The pilot logbook
that stays out of the way

Falcon is a free, open source logbook.
We built it because the others were terrible.

Coming soon
  • App Store
  • Google Play
  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux

Nothing to install yet: we are working towards 2027.

The Falcon logbook dashboard: total hours, flights in the last 60 days, and the last aircraft flown
Oh, look how pretty it is. We went with a clean, simple UI.
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Why Falcon?

Your logbook should outlast your career

You paid for every one of those hours. The early checkride briefing. The night landing you'd rather not talk about. The approach that went right down to minimums. They all end up in your logbook, and it follows you for your whole career.

So Falcon doesn't lock it away. Your logbook is a plain database file, and it's yours. Open it, back it up, or move it to another app whenever you like.

No lock-in, and no paying to get at your own flight times. If we stopped tomorrow, the file still opens in something else.

What we're building

A logbook, not a platform.

What goes in the logbook, and why it earned its place.

01

Smart flight logging

A guided form that pre-fills what it can and asks you to confirm the rest. Block time, tacho or local: log it the way your club does.

02

Automatic night time

Give it the route and the night column fills itself from real sunrise and sunset along the way. No guessing at twilight.

03

Expiries & certificates

Track medical expiries, BFRs, line checks, and anything else with a date. Know what's coming due before it catches you off guard.

04

Offline first

Log at FL350 or on a strip with no signal at all. It saves on the device and syncs when it next finds a network.

05

Export anything

CSV for the spreadsheet, PDF for the interview, JSON for whoever builds the next thing. Any of them, any time, with no paywall in the way.

06

Every platform

iPhone in the cockpit, laptop at home. One logbook, and it is on all of them.

Customise

Make this logbook your own

Five themes, and a night mode that dims to near-black.

The Falcon dashboard in the Default theme, showing total time, flights in the last 60 days, and the last aircraft flown
Default
The Falcon dashboard in the Sky theme, showing total time, flights in the last 60 days, and the last aircraft flown
Sky
The Falcon dashboard in the Monochrome theme, showing total time, flights in the last 60 days, and the last aircraft flown
Monochrome
The Falcon dashboard in the Space Nebula theme, showing total time, flights in the last 60 days, and the last aircraft flown
Space Nebula
The Falcon dashboard in the Vintage Paper theme, showing total time, flights in the last 60 days, and the last aircraft flown
Vintage Paper
Hosting

Where the logbook lives

One device is enough. Put Falcon on an iPad or your phone and the logbook lives there. No server, no account, nothing to keep running.

Sync is the only part that needs a server, because two devices have to agree on what the logbook says. You can set up your own database on a server you own. If that sounds like a weekend you would rather not spend, Falcon Cloud is $4 NZD a month, or $40 a year, and we look after the server and the backups.

You decide how you want to manage your logbook.

Ask your logbook

Your AI reads the logbook file, not a copy

Falcon has a Model Context Protocol server: a small program on your computer that lets the AI app you already use read your logbook.

It needs a client that runs on your computer: Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, or any other client that speaks MCP. You bring the app and your own subscription. A web chat like claude.ai cannot reach it.

How can I help today?

The server reads your logbook file directly. It opens no sockets and sends nothing anywhere: no cloud, no account, no telemetry. It works with the app open or closed.

Read-only until you say otherwise. Turn writes on and every change is logged, each write can be dry run first, and a refused write changes nothing.

Ask it things like

How many night hours did I fly in the last 90 days?

Draft next month's flights from this roster.

Import my old logbook and tell me what you do not recognise.

Merge the duplicate crew and link the flights with no aircraft.

Desktop only: it reads the database the desktop app writes, so it cannot reach your phone.

It's your logbook. Read the code that keeps it.

Once we launch, the whole codebase is public: the schema that holds your flights, the maths behind night time, and the sync code, if you want to argue with it. You do not have to take our word for any of it.

Pilots check everything twice. So should you.

Open source also means you get a say. Bugs, missing features and awkward questions go on GitHub, where we answer in the open and keep the list public, including the things we have decided not to build.

Launch schedule

When you can fly it

Initial launch 2027. If that date moves, we will say so in the open.

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