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  • Birthday 01/04/1964

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  1. Hmm we don't have any pages in Spanish as yet so I can't think where you might have found that! Anyway regarding cloud data and BreezyLog... These days much of our valuable data is being stored in the cloud and there are a number of people who may think that they object to the idea. On consideration they could be overlooking the main benefits. Let's think about this carefully and weigh up the pros and cons. Cloud based storage of data brings some huge benefits, one of which is being able to have constant access to your data anywhere you can get a half decent internet connection. For an online aircraft logbook if you were going to keep and maintain the data yourself then unless you feel like setting up your own private web server, well you probably can rule out being able to access your data remotely. That said, yes you could access your data by another means such as remote desktop. Doing things this way however is hardly likely to make usage convenient or cheap and it will be your problem when you can't get remote desktop access. It will also be your responsibility to back up your data and to keep it secure. Maybe, you think you could take all your data with you on your phone for instance, and you might think that's working out just fine that is until you loose or break your phone and find you have also lost all your valuable data. Like it or not you are almost certain to already be using data stored in the cloud and in reading this post on the forum you are of course using the cloud right now. If you have a smartphone, for instance, or use any form of social media then you will be using the cloud for these as well. Let's not even mention your medicare and online banking. One concern that many have with cloud based data is that they worry about data security and while its true that social media accounts, card details held by airlines and many others, are all targets for hackers. For the most part such data breaches are rare and are more likely to affect users who don't pay much attention to their own security. Those who use the same password for everything and those that use easily guessed or short passwords are far more vulnerable. It's probably true that you should worry more about how your data might be used when it comes to services like social media, Alexa, and general web browsing but it's probably the nuisance of directed advertising which annoys us the most. Social media and similar accounts often get you to sign up to letting them do what the hell they like with your data. Private cloud accounts offering subscription services are usually in a completely different ballpark and have terms and conditions to leave you in far greater control of your own data. Of course, you should always read the terms and conditions before signing up for anything! The question of who has access to my data and the answer to that, for a well-behaved and responsible cloud data provider, should be quite clear. The data is private, it belongs to you and nobody else should be able to access it except you and those you have granted permission to access. For an online aircraft logbook should the data provider dare to give access to your data to others, they would certainly be breaking the law if they did not seek your consent first. So in this particular case I don't think that the big brother is watching you argument really holds up as valid. The log book provider is absolutely not going to share access to your private data with an authority like RAAUS, CASA, EASA, FAA or anyone else at all. Perhaps there is perhaps one extreme exception and that's when the authorities get involved with a warrant to obtain your data. Now that's a pretty unlikely event unless you are not a law-abiding citizen of course. Breezylog is an online aircraft logbook and yes it uses cloud based storage for your data so that you can access your data safely, securely and conveniently. Like any cloud data provider they take on the responsibility of keeping your data securely as a top priority. If you're still a semi-ludite then, for sure, you can keep your own records manually on paper, in excel or any other way you like and good luck with that as you are far more likely to overlook something important. If you want it all on paper, then that's no problem as breezy can print it all out for you at the click of a button. It is a sad fact that manual aircraft record keeping is a tedious process which for many owners and maintainers lends itself well to human error and plain laziness. The result is that many paper logbooks if audited will be found to have errors and omissions, overlooked maintenance and incomplete record keeping. The results of this can of course be horrific in the more extreme cases. Maintenance is meant to be preventative, but say if a life limited component hadn't been replaced when it should then you could already be on borrowed time without even knowing it. This is where an electronic logbook really comes into its own, it's a lot more than just simple record keeping and one of its main purposes is to provide you with a maintenance schedule for everything. Now you and your maintainer have a much clearer and concise picture and timetable of the tasks to be done and signed off. You can look at the schedule ahead and you can even save money by combining several tasks to be carried out at the same time. Should you leave a periodic inspection until overdue you will clearly see that your aircraft is effectively not flyable but you will notice long before that happens. You should automatically be made aware of any new airworthiness directives or service bulletins in order for you to review their applicability and take action when required. If you care about your aircraft and own safety and would like to maintain your aircraft more efficiently and have scope for reducing your maintenance costs, then you should certainly consider Breezylog. You have noticed, of course, that it costs quite a lot to get onto the system to begin with! There is a very good reason for this and it's not about ripping you off or anything like that! So why does it cost me to get my aircraft onto the system in the first place? Well this is because it actually takes some highly skilled time and manpower to check through everything in your existing paper records, to set up the maintenance schedules, the applicable airworthiness directives, service bulletins, CAO100.5 and more. We have to make sure that all parts are recorded correctly effectively building a model of your aircarft assembly. It takes time and unfortunately we can't do it for free. We want to make sure that your logbooks are in good shape and this is what the setup fee is all about. For flying schools and larger organizations having personel with the right experience and skills we will consider letting you set up your own aircraft on the system but you must understand that it is no simple task and this is why we don't make all of the "admin" facilities available to ordinary users. If you're an aircraft owner, regardless of whether you think your existing records are in good shape, we can help you get on to the system, sort out any issues and help you and your maintainer service your aircraft correctly and efficiently, with a lot less time and effort. A well maintained aircraft with perfect records will attract a better price and be easier to sell when the time comes for that upgrade. Then there is the ongoing monthly cost of $22 AUD (for a single engine craft) and for this you have to understand that while we want to keep your costs as low as possible we still need it to be commercially viable for us. Building and maintaining any large software system takes plenty of time and money and the monthly fee goes towards this. We firmly believe that we offer great value and that once you have tried BreezyLog you will never look back. Dave
