This is a simple, free and opensource EASA-style logbook application written in golang.
You can clone the repo and compile the binaries yourself, or just download the latest ones for your operating system from the releases.
Once you start the app it automatically creates an SQLite local DB and starts listening on port 4000 by default. So you can open it in your standard web browser at http://localhost:4000
You also can easily export all flight records into EASA style pdf format, print it, sign and use it as a usual paper logbook.
- Update: Update golang packages.
- Fix: Add database schema version and check, so the app will not recreate DB views on every start up.
- Update: There are few major updates for the docker files and image containers
- The base image changed from
debian:bookworm-slim
toalpine
, which reduced the container image size 3x - from 104MB to 37MB - The image supports
linux/amd64
andlinux/arm64
now - The entrypoint and cmd are changed. If you don't see data with the new image try to remove
./web-logbook
from the command
# old image ENTRYPOINT ["./web-logbook", "-dsn", "/data/web-logbook.sql"] # new image ENTRYPOINT ["./web-logbook" ] CMD ["-dsn", "/data/web-logbook.sql"]
- BREAKING: If you encounter errors like the one shown below, verify the access rights and ownership of your
web-logbook.sql
file. Ensure it is owned by the current user rather than root, and update the ownership if necessary.
SQL logic error: no such table: metadata (1) ERROR 2024/12/14 20:33:01 main.go:162: SQL logic error: view logbook_view already exists (1)
- The base image changed from
- Fix: Resolved SQL syntax error that occurred when creating a new license record.
- Fix: Error on
Total by Month
page when changing a year in Chrome and MS Edge browsers.
- Fix: Attachments not uploaded if the new record saved and page wasn't reloaded
- Update: Updated golang version to the latest 1.23.2 and required packages.
- Update: removed update_time field from tables and some small code optimization. No UI change.
- Update: No longer shorten the remarks field for small screens if the option "Do not adjust logbook columns for small screens" is selected
- Fix: Recreate the database view during startup in case changes didn't propagate after a version change.
The full changelog is here
- Download the latest release from https://github.com/vsimakhin/web-logbook/releases
- Extract the archive to some folder/directory
- Run:
- Windows:
- Double-click on the
web-logbook.exe
file. It will show you some warning about how unsafe it can be (need to solve it later), but just run it.
- Double-click on the
- Linux/MacOS:
- Open a terminal and navigate to the directory
- Run
./web-logbook
- Open your browser, type http://localhost:4000 and the application is ready to use
- (first run) Go to the
Settings->Airports
page and click on theUpdate Airport DB
button
- To close the application, use
Ctrl+C
in the terminal window or just close it
$ ./web-logbook -h
-cert string
certificate path (default "certs/localhost.pem")
-disable-authentication
Disable authentication (in case you forgot login credentials)
-dsn string
Data source name {sqlite: file path|mysql: user:password@protocol(address)/dbname?param=value} (default "web-logbook.sql")
-enable-https
Enable TLS/HTTPS
-engine string
Database engine {sqlite|mysql} (default "sqlite")
-env string
Environment {dev|prod} (default "prod")
-key string
private key path (default "certs/localhost-key.pem")
-port int
Server port (default 4000)
-url string
Server URL (default empty - the app will listen on all network interfaces)
-version
Prints current version
Since it's written in Golang, it can run on any system after compiling the sources. Currently, on the Release page, there are binaries available for Linux, MacOS, and Windows.
- Logbook
- Flight records with date filter and global search through all data
- Quick export to PDF (A4, A5) and CSV/XLS
- Flight records
- Flight data
- Attachments for the flight records
- Automatic night-time calculation
- Map drawing and distance calculation for the flight record
- Licensing & Certification
- List of licenses, certificates and endorsements
- Document attachments and preview
- Expiration time tracking
- Map
- Map of the flights
- Date filters
- Routes and airports filters
- Aircraft filters
- Statistics
- Totals
- By Year
- By Month
- By Aircraft
- By Aircraft group/class
- Limits (EASA flight time limitations)
- Export
- Export to EASA PDF format (A4 and A5)
- PDF export formats with custom title pages (for example, include your CV automatically)
- Additional export formats (XLSX, CSV)
- Adjustable settings for each export format
- Import
- CSV support
- Automatic WebLogbook profile load
- Settings
- Owner name, license and address, signature for the PDF exports
- Signature pad to automatically include signatures to the PDF exports
- Enable/Disable authentication (in case you need to expose the app to the public internet)
- Aircraft groups/classes
- Global airport database
- Your own custom airfields or heliports
- Some interface settings
So in real life the logbook could look like
The app supports 3 sources:
- https://github.com/mwgg/Airports/raw/master/airports.json - main JSON database of 28k+ airports.
- (default) https://github.com/vsimakhin/Airports/raw/master/airports.json - my local fork of the main JSON database, to ensure that the app remains functional even if there are any breaking changes in the upstream.
- https://davidmegginson.github.io/ourairports-data/airports.csv - an alternate set of airports from https://ourairports.com/, which contains over 78k records, including small airfields and heliports.
If you enable the No ICAO codes filter
option, the app will ignore ICAO airport codes that contain numbers and dashes, which are not commonly used ICAO codes. By default, this option is unchecked, which makes the database slightly smaller and cleaner.
Check readme for dockerized app for more details.
Since the app is running on localhost
it's not possible to create a public certificate that would be valid by public CAs. As an option, you can create a self-signed certificate and add it to the root CA in your operating system. For that, you can use mkcert
tool.
- Open a terminal/console and navigate to the
web-logbook
directory - Create a directory
certs
- In this new directory run commands:
mkcert -instal
- it will create a new local CAmkcert localhost
- it will generate a key(localhost-key.pem
) and a certificate(localhost.pem
)
- Now just run the Web Logbook App with the new parameter:
web-logbook --enable-https
You don't need to install a new local CA in you system, but in this case, browser will always show you a warning message, that certificate is self-signed and not trusted.
Also, you can always generate your own certificate and key and store it in the different directories in your operating system. For that use --key
and --cert
parameters to specify the exact location.
To store all data, you can use MySQL database. To get started, create a database and a user with access to it. On the first run, the application will create all necessary tables and views. If you want to migrate your data from SQLite to MySQL, you can use the export to CSV function first and then import from CSV.
The DSN format for MySQL connections
user:password@protocol(address)/dbname?param=value
For example,
./web-logbook -engine mysql -dsn "web-logbook-user:pwd@tcp(192.168.0.222)/web-logbook"
In case you'd like to add some other features to the logbook or you found a bug, please open an "issue" here https://github.com/vsimakhin/web-logbook/issues with a description. I cannot promise I'll implement it or fix it at a reasonable time but at least I can take a look.
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