#Pilot logbook iphone app software#
Planned obsolescence is what makes the computer & software industry tick. Those spreadsheets were from, oh I don't know, 1987-89'ish. But I know that the original data was intact, because the very old computer could still open it. Not MS Office (Excel) on Windows or OpenOffice on Linux. So I transferred the spreadsheets onto the 3 1/2" floppy, then onto a USB thumb drive so I could play around with them on my current computer.ĭespite all that effort, none of my current office suites could open the files. Just for a lark, I had an old (very old) computer kicking around that still booted up, that had both a 5 1/4" floppy drive, and a 3 1/2" drive. I have a few old 5 1/4" floppy disks with spreadsheets created using first generation MS Excel (Windows 2.0 era).
They'll also be readable continuously for the next 100 years if needed.Would you like to make a small wager on that? Some screenshots - you can see the little airplane superimposed on the charts and I can vouch for the fact that it does work while airborne if you have the appropriate charts cached on your iphone (they are free to download once you buy the application, and you can snag them via wifi if you are worried about the data transfer costs).Īnyhoo, just something cool I found yesterdayĪirFrame wrote.
#Pilot logbook iphone app Pc#
I tried it on a flight back from Toledo to YYZ yesterday and it showed our GPS position on the charts, just like the 15k tablet PC we have on board, so it might be a good backup in the event that all the electrics go dark one day. It's still a work in progress - it doesn't show high-level IFR charts yet and doesn't have much for Canadian stuff, but the guy seems to add a new feature every week or so (he says he's working on adding weather on top of the chart displays), and a cool thing is you can cache the IFR / approach charts on your iphone so you can use them while in the air.
I have it on my iphone 3GS but it'll work with an ipad as well. It says it even has a terrain database (assuming your phone has 'real' gps, which the iphone 3gs does), but I didn't get close enough to the ground while watching it to confirm that It shows VFR, Terminal, IFR low-level charts and approach charts for the whole US, along with your GPS position on them, along with METARS, TAFS etc. A bit off-topic but one app I picked up yesterday is Skycharts Pro.
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