for determining the acceptability of digitally signed records. These criteria are: • Uniqueness. An electronic signature must identify a specific individual. No one else must be able to produce an electronic signature identical to that of a specific individual. ZuluLog.com uniquely identifies each individual user through a combination of the following methods: unique user name; user-selected password; unique email address; SSL security certificates; and security policies which restrict access to sensitive information to senior personnel. • Significance. An electronic signature must represent unambiguously the intent of the signer to indicate the truthfulness and correctness of the document or record being signed. All records entered into ZuluLog.com as a form of official record-keeping are considered to be signed when a user clicks on the Save button or otherwise expressly causes a record to be saved to the system's database. Under ZuluLog.com's Terms of Use, users agree to save only true and correct data when the site is used for record-keeping. An individual may not use ZuluLog.com's software without agreeing to the Terms of Use. • Scope. It must be clear which specific document or record an electronic signature applies to. ZuluLog.com's entry screens and record import screens have discrete save functionality; although single or multiple records may be saved at once, it is always clear what is being saved, and therefore which records the electronic signature applies to. • Security. Individuals must be prevented from affixing another individual's signature to a document or record. ZuluLog.com uses various means of securing user data, including but not limited to: unique usernames and passwords; SSL encryption; database-level encryption; firewalls; physical security; data access logs; secure record amendment and deletion mechanisms; and data access policies, including mechanisms of disabling access to terminated employees and users. • Non-repudiation. Once a digital record is signed, the signer must not be able to credibly deny having signed the record. ZuluLog.com's security features and access logs make it very unlikely that a signature could be duplicated, or a signed record altered. • Traceability. The signer of a document must be able to be positively identified. ZuluLog.com accomplishes this through mechanisms described above.

22. CFI Signature in the Logbook • Request signature on-line • Your logbook is then updated (see green)