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Flightlogging stops

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By Tim Dawson - 5/22/2024 9:12:29 AM

What actually happens with SkyDemon during the flight? Is it still running and navigating as normal?
By Philip - 6/8/2024 3:02:26 PM

I am using SkyDemon on Android. version 3.16.15.0
A few days ago I did a three sector trip.  On two of the sectors the log stopped as soon as I had vacated the runway.  On vacating the runway, there was a stop of less than 1 minute to perfom the after-landing-checks.  These two sectors only saved the flight time. The off/on block times were missing.  On the sector that I did not stop to perform the after-landing-checks the saved logs had the log start/stop and off/on block times.

Any ideas why stopping to perform the after-landing-checks is loosing the log start/stop and off/on block times?

I do not recall having this problem with flights last month.
By Tim Dawson - 6/10/2024 9:01:33 AM

You may benefit from referring to the manual regarding to how SkyDemon logs flights. In a nutshell, if you don't do anything explicit regarding logging, SkyDemon will automatically detect when you've taken off and when you've landed, so your flight will be logged. If you do something explicit, which means you tell SkyDemon when you've started your engine or logged off blocks, then you'll also need to tell us when the opposite happens at the end of your flight. It sounds like perhaps you didn't do anything explicit and therefore SkyDemon stopped logging when it detected you'd landed.
By Philip - 6/10/2024 4:24:17 PM

I have RTFM. I am certain that I logged "Off Blocks" but did not log "Engine Start".  In this case, I started the app, pressed "Fly" and then "Log Off Blocks" - all within a few seconds.  When I do that, I wait until I can see the Block Time incrementing before I start to manouve the aircraft.

Should I always log "Engine Start" before "logging "Off Blocks" and/or should I be moving before logging "Off B|locks"?

Many thanks.
By Tim Dawson - 6/11/2024 8:28:55 AM

No, you don't need to log engine start if you don't want to. So, you logged Off Blocks, then what happened? Could you describe the rest of your flight and what your log looks like, compared to what you expected it to look like? You could send your log to us (at customer support) for us to inspect if you think something has gone awry.
By nikosteensels - 5/12/2024 8:41:44 PM

One of the things I use skydemon for is to log my flights during  Paradrop operations, so that I can check how efficient I was flying that day. Up until March 2024 , it would do this continuously from the moment I clicked on the log engine start, up until the moment I clicked on engine shutdown. The time in between could be anything between 20 minutes and 2hours. But since the middle of April, for some reason Skydemon just stops logging after about 33-39 minutes which is usually in flight.
I’m using it on an iPad 5th generation, iOS 16.7.7, skydemon version 3.16.13.383.
Any idea what is going on here? Storage on my iPad is not an issue as I still have 30Gb of unused memory available.