Hello Everyone,
In March this year I was planning my first long x-country trip in the
US. I wanted to fly in Cessna 172 a cost-to-coast trip from California
to Florida and back. During the preparations I found invaluable
information available on various web pages prepared by other fellow
pilots who flew either similar routes or visited the airfields I was
planning to visit during my trip. I got some valuable hints from this
group too :-)
At the time I felt that it would have helped me a lot if all these
stories that I found on various pages on the internet were somehow
available in one place and arranged in an easy to access way.
During the trip I wanted to share the experience from the trip on the
go with my family, friends and other who actively helped me in my
preparations. For that before the trip started I prepared a HTML page
with template for each day and I was manually updating it every day.
Although I'm an IT professional even I found a bit annoying having to
write by hand HTML.
So I thought that if I only had enough time before the trip I should
have had created a small database driven web portal that would allow me
to submit my daily journal entries much easier and at the same time
automatically present them in an elegant way.
Finally I always wanted to keep my logbook in electronic form and if
possible be able to review my routes on the map and have it aligned
with my journals and photo galleries.
After the trip I tried to find a product that would address these three
needs, but unfortunately I could not find anything like that. So, I
decided to give it a try and do it myself. After couple of months of
work it is finally ready. You can see all my flying journals at
http://www.flyerjournal.com/members/tomek.
I hope you will enjoy it as much as I do.
If you are interested you can also share your journals and maintain
your logbook on flyerjournal.com. Just register and explore its
potential. FlyerJournal.com membership is for free! You do not need to
pay anything neither to become a member nor to use services offered by
the FlyerJournal.com.
kind regards,
Tomek Zielinski
PP-ASEL
http://www.flyerjournal.com