Spider X - What Are Digital Flight Logs

How can Digital Logs help my business?

Digital Flight Logs provide your business with automated and accurate records of flight events, counts and durations. This feature unlocks opportunities to reduce errors and delays in collecting the data that drives your business. Make the transition to more accurate and efficient pilot records, invoicing and maintenance.

How does it work?

• Spider X devices detect key flight events using onboard sensors. No wiring is needed.
• Flight events are uploaded to the Spidertracks platform in real time.
• Events are processed automatically to summarise counts and duration for your flights.
• Log summaries can be viewed and exported from the History page.

Unlock further value by connecting with our Integration partners to seamlessly incorporate log data within their workflows. Learn more about our existing integrations here, or request a new integration via our contact form here.

What information do Digital Logs contain?

✅	Fixed wing	First blocks off, last blocks on and blocks time.*
✅	Fixed wing	First takeoff, last landing, count of landings (legs) and time in the air.*
✅	Rotary wing	First engine on, last engine off, count of engine cycles, total engine duration.*
✅	Rotary wing	First takeoff, last landing, count of landings (legs) and time in the air.*

*Per Spider power cycle

What do Digital Flight Logs look like?

Flight events show on the Map and Timeline views in our Flight Report. For example:

Digital Log events are also visible in the mobile apps (iOS, Android)  History.

The icons used to represent flight events are as follows:

Flight logs, including counts and durations, show in the History table and Summary download. For example:

How do I get started with Digital Flight Logs?

Getting access to automated Digital Logs is simple;

✅	Digital Flight Logs is included on all plans - there are no additional costs.
✅	Standard Spider X device installation. No additional wiring is needed.
✅	The Spider X firmware will update automatically for most customers.
✅	There is no configuration or tuning needed.

The main requirements are:

• Spider X device running firmware 4.23.13 or later
• The aircraft type has been set correctly (Fixed wing or Rotary wing)

 You can check the current firmware version of your Spider X by either:

• On the website - Check the 'Spider' tab of the Aircraft and Spiders (Spider X) setting (per Spider)
• In either mobile app - Check the Version reported under More > Spider connection.

FAQ

Q. Who can use Flight Logs?

A. Flight Logs work with all Spider Xs, however they must be running the latest firmware. For customers with poor cell or a non-supported region, the good news is that Flight Log events are supported over Iridium.

If an update is required and not able to be done over the cell network, customers may need to update manually, please see this article on how to achieve this: Spider X - Updating Firmware.

 

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