APDL - Airline Pilot Logbook

The owner refused to refund what was ordered by mistake. He told me I shouldn't have ordered it. True enough, but HORRIBLE customer service. As a career pilot, I can say with certainty he is NOT respected in the aviation community.

I’ve been using using APDL for 5+ years across two airlines (regional and major) and I’ve the wide variety of tools available in APDL extremely useful in keeping my logbook accurate and up to date, complying with FAR 117, and commuting. Logbook - trip importing has been very easy for both airlines—simply using Safari and the included APDL toolkit. Once you’ve completed a flight, an “AUTOFILL” button pulls the OOOI times and auto calculates day/night flight time and landings. All you have to input is PF/PM role (for landing credit), actual instrument time, and approach type. Maintaining an accurate logbook can’t get easier than this. Updating the APDL flight data as you fly them enables accurate FAR 117 tracking and “What If” scenarios (delayed flights) as you fly each day. I download my APDL data after each calendar month and import it into my logbook using the Logbook Pro Import Wizard—about a 2 minute process. FAR 117 - I came closer to FAR 117 limits during my flying at my regional airline and this APDL capability was critical three times to calculate daily FDP and 100/672 flight time remaining. The FAR 117 reporting provides Table A and B limits highlighted for that day’s reporting time and flight segment requirements. APDL’s FAR 117 reports are helpful providing daily status graphs and data for every FAR 117 requirement—and look forward using imported future trip schedules to see potential upcoming problems. Commuting flight information - I found this feature very helpful during my 8 months commuting with my major airline. In the APDL settings, you input the minimum time between your commute in flight and you first trip leg takeoff and between your last leg landing and your commute trim home. Then APDL will find ALL 121 airline direct commute options. APDL keeps this information available to review so you can determine if you’re going to make your commute flight home depending on your last leg landing time. APDL has a number of other useful tools including notes sections for hotels, airports and other crew members; payroll; weather; airport delays; and resumes. Between my two airlines, I’ve found t APDL’s wide variety of tools very useful, and in some situations, critical.

That is all. Worked for years and no longer does. Quirky software. Beware.

Airline schedules never import.

Used to be pretty good. But no ability to upload trips for me now has made it useless when I can use a $10 year to export a spreadsheet instead.

Funny how the program seems to work during the trial period, after its very un user friendly and too many flaws. DON’T WASTE YOUR MONEY, THEY DO ZERO REFUNDS FOR A DEFECTIVE APP!

They just changed their password system and my log in to APDL no longer works. I’ve tried the reset process to recover my account but I never received any reset email from them even though I’ve requested a reset several times They don’t accept email, they don’t have a phone number, They want you to use their help desk, but when I try to register or recover my account. It’s the same thing, no email to reset, or http 500 error unable to process new account… So I’ve lost 10 years of flights using this app..l. I don’t plan on renewing and I’m going to stop using this app…

As long as you update your logbook everyday you won’t have a problem but if you wait a bit and then update it APDL gets buggy and you’ll choose a day such as nov 15th but APDL will automatically put the date in that you open the app with and you can’t change it. So if you fly on the 15th and open the app on the 22nd no matter what day you specify on the calendar it lists the flight as occurring on the 22nd and won’t let you change it. Then after going back and forth closing opening the app and deleting log book entries it starts to work correctly. Just get an excel spreed sheet or use something else.

I’ve been using APDL for years. Last year I got a year subscription, and it just came up for renewal. The price went from $12.99/mo last year to $38.99/mo? Are we kidding? One star just for that, when they’ve not added anything new since then. Take notes from FC View, because they’re stealing your client base.

As an airline pilot and seeing another pilot use this app, I had high hopes. Downloading and trying to get understand all its capabilities was somewhat of a challenge. There is NO human support. You can figure it out on your own or “watch their videos” or view their “support” docs. None of which I found 100% useful to solve my getting up to speed problems with the product. Shame too. I really wanted it to work.