PORTLAND, Ore. — Coradine has released LogTen Pro X, a pilot logbook available for all Apple devices.
LogTen Pro X features a new interface designed to reduce distraction and help pilots focus on their data, according to company officials. It is optimized for iOS8 and iPhone 6 and includes fast flight entry, automatic GPS detection of nearest landing facilities, and advanced analytics to help pilots track their time.
“LogTen Pro X is the most technically advanced logbook we’ve ever created,” said Noah Lieberman, CEO at Coradine. “Our focus is always to create the best user experience possible and LogTen Pro X delivers with ultra fast data entry in our ‘Fly Now’ tab, which even uses GPS to input a pilots closest airport automatically. And for commercial pilots LogTen Pro X includes state of the art analytics that ensure commercial pilots can always be sure they are flying within regulated limits, covering duty and rest requirements.”
Exporting reports from LogTen Pro X is now easier than ever, he added. Whether pilots are filling out IACRA forms, sharing data with their instructor, potential employer or regulatory agent, they can now print and email PDFs right from their iOS devices.
Another new feature in LogTen Pro X is the “Analyze” tab which provides access to some key analytics pilots need like Multi-Engine, Turbine, PIC, SIC, and Total Instrument time. Analyze even breaks down the time for each aircraft type automatically.
Also new to LogTen Pro X is the Plan view which provides an industry first with the Time Loupe. Time Loupe allows pilots to scroll backwards and forwards in time to see all their user configurable, dynamic currencies and limits at any moment in time, now including rest and flight duty periods. Commercial pilots can easily identify issues with rest, duty or flight duty period limits before they happen, while private pilots can quickly confirm they’ll be current for flights they’re planning.
“I’m thrilled to announce that the LogTen Pro X platform will allow even more pilots to reap the rewards of an electronic pilot logbook by making it free for students (first 40 hours of flight time) and offering a single simple subscription that provides effortless syncing between all their devices (via cloud or wifi) and continuous updates and improvements for the latest operating systems and devices. A pilot’s logbook is critical to their flying career, so we ensure they always have full access to their data — even if they let their subscription lapse they still get the latest updates to ensure their logbook is accessible — pilots will always be able to view, edit, search, generate reports and print with LogTen Pro X.”
The LogTen Pro X platform including iOS and Mac is available today, and after 40 hours of flight time are entered in LogTen Pro X for iOS, pilots can purchase a monthly subscription at $6.99 or annual subscription at $69.99.
Until Oct. 30, to help pilots make the transition, the annual subscription has been reduced to $34.99 for the first year.
I liked the previous version of LogTen. It worked well enough to satisfy and I figured I was money ahead using the app vs paper. I’d probably upgrade more frequently than “break even” because I like new features and think a good company making good product is worth being a good customer to. A subscription doesn’t bother me; I’d happily pay twice what I was spending on paper logbooks (maybe $15 or $20 a year) as I think LogTen is simply that much superior to paper. They have fine folks (always happy to help based on my correspondence with them) working there on the technical/engineering side of the company making fine software…
It’s the company (specifically it’s management) that makes this app you have to worry about. The people who were actively selling this product’s prior version to customers knew while they were selling it for months in advance they weren’t going to provide support to their product the moment they rolled out their new version (the one this press release copy/paste job refers to) and told nobody thus leaving all these customers (I’m among them) with expensive orphaned software. By doing this Coradine management has showed no consideration for their customers they kept in the dark until they pivoted their customers out into the cold. If you ever wondered what betrayed and angry customers in the App Store look like see for yourself: just read the reviews on this app.
The boss at Coradine apparently thinks he has all his customers locked in and it’s time to put the screws to them. Unless there’s a big change of direction toward respect and consideration for their existing customers I’ve got news for him: no business has a right to paying customers. I put my data into LogTen from a paper logbook/spreadsheet, I can pull my data out of LogTen as well to take my business elsewhere, and I intend to do just that very soon.