Skydiver's Online Logbook

Summary: An electronic logbook for skydivers with a web interface.

Sure, your paper logbook will be interesting to look into and reminisce about jumps that you did, but did you ever consider that you could glean all sorts of interesting statistics from it? That is, datamine your jumping career? And to make it extra interesting, throw in the logbooks of your jumping buddies too, and we have a whole database we can play with! Neat! But that's not all, of course.

Current functionality: log in, enter logbook entries (like a paper logbook), and do all sorts of interesting things with those logbook entries, like searching, doing queries on ranges of dates (like, how many jumps and freefall time did you do between two particular dates), sort logbook entries by all sorts of criteria, find out all types of airplanes you jumped out of, find out which are your maximum exit altitudes and minimum opening altitudes, and a lot more stuff like that. There are still a few things that are biased towards Holland, like the mention of the local parachuting association (KNVvL), for example. These can be easily customized if needed.

There are more features on the way. Such as a "relative work" applet, which will give you a way to draw and save points you made during a formation dive. There's a whole equipment section in the making. So, you'll be able to keep track of your stuff: repack dates for your reserve, yearly checkup dates, serials, etc. Also more detailed queries, linking various databases toghether (databases on different servers, that is), and lots of other things. If you have any suggestions, please submit a feature request or email me!

This program is released under the GPL license. You may use it free of charge, make copies of it, whatever. See the GPL license for details. I make no guarantees of its usefulness or suitability. Use at your own risk. Bla bla bla

You can find a demo here. Use login:

demo

with password:

demo

to try it out or create your own login to play with. The demo is to show functionality only. Please do not add your entire logbook. This is meant so you can try it out before you install it on your own server or pester your DZ's webmaster enough so they'll install it so your entire club can use it! :-)

If you want to run the Skydiver's Online Logbook on your site, you need a MySQL database and a webserver which understands PHP. MySQL and PHP exist on many different platforms, so a unix flavour is not required. This program was developed on a Red Hat Linux system, running the Internet's most popular webserver, Apache.

You don't need a high end system to run the logbook software. I expect it to perform well on a Pentium 200 even with many users. MySQL and Apache are both very efficient. :-)

JumpTrack by Larsen & Brusgaard. Very cool, very slick software to interface with your ProTrack. Also very expensive, and still requires you to fill in a bunch of data, if you wanna keep track of that.
Online Skydiving Logbook by Duncan Sample. His is a variation on mine. Still in development (as of 27-08-2002). Is looking very nice! :-)
SkyLog, which offers some of same functionality (a lot less features, though), but is for a standalone PC, only has your own jumps in it (so you can't compare to your fellow skydivers!!) and it costs money.
Skydiver's Logbook which seems to have only an intro page but nothing to offer.
SkyDive log Data Base, a Russian logbook tool. I have not been able to try it out, my Russian not being up to it. :-)
ParaLog, a logbook for your 3Com Palm Pilot organizer.