The search can locate all these and allow customers to share the information with the maintenance and repair organization, flight department, or other owners they designate. Let’s say you want to look up any records that mention a specific part, form, inspection, or date of service. The OCR will even recognize an airframe and powerplant mechanic’s or inspector’s signatures.
This uses optical character recognition (OCR) and machine learning to allow documents to be stored, sorted, and searched several ways. One big feature is what Bluetail calls its MACH search capability. Or use your computer to email a PDF file to Bluetail. Using your iPhone or Android device, you can take photos of maintenance documents and upload them using the Bluetail app. After that, customers and/or their maintenance providers can keep the records current by several means. Bluetail’s service begins when a customer brings logbooks and other paper documents to one of the company’s 120 scanning centers-or a Bluetail specialist comes to the customer’s location and does the scanning. In 2020, two aviation-minded former Apple executives-Stuart Illian and Roberto Guerrieri-founded Bluetail Inc., a company that digitizes aircraft records and stores them on a secure cloud-based platform. And even then, it would mean a tedious manual search of hundreds of documents. “I knew I needed a backup to the logs and paper documents…and if they were ever lost it could mean a $250,000 reduction in value if I want to sell it.” His Pilatus service center keeps a set of duplicates in a fireproof safe, which is a great idea, but it meant that they weren’t accessible unless he was on site. “I’ve owned my PC–12 for 20-plus years, and other planes before that, and I always had an anxiety about logbooks,” said Sarasota, Florida-based pilot Phil Rosenbaum.
Incomplete maintenance, airworthiness directives, service bulletins, and other such records can seriously reduce resale values, void maintenance plans, negate warranty coverage, and create numerous other blocks to a clear title. Preserving maintenance records for the life of an airplane can snowball over the months and years, leaving owners with what can be disorganized boxes and stacks of logbooks and other paper documents, easy to neglect and frequently stashed away in a corner somewhere.īut neglect them, and you risk some serious repercussions.
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