Why use ePTR instead of the standard paper PTR?
There are several advantages to ePTR.
- Being an online system, ePTR is available from anywhere at anytime
- The system checks for valid entries when entering a flight, for example, Dual
hours cannot be entered along with Solo hours, cross country time cannot be
greater then flight time
- A complete, easy to read printed PTR can be created at any time.
- An ePTR cannot be lost or stolen
- Automatic calculation of flight times and ground school hours
- ePTR includes powerful checker to ensure all entries are correct and complete before submitting the PTR
Some scenarios of how ePTR can make things easier:
CFI wants to know the status of a students training.
With a paper PTR logbook, the CFI
would likely call the flight school administrator, who would probably reply
"I'll have to check and get back to you". The administrator would then have to
go find the paper logbook, look over it, total up the ground school time, check
the totals for the flight times and then call the CFI back with the information.
With ePTR the CFI could login to the system themselves and within a couple of
clicks have the complete answer.
An instructor gets a call at home from their school and is
asked to take a training flight later that day covering for another instructor
who is not available. As the new instructor has not flown with the student
before, they need to know which exercises the student has covered and what they
are currently working on.
Using ePTR the instructor can login to the system from home, or with their cell
phone, and review the students PTR and be prepared for the lesson before they
arrive at the school.
On the way home, after a flight with a student, an
instructor thinks of a comment to put in the students PTR. Using a standard
paper PTR the instructor would either have to call the school to have someone
enter the comment in the PTR, or write it down somewhere, to hopefully recall it
for the next flight. Using ePTR, the instructor can login to the system, even
from their phone on the way home, and directly enter the comment in the
students PTR.