Launch point logging software flight accounting

On Dec 3, 4:41*pm, Martin Gregorie
wrote:
On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:29:55 -0800, bildan wrote:
On Dec 3, 12:21*pm, Martin Gregorie
wrote:

Murphy says it would probably bill a day's flying to the instructor
rather than his students.

Easy to set the software to never charge an instructor unless it's a
solo flight. *If it's a non-instructional shared-cost joyride, it would
be up the the instructor to see that his passenger is not automatically
charged for the whole flight. *The software would also know it's an
instructor's duty day and not charge him.

I was meaning that the RFID reader might refuse to read anything but the
instructor's tag.

I know nothing about RFID readers and whether they can get locked onto
the 'loudest' tag, but if its a cheap reader, cheap tags and there's the
faintest possibility of this happening, Murphy will make sure it does
while ensuring that his intervention isn't believed.

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RFID chips are used massively in product manufacturing, warehousing,
shipping and retailing. It's a highly developed and VERY reliable
technology. Each chip is less than $0.05. Probably billions of them
are in use.

One can buy serialized plastic ID cards with them cheaply. The
misread rate is extremely low. A logger that could also read an RFID
chip would be the missing part. Automatic billing could be added to a
program like SeeYou as a feature.