Enhanced Digital Flight Log
The enhanced digital flight log provides Commanders the ability to easily electronically document data in a central repository. The Strike Labs Enhanced Digital Flight Log is capable of:
logging all of the flights for every person,
tracking the miles and time flown per aircraft for maintenance tracking,
aggregating all flights and currencies for each wing, group, and squadron
providing the senior officers the ability to see:
a) the current flight currency of those under them,
b) the forecasted currency based on planned flights,
c) when specific flight currencies will expire,
suggesting flights based on desired capabilities and currency,
allowing users to produce a logbook for proving their flight history to future employees.
The system is capable of adding metadata to each flight to allow for logic to consistently be refined.
Pilots manually enter the user’s historical flights, or the user can bulk-upload their flight information.
There are a few areas that proved to be difficult, including 1) the airport locations, 2) calculating distance, 3) calculating what part of a flight is flown at nighttime.
Airport Locations
A list of all airports around the world with their abbreviations, ID’s, latitude, longitude, number of runways, and runway direction such as 34°, or 152° are publicly accessible via many sources. With this data, users can determine what airport an aircraft can land on. However, this list is not comprehensive. Military, federal, or covert aircraft do not necessarily fly to airports only found in these publicly accessible repositories. Some airports are military owned, covert, or temporary.
The Enhanced Digital Flight Log gives users the ability to securely add new airport locations , as well as various departure locations.
Nighttime Flying
Some organizations require pilots to maintain a certain level of nighttime flight currency. For example, a pilot flying from Singapore eastward to Newark, New Jersey will pass from day to night and back again. While most would estimate 1/2 of the flight was at night, the Enhanced Digital Flight Log is able to track this nighttime currency specifically. With a given departure location, date and time, and a destination location, date, and time, the tool calculates where the aircraft was located and whether that aircraft was flying at night.
This capability was built for the NGA’s IGAPP program, but due to the IGAPP business model, the economics were not in a place that warranted additional research and development. We still believe in the program and its capabilities.
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