The Pilot Profile Screen
This screen and it's options can be found by clicking the "pilot profile" link in the upper right hand section of the light blue menu bar. The pilot profile screen allows the managment and maintenance of the following:
Pilot Demographics and Preferences
Click the "Edit" button in the top right corner of this section to edit & view your demographic information and application preferences. The items you can manage are listed below:
Name and Address Info (Used to mail or ship prizes should you win)
Email Address (Used to notify you of important informatin like news, prizes and events)
Phone Numbers (Used as a last resort communication link)
Logbook Style (FAA or JAA)
Date Format (mm/dd/yyyy or dd/mm/yyyy)
Flight Time Format (000.0 or 000.00 or hh:mm)
Pilot is CFI (if checked, you will see CFI Certificate currency options)
Rows Per Page (How many rows of data do you want to see when viewing flights, aircraft etc)
Pilot Currency Settings and Options
Click the "Edit" button in the top right corner of this section to edit & view your demographic information and application preferences. The items you can manage are listed below:
Currency (VFR, IFR, Night and Tailwheel options are used to calculate currency for both Single Engine and Multi Engine aircraft)
Medical Certificate (Issue date and expire date, used to calculate currency)
CFI Certificate (CFI certificate information for currency)
Proficiency (Review type, review date and review expires, used to calculate currency)
Aviation Associate Management
Allows you to add & manage aviation associates like Instructors, DEs, Check Pilots, Safety Pilots, Pilot Buddies etc. for use when logging your flights. Aviation Associates are composed of a Name, ID (cert id etc) and free form notes. So when you log a flight and you have received dual, you can add your instructor as an associate and choose him in the CFI/DE/Check Pilot option in the flight entry screen. Same goes for the Safety Pilot option in the flights entry screen. A quick and easy way to log who gave you dual instruction or who was your safety pilot. All this information is displayed when you run an extract of your logbook.
Custom Logbook Categories Managment
In the lower right hand portion of the pilot profile screen you will see a box called "Custom Flight Time Categories". Simply click the Add button in the top right corner of the Custom Flight Time Categories section to add a new custom category. It is suggested that you use upper case short codes for custom flight time categories so that logbook extracts look uniform and fit on a single page. Custom Flight Time Categories can be a maximum of 10 characters.
Here are a few examples and reasons to create custom logbook categories:
- BUS - Track business expenses or business flight time
- ACRO - Track acrobatic flight time
- HELI - Track helicopter flight time
- FERY - Track ferry flight time
- AGG - Track aggricultural spraying flight time
- FIRE - Track fire bombing flight time
- TOW - Track glider or banner towing flight time
See the Getting Started section for more detailed information about the features found in the pilot profile screen. |
