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We are excited to announce a brand new feature on freepilotlog.com that is quite extraordinary - read on to learn more!

Beginning today freepilotlog.com supports uploading of a GPS track with each logbook entry! With many benefits:

• Uploading a track automatically fills in the logbook entry as much as possible. For example the flight path (airport identifiers), date, flight duration, and number of landings are filled in automatically. No need to type any more!
• Once a track is uploaded it is archived with the logbook entry. It can then simply be exported in KML or GPX format by clicking on the KML or GPX icons.
• Click on the KML icon to see and explore your flight in google earth! Or export it in GPX format to view and edit your flight with pretty much any other geographic (GIS) application.
• This is an opportunity for students and instructors to review and analyze a flight lesson. Check how well your pattern was flown, or how smooth your approaches worked out, or what airports you actually landed at!

In our opinion, when two great technologies for pilots come together, a modern Web 2.0 online logbook on the one hand and the Global Positioning System GPS on the other, they create something new and extremely useful. Please give it a try and let us know what you think (info@freepilotlog.com).

To use this new feature you will need to record your flight using a GPS device. We recommend hand held devices (for example the Garmin 60Csx or any other of Garmin’s aviation units are excellent for this purpose!), but any device that is capable of recording tracks and exporting them to standard GPX file format will do.
There are also some other updates to freepilotlog.com that are worth mentioning:

• freepilotlog.com is now even faster and more responsive than before. We believe the more responsive a web application the more you will enjoy using it.
• There is now a “dual given” field. This feature was requested by many of you and should make the logbook more attractive to flight instructors, too!

Thanks to all of you who are using the logbook every day! Your feedback is appreciated.

Happy flying!

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