  2. I work on the BreezyLog software and live on the other side of the world.
  3. Hmm we don't have a page in Spanish (as yet) so I don't know where you would have seen that!! Not in our system I think! Anyway about the cloud.... These days much of our valuable data is being stored in the cloud and there are a number of people who may think that they object to the idea. On consideration they could be overlooking the main benefits. Let's think about this carefully and weigh up the pros and cons. Cloud based storage of data brings some huge benefits, one of which is being able to have constant access to your data anywhere you can get a half decent internet connection. For an online aircraft logbook if you were going to keep and maintain the data yourself then unless you feel like setting up your own private web server, well you probably can rule out being able to access your data remotely. That said, yes you could access your data by another means such as remote desktop. Doing things this way however is hardly likely to make usage convenient or cheap and it will be your problem when you can't get remote desktop access. It will also be your responsibility to back up your data and to keep it secure. Maybe, you think you could take all your data with you on your phone for instance, and you might think that's working out just fine that is until you loose or break your phone and find you have also lost all your valuable data. Like it or not you are almost certain to already be using data stored in the cloud and in reading this post on the forum you are of course using the cloud right now. If you have a smartphone, for instance, or use any form of social media then you will be using the cloud for these as well. Let's not even mention your medicare and online banking. One concern that many have with cloud based data is that they worry about data security and while its true that social media accounts, card details held by airlines and many others, are all targets for hackers. For the most part such data breaches are rare and are more likely to affect users who don't pay much attention to their own security. Those who use the same password for everything and those that use easily guessed or short passwords are far more vulnerable. It's probably true that you should worry more about how your data might be used when it comes to services like social media, Alexa, and general web browsing but it's probably the nuisance of directed advertising which annoys us the most. Social media and similar accounts often get you to sign up to letting them do what the hell they like with your data. Private cloud accounts offering subscription services are usually in a completely different ballpark and have terms and conditions to leave you in far greater control of your own data. Of course, you should always read the terms and conditions before signing up for anything! The question of who has access to my data and the answer to that, for a well-behaved and responsible cloud data provider, should be quite clear. The data is private, it belongs to you and nobody else should be able to access it except you and those you have granted permission to access. For an online aircraft logbook should the data provider dare to give access to your data to others, they would certainly be breaking the law if they did not seek your consent first. So in this particular case I don't think that the big brother is watching you argument really holds up as valid. The log book provider is absolutely not going to share access to your private data with an authority like RAAUS, CASA, EASA, FAA or anyone else at all. Perhaps there is perhaps one extreme exception and that's when the authorities get involved with a warrant to obtain your data. Now that's a pretty unlikely event unless you are not a law-abiding citizen of course. Breezylog is an online aircraft logbook and yes it uses cloud based storage for your data so that you can access your data safely, securely and conveniently. Like any cloud data provider they take on the responsibility of keeping your data securely as a top priority. If you're still a semi-ludite then, for sure, you can keep your own records manually on paper, in excel or any other way you like and good luck with that as you are far more likely to overlook something important. If you want it all on paper, then that's no problem as breezy can print it all out for you at the click of a button. It is a sad fact that manual aircraft record keeping is a tedious process which for many owners and maintainers lends itself well to human error and plain laziness. The result is that many paper logbooks if audited will be found to have errors and omissions, overlooked maintenance and incomplete record keeping. The results of this can of course be horrific in the more extreme cases. Maintenance is meant to be preventative, but say if a life limited component hadn't been replaced when it should then you could already be on borrowed time without even knowing it. This is where an electronic logbook really comes into its own, it's a lot more than just simple record keeping and one of its main purposes is to provide you with a maintenance schedule for everything. Now you and your maintainer have a much clearer and concise picture and timetable of the tasks to be done and signed off. You can look at the schedule ahead and you can even save money by combining several tasks to be carried out at the same time. Should you leave a periodic inspection until overdue you will clearly see that your aircraft is effectively not flyable but you will notice long before that happens. You should automatically be made aware of any new airworthiness directives or service bulletins in order for you to review their applicability and take action when required. If you care about your aircraft and own safety and would like to maintain your aircraft more efficiently and have scope for reducing your maintenance costs, then you should certainly consider Breezylog. You have noticed, of course, that it costs quite a lot to get onto the system to begin with! There is a very good reason for this and it's not about ripping you off or anything like that! So why does it cost me to get my aircraft onto the system in the first place? Well this is because it actually takes some highly skilled time and manpower to check through everything in your existing paper records, to set up the maintenance schedules, the applicable airworthiness directives, service bulletins, CAO100.5 and more. We have to make sure that all parts are recorded correctly effectively building a model of your aircarft assembly. It takes time and unfortunately we can't do it for free. We want to make sure that your logbooks are in good shape and this is what the setup fee is all about. For flying schools and larger organizations having personel with the right experience and skills we will consider letting you set up your own aircraft on the system but you must understand that it is no simple task and this is why we don't make all of the "admin" facilities available to ordinary users. If you're an aircraft owner, regardless of whether you think your existing records are in good shape, we can help you get on to the system, sort out any issues and help you and your maintainer service your aircraft correctly and efficiently, with a lot less time and effort. A well maintained aircraft with perfect records will attract a better price and be easier to sell when the time comes for that upgrade. Then there is the ongoing monthly cost of $22 AUD (for a single engine craft) and for this you have to understand that while we want to keep your costs as low as possible we still need it to be commercially viable for us. Building and maintaining any large software system takes plenty of time and money and the monthly fee goes towards this. We firmly believe that we offer great value and that once you have tried BreezyLog you will never look back.
  4. Just a software guy working on [URL='https://breezylog.com']BreezyLog[/URL] amongst other things!
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