[VOTE NOW] Question Regarding Flight Logs

[DanSteph]

Stringfellow wrote:
Why not create an index of causes/actions made related to the results of your flight and assign a letter code to them individually. Then
include that index in the docs of FsP. Users can input the codes in the report before recording it. This would greatly reduce the number of
characters added to the submissions.

That simply can't do the job... if one can bother typing code in such a complicated way
one can simply use a pen and a paper... (we would rename that in FsPDiY.. "FsP do it yourself"

the report are already coded in the database, of course I don't record plain text into them
because text are predefined.... so most failure you see take at worse an integer
(you exceeded the max flap airspeed from 35 kts) at best a byte (you forgot to put the landing light On...)
and at very best one bit only (case of failures wich use one 64 bits (2 integer) value only for 64 possible failure)

The only way to code a "user text" is as said earlier to have a separate file that hold them all
with a unique number that is also in the flight log,

FsP open the flight log, seek the unique number than open the comments file and seek about this comment ID...
simple...in theory... what take time is to make all that userproof quick and safe...

Dan



Post Edited ( 06-30-05 04:59 )