What Flightbook holds
Your logbook: the flights you log, the aircraft you fly, the aerodromes you visit and the people you fly with. Your identity details — name, date of birth and Aviation Reference Number — because CASR 61.345 requires them on a personal logbook. Any photos you attach. Nothing else.
Who can see it
You. Every table in the database enforces row-level security keyed to your account, and there is an automated test that fails the build if any table is ever added without it. Photos live in private storage and are served through short-lived signed links.
Where it lives
In Sydney. The database and file storage are hosted in Australia (ap-southeast-2), so an Australian pilot’s records stay in Australia.
Data retention
CASR requires a personal logbook to be retained for seven years after the last entry, and to be tamper-evident. Flightbook therefore never hard-deletes a flight. Removing one marks it as removed and takes it out of your totals; the record and its history remain, and you can restore it.
Every change to a flight is written to an append-only history that cannot be edited or deleted by anyone, including us. That is what makes the export trustworthy.
Smart Capture
When you photograph a meter, the image is sent to an AI model to read the digits and is stored against your flight as evidence. The model is not trained on your photos. If you would rather it did not leave your device, type the reading in — every part of Flightbook works without it.
Taking it with you
Your data is always yours. You can export the whole logbook as a CASA-format PDF, as CSV, or as JSON including the revision history, at any time, on any tier, for free. There is no export you have to pay for and no format we keep to ourselves.
Closing your account
Ask and we will delete it. Export your logbook first — once it is gone, it is gone, and we would rather you had a copy.