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This is a great suggestion. Ask yourself "as a pilot, what annoys me or what are tasks that I have to spend my time on". Maybe a site for matching up people up to fly together to events? Or logging your flight hours. (I am not a pilot - I have no idea what I'm talking about.)

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Thank you. The logbook idea is brilliant. That was the most annoying thing about flying.

Brilliant.

Smartphone app ?

I now have a goal. Thank you.

...Now what?

The quickest path to some income would seem to be to find a co-founder that has the exact skills that you need, together you should be able to go from concept to working prototype in a couple of weeks.

Sound out your pilot buddies if they want to be your 'pilot' ;) customers.

Google "iPhone pilot logbook". There's at least one app already out there. Find out what they do and do it better.

It's definitely been done before [1] but I think that it is a good app to start and then iterate with features while you're learning android. [1] http://androidforums.com/application-requests/25519-airline-...

Great link. Thanks.

What do you have to do with the information? Do you have to give it to various 3rd parties or fill out forms with it?

It is a personal record. Very much on the honor system. It is used during interviews as a culling criterion. Must meet certain minimum hours and so on.

Would you care to help me build an app as j* suggests?

Suggestion: After you have a reasonable facsimile of a working log for pilots (if you choose to go this route), consider generalizing/expanding for scuba divers - Same kind of honor-system log-book for dives performed. I would imagine there are other disciplines that would benefit, as well...

Good thinking! There may be many more like that actually. Mountain climbers ? Para jumpers ?

I was about to suggest mountain climbers. I use some of the services on summitpost (climbers logs etc). The site has a vast amount of information, but it's backend is garbage. I routinely use google to extract information out of the site.

Not a lot of time right now - sent you an email.

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