About Jetrecord
Jetrecord is an online logbook for general and commercial aviation pilots curated by me, Harry Love, a long-time web designer, developer, and aviation/aerospace enthusiast. I am not yet a pilot but I hope to remedy that soon. I started Jetrecord because I love aviation, flying, and aircraft of all kinds and wanted to help pilots share their flying stories with the world. Jetrecord connects the dots between pilots, aircraft, airports, and routes like no other online logbook.
Please see the Terms of Service for restrictions on use of the web site and its data.
History
The idea for Jetrecord as an online logbook began in July, 2005, inspired by a few of the successful web-based, socially-connected software of the day, namely: Flickr, Del.icio.us, Basecamp, and 43Things. The idea was refined and tested over many nights and weekends at the local coffee shop. I bored family and friends to tears and I'm sure I confused more people than I convinced this was a great idea. I also wrote and rewrote the prototype software twice during this time.
On April 1, 2008 (no fooling), I began full-time work on Jetrecord. I started with a fresh code base, the good parts from the prototype, and my five notebooks of ideas and sketches. Jetrecord began beta testing on May 13 and became open to the public on June 17.
Acknowledgements
No product like this can exist without the support, feedback, and contributions of its members. In particular I'd like to call out the original beta testers who suffered through many bugs and performance issues in those first few weeks: JennyDow, austin, AustinGriffith, BillG, rodrakic, egid, PCB, gerhard, Captain_Gus, trevor, captainslim, aeroplane, chasingrabbits, chase, stiphel, ryankeough, jotango, Snuffy, jadwin79, flightblog, flyme, and kayla.
Jetrecord is also indebted to 37signals, makers of Basecamp, without which Ruby on Rails, the framework that powers Jetrecord, would not exist.
The Jetrecord logo was created by Sean Austen, a graphic designer in Seattle, Washington.
Data
Flights
All publicly visible flights on Jetrecord are made available by the pilots who fly them.
Aircraft
Aircraft data are contributed and edited by the pilots who fly the aircraft and also by general members of the site. Likewise, aircraft types are contributed and edited by pilots and general members.
Airports
For airports within the United States, most of the data comes directly from the FAA. Data for airports outside of the U.S. come from the FAA, member contributions, and public domain sources like OurAirports.
When airport data is missing from Jetrecord's database, Jetrecord polls a web service created by Chris "captainslim" Johnson using OurAirports as a data source. Here is an example query for JFK International: http://avdata.geekpilot.net/airport/kjfk. I am very grateful to Chris for being so generous with his time and resources and to the members and staff of OurAirports for being generous with their data.
Other Map Points
Data for navaids and fixes come from the FAA and from member contributions.
Maps
Maps are provided by the Google Maps API. Sectionals and other charts are provided by SkyVector.
Photographs
Photos are contributed by members via Flickr.
Errors
If you find any errors on Jetrecord you are encouraged to become a member and make your own contributions to the site or send an email to support [at] jetrecord.com. We'll do our best to clean up the mess.
Contact
You can contact me by email at harry [at] jetrecord.com or by phone at 720-938-2486. Office hours are typically 8am–5pm Mountain (GMT -7) Monday through Friday. Email is preferred. I try to respond as quickly as possible which may take a few hours or a few days depending on the current queue.