A builder's log for an amateur-built aircraft: the entries, the photographs, and the fabrication and assembly tasks behind the major portion calculation — in one file on your own computer.
A build runs for years. Your data is a file you own and can back up yourself, not a row in somebody's database that depends on a company still existing when you finish. No account, no server, and it works with no internet — which is where most building actually happens.
Three things, and they are the first three fields of every entry.
It shows the arithmetic and names the paragraph. It does not make the determination — because it is not the app's to make.
Dated entries with hours, who, where and what. Photographs attach to the entry they belong to, and an entry can be marked inspected with the witness named.
Each project keeps its own log, tasks, photographs, equipment, weight and balance and Phase I record. Your own details are shared across all of them.
Recorded as you fit them, so the empty weight report and the equipment list come out of the records you already kept.
Purchase tracking with the budget worked out from it. What you owe and what you are still waiting for are tracked separately, because they are different questions.
Filled in from what you already entered. Anything calling for a judgement, a certification, or an inspector's or notary's entry is deliberately left blank.
The hours, the manoeuvres and the operating limitations, recorded against the aircraft they belong to.
Once the aircraft is certificated the record stops being a build log and becomes a maintenance record.
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