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| developedby = Roman Ludwicki (PlayeRom, SP-ROM) | | developedby = Roman Ludwicki (PlayeRom, SP-ROM) | ||
| initialrelease = December 11th, 2022 | | initialrelease = December 11th, 2022 | ||
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'''Logbook''' is a FlightGear add-on for automatically logbook all your flights to CSV file. The add-on also provides a Canvas graphical interface for viewing, editing the logbook and showing total statistics. | '''Logbook''' is a FlightGear add-on for automatically logbook all your flights to CSV file. The add-on also provides a Canvas graphical interface for viewing, editing the logbook and showing total statistics. | ||
= How it's working? = | |||
The add-on tries to automatically detect if an aircraft has taken off by checking the Weight of Wheels. Then the add-on starts collecting information about the flight. This means that if you are parked, taxiing, etc., it is not yet included in the flight log. If you are in the air, the add-on tries to detect if you have landed also by testing Weight of Wheels. Thus, logging takes place from the moment the aircraft is lifted off the ground until it is put back on the ground. | |||
If the aircraft has no wheels, only the floats, then the add-on will also try to recognize if the floats are resisting the water (if the aircraft uses JSBSim), thus recognizing whether you are in the air or not. | |||
The add-on also recognizes the moment of launch of the Space Shuttle from the starting position, which required a separate consideration due to the different launch. | |||
= Logbook file = | |||
You will find the CSV file in the directory <code>[[$FG_HOME]]/Export/Addons/org.flightgear.addons.logbook/logbook-v1.0.1.csv</code>, where [[$FG_HOME]] on Windows is: | |||
<code>C:\Users\{user name}\AppData\Roaming\flightgear.org\</code> | |||
and on Linux/MacOS: | |||
<code>/home/{user name}/.fgfs/</code> | |||
You can always open it and edit by any Spreadsheet program like LibreOffice Calc, MS Excel, etc. However please don't put the characters <code>,</code> in the cells, because the Logbook parser will recognize them as a column separator, which will cause errors in the operation of the add-on. It is safer to edit the log data through the GUI in the simulator. | |||
= Logbook file structure = | |||
The following information is logged into the file: | |||
# <code>Date</code> – aircraft take-off date. This is the date taken from your OS, not the date in the simulator. I decided I'd know when I flew in my own time zone, in front of my own computer, rather than what the UTC or local time was in the simulation, which would not be valuable. If you have a different opinion and reasonable arguments, let me know. | |||
# <code>Time</code> – aircraft take-off time. As for <code>Date</code> this is the time taken from the OS. | |||
# <code>Aircraft</code> – the code name of the aircraft. | |||
# <code>Callsign</code> – your callsign set for multiplayer. | |||
# <code>From</code> – the ICAO code of the airport from which you have taken off. If you are starting immediately in the air, this field will remain blank. | |||
# <code>To</code> – the ICAO code of the airport where you landed. If you did not land (e.g. by closing FG in flight) or by landing at an adventurous location, this field will remain blank. | |||
# <code>Landings</code> – number of landings made. If you landed anywhere, a 1 will be entered here. If the flight ended without landing or the add-on was unable to detect a valid landing, a 0 will be entered here. | |||
# <code>Crash</code> – if the add-on recognizes an aircraft crash, a 1 will be entered here, otherwise this field will be left blank. | |||
# <code>Day</code> – the number of hours spent flying during the day. | |||
# <code>Night</code> – number of hours spent flying during the night. | |||
# <code>Instrument</code> – the number of hours flown during the IMC (Instrument Meteorological Conditions). | |||
# <code>Duration</code> – total duration of the flight in hours, as the sum of <code>Day</code> and <code>Night</code>. The instrument is not added up here, as it is simply counted separately, regardless of whether it was day or night. | |||
# <code>Distance</code> – total distance flown from take-off to landing, in nautical miles. | |||
# <code>Fuel</code> – total fuel burned, in US gallons. | |||
# <code>Max Alt</code> – maximum altitude, in feet, reached during flight. | |||
# <code>Note</code> – notes, by default the full name of the aircraft. '''This is a good place to enter your own notes as well'''. | |||