Flight Time Logger is an Android application for mobile phones, you may log your flight times using this application. A record contains the flight times, take-off, landing, and no. of landings. Optionally the aircraft registrations, the airfields, and the name of a student or attendant may be included. The records can be imported as flight log entries. To do so, you have to transfer the data first from your mobile phone to the PC, where Skylog is running. This can be accomplished using the Bluetooth interface if your phone and PC are Bluetooth equipped (Flight Time Logger main menu). Alternatively the records can be written into the phone's file system (where the pictures from the camera are stored) and you can transfer the file from there.
There is a special preferences page for the import from Flight Time Logger. The following settings are specified there:
The folder for the files from Flight Time Logger
a regular expression matching file names from Flight Time Logger files
the pilot's default duty if no student / Attendant is given
the pilot's default duty if no student / Attendant no is given
the defalt duty of the student / attendant
a setting to control rounding of times to remove seconds
The Flight Time Logger import wizard is opened from the menu item „Skylog / Import / Flight Time Logger flights ...“. On the first page the import file is selected. If the preferences are filled (see above) the file with the newest date (as part of the file name) is automatically selected from the specified folder. You may manually select a different file. The character encoding is fixed.
After proceeding to the second page you have to select the records you want to import. The contents of the records has been read from the file and is presented in a table. On this page also the flight log is selected. The selection from the flight log view is preselected.
The selected records from page two are completed on the third page. Pilot and student / attendant duty are taken from the preferences. The registration of the aircraft resp. the airfield names can be added or modified directly in the table. The name of the student / attendant can be added or modified also. Abbreviated names from the record or your input are automatically recognized as follows:
An aircraft registration is interpreted as suffix (e.g. „D-EXDA“ from „DA“) or as first letter plus suffix (e.g. „D-EXDA“ from „DDA“)
Airfields are recognized from the succif of the ICAO name (e.g. „EDFE“ from „FE“)
Names of students resp attendants are recognized from the prefix of the first name or surname or as the first letter of the first name and the prefix of the surname. Additionally the first letter of the first name, the first letter of the middle name, and the prefix of the surname are recognized.
The selected records can be completed further using the two leftmost buttons below the table. Here airfields are guessed from the sequence of airfields in the records resp. the destination of the last flight of the flight log. Further values can be taken from the pilot's properties (home base, default launch method, preference for local flights).
If the preference to guess a touch-and-go departure is active, this condition will by checked also while analysing the sequence of records (see above): If landing time and block-on time, and block-off and take-off time of the following record are at most 20 seconds apart, and if block-on time of this record and block-off time of the next record are at most one minute apart we recognize a touch-and-go departure. In this case the block-on time of this record and the block-off and take-off time of the following record are set to the landing time (according to the rounding settings!), i.e. The four times are equal afterwards.
An additional remark can be entered here too.
Using the rightmost column the creation of lessons can be triggered by selecting “new” or “continue” in the combo box. If one lesson for multiple flights is to be created select “continue”. The lessons are created in the same manner as by using the action to create a lesson from the selected flights. Also this column is automatically filled using the student information and existing student logs.
Finishing the wizards will create the flight log entries and possibly the lessons. If the default launch method resp. default flight rules are missing in the pilot's properties “self launch” resp. “VFR” is assumed and a warning is added for later reference. After the import is completed errors and warnings are shown in a dialog. The wizard is closed if at least one flight log entry has been created successfully.
The usual checks are performed for the flights: The date of flights and the times must be after the last flight from the flight log. Night flights are automatically recognized and marked as such.