On Nov 29, 9:17*am, Ramy wrote:
Many may not realize that the start/end time they see in the OLC daily
results, flightbook etc is the logger on/off time, not takeoff/landing
times! The takeoff/landing time are only available in the flight
detail page. So pilots using the OLC flightbook as electronic logbook,
log erroneous time (unless they turn *their logger on/off at takeoff/
landing).
Suprisingly, this was the way OLC display start/end times for years,
perhaps from the beginning. I reported to OLC and they promissed to
look at it.
This also brings another question: Is it still required to log time
using pencil in an official paper log book, or printouts from
electronic logbooks or spreadsheets are acceptable?

Ramy

Some loggers record from when they are turned on, others (the 302A I
have, for example) buffer X amount of time, throwing away the oldest
datapoints until movement begins. The Cambridge also stops recording
shortly after the glider stops. I was trying to write a macro that
would detect significant movement, and when movement stops, (from a
raw .igc file). As it turns out, that's not all that difficult, but
what IS tough is determining the release altitude. After beating my
cranium against a brick wall for several hours, I decided that
entering the data for each flight into my Excel Logbook manually
wasn't such a PITA after all.
BTW, I actually MISS dBase!