I don't think you will see APDL for the iPhone anytime soon. ADPL always depended on the easy uploading/downloading of data (over a sync conduit) that Palms/WM provided to really make it work well.

The file system that the iPhone uses doesn't lend itself to easy uploading/downloading of data (which is exactly the way Apple wants it). Most of the "file" programs on the iPhone are essentially workarounds, and you have to use WiFI to transfer your files (no USB syncs), which really sucks, because I used to be able to use my iPod Mini as a portable harddrive just by dragging and dropping files when it was connected via USB.

Additionally, I THINK the last time I looked at APDL, they had discontinued use of stand alone programs for importing your schedules to a web-based system (meaning you can to be online to use it), and you HAD to use Logbook Pro to get your data out of APDL, which meant that you had to buy LBP if you were going to use the data in any way (someone correct me if I'm wrong on this).

It's really too bad, because nothing worked as well as APDL for doing what it does....keep your times and check for legalities. All the other logbook programs for the iPhone either try to be all things to all pilots (GA, Corporate, etc) or are filled with bloat to the point they're almost unusable.

Now the last time I talked with the Flightline people, they SAID they were working on an iPhone app. No dates were given, but they said it was "in testing".

With that said, there is a VERY simple, ASCII text based DBMS system that you can use that was designed for dial-up access, which is PERFECT for low-bandwidth mobile access. Some iPhone savvy type could set up an app to parse the data (line, rotation data, etc) from DBMS right into your iPhone. Then after each flight, you could hit "update", and check the times uploaded into your phone or override them if you had something different.

Set the whole thing to dump a CSV file to email, and you'd be set to import it into your Excel file to print or whatever at home.

You could even set it up to scan for open time, do swaps or other PCS transactions, check the reserve list, and whatever else your little heart desired.

The only problem is that you HAVE to have access to the ASCII DBMS, and to do that, you need to pay FDS their due, and I'm not super sure they'd welcome a third-party program using their network. They MIGHT, assuming it increases their subscriber base, but since most everyone uses FDS for access anyway, they might not see any added-value to it and iPhone uses are known for being data hogs. If you had everyone scanning opentime with their iPhones they way they surf the web....well, you get the idea.

Just my opinion...

Nu