Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Catch-22 Conundrum

Bill,

As for myself, I have local backups, and then I have backups of the local backups into "the cloud". So even if my laptop were to take a digger (which it has on occasion), it's a simple restore and I'm back in business.

But you do bring up a great point though. What happens if you sign up for an online log company and the company is bought, sold or closed - then what of the logs? Hopefully you'll be able to capture that information in a csv file or something that's transportable to another location.

I also had totally forgotten about the CFI sigs. That brings up a new point on something the FAA should be looking into (or someone in authority along those lines). At some point in time we'll need to have some sort of secure digital signature file for these online log books.

Brian

--- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com, "Bill Watson" <bill@...> wrote:
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> Do your online logbooks have a place for the instructor signature? If not,
> then the important part of why you are carrying your logbook isn't there. If
> so, then I'd place a lot of emphasis on backing up the data on the
> electronic logbook 8 ways from Sunday. For instance, if you lose your E-log
> device while flying over some river, you need to have confidence that your
> data (even if backed up) can be retrieved even if the E-log folks go out of
> business. Your flying logs are good for life, so your ability to get that
> data back also needs to be good for life.
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> From: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com]
> On Behalf Of Jerry
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> Subject: RE: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Catch-22 Conundrum
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> From: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com]
> On Behalf Of Brian
> Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 12:06 PM
> To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Catch-22 Conundrum
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> I was thinking about this the other day with the discussion about having to
> carry our log books as a sport pilot with us on the plane we are PIC of. In
> the age of the Internet, and everything going online, there are lots of
> electronic log books these days, which offers a great deal of features over
> the standard paper-based ones.
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> What if I wanted to go paperless and my log book is web-based? What then? I
> can't quite carry the Internet on-board... :D
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> (btw - this is a rhetorical question, but I liked the conundrum)
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> Brian
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