[VOTE NOW] Question Regarding Flight Logs

[clut]

DanSteph wrote:

clut wrote:
A breif pilots report would allow us to look back on past flights as though they actually happened, as opposed
to a list of flights that were Average, Perfect, Horrible, Very Good, Perfect etc.

FsP report are technically detailled but they also have a lot of detailled circumstance
of how the flight whent... sorry if I'm mistaken again on your writting but FsP is far from providing
only "perfect good, average, very good, perfect etc etc" flight report

I can hardly see any other report program around were you will see that "your passengers were satisfied by the movies"
or "scared by weater at landing" or "didn't like your dive" or "didn't like your G excess" or "the pilot
failed to control
engine power before take-off and missed that one engine was weak, got a flameout shortly after take-off and crashed blablabla"
or "the passengers didn't like your in-flight musics" and so on...

Dan

Dan,

I appologise, I was not saying that FSP reports were very basic. I've looked through a lot of those reports and I LOVE the amount of detail
you have, right down to landing pitch and landing vertical speed. You're right when you say there are no other programs that give you this
much detail, but I was trying to highlight the other details that only a pilot could give, such as "I thought the aircraft was not quite
responding properly, but I could not locate the problem, until I tried to lower the flaps on final where I discovered they were jammed".

or maybe, "We lost the right engine just 600ft after takeoff due to a birdstrike. I immediately located a field large enough to land the
aircraft and put her down safely just 3 miles from the airfield."

OF course, FSP will report that you've got yourself a birdstrike, and that you've landed safely, (as well as lots of other statistics on the
flight) but only the pilot can specify his immidiate course of action, and reasons for decisions made.