Full disclosure - only a Cirrus Pilot occasionally (friends and students), but figured I’d share here as an airplane owner…
Got tired of either manually scanning logbooks to PDFs and updating them, or trying to find online alternatives only to realize they are all paid subscription models.
So I ended up building a small system for my own M20F (1970), and realized it might be useful for others. Happy to share, and get feedback/suggestions.
TL;DR: It’s free, and will remain free. It’s also open-source, so anyone can check out the platform and run it themselves if they want to (full instructions included).
Current capabilities:
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Logbook management (upload/capture existing logs) - pages are then scanned, entries extracted (including handwritten entries), presented for verification.
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Track equipment, W&B, ADs.
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Track maintenance and predict maintenance.
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Sharing (with co-owners, A&P, whoever you want).
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Download and backup. You own the data. Export, report, whatever…
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Security built-in - row-level access controls on every piece of data in the database (that’s my dayjob…)
Running the application at MyTailLog (com).
Source code is on my personal github (/iiamit)
As I mentioned - happy to get feedback or answer any questions on it. I’m personally managing over 50 years of logs for my Mooney there…