With CrewConnect‘s export to LogTen Pro X feature, you’ll find the chore of logging of your flights a lot less tedious. This is how I use CrewConnect with LogTen Pro X.
What is CrewConnect?
CrewConnect downloads your roster from your company’s server and they add “awesome” features to your roster. They support a large number of airlines around the world and it is likely your airline is supported.
We will write another article within the next few weeks about the awesome-ness of CrewConnect. For today, we will be focusing on their “LogTen Export” feature.
What is LogTen Pro X?
LogTen Pro X is an electronic logbook for pilots. With LogTen Pro, you’re able to keep track of the flying hours and export your hours as PDFs in various logbook formats. With LogTen Pro‘s Radar feature, you will also be able to track various parameters such as your running 28 days duty hours and running 28 days flying hours.
There are a lot of features in LogTen Pro but today I will only be talking about how to use it with CrewConnect. Stay tuned for an article about LogTen Pro X in the coming weeks.
Why Export?
Well, why not? Especially if the alternative method is to manually enter the details (flight number, date of flight, departure time, arrival time, scheduled times, duty times, departure airport, arrival airport etc….) of every flight. If there was a way to save you time, shouldn’t you adopt that?
Once you have your roster in CrewConnect, CrewConnect allows you to directly export flights into LogTen Pro X. The advantages of exporting are as follows.
- Departure and arrival airport is automatically exported into LogTen Pro.
- Scheduled out and in time (block time) are automatically exported into LogTen Pro.
- Flight number is automatically exported into LogTen Pro.
- On duty time is automatically exported into LogTen Pro.
Automatically exporting these data reduces the chances of errors and makes your data in LogTen Pro X less prone to human input errors.
Exporting Flights
Since LogTen Pro X only runs on the iOS (iPhone and iPad) and on your Mac, only Apple users are able to enjoy this feature (time to switch?). The export feature requires you to be running CrewConnect on your iPhone and LogTen Pro X on the same iPhone.
First, you must download your roster from your company using CrewConnect.
Importing your roster into CrewConnect is too easy
After downloading your roster into CrewConnect, export your flights into LogTen Pro X by selecting “LogTen Export”
CrewConnect will ask you which flights you’ll like to export. Select the flights and tap on “Export”. Read the pro-tip at the end of this article about how many days ahead do I export these flights.
LogTen Pro X will automatically open up and show a prompt to confirm you will be importing flights from CrewConnect. Click on “Yes” to add the flights.
Your newly added flights will now appear in LogTen Pro X in Orange.
This is how the details of each exported flight look like in LogTen Pro X.
CrewConnect exported flights have all the details in itYou will notice that a lot of the details have already been imported for you. After each flight, I will only fill in the following details
- Aircraft tail
- Chocks-off (out) time
- Take-off (off) time
- Landing (on) time
- Chocks in (in) time
- Pilot Flying
- Crew
- Approaches and landings
Logging of flights is less tedious with this integration between LogTen Pro X and CrewConnect.
What can’t be done for you?
While CrewConnect and LogTen Pro X integration are working really well for me, here are some things that I wished could be improved on.
- Aircraft Tail and Crew Names. I wished CrewConnect could retrieve aircraft tail and crew names from the roster, and export those details into LogTen Pro. Right now those details have to be manually entered.
- Actual Times. While my airline’s roster updates itself after every flight with the actual in and out times, CrewConnect is unable to retrieve those details and hence unable to export them into LogTen Pro X. Hence, entering actual times into LogTen Pro X remains a manual process.
Where to download?
CrewConnect is available as a free download and S$9.98 per year for all the features. Download CrewConnect from the iOS app store now.
LogTen Pro X is available as a free download and starts from S$14.98 for all the features. Download LogTen Pro X from the iOS app store now.
Pro Tip
I generally export only the next few flights into LogTen Pro one to two days ahead of time, as opposed to exporting the entire month’s roster. The reason for this is because of the likelihood of changes in flight throughout the month.